Literature

Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart Jane St. Anthony 2018 Spring

How can Isabelle ever express to Margaret and Grace how grateful she is for their friendship, just when she needed it most?

Wild Child Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics Naomi Morgenstern 2018 Spring

Exploring how the figure of the “wild child” in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity

The Improvisatore A Novel of Italy Hans Christian Andersen 2018 Spring

A semi-autobiographical novel inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s travels in Italy—and one of the author’s best-known works in his native Denmark

The Right to Be Cold One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change Sheila Watt-Cloutier 2018 Spring

A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate

Inside the Gate Sigrid Undset’s Life at Bjerkebæk Nan Bentzen Skille 2018 Spring

Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset’s life at Bjerkebæk, her retreat in Lillehammer, Norway

Once in a Blue Moon Lodge A Novel Lorna Landvik 2018 Spring

The long-awaited sequel to Lorna Landvik’s best-selling Patty Jane’s House of Curl: a story brimming with life, humor, and hope

Wild Mares My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life Dianna Hunter 2018 Spring

A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s

The Infamous Harry Hayward A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis Shawn Francis Peters 2018 Spring

A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion—and the trial of the “Minneapolis Monster”

Homemade Finnish Rye, Feed Sack Fashion, and Other Simple Ingredients from My Life in Food Beatrice Ojakangas 2018 Spring

A celebrated cook’s recipes and reflections on growing up in a big Finnish family in northern Minnesota

Double Visions, Double Fictions The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature Baryon Tensor Posadas 2018 Spring

A fresh take on the doppelgänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present

The Modernist Corpse Posthumanism and the Posthumous Erin E. Edwards 2018 Spring

An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who—and what—counts as human while offering bold insights into the modernist project

Arranging Marriage Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora Marian Aguiar 2018 Spring

A Literature of Questions Nonfiction for the Critical Child Joe Sutliff Sanders 2017 Fall

</p>A critical analysis of children’s nonfiction that focuses on the extent to which such works invite young readers to ask questions <p>

Postcolonial Biology Psyche and Flesh after Empire Deepika Bahri 2017 Fall

Rethinking the body of the colonized and its ongoing transformation in today’s global order

Ecology without Culture Aesthetics for a Toxic World Christine L. Marran 2017 Fall

Reconfiguring the intentions and parameters of ecocriticism

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