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Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires by Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening circulates beyond the clinical setting to become a central element of […]

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The White Indians of Mexican Cinema by Mónica García Blizzard Mónica García Blizzard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting […]

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Spatial Revolution by Christina E. Crawford Christina E. Crawford is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Architecture in the Art History Department. Spatial Revolution is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, […]

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Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean by Scott Kugle Scott Kugle is Professor of South Asian and Islamic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies. Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mystics […]

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Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico by Rocío Zambrana Rocío Zambrana is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. With the largest municipal debt in US history and a major hurricane that destroyed much of the archipelago’s infrastructure, Puerto Rico has emerged as a key site for the exploration of neoliberalism and disaster capitalism. In Colonial […]

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An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States by Lauren F. Klein Lauren Klein is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of English and Quantitative Methods in the Departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods. There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher […]

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War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible by Jacob L. Wright Jacob L. Wright is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Candler School of Theology, and associate faculty member at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. The Hebrew Bible is permeated with depictions of military conflicts that have profoundly shaped the […]

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A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory by Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson Elizabeth A. Wilson is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Adam J. Frank is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. The brilliant and complex theories of […]

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The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea by Hwisang Cho Hwisang Cho is Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures. The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an “epistolary revolution” in the following century as letter writing became […]

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Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth by Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett Cynthia Willett is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy. Julie Willett is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History at Texas Tech University. Humor is often dismissed as cruel ridicule or harmless fun. […]

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