Division of Humanities

Books, Recent Faculty Publications

Below are recent publications by faculty from the Division of Humanities. See the faculty pages in the ScholarWorks faculty guide for complete lists of publications.

2024

Ulka Anjaria
Book Chapter
Feminism and Progressive Writing in Twentieth-Century India
by Ulka Anjaria

The Political Uses of Literature, 199 - 213
Palle Yourgrau
Book Chapter
Weil Meets Wittgenstein
by Palle Yourgrau

Between Wittgenstein and Weil, 125 - 150

2023

Ulka Anjaria

Book Chapter
Reema Kagti and the Ethics of Surprise
by Ulka Anjaria

Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema, 97 - 109

Book
The Oxford handbook of modern Indian literatures
by Ulka Anjaria and  Anjali Nerlekar
Pu Wang
Journal Article PEER REVIEWED
Taking China to the World: The Cultural Production of Modernity
by Pu Wang
Published 08/16/2023
The Journal of Asian studies

2022

Book cover for Sino-Japanese Reflections

Matthew Fraleigh (East Asian Studies). Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early ModernityDe Gruyter, 2022.

Abstract: whereas literary and cultural flow within the Sinosphere is sometimes imagined to be an entirely unidirectional process of textual dissemination from China to the periphery, the contributions to this volume reveal a more complex picture: highlighting how literary and cultural engagement was always an opportunity for creative adaptation and negotiation.

Book cover for Kant's ethics
Kate A. Moran (Philosophy). Kant's Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Book cover for Antisemitism on Social Media
Sabine von Mering ed. (German Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies). Antisemitism on Social Media. Routledge, 2022.

2021

Book cover for Life in Plastic
Caren Irr ed. (English). Life in Plastic: Artistic Responses to PetromodernityUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2021.
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John Plotz ed. (English). B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites. Columbia University Press. 2021.

book cover for Poems of Widowhood

Ramie Targoff ed. (English, Italian Studies, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies). Poems of Widowhood A Bilingual Edition of the 1538 “Rime.” The University of Chicago Press. 2021.

2020

bradfield-theoremElizabeth Bradfield (English) Theorem. Northwest Editions, 2020.
christensen-many-mindedJoel P. Christensen (Classical Studies) The Many-Minded Man: The Odyssey, Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic. Cornell University Press, 2020.

Cover for Thomas Bernhard's AfterlivesDowden- Modernism and Mimesis

Stephan Dowden (German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature) recently published two books, Modernism and Mimesis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Thomas Bernhard’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).

image of Benjamin Ravid's book coverBenjamin Ravid (Professor Emeritus, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies) and David Myers. Between Babylon and Jerusalem, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020. 

tharaud-apocalypticJerome Tharaud (English) Apocalyptic Geographies: Religion, Media, and the American Landscape. Princeton Univeristy Press, 2020.

2019

Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture book coverUlka Anjaria (English/South Asian Studies) Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture. Temple University Press, 2019.

Toward Antarctica book coverElizabeth Bradfield (English/Creative Writing) Toward Antarctica. Red Hen Press/Boreal Books, 2019.

image of book cover for Rodnaya Rech'Irina Dubinina (German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature) and Olesya Kisselev. Rodnaya Rech'. An Introductory Course for Heritage Learners of Russian. Georgetown University Press, 2019.

Hercules and the King of Portugal: Icons of Masculinity and Nation in Calderón’s Spain book coverDian Fox (Romance Studies/Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) Hercules and the King of Portugal: Icons of Masculinity and Nation in Calderón’s Spain. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

Enlightenment in Scotland and France: Studies in Political Thought book coverMark Hulliung (History/Politics/Romance Studies) Enlightenment in Scotland and France: Studies in Political Thought. Routledge, 2019.

Sarah Mead (Medieval and Renaissance Studies/Music) Editor, 14 Sonnetti Spirituali of Vittoria Colonna by Pietro Vinci. PRB Productions, 2019.

 

American Judaism: A History book coverJonathan Sarna (History/Near Eastern and Judaic Studies) American Judaism: A History (Second Edition Revised). Yale University Press, 2019.

The Body Papers book coverGrace Talusan (English) The Body Papers. Restless Books, 2019.

Death and Nonexistence book coverPalle Yourgrau (European Cultural Studies/Philosophy) Death and Nonexistence. Oxford University Press, 2019.

2018

The Homeric Battle of the Frogs and Mice book coverJoel Christensen ed. with Erik Robinson (Classics) The Homeric Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Bloomsbury Press, 2018.

Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean Book CoverJonathan Decter (Near Eastern and Judaic Studies) Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.

Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt: A Philosophical Dialogue book coverEli Hirsch (Philosophy) Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt: A Philosophical Dialogue. Bloomsbury Press, 2018.

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow book coverAnn Olga Koloski-Ostrow (Classical Studies) The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems. The University of North Carolina Press, 2015, paperback 2018.

The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini book coverRichard Lansing (Romance Studies) Translator, The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini. University of Toronto Press, 2018.

My Ex-Life book coverStephen McCauley (English/Creative Writing) My Ex-Life. Flatiron Books. 2018.

Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity book coverKate Moran (Philosophy) Editor, Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna book coverRamie Targoff (English) Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2018.

The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Morou and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture book coverPu Wang (Comparative Humanities/Comparative Literature/East Asian Studies/German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature) The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Morou and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture. Harvard University Press, 2018.

2017

Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country book coverRebecca Morgan Frank (English/Creative Writing) Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country. Carnegie Mellon, 2017.

Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience Since Dickens book coverJohn Plotz (English) Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience Since Dickens. Princeton University Press, 2017.

2016

New Ghosts book coverLaura Quinney (English) New Ghosts. Borderland Books, 2016.

Revenge, Retribution, Reconciliation: Justice and Emotions between Conflict and Mediation, a Cross-Disciplinary Anthology book coverLaura Jockusch, ed. with Andreas Kraft, and Kim Wunschmann (Near Eastern and Judaic Studies) Revenge, Retribution, Reconciliation: Justice and Emotions between Conflict and Mediation, a Cross-Disciplinary Anthology. The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2016.

Abraham Joshua Heschel: Une Biographie book coverEdward Kaplan. (Romance Studies) Abraham Joshua Heschel: Une Biographie. Honoré Champion, 2016.

Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryūhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan book coverMatthew Fraleigh (East Asian Studies) Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryūhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan. Harvard University Press, 2016.