Prof. Jennifer Cazenave Signs Advanced Book Contract with Columbia University Press
Professor Jennifer Cazenave‘s new book Lessons in Seeing: Disability in the Media Archive is now under advanced contract with Columbia University Press. The book moves from the 1930s to the 1980s, charting an entangled history of disability and media haunted by overlooked traumas of social exclusion and cultural erasure. One of the neglected archive the […]
Professor Petrus Liu Publishes Book, “The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus.”
Petrus Liu, Associate Chair of WLL and Associate Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Cinema & Media Studies has recently published a book titled The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus. The work, focusing mainly on geopolitical queer theory, includes […]
Prof. Lopes de Barros Publishes New Book, “Ménage Literário, Literary Menage, Ménage Literario”
“Jacques Fux’s writing is characterized by intertextuality, self-reflexiveness, and a ludic (and lucid) stance in relation to his questions about literature and life, fiction and reality. In the short story “Ménage à Trois” and the film Literary Ménage: An investigation into the Writing of Jacques Fux, directed by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Fux evokes or […]
Prof. Cazenave “An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah'”
In her first book, An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” (SUNY Press, 2019), Professor Jennifer Cazenave undertakes a comprehensive examination of the 220 hours of filmic material Claude Lanzmann excluded from his 1985 Holocaust opus. In retrieving alternative eyewitness accounts captured by the camera but ultimately left on the cutting room […]
Prof. Foltz’s New Book: The Novel After Film
Recently out from Oxford University Press is Prof. Jonathan Foltz’s first book, The Novel After Film. The Novel After Film is a study of the relation between film aesthetics and the development of the modernist novel. It offers a substantial reassessment of the paradoxical condition of novelistic practice in which writers have re-imagined the novel […]
Prof. Liu Publishes Book “Queer Marxism in Two Chinas”
Professor Petrus Liu has published a new book titled Queer Marism in Two Chinas which rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. With Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Liu offers a revision to current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be.
Frederick Publishes, “Turning Pages: Reading and Writing Women’s Magazines in Interwar Japan”
Professor Sarah Frederick publishes Turning Pages, which considers the central place of representations of women for women in the culture of interwar-era Japan and our understanding of Japanese modernity. Taking a holistic approach to the texts and using tools of historical, literary, and cultural analysis, the author examines the triangular relationship among the consumers, the producers, […]