CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Linguistics for the Age of AI
While artificial intelligence was once intended to endow machines with natural language capabilities, recent AI research focuses mostly on statistical…
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
After extensive research in Berlin, Alexander Wolff ’79 presents a sweeping depiction of his family’s history by focusing on his…
The (Other) You: Short Stories
The (Other) You is a vision into alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the…
Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective
This book offers a range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. Picture Ecology brings together scholars whose contributions…
Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday
In Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea, Ksenia Chizhova foregrounds lineage novels and the domestic world in which they were…
The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World
The Business of Conquest offers an original examination of the Spanish conquest period, including the perspectives of both the creators…
Benefactors and the Polis. The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity
Historians generally study elite public gift-giving in ancient Greek cities as a phenomenon that gained prominence only in the Hellenistic…
The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children
Spotlighting three thematic threads – communist goals, pedagogy, and propaganda – Pedagogy of Images traces the formation of a mass…
A Proposito di Dante: Cento note illustrative alla Commedia
A Proposito di Dante is a new way to discover Dante's masterpiece, Divine Comedy. The book delves into the knowledge…
Der , Oxforder Boethius' Studie und lateinisch-deutsche Edition
Der Oxforder Boethius focuses on the reception of Boethius's Consolatio philosophiae (circa 524) in the later Middle Ages. This publication…
Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
Brutal Aesthetics explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of…
The Five Wounds
The Five Wounds (Norton) follows a New Mexican family’s extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. Thirty-three-year-old Amadeo Padilla has been…
Berlin, The Mother of All Research Universities 1860-1918
Berlin, The Mother of All Research Universities is the first major re-examination in English of the rise of the world’s…
One Day Stronger: How One Union Local Saved A Mill And Changed And Industry, And What It Means For American Manufacturing
One Day Stronger follows the story of how dedicated union workers teamed with a local official to leverage an obscure…
Music for Exile
In a book of poems, Music for Exile (Tupelo Press), lecturer in theater Nehassaiu deGannes explores personal and historical losses…
The Cinema of Francesco Rosi
Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, a professor of Italian, has published the first comprehensive book on the Italian neo-realist film director Francesco Rosi…
Whereabouts
Whereabouts (Knopf), a novel by creative writing professor Jhumpa Lahiri, focuses on a woman’s solitude after her father’s death. Her…
Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl
Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch explains what happened to ancient Greek thought after antiquity, examining the work of the…
