OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Literature is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Whiteness of the White	24
Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations: Pauline Hopkins’s Counterintelligence	22
Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History	13
The Critical DREAMer Memoir: Educational Mobility and the Limits of Meritocratic Citizenship	6
The Ghost and the Gimmick: Spirit Photography and the Commodification of Secularism	5
Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?	5
Shattered Remains: Richard Wright and Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism and the Destiny of the Common	4
Cultural Gradients and the Sociotechnics of Data	3
In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic UnseenWhat Was Literary Impressionism?	3
Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship	3
What Do We Critique When We Critique Technology?	3
Ouch: Pain, Heard and Referred	3
Artificial Bloom	2
The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War	2
National Wounds and Gendered Harm: Reframing Abortion Pain in The Worst of Times	2
The Game Theory of Sex	2
What the Afterlife ofSCUMCan Teach Us about Autotheory	2
“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies	2
Computing Race	1
Moved by Another Life: Altered Sentience and Historical Poiesis in the Peyote Craze	1
Black Feminist Geohaptics and the Broken Earth	1
The Dream of Property: Law and Environment in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead	1
Announcement	1
Brief Mention	1
Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation	1

Reading After Film: Photoplay Editions and Willa Cather’s Lost Lady	1
Unliterary History: Toni Morrison, The Black Book, and “Real Black Publishing”	1
Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation	1
Revolutionary Worldmaking: James Monroe Whitfield’s Poems in Martin Delany’s Blake; or, The Huts of America	0
Post-Automation Poetics; or, How Cold-War Computers Discovered Poetry	0
A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender	0
Data/Dispossession	0
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart	0
Brief Mention	0
The Many Ecologies of AI	0
Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’sLetters to Memory	0
Shakespeare “Translated and Improved”: The Translational Politics of the American Yiddish Theater and Its Afterlife	0
“Never Allowed for Property”: Harriet Jacobs and Layli Long Soldier before the Law	0
Literary AI: Are We Ready for the Future We Imagine?	0
Incommensurate Labors: The Work behind the Works of Harriet Jacobs and Walt Whitman	0
Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’sMan Who Lived Underground	0
Introduction: How American Literature Understands Poverty	0
“Because It Never Dies”: Archipelagic Time in from unincorporated territory [ lukao ]	0
Witnessing Otherwise in John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition	0
Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics	0
The Mystery of the Missing AIDS Crisis: A Comparative Reading of Caper in the Castro and Murder on Main Street	0
Redistributions of the Sensible: An Introduction to “Senses with/out Subjects”	0
Black Madness::Mad BlacknessDisabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present	0
Counterfeit Detectors: The Literary Origins of the US Secret Service	0
When Citizenship and National Belonging Diverge	0
Intergenerational Testimonials and the Politics of Black Cherokee Belonging	0
Realism’s Reputations, Financialized Whiteness	0
The Information Isolation Trope: Isolation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature	0
Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoiesis in “The Circular Ruins” and The People of Paper	0
Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing	0
The Sweetness of Race: On Synesthesia, Addiction, and Self-Possessed Personhood in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth	0
Announcement	0
The Scene of Eviction: Reification and Resistance in Depression-Era Narratives of Dispossession	0
Ann Petry and the Existential Phenomenology of Race	0
Making Americans in the New York Public Library: Fantasy and Realities	0
Lorraine Hansberry and Miriam Makeba’s Affirmative Movements in History	0
Destroyed Documents and Racial Vulnerability in the Literature of Slavery’s Legal Afterlife	0
Manufacturing Belief: Religion, Slavery, and Benito Cereno	0
Artificial Intelligence in Video Games	0
“Ain’t Any Chance to Rise in the Paper Business”: Poverty, Race, and Horatio Alger’s Newsboy Novels	0
Thinking with Robots	0
John Bunyan in Abolitionist Print Culture	0
“In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the US Armed Services Editions	0
The Origin of OthersGoodness and the Literary Imagination: Toni Morrison	0
More than “A Matter of Deciding To”: Citizenship, Border Positionality, and Irresolution in Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman	0
The Sentimentalist Terrain of Ora V. Eddleman Reed’s Twin Territories Fiction	0
Brief Mention	0
Becoming “Fellow-Servants”: Slavery, Theft, and Improper Fellowship in the Nineteenth-Century South	0
The Black Atlantic Monthly: Nicholas Said and the Limits of Literary Citizenship	0
“A Handful of Syllables Thrown Back across the Water”:Dictée’s Aesthetic Legacy and Thai American Poetics	0

All Hail Cthulhu! On Lovecraft, Monstress, and Asian American Bildung	0
Afro-Asian Antagonism and the Long Korean War	0
Colonizing the Heavens and Earth: Eclecticism, Epistemology, and Evangelism in the Jesuit Valentin Stansel’s Astronomy	0
Speculation and Scientific Method: Thomas Harriot’s Virginia IPO	0
Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging inPapers, Please	0
Can We Read Neural Networks? Epistemic Implications of Two Historical Computer Science Papers	0
Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard Yates	0
“My Whole Life I’ve Been on the Run”: Fugitivity as a Postracial Trope inRed Dead Redemption 2	0
Diversity Aesthetics: Figuring the Fate of DEI in Contemporary Black Office Fiction	0
Madre de Sangre / Mother of Blood: Vampirizing La Virgen in Feminist Short Fiction by Terri de la Peña and Kleya Forté-Escamilla	0
On Perspective and Value: Black Urbanism, Black Interiors, and Public Housing Fiction	0
With, Without, Even Still: Frederick Douglass,L’Union, and Editorship Studies	0
“A Face of Anguish”: Pain and Portraiture in the Civil War Hospital	0
The Raven and the Sea: The Lost Intertidal World of Eighteenth-Century Ornithology	0
Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	0
Military Technologies and Human Labor	0
All the Microworld’s a Stage: Realism in Interactive Fiction and Artificial Intelligence	0
“For Ought Is Known”: Hearsay, Antislavery, and the Golden Rule in Colonial North America	0
Announcements	0
Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian EntanglementsGiving Form to an Asian and Latinx America	0
Apocalyptic Rumblings: Catharine E. Beecher’s Domestic Economy and Environmentalism	0
Street Scenes: Langston Hughes, Lyric Pop, and Walter Benjamin’s Baudelaire	0
Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler	0
Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels	0
Introduction: American Game Studies	0
Pain after 2020, An Introduction	0
“Alive in Every Fibre”: Chopin and Wharton on Pain, Pleasure, and Private Feeling	0
Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler	0
Rest Cure versus Rest Tour: The Queer Routes of White Women’s Health	0
The Asian American Contract: On Useful Labor and Social Reproduction in Severance and Minari	0
Hymnic Placemaking: Samson Occom’sCollectionand Brothertown Orientations	0
The Suspended States of Latinx Literature	0
Authentic-Deconstructionist Games and Tragic Historiography in Assassin’s Creed III	0
Afterword: The Epistemological Turn in Early American Literary Studies	0
Shocking Therapy: Narrating Racism’s Psychobiological Injuries in Ralph Ellison’s Factory Hospital	0
The Erotic Fictions of Finance Capitalism in The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho	0
Can the Computer Speak?	0
The Diversity Requirement; or, The Ambivalent Contingency of the Asian American Student Teacher	0
The Epistemology of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans	0
Market Nation: Forging Economic Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century African America	0
Introduction: New Directions in the Study of New World Knowledge Making	0
Darkness on the Edge: Revisionary Black Radicalism in the Depression Era	0
Existentialisms: Blackness, Literature, Performance	0
Breaking Up (with) AI Ethics	0
Announcements	0
“Unquestioned Citizenship”: History, Poetry, and Black and Native Military Service in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman	0
Migrants, Vagrants, and the Making of the Anthropocene	0
Transparent Citizenship: The Racialization of Privacy in Post–World War II Japanese American Fiction	0
Subversion of the Human Aura: A Crisis in Representation	0
“The Body Cannot Forget”: Alternative Kinships, Speculative Travelers, and Disability in the Weird Western	0
How Literature Understands Poverty: A Genealogy of the Kitchen Table	0
On Personal and Impersonal Data	0
The Parasitical Trick: Mediating Dispossession in Early America	0
Literary Forensics as Method: Chemical Analysis, Food Stains, and Readerly Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks	0
On (Not)Waiting for Godot: Absurdity and Action in Mississippi	0
Announcement	0
New Citizenship Studies: An Introduction	0
Spinster Regionalism: Asexuality, Genre, and Type in the Shadow of Consumer Desire	0
Afterword: A “Citizen of the Ocean” in an Empire of Small Islands	0
Critical AI: A Field in Formation	0