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Approaching the practices of reading and writing from a feminist perspective, Julie Carr asks vital ethical questions about the role of poetry—and of art in general—in a violent culture. She addresses issues such as the art of listening, the body and the avant-garde, gun violence, police brutality, reading and protest, and feminist responses to war in essays that are lucid, inventive, and informed by a life lived with poetry.

Lecturer Harriet Archer's Unperfect Histories: The Mirror for Magistrates, 1559-1610, is being published by Oxford University Press in the USA this December 2017, and came out in the UK in October.

Professor Karen Jacobs recently published "The New Geomancy" in the fall issue of Minding Nature. In her essay, Professor Jacobs traces the theory and practice of “geomancy”—divination or discovery by means of signs derived from the Earth.

Nan Goodman, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English, published "Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather’s The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation,” in New Approaches to Puritan Studies, ed. Bryce Traister, Cambridge University Press.

Professor Catherine Labio was recently awarded the 2017 Max Nänny Prize for best article in Word and Image Studies for “The Architecture of Comics” (Critical Inquiry 41.2 [2015]: 312–343). The prize is awarded triennially by the International Association of Word and Image Studies.

Modernism: The Basics provides an accessible overview of the study of modernism in its global dimensions. Examining the key concepts, history and varied forms of the field, it guides the reader through the major approaches, outlining key debates...

Professor Nicole Wright recently published "The Alt-Right Jane Austen" in the Chronicle of Higher Education, about the alt-right movement's appropriation of Jane Austen, later cited in articles by Claire Fallon in the Huffington Post and Jennifer Schuessler in the New York Times.

Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone entering the often bewildering world of literary theory for the first time.

A one-sided epistolary novella whose speaker writes to an ex-lover’s ex-lover begins this volume, and Carr charges these unanswered, unanswerable letters with inquiries that permeate the book: How do we understand grief, obsession, the very nature of forgiveness? Why confess? Whom does my confession benefit? For whom do I intend it?

Walking through his own house at night, a twelve-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway.