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Global Curriculum Development
How to Redesign U.S. Higher Education for the 21st Century
A guide to redesigning the undergraduate curriculum of U.S. universities and empowering students as agents of change in our global age of complexity, crisis, and innovation.
Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself
The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself
How do biology and culture interact? This book provides an extensive cultural analysis of biohacking and Do-it-yourself medicine.
Black Travel Writing
Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors
This study offers an outline of the genre of Black travel writing as well as analyses of travel narratives by African American and Black British authors published between the 1990s and 2010s.
21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television
This book offers a vocabulary to discuss contemporary televisual productions that revisit recent pasts in self-conscious and non-nostalgic ways.
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
Sophie Spieler explores elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse, focusing particularly on the negotiation of merit.
Savage Horrors
The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic
While the white American Gothic novel must be understood as a highly racialized and structural anti-Black text, Black authors have creatively deconstructed the Gothic since the 18th century.
Günter Leypoldt
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Manfred Berg
(eds.)
Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society
Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
This book explores recent and historical transformations of authority and trust in political institutions, urban spaces, and cultural life to explain their perceived loss of legitimacy in the United States.
Ulfried Reichardt
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Regina Schober
(eds.)
Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self
How has the quantified body become a central site of labor in the contemporary neoliberal age?
Subjects of Substance
Recent American Literature and the Materiality of Mind
Subjects of Substance reveals how the materiality of mind has shaped the works of authors like Don DeLillo, Siri Hustvedt, and David Foster Wallace.
Creating Realities
Business as a Motif in American Fiction, 1865–1929
Erhan Simsek explores the motif of business and its aesthetic functions in American realism, naturalism, and modernism.