Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ma Rainey's Traveling Blues
Ma Rainey’s Traveling Blues is the fullest and most nuanced portrait to date of Gertrude “Ma” Rainey (1886-1939), once promoted as the “Mother of the Blues.” Although Rainey’s place in American music history is firmly ...
Once Upon a Time in South Central LA
After the groundbreaking success of his debut film Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968–2019) gained worldwide acclaim, earned the respect of major film industry figures, and became t ...
Infinity Land
In 1988, a thirteen-year-old girl named Meko arrived in Milwaukee as a refugee from Thailand. Not long after, she met Jeffrey Dahmer—the notorious serial killer and sex offender who, between 1978 and 1 ...
Eudora Welty and Modern Media
Contributions by Jacob Agner, Stephen M. Fuller, Ebony Lumumba, Pearl McHaney, Donnie McMahand, David McWhirter, Kevin Murphy, Harriet Pollack, Kaitlyn Smith, Matthew D. Sutton, Christin Marie Taylor, ...
Narrative Knows No Boundaries
Contributions by Sheila Bock, Olivia Caldeira, Claudia Chiang-Frost, Cynthia Cox, Ann K. Ferrell, Kate Parker Horigan, Stewart Jobrack, Eleanor Paynter, James Phelan, Susan Ritchie, Martha C. Sims, Jasmine ...
Black Girls Om Too
Contributions by Irene Auma, Joi Cardwell, Shanina Carmichael, Lacretia “Cre” Dye, Love Ashleie Elaine, Jo-Jo Totayhma Jackson, Saisha Lacon Baskerville, Sariane Leigh, Tamia A. McEwen, Donna Noble, Jewell Sin ...
Facing Uncertain Futures
Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures challenges the notion that the futures of Latinx youth are predetermined. While systemic inequities persist, author ...
Girlhood and Adolescence in the Twenty-First-Century Southern Novel
Girlhood and Adolescence in the Twenty-First-Century Southern Novel explores six works by contemporary Southern women writers, each featuring a girl protagonist navigating complex personal and cultural ...
Of Women and Water
Too often, when women in literary texts come of age, they die. Instead of entering an adulthood full of possibility, female characters time and again follow the path charted by Ophelia and drown, either ...
The Sons of Neptune
The Sons of Neptune: Tracing the Archetype of the Erotic Sailor explores the evolving image of the sailor as both cultural icon and erotic figure—one that has remained curiously omnipresent and yet critically u ...