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“I have always been a great admirer of this institution, which to me looks like an authentic republic of letters …”

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Quantum Screens

Nonlinear Universes in Film and Television

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Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation
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Democracy and Beauty

The Political Aesthetics of W. E. Du Bois

Robert Gooding-Williams (Fall 2022 Schoff Lectures)
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The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music

Fred Lerdahl (2018 Schoff Lectures)
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African Pharmakon

The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return

Nana Osei Quarshie
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Studies in Contemporary Africa
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Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery

Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Muhsin J. al-Musawi
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Arabic Studies
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The Meeting of Rivers

Translating Religion in Early Modern India

Elaine Fisher
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South Asia
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Crabgrass Catholicism

How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America

Stephen M. Koeth
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Religion in America
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Irish Lacemaking

Art, Industry and Cultural Practice

Molly-Claire Gillett
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Irish Studies
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Love, Money, Duty

Stories of Care in Our Times

Rachel Adams
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Disability, Culture, and Society
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Les Volontaires

Roman familial de la Révolution française

Thomas Dodman
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Affect Studies
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All the World on a Page

A Critical Anthology of Russian Poetry, 1908–2021

Andrew Kahn and Mark Lipovetsky
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Slavic History and Culture
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Cracked Foundations

Debt and Inequality in Suburban America

Michael Glass
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Economic History
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Body Language

Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel

Kathleen Tamayo Alves
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Eighteenth-Century European Culture
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The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway

Edward Mendelson (2017 Schoff Lectures)
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The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast

Gender and Animality in Modernist Hebrew Fiction

Naama Harel
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Human-Animal Studies
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