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Department Bookshelf: Featured Publications

Department Bookshelf

Featuring works from Department of English faculty.

Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes

Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in...

Roland Greene

Roland Greene's research and teaching are concerned with the early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the...

Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds

Challenging the tidy links among authorial position, narrative perspective, and fictional content, Stephen Hong Sohn argues that Asian American authors have never been...

Stephen Hong Sohn

Assistant Professor

Stephen Hong Sohn, a former University of California President’s Postdoctoral fellow (2006-2007), has edited or co-...

The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn

The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn

The Imaginary and Its Worlds collects essays that boldly rethink the imaginary as a key concept for cultural criticism. Addressing both the emergence and the...

Ramon Saldivar

Ramón Saldívar, professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and...

Faculty Publications

Failure and the American Writer

Gavin Jones

(2014)

Richard Powers

(2014)

Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds

Stephen Hong Sohn

(2014)

Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance

Stephen Hong Sohn

(2014)

Scotland the Brave

Bliss Carnochan

(2013)

Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes

Roland Greene

(2013)

One Family's Shoah

Herbert Lindenberger

(2013)

Prose of the World

Saikat Majumdar

(2013)

Distant Reading

Franco Moretti

(2013)

The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature

Franco Moretti

(2013)

The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn

Ramon Saldivar

(2013)

Ends of Enlightenment

John Bender

(2012)

Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition

Roland Greene

(2012)

The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson

(2012)

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