New & Forthcoming

A survey of Jewish women’s history from biblical times to the twenty-first century.

Unveils the metaphoric and theoretical possibilities of fabric in the films of Luchino Visconti.

A comprehensive study of Jewish magic in the late antiquity and the early Islamic period—the phenomenon, the sources, and method for its research, and the history of scholarly investigation into its nature and origin.

Jewish and Christian messianic thought and activism in the Reformation era in the Ashkenazic world.

Examines a major Michigan timber baron and political figure who also founded a coal-mining empire in Kentucky.

Poems that seek stability in family and community while coping with a country full of conflict and change.

Critical anthology of fairy tales by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women writers.

Examines textual representations of the consciousness of men responsible for committing Holocaust crimes.

A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.

Fairy-tale texts and images that address contemporary issues in unsettling, intersectional, and wondrous ways.

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation and evolution of a cultural institution in Detroit.

A deep dive into the wildly successful 1990s animated series Batman.

Analysis of race, racism, and the criminal justice system on Homicide: Life on the Street.

Surveys the boundary-pushing career of pioneering filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer.

Fairy-tale texts and images that address contemporary issues in unsettling, intersectional, and wondrous ways.

Interdisciplinary star study of one of the most iconic Hollywood celebrities of the last thirty-five years.

Examines how popular fairy tales collapse narrative borders and reimagine the genre for the twenty-first century.

Biographies on African Americans who will inspire today’s youth.

Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches.

Critical anthology of fairy tales by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women writers.