Cultural Studies

Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kero...

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across ...

'Timely, necessary and important' J.K. Rowling'[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can't think of a single pe...

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at a...

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at a...

Action figures are more than toys or collectibles--they are statements on race, gender, class, body positivity and more. This collection of nine...

Consumers today are invested in reality-based media, such as reality television and social media, which in theory draw content from somewhere of...

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of models and bottles to reveal how beautiful young wome...

Winston Churchill famously described the political alliance between the US and UK as a ''special relationship'', but throughout the cultural histor...

In recent years queer identities have become increasingly visible in Irish cinema, a shift that can be linked to political, economic and social cha...