The trailblazing work of four recipients has won The Sigourney Award-2025, earning international recognition and a ...

Medievalists often claim that the twelfth century “invented love.” At this moment, which also witnessed the birth of vernacular literature (literature written not in Latin but in romance languages), ...

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. It is now hard to imagine that in the middle of the last century psychoanalysis was an all-conquering cultural force. Psychoanalytic ...

Hortense Spillers is Professor Emerita at Vanderbilt University, where she held the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in English. Widely published in the fields of African American literature and ...

A new generation of analysts and patients is embracing the father of psychoanalysis – in magazines and memes and many hours on the couch. Credit...Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Renstrom for The New ...

Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing. A key figure in the development of Marxist criticism, postmodernism and cultural theory, his works ...

He reached beyond conventional history to bring in perspectives from literary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis. By Clay Risen Anthony Vidler, an architectural historian who, beginning in the ...