
Global Knighthood: African, Indigenous, and Asian Members in the Noble Military Orders of the Iberian World, 1536-1700

The Hold: Black Femme Formations of Space, Text, and Being in the Long Nineteenth Century

Reading Beyond Reading: Literary Studies and the Problem of Method

Eros beyond Ethics: A Platonic Key to Levinas’ Totality and Infinity

Spring 2024

Spring 2024

Spring 2024

Spring 2024

TALES FROM THE HOLD – Episode 2: The Last Ship

Towards an Existential-Standpoint Reading of Blackwomen’s Autobiographies Under Apartheid South Africa

Femmes Galantes, Femmes Savantes: Literary Expressions of Women’s Sexuality and Mentorship in the long 18th Century

“Imagining Elsewheres: Speculating the Asian Diaspora in North America, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand”

Geographical Visualities of Race and Health in Antebellum U.S. Culture

The Body’s Memory: Visceral Poetics in Contemporary Arabic and Persian Literature in the Gulf

Power, Diplomacy, and Interdependent Sovereignty in the Choctaw Nation, 1720-1924

Clandestine China: Extraterritorial Violence and the National Revolution Abroad, 1895-1919

Dyeing for the Revolution: Towards an Ethics of Coloring

Repairs Pending: Caribbean Street Poetics and the Decolonial Imaginary

Carried Away? Belief, Truth, and Trauma in the Alien Abduction Phenomenon

Holocaust Horror: A Cultural History

High School Rebels: Black Power, Education, and Youth Politics in the Motor City, 1966-1973

Unravelling the Nation: Criticality and Agency in Contemporary Syrian Women’s Fiction

Deviant Modernity: Transnational Imagination of Crime in Korean Detective Fiction

The Origins, Migrations, and Queer Imaginations of Global Women’s Comics Cultures

A Promise to Witness Faithfully: The Ethics of Complex Communication Across Incommensurable Differences in Lugones and Derrida

Black Cosmo-cologies: Rebirth and Renaissance in the Long Nineteenth Century

Fall 2023/Spring 2024

Fall 2023/Spring 2024

Fall 2023

Gambling History in Twentieth Century Shanghai, 1911-1965

Testimony, Trauma, and Memory in Narratives of the Genocide Against the Tutsi

The Sophistic Gambit: Dale Carnegie at the Origins of Speech Communication

Aesthetics of Displacement: Mexican Artists in the Modern Metropolis 1920-1950

Relational Ethics: On the Meaning of Vulnerability and Interdependence for Moral Life

The Yunnan Chronicles: A Field Guide to Yunnan’s Past

Internal Restrictions on Movement: A Reconsideration

Fall 2022/Spring 2023

Fall 2022/Spring 2023

Fall 2022/Spring 2023 – Just Transformations

Fall 2022/Spring 2023

Fall 2022/Spring 2023

Humanities in the World Postdoctoral Scholar

Humanities in the World Postdoctoral Scholar

Center & Institutes Humanities Dissertation Release Scholar – Partisans of the Soil: Land, Race, Capital, and Métis Dispossession

Undocumented Times: Rhetorics of a Colonial Moment

Against the American Confederacy: the American Revolution and the Native South

Powers of Fiction: Scholastic Novels and Forgotten Women in Third Republic France (1870 to 1914)

Hermes Hispanus: Iberian Seekers of Ancient Wisdom in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean World

Seasonal Tastes: English Literary and Recipe Culture, 1550-1750

Dignity and Indignation from the Enlightenment to the Arab Spring

The Reel Story of the Euromaidan and Russia’s War against Ukraine

(S)extractivism in the American Tropics: Sex Workers as Reproductive Laborers of National Identities, Sex Tourism, and the Global Marketplace

Speculative Formations: Queer and Trans Communities in the Long Twentieth Century

Silicon Valley Stories: Reckonings, Recursions, and Infinite Loops

Migrants of Germany Unite! Bilingualism, Realism, and Novel Collectivities in Turkish-German Literature

Humanities Dissertation Release Scholar – Twentieth Century Sophistries: Popular Science, Human Manuals, and American Rhetorical History

A Theory of Palestinian American Literature

Humanities in the World/Just Transformations Postdoctoral Scholars

Humanities in the World/Just Transformations Postdoctoral Scholar

Humanities in the World Postdoctoral Scholar

Humanities in the World Postdoctoral Scholar

“We make the sick into men again:” Reconstructing the Masculinist Medical Model of Trauma in World War I France

Sensible Bodies: Race and Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century France

Tourner autour du Mahagony: Marooning poetics of Martinican literature

Deportistas! Mexican Women, Sporting Citizenship, and Belonging in Twentieth Century United States

Terraqueous Encounters: Queer and Trans Embodiment and Care in Francophone Literatures of the Indian Ocean and Oceania

Cold War and Sinophone Literature at the Borders

Fantastic Frames: Studio Photography of the ‘Global Chinas’

Remaking the World in the Wake of COVID-19: Pandemic Ethics, Structural Injustice, and Social Change

Slavery after the Civil War: The Slow Death and Many Afterlives of Bondage

Empire Without Bounds: The Louisiana Purchase and the Transformation of the United States

Pilgrim, Pastor, Pauper, Spy: The Case of Pierre de Praxelier

The Rise and Spread of Postmortem Cesarean Operations for Fetal Baptism in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires

The Sonorous City: Sounds and Itineraries of the Colonial Urbanscape in Latin American historical fiction

Digital Colorline: Racializing Informatics and the Black Critique of Technology

At the Limits of the Human Rights Regime: Perpetrator Perspectives in Contemporary Literatures and Visual Cultures

“Does Critical Theory Need Hope?”

Public Humanities Postdoctoral Scholar

Apparition and Abstraction: Maurice Denis’ Visionary Catholicism

Skin Inscriptions: The Tattoo Medium in Contemporary Art

Ravings: Reading, Writing, and Psychiatry in the American Asylum

Disorientation as Resistance: the world-making potential of a decolonial poetics of the human

Humanimal Narratives: Genre and Animality in Contemporary Ethnic Literatures

Scales of Seeing: Spatial Experience in Paris, 1849–1899

Reasonable Agonism: Discontent and Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies

“Activism for Others”: French Feminist and Anti-Imperialist Pamphletary Culture, 1914-1939

Objects of Affection: Intimate Exchanges in Early Modern Literature

Fighting for the Children: Architecture and the Student Body, 1904-1940

Narrating for-the-other: French and Francophone Cinema as Testimony of the Extreme

Dreams and Dream Interpretations in Early Modern Lutheran Communities

“‘Corpus Erat’: Ophelia’s Lyric Flesh.”

Resisting Memory: Anti-Imperialist Tactics of Forgetting in Latin American Contemporary Art

Up the Academy: Cambridge English Studies and the Makings of an Illiberal Education

Mapping Contested Identities in Dominican Art Education: A Critical History

Donatello Architetto: On the Order of Architecture in the Work of Donatello

Beyond the Façade: The Messages Behind Carved Swahili Doors

The clausal architecture in naturally acquired German by adult Korean native speakers

Local Community and University Perspectives of International Service Learning

Le Monde Chinois: Literary Cosmopolitanism in Modern China