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Why Did Teachers Organize? Feminism and Socialism in the Making of New York City Teacher Unionism (2021)
Journal Article

What prompted New York City teachers to form a union in the Progressive Era? The founding of the journal American Teacher in 1912 led to creation of the Teachers' League in 1913 and then the Teachers Union in 1916, facilitating formation of the Ameri... Read More about Why Did Teachers Organize? Feminism and Socialism in the Making of New York City Teacher Unionism.

Integrated and Indivisible: The Sustainable Development Agenda of Modern Slavery Survivor Narratives (2021)
Book Chapter

An appeal to supersede the slave trade triangle in English museums (2021)
Journal Article

In 2007 several permanent museum galleries were created in England that discuss the subject of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. This article critiques one recurring image within many of these sites: the diagrams of the slave trade triangle.... Read More about An appeal to supersede the slave trade triangle in English museums.

Defending the indefensible?: The pro-confederate lobby in Britain in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation (2021)
Journal Article

The purpose of this article is to provide the first dedicated examination of the pro-Confederate movement in Britain in the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation. By analysing the ideas and activities of pro-Confederates after emancipation the articl... Read More about Defending the indefensible?: The pro-confederate lobby in Britain in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation.

Routes into American Realism (2021)
Book Chapter

Realism is usually associated with American literature written after the Civil War. This essay argues that realism was also a significant force during the late-eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The argument proceeds in three parts. First, the... Read More about Routes into American Realism.

“A Ringer Was Used to Make the Killing”: Horse Painting and Racetrack Corruption in the Early Depression-Era War on Crime (2021)
Journal Article

Peter Christian "Paddy" Barrie was a seasoned fraudster who transferred his horse doping and horse substitution skills from British to North American racetracks in the 1920s. His thoroughbred ringers were entered in elite races to guarantee winnings... Read More about “A Ringer Was Used to Make the Killing”: Horse Painting and Racetrack Corruption in the Early Depression-Era War on Crime.

The Frontline as Performative Frame: An Analysis of the UK COVID Crisis (2021)
Journal Article

In this paper, we examine the multiple significations of the “frontline” metaphor in the UK during the first ten months of COVID-19. We argue that the term “frontline” has operated as a performative frame, which has helped to produce the very notion... Read More about The Frontline as Performative Frame: An Analysis of the UK COVID Crisis.

Young America and the Anti-Emersonian Western: John Williams' Butcher's Crossing (2020)
Journal Article

"Berlin of the East": India and the Politics of Cold War Asylum (2020)
Book Chapter

Feminist solidarities: Theoretical and practical complexities (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 The Authors. Gender, Work & Organization published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This article considers the resurgence of interest in feminist solidarity in theory and practice in the contemporary moment in the United States and UK. What does f... Read More about Feminist solidarities: Theoretical and practical complexities.

A Moment to Celebrate? Art of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale (2020)
Journal Article

In recent years, the sporadic presence of various Caribbean national pavilions at the Venice Biennale – Jamaica (2001), Haiti (2011), Bahamas (2013), Grenada (2015, 2017, 2019), Antigua and Barbuda (2017, 2019), Dominican Republic (2019) – has on eac... Read More about A Moment to Celebrate? Art of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale.

From Russia with Love: Dissidents, Defectors and the Politics of Asylum in Cold War India (2020)
Journal Article

During the Cold War defectors were invariably paraded as propaganda trophies. The wider political significance of defections has hitherto been interrogated almost exclusively in an East–West binary. Utilising recently declassified documents from thre... Read More about From Russia with Love: Dissidents, Defectors and the Politics of Asylum in Cold War India.

The Novel of American Authoritarianism (2020)
Journal Article

Fictional literature portraying the descent of the United States into dictatorship is assessed critically and divided into three cultural-historical phases, each specific in class modality. Ignatius Donnelly’s Caesar’s Column (1890) and Jack London’... Read More about The Novel of American Authoritarianism.

William Dean Howells's Periodical Time (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 by Arizona Board of Regents. This essay uses the example of William Dean Howells to redefine periodical time and suggest new ways in which extraliterary time manifests itself in literary form and content. Howells spent his early life typesetti... Read More about William Dean Howells's Periodical Time.

Understanding Bharati Mukherjee (2019)
Book

Bharati Mukherjee was the first major South Asian American writer and the first naturalized American citizen to win the National Book Critics Circle Award. Born in Kolkata, India, she immigrated to the United States in 1961 and went on to publish eig... Read More about Understanding Bharati Mukherjee.

Fake News, Forgery, and Falsification: Western Responses to Soviet Disinformation in Cold War India (2019)
Journal Article

This paper examines Soviet Cold War disinformation activity in India. It recovers the importance of nonaligned nations in the story of Cold War covert propaganda. Over the course of a decade, that began with the outbreak of the Sino-Indian border war... Read More about Fake News, Forgery, and Falsification: Western Responses to Soviet Disinformation in Cold War India.

Full spectrum dominance : irregular warfare and the war on terror (2019)
Book

America's war on terror is widely defined by the Afghanistan and Iraq fronts. Yet, as this book demonstrates, both the international campaign and the new ways of fighting that grew out of it played out across multiple fronts beyond the Middle East. M... Read More about Full spectrum dominance : irregular warfare and the war on terror.

Realism and the Profession of Authorship (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines tensions between authorship and publishing in the era of American literary realism. The publishing industry changed with the emergence of literary agents, the growing financial significance of magazines and syndication, and the... Read More about Realism and the Profession of Authorship.

Traumatic memory in the art of Freddy Rodriguez (2019)
Book Chapter

Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter focuses on the transition from hanging to electrical execution in Florida and the changing role of the sheriff as executioner in the 1920s.