...: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought . New York : Harper and Row , 1966 . ---. Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar . The Hague : Mouton , 1972 . ---. Lectures on Government and Binding . Dordrecht, Holland : Foris , 1981 . ---. Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin...

...: I am interested in the way in which “cultural studies” has come to be demonized as the other side of a proper scholarship that fantasizes about a return to respectable normative disciplinarity and in the way in which what Lacan theorizes and performs in this seminar—the work of what he calls...

... . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1987 . John Miller Death, Display, and Companionship in Animal Studies (on Donna J. Haraway’s When Species Meet [Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2008]; Kurt Koenigsberger’s The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire [Columbus...

... whitewashes the asymmetric inequities of the humans of humanity. While much of this work has advocated for a dismissal of the Anthropocene concept, this article traces an alternate trajectory that has begun to emerge at the juncture of Black studies and literary theory. In this article, the author considers...

...Chhandita Das; Priyanka Tripathi This interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. interrogates the contested area of interdisciplinarity in spatial studies by reemphasizing the complex disciplinary foray of literature intersecting with it. The conversation also touches on the cartographic function...

...Victor Cohen 2005 the minnesota review 2005 Victor Cohen The Origins of Working Class Studies An Interview with Sherry Linkon and John Russo Sherry Linkon and John Russo founded and run the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University in Ohio, the first...

... and History in the New Working-Class Studies .” In Russo and Linkon . Frisch Michael Rogovin Milton . Portraits in Steel . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1993 . hooks bell . Where We Stand: Class Matters . New York : Routledge , 2000 . Kamau Kwadwo Agymah . Flickering Shadows...

...Martin Puchner In response to Max Brzezinski’s critique of my role in the New Modernist Studies, an alleged movement whose founding document I am said to have authored ( Poetry of the Revolution [2006]), I use this movement as a test case for the two methods under discussion (the question of how...

...Max Brzezinski This article evaluates the methods and ideological positions that define the critical movement known as the New Modernist Studies (NMS). It treats the NMS as characteristic of recent attempts to politicize aesthetics within the corporate university. The piece argues that the NMS has...

...John Marsh © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 John Marsh Criticism in the Iron Mills: New Working-Class Studies and the Class Turn (on Gavin Jones, American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 [Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008]; John Russo...

...Sophia A. McClennen This essay focuses on the role of the Left—as idea, as subject, as method, and as political praxis—in Latin American cultural studies. It briefly traces some of the key connections between Latin American cultural studies and Left politics to give readers less familiar...

...Imre Szeman Does it make sense to speak of a global cultural studies? This review essay examines the apparent critical aversion to such a category by exploring the approaches taken by two books that consider the state of cultural studies in the global era. Ackbar Abbas and John Nguyet Erni's...

... to Postcolonial Literary Studies . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2004 . Loomba Ania . Postcolonial Studies and Beyond . Durham : Duke UP , 2005 . MacPhee Graham Podder Prem . Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective . New York : Berghahn Books , 2007 . Marx...

...John Eperjesi © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 John Eperjesi American Studies: An Interview with Donald Pease Donald Pease is a leading "New Americanist." In the 1980s, he revised the accepted idea of an American Renaissance, in particular focusing on the group of mid...

... . Terkel Studs . Touch and Go . New York : The New Press , 2007 . Wills Gary . “He Interviewed the Nation.” New York Review of Books 18 Dec. 2008 : 53 - 4 . Victor Cohen “Hope Dies Last”: Cultural Studies and Studs Terkel As an undergraduate, I was drawn to the world...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith The article is concerned with the history of “close reading,” understood as a practice crucial to the field of literary studies, vis-à-vis “distant reading,” a range of computational methods identified with the digital humanities. It looks at some early controversies...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Talal Asad discusses his career, his ideas, and his future plans. An Oxford-trained cultural anthropologist, Asad began with fieldwork, studying the effects of colonialism on the political life of a nomadic tribe in northern Sudan. Asad was born in Saudi Arabia...

... 2007 ): 279 - 308 . Xavier Vitamvor Unbecoming Animal Studies Several years ago an admirable conference was held in London under the auspices of the International Society for Anthrozoology; it was called “Animal Arenas.” At the end of the meeting and in the manner...

...Lisa Fluet Fluet’s essay develops a survey of the argumentative claims of the area of affect studies devoted specifically to the assessment, and critique, of “happiness.” The central focus is a review of Sara Ahmed’s study The Promise of Happiness (2010), which Fluet places within the context...

...Anna Poletti This article considers zine making as a form of independent literary production that can offer new insights into the understanding of creativity in literary studies and the humanities more broadly. It situates zines as a form of literary writing, reading, and distribution that cannot...