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General Pool
"Righting" and "Re-Writing" Wrongs
(Un)Familiar Destinations and the Home Away from Home
A Jazzy Reading of Francophone Cinema and Literature/Une lecture jazzique du cinéma et de la littérature francophones
About Something You Said: Readings on Calamity, Community, & Place
Affectivity and Aesthetics of the Postnational across Literature, Cinema, and Theory
Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century
Aftermath as Affirmation: Re-Thinking the Classic After Hybridity
Agamben's Intricate Meanings
Allegories of Language
Alternative Solidarities: Black Diasporas and Cultural Alliances During the Cold War and Beyond
America’s Civil War Then and Now, Home and Abroad
An Aesthetics of Openness: Rereading Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Texts
An Undergraduate Ragout: Teaching Multiple Topics in College Courses
Analogies of Trauma: Dispossession, Diaspora, and Memories of Violence
Anarchist Literary Practice
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Roma in Post-1989 Central and East Europe
Archival Travels/Traveling Archives
Atlantic Economies
“ ‘Proud to Swim Home’: In Search of the Old in the New Orleans”
“Everything incredible is true!” History and Fantasy in the Literature of the Americas
“Nations are notions”: Literary Materiality & the 20th Century Nation-State
“Neutral” Grounds: Rethinking the Limits of Hybridity
Being-in-the-World: Chinese Cinema and Its Cosmopolitan Perspectives
Berlin's Imagined Geographies
Between Alienations: Mimicry, Parody, and Desire in Transnational Spaces
Beyond Literary Cosmopolitanism: (Non-) Readers of Dante after the Enlightenment
Bodies in Motion: Corporeality and the Representation of Immigrants, Refugees, and Other Diasporic Subjects
Breaking Languages, Broken Subjects
Can the Displaced Return?
Caribbeanness and the Genres of Peripheral Cosmopolitanism
Caucasian Crossroads: the Intersection of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism?
Chicano Narrative Now: Chicana/o Literary Discourses in the Age of Transnationalism
Childhood Cultural Displacement
Chosen by Language: Exile and Negotiating Discourse Across National Borders
Clothing: Re-Creating Our Own Image in a World of Mass Production
Comics Boundaries: Graphic Narratives through a Cosmopolitan Lens
Comparative Literature: From Practice to Theory
Comparative World Literature
Conceptual Writing and Art Between the Local and the Global
Controversial Reinterpretations and Reframings
Cosmo-politan SciFi: Reevaluating the Urban through Technology & Culture
Cosmopolitan Irreverence: Subversion, Parody, Put Down
Cosmopolitan Poe
Cosmopolitanism and Collectivity: Cultural Representations vs. Theories of Community in the 20th and 21st Century
Cosmopolitanism and Religion
Cosmopolitanism? Misanthropy In and After Kant
Creole Europe
Creole Theory
Creolization and Languages of Science: Knowledge, Reform, Revolution
Creolization and Nostalgia: Mimesis, Mimicry, and Parody in New World Literature
Creolization versus Multiculturalism?
Creolizing Genre: New Directions in Black Speculative Fiction
Creolizing Histories
Creolizing Memory: Transnational Remembrance of Trauma and Violence
Critical Readings in the Early Modern World
Cross Dressing in Literature or on Stage, East and West
Crossing Borders: Personal Narratives of 20th Century Writers/Critical Thinkers
Cultures of Migration: Local Cosmopolitanisms?
Cultures of Neoliberalism
Debating the Parameters of Japanese Modernity
Diaspora and the Fashioning of Self: the Case of José Manuel Prieto
Diasporic Acts of Identity: Dialogic Approaches to Translation and Creolization
Difference Within Language: Emergent Scholars Read (With) Barbara Johnson
Digital Diasporas: Distances, Cultures, Languages
Diverse Materials: Reimagining Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Dogs in Art and Literature in the Early Modern Era
Double-Tongues: Multilingual Novels as Sites of Cultural and Linguistic Resistance
East-West Cosmopolitanism and Literary Creation
Ecological poetry between warning, mourning and dreaming: Post-idyllic landscapes and contemporary visions of paradise
Estranged Desire: Romance Resisting Romance
Ethics and Politics of Cosmopolitanism
Expanding US Latinidad or What’s New about the “New” Latin Diasporas?
Extending Ourselves: Caribbean Latitudes and Scales, Landscapes and Seascapes
Fascisms: Past and Present
Feminist Apprehensions of Cosmopolitanism/Universalism/Modernism
Fictions of Haiti
Fictions of the Autobiographical
Figurative Imaginings in Art, Science, and Politics
Film Loops
Flowing Tales, Diverse Resonances
Food in World Literature
Form and Content
Forms of Floods
French Language (In)Hospitalities
From Dada into Surrealism: Language of the Avant-Garde
From Urgent Action to (Time Im)Memorial: Art and Literature of Human Rights In Changing Political Contexts
Frontiers of Life: Biopolitical Imaginations in Latin America
Gatekeeper, Mother Hen, Culture Agent?: Selecting the Appropriate Metaphor for Compositionists in the Era of Linguistic Diversity
Genre Dynamics: Exchange and Transformation
Global Financial Capital and New Realisms
Glocality and Narration in Contemporary Cinema: Real Life in Reel Cycle
Green Literature
Gross Anatomy: Intervention and Negotiation in Literary/Cultural Representations of Medicine
Histories of Discoveries, Cultures of Science: Rethinking the Evolution of Knowledge
Hybrid Chronotopes in Russian Culture
Hybrid Realism?
Impure Borders, Mixed Genres: Documentary Fictions in Cinema and Literature
Intermediality after 1900
Intertextualities: Text, Image, and Beyond
Jazz and Communication. Towards a Creolization of the Philosophy of Language
Just Memory: Utopian Fiction and Abraxian History
Knowledge and the Theatrical Body
La banlieue parisienne / The Parisian Banlieue
Landscapes of Cultural Production
Language in the Quest for Utopia
Latin Boxers
Literature and Criticism after Secularism
Literature and/as the New Media of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Made in Hong Kong: Language, Literature, and Film from a City in Search of Itself
Magical Thought
Marginal Modernities
Marx OR Spinoza
Media, Medium, Mediation: Media Aesthetics Before 1900
Mediterranean Encounters
Melville's Cosmopolitan(ism)
Memory and Representations of Traumatic Events in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Mental Geographies: Thinking, Curiosity, and Desire in the Psychological Novel
Migration, Cultural Production and Resistance
Mistakes, Mistranslations and Mendacity: The Logic and Language of Cosmopolitanism
Multilingual Metropolitanisms
Narrating the Mind
National Languages, Dialects, and Mother Tongues
National Traumas, Diasporic Encounters: Violence, Memory, and Literary/Visual Culture
New Orleans: Jazz, Creole Culture and Francophone Literature
New World Francophonie
Niki Hoeky—A Consultation, Celebration and Interrogation of the Boolawee
One Hundred Years of José Lezama Lima
Other Script Politics
Paraworlds and Paraliterature
Performance Poetics in the African Diaspora: From Dialect Verse to Hip Hop
Poetics of HIV: Modernism Revisited
Points of Entry into 9/11 Texts
Political Crisis and Vernaculars of Faith
Politics and the Corpse
Politics of Sanctity
Polluted Places / Impure Spaces
Post/colonial Film: Imaging Identity and Resistance
Post/Neo-colonial Narratives: Gender and Sexuality in Crossing
Postcolonial Italy: The Colonial Past in Contemporary Italy
Precarious Lives
Problems in Translation: Walter Benjamin's Hypothetical French Trauerspiel
Prose By Any Other Frame: Unproductive Reinterpretations in Latin American Cultural Narratives
Queer Cosmopolitanism
Radical Diasporas
Re-conceiving the Urban
Re-defining Art: Artistic Genres in Literary Works
Reading Between the Arts: Multi-Media, Aisthesis, and Interart Studies
Reconciliation and its Discontents
Recording Performance
Refiguring Bodies
Repossessing the Ghosts: Trans-Cultural/National Crossings as Transgressive Possessions
Representations of Memory and Violence in Literature
Representations of Migration and Diaspora in Cosmopolitical Texts
Restrategizing Essentialism
Retelling: Narrative in Translation
Rethinking Secularism
Romantic Revolutionaries at Home and Abroad
Rural Creole: Cosmopolitanism, Globalization, and Hybridity in Agrarian Literature
Science Fiction in the Global South
Souths: A Tea Conversation
Spinoza's Modernities
Spirits, the Supernatural and the Spectator
Streaming Derrida
Syl-la-ble: Performing Syntactic Vulnerability
Text at the Limits of Language
The Americas, Otherwise
The Art of Literary Translation; Literary Translation as Art
The Aural Archive
The Contemporary Creole, in Theory: Creolizing Histories II
The Creole City
The Creolization of Myth: Between Interculturation and Remediation
The Cross-Pollination of American Literatures
The Culture Industry Reconfigured
The Hidden Voice:Cross- Cultural Women’s Autobiographical Novels
The Locations of Stardom
The Malady of Exile — Exile and Melancholy in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature
The Materiality of Subjectivity: Dialoguing with the Sciences
The Myth of Communist Revolution: Chinese Red Classics Revisited
The Possibility / Impossibility of a National Cinema
The Question of the Animal
The Science Fiction Film: Re-making, Revising, Re-envisioning
The Spaces of Translation: Literature, Genre, and Mental Geographies in Classical and Medieval Literature
The Struggle For: Reading Literature, Culture and the Arts as Affirmative Resistance
The Unreadability of the World
The Will To Be Deceived: Communal Acceptance of Passing
The World and the Stage: Reassessing Theatrical Paradigms, Envisioning Global Rights
Theories of Caribbean Comparatism
Theory and the Theological
Time in Global Space
Toward a Gendered Analytics of Diaspora: Interrogating Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in Diasporic Cultural Productions
Tracing Caribbean Transmissions
TransAmerican Imaginaries: New Paradigms for Hemispheric Studies
Transcultures of Literature in Turkey
Translating the Word(s) of God(s)
Translation and Cultural Identity: the Case of the Americas
Translation of Philosophy/ Philosophy of Translation
Translation of Revolutionary Temporalities: The Aesthetic Avant-garde and the Political Vanguard in Modern Chinese Literature
Translation, Transliteration, and Virtual Authors
Transnational Feminist Responses and the Torture of "Enemies"
Traveling to Louisiana: Cinematic representation of the Southern other(s)
Twists of the New Aesthetic Turn: the Body and the Word, or, Theory à la lettre
Urban Spaces and Cultural Representations
Utopian/Dystopian Creoles: Migrating out of the Real
Visuality, Visibility, and Glocalization: Transnationalism and Chinese-Language Film Studies
Welcome: Hospitality, Integration and Assimilation – Paris, Berlin, New Orleans, Montreal, Buenos Aires and Beyond
Whither Theory?
Whither/Whence World Literature?
World Literature: Poetics/Publics/Performance
Worlded Comparatist:The Intellectual in Exile as Foundation for a New Comparative Literature
Writing Diasporas and the Shifting Grounds of Middle Eastern Literatures
Writing in Early Modern Portraiture
Writing Literature in a Second Language: Transnational, Translational, Translingual I
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