Literature & Cultural Theory

Literary and cultural study (LCS) puts subjectivity at the center of economics, technology, society, and development.

Our general investigations

  • LCS offers deep understanding of language, expression, affect, intersubjectivity, and identity. What is it now saying about innovation crisis and economic decline?
  • What are the cultural sources of the U.S.'s disappointing version of democracy? How can these be reversed?
  • Were post-capitalist society to be defined by literary theorists, what would it look like?

 

Related Publications

Books and Collections

Articles

Jun
2013

Obama’s Second Half
[Citation]

May
2010

Obama'n?n ?lk Y?l? (Obama's First Year)
[Citation]

Fall
2008

Review of Emerson and Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero
[Citation]

Oct
2007

The Corporation
[Citation]

Jan
2004

La France, Version Américaine
[Citation]

2003

Diversity in the Age of Pseudointegration
[Citation]

Winter
2002*

Review of The Burdens of Intimacy: Psychoanalysis and Victorian Intimacy
[Citation]

Jun
2002

Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency
[Citation]

May
2002

"Few of Our Seeds Ever Came Up at All": A Dialogue on Hawthorne, Delany, and the Work of Affect in Visionary Utopias
[Citation]

1998

Whiteness and Meritocracy: An Interview
[Citation]

Feb
1997

White Philosophy - Reprint
[Citation]

Oct
1996

Idealism
[Citation]

Oct
1996

Not-Me
[Citation]

Jul
1996

Guillaume Oegger
[Citation]

Jul
1996

Sampson Reed
[Citation]

1996

Multiculturalism's Unfinished Business
[Citation]

Jan
1996

White Philosophy - Reprint
[Citation]

Summer
1994

White Philosophy
[Citation]

Autumn
1993

Democracy and Male Homoeroticism
[Citation]

Autumn
1992

Controlling the Voice: Emerson's Early Theory of Language
[Citation]

Winter
1989

The Politics of Male Suffering: Masochism and Hegemony in The American Renaissance
[Citation]