Interests

Research Interests:

I work on late 17th- and 18th-century France, and my research tends to be situated at the intersection of material culture and the history of the book.  Special interests include the history of women’s writing in France and the history of the novel.  My most recent books: The Queen’s Embroiderer (2018) and How Paris Became Paris (2014).

Research Interests:

Comparative views of Latin America, American, and Latino literatures, critical theory, cultural practices. Nuevas cartografias latinoamericanas(Letras Cubanas: Havana, 2006), Split-States and Global Imaginaries (Verso, 2007).

Research Interests:

Max Cavitch's chief areas of interest include early American literature, poetry and poetics, psychoanalysis, and cinema. Current projects include an article on the film collaborations of Franco-Egyptian director Safaa Fathy and Jacques Derrida, as well as a book-in-progress called Mad Poet of Philadelphia: Toward a New Literary Psychohistory.

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Modern European intellectual and cultural history. Books include Karl Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: Dethroning the Self (Cambridge, 1999; paperback 2001), European Romanticism: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford, 2007), and Adventures of the Symbolic: Postmarxism and Radical Democracy(Columbia University Press, 2012).

 

Research Interests:

Modern Arabic fiction, the Arabic Novel, translation; The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction; The Arabic Literary Heritage; recently translated Ahmad al-Tawfiq's Abu Musa’s Women Neighbors(2006), and Hanan al-Shaykh's The Locust and the Bird (2009).

 

Entered Fall 2013

Lucas'  interests include anthropology, geography, religious studies, gender and sexuality, hemispheric studies, and Latinx studies. He is the author of the poetry collection Wet Land and has published poems and essays in boundary2, Poetry Foundation, and PEN Poetry.