In a recent interview with the New York Public Library, Amy Kurzweil described her cartoons as studies in “erudite ... cartoons about characters from literature and about the literarily minded.

If you read a wide range of literature, and study it carefully ... It's common in scientific circles to point at a cartoon version of this stuff and laugh, taking it as evidence that modern ...

Over the past two decades, academic literary studies generated a rash of manifestos that reject the politicized “critique” of literature in favor of aesthetics, affect, and the ordinary ...

“This is a world in which some of us can specialize in the study of cultural artifacts, and within this category to specialize in literary artifacts, and within literature to specialize in ...

Mark Bauerlein’s essay “The Research Bust” poses questions about productivity policies in literary studies at research universities, but before we revise policies, we need to ask a ...

Peter D. McDonald receives funding from the AHRC and the Leverhulme Trust. Decolonising literary studies isn’t simply a matter of relieving the symptoms, substituting this author for that or ...

“The Mellon Foundation’s support for the BBP is bending the curve in what we have called ‘the bibliographic turn’ in African American literary studies,” said Goldsby, the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor ...