Literary Criticism and Theory

A revisit of early texts that helped shape Middle Eastern folktales and narratives.

Jewish identity, memory, and place deftly revealed through the lens of Jewish women's graphic narratives.

An exploration of the temporal function that "the Jew" plays in literature.

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

New approaches to decenter Eurocentric perspectives in fairy tales and lift up storytelling cultures across the globe.

Reconstructs Indian storytellers’ lives and performance methods while recovering the marginalized worldview that popularized their art form.

Examines literature and art to reveal the German genocidal gaze in Africa and the Holocaust.

Mother Goose Refigured presents annotated translations of Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tales that attend to the irony and ambiguity in the original French and provide a fresh take on heroines and heroes that have become household names in North America.

Analyzes women's activist writings to shed light on contemporary struggles for substantive citizenship in India.