Literatures

Work in Progress / Recent Publications / Major Works

Work in Progress

Adam M. Lifshey

  • Specters of America: Hauntings of a Hemispheric Literature (book).
  • “‘This Dreaming Intruder’: The Frontier Rewritings of Paul du Chaillu, a (French) (American) Pioneer in the West (of Africa)” (article).

Dana Luciano

  • Unfamiliar: Nonsynchronous Sexualities, Narrative Form, (Trans)National Futures, book.

Angelyn Mitchell

  • The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Writing, co-editor, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Bárbara Mújica

  • An anthology of early modern Spanish theater, to be published by Yale University Press.

Ricardo Ortiz

  • Testimonial Fictions: The Post-Dictatorial Mode in US Latino Literature (book, tentative title).
  • “Edwidge Danticat’s Latinidad: The Farming of Bones and the Cultivation (of Fields) of Knowledge,” in Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, Diaspora (Rutgers University Press, 2007) (article, forthcoming).

Joanne Rappaport

  • “Beyond Writing: Theorizing Collaborative Ethnography,” article.
  • Beyond the Lettered City: Alphabetic Literacy and Visuality in the Andes, 16th to 18th Centuries, co-edited with Tom Cummins and Dana Leibsohn, under contract with Duke University Press.

Recent Publications

Erick Langer

  • Formulación de proyectos de investigación: Guía de procedimientos básicos para la formulación de un proyecto de investigación, co-authored with Rossana Barragán, Virginia Ayllón and Javier Sanjinés C.  (La Paz: Proyecto de Investigación Estratégica en Bolivia, 1999).

Adam M. Lifshey

  • “‘No podemos soñar’”: A Hispanophone African Literary Displacement of the Spanish-American War of 1898,” Hispanic Journal, 27:1 (Spring 2006), 119-34.
  • “Bordering the Subjunctive in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon,” Journal X, 9:1 (Autumn 2004), 1-15.

Dana Luciano

  • “Bodies in and Out of Time: Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite and the Sexual Politics of History,” in Philosophies of Sex: New Essays on The Hermaphrodite, edited by Renee Bergland and Gary Williams, forthcoming.
  • “Coming Around Again: The Queer Momentum of Far From Heaven,” forthcoming as part of a special double issue on “Queer Temporalities,” edited by Elizabeth Freeman, in GLQ, 13:2-3 (Spring/Summer 2007).
  • “Invalid Relations: Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady,” The Henry James Review, 23: 2 (May 2002): 196-217.
  • “Love’s Measures,” contribution to roundtable on Brokeback Mountain, edited by Scott Herring, forthcoming in GLQ, 13:1 (Winter 2006).
  • “Loving the Alien,” in Queer Temporality, Queer Becomings, edited by E.L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen, forthcoming.
  • “Melville’s Untimely History: ‘Benito Cereno’ as Counter-Monumental Narrative,” Arizona Quarterly, 60: 3 (Fall 2004): 33-60.
  • “Mourning,” in American History through Literature, 1820-1870, edited by Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert D. Sattelmeyer (Scribner, 2005), 761-65.
  • “Passing Shadows: Melancholy Nationality and Black Publicity in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” in Loss:  The Psychic and Social Contexts of Melancholia, edited by David Eng and David Kazanjian (University of California Press, 2003), 148-87.
  • “The Gothic Meets Sensation: Brockden Brown, Poe, Southworth and Lippard,” in Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865, edited by Shirley Samuels (Blackwell Press, 2004), 314-29.
  • “Voicing Removal: Mourning (as) History in Catherine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie,” The Western Humanities Review, 58: 2 (Fall 2004): 48-67.

Lucy B. Maddox

  • “Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Rural Primer,” in Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works, edited by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson (University of Georgia Press, 2000).

Angelyn Mitchell

  • “Arthur P. Davis: The Literary Anthologist as Cultural Conservator and Cultural Worker,” CLAJ, 49:2 (December 2005): 127-143.
  • “Not Enough of the Past: Feminist Revisions of Slavery in Octavia Butler’s Kindred," MELUS, 26:3 (Fall 2001): 51-75.

Bárbara Mújica

  • Sophia’s Daughters: Women Writers of Early Modern Spain (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).
  • Teresa de Jesús: Espiritualidad y feminismo (Biblioteca Crítica, 2006).

Ricardo Ortiz

  • “Fables of (Cuban) Exile: Special Periods and Queer Moments in Eduardo Machado’s Floating Island Plays,” Modern Drama (Spring 2005).

Joanne Rappaport

  • “Escritura y convenciones literarias: Los retos de la intelectualidad indígena,” in La etnoeducación en la construcción de los sentidos sociales (Popayán: Universidad del Cauca-Instituto Caro y Cuero-CCELA-PROEIB Andes, 2003), 107-19.

Miléna Santoro

  • “Writing and / in Mourning: The Legacy of Loss in Recent Texts by Madeleine Gagnon,” in Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the 1990s, edited by Roseanna Dufault and Paula Gilbert (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2001), 53-77.
  • “Presentation” and coordination of the special dossier “Voices in / on Memory: Tracing the Past and Facing the Future in Contemporary Women’s Writing,” Québec Studies 31 (Spring-Summer, 2001), 3-7.
  • “La présence des femmes dans l’enseignement de la langue et des cultures francophones au niveau universitaire en Amérique,” in Jeunesse et langue française: Créer, partager, entreprendre. Langue française au Canada et en Amérique du Nord. Actes de la XIXe Biennale de la langue française, edited by Roland Eluerd (BLF, 2002), 327-37.
  • “Influences réciproques: Le féminisme des années 70 en France et au Québec,” in Francophonie en Amérique: Quatre siècles d’échanges Europe-Afrique-Amérique, edited by Justin K. Bisanswa and Michel Tétu (CIDEF-AFI, 2005), 207-19.
  • “Transforming Visions: Pedagogical Approaches to Léa Pool's Emporte-moi (Set me Free),” co-authored with Paula Ruth Gilbert, special issue of Women in French Studies (2006), 139-55.

Major Works

Ricardo Ortiz

  • Cultural Erotics in Cuban America (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).

Lucy B. Maddox

  • Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs (Oxford University Press, 1991).

Angelyn Mitchell

  • The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002).
  • Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, editor (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

Bárbara Mújica

  • Calderon’s Characters: An Existential Point of View (1980).
  • Et in Arcadia Ego: Essays on Death in the Pastoral Novel, co-authored with Bruno Damiani (1990).
  • Iberian Pastoral Characters (1986).

Miléna Santoro

  • Mothers of Invention: Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Quebec (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002).