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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Hard-Boiled Anthropocene and the Infrastructure of Extractivism	22
White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to StockettBlack Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery	15
Unliterary History: Toni Morrison, The Black Book, and “Real Black Publishing”	6
Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing LiteratureLiterary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism	3
Moved by Another Life: Altered Sentience and Historical Poiesis in the Peyote Craze	3
Announcement	3
On Perspective and Value: Black Urbanism, Black Interiors, and Public Housing Fiction	2
Ann Petry and the Existential Phenomenology of Race	2
The Whiteness of the White	2
“Unquestioned Citizenship”: History, Poetry, and Black and Native Military Service in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman	1
Thinking with Robots	1
Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler	1
Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”	1
Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?	1
Realism’s Reputations, Financialized Whiteness	1
Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels	1
As She Lay Dying: Locating the Gothic in Kaui Hart Hemmings’s The Descendants	1
Announcement	1
Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations: Pauline Hopkins’s Counterintelligence	1
Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History	1
“Multiplied without Number”: Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois	1
James Monroe Whitfield, Poetry, and Martin Delany’s Revolutionary Worldmaking in Blake; or, The Huts of America	1
Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation	1
Cultural Gradients and the Sociotechnics of Data	1
New Citizenship Studies: An Introduction	1

The Black Atlantic Monthly: Nicholas Said and the Limits of Literary Citizenship	1
Apocalyptic Rumblings: Catharine E. Beecher’s Domestic Economy and Environmentalism	1
Cedar Hill: Frederick Douglass’s Literary Landscape and the Racial Construction of Nature	1
The Critical DREAMer Memoir: Educational Mobility and the Limits of Meritocratic Citizenship	1
The Diversity Requirement; or, The Ambivalent Contingency of the Asian American Student Teacher	1
Announcements	1
Destroyed Documents and Racial Vulnerability in the Literature of Slavery’s Legal Afterlife	1
Health Care Fictions: The Business of Medicine and Modern US Literature	0
“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies	0
Woody Guthrie’s Modern World BluesBeyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues TraditionConjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army”The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Vo	0
National Wounds and Gendered Harm: Reframing Abortion Pain in The Worst of Times	0
In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic UnseenWhat Was Literary Impressionism?	0
Brief Mention	0
Announcements	0
Intergenerational Testimonials and the Politics of Black Cherokee Belonging	0
Computing Race	0
What the Afterlife ofSCUMCan Teach Us about Autotheory	0
The Scene of Eviction: Reification and Resistance in Depression-Era Narratives of Dispossession	0
Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier WestFictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950Failed Frontiersmen: White Men a	0
The Dream of Property: Law and Environment in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead	0
Existentialisms: Blackness, Literature, Performance	0
Migrants, Vagrants, and the Making of the Anthropocene	0
“Ain’t Any Chance to Rise in the Paper Business”: Poverty, Race, and Horatio Alger’s Newsboy Novels	0
Introduction: American Game Studies	0
Transatlantic Abridgment and the Unstable Economics ofRobinson Crusoe	0
Brief Mention	0
Announcements	0
Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian EntanglementsGiving Form to an Asian and Latinx America	0
Incommensurate Labors: The Work behind the Works of Harriet Jacobs and Walt Whitman	0
The Game Theory of Sex	0
The Parasitical Trick: Mediating Dispossession in Early America	0
Shocking Therapy: Narrating Racism’s Psychobiological Injuries in Ralph Ellison’s Factory Hospital	0
Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard Yates	0
Making Americans in the New York Public Library: Fantasy and Realities	0
Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing	0
Subversion of the Human Aura: A Crisis in Representation	0
Can the Computer Speak?	0
Black Madness::Mad BlacknessDisabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present	0
The Asian American Contract: On Useful Labor and Social Reproduction in Severance and Minari	0
Geomemory and Genre Friction: Infrastructural Violence and Plantation Afterlives in Contemporary African American Novels	0
The Origin of OthersGoodness and the Literary Imagination: Toni Morrison	0
Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship	0
Becoming “Fellow-Servants”: Slavery, Theft, and Improper Fellowship in the Nineteenth-Century South	0
Lorraine Hansberry and Miriam Makeba’s Affirmative Movements in History	0
How Literature Understands Poverty: A Genealogy of the Kitchen Table	0
What Do We Critique When We Critique Technology?	0
“My Whole Life I’ve Been on the Run”: Fugitivity as a Postracial Trope inRed Dead Redemption 2	0
Pain after 2020, An Introduction	0
Manufacturing Belief: Religion, Slavery, and Benito Cereno	0
Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler	0

John Bunyan in Abolitionist Print Culture	0
Introduction: The Infrastructure of Emergency	0
Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America’s Nineteenth-Century Virtual RealmModernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureGears and God: Tech	0
The Sweetness of Race: On Synesthesia, Addiction, and Self-Possessed Personhood in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth	0
Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult LiteratureA New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich	0
Brief Mention	0
Data/Dispossession	0
Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist EthicsLegally Straight: Sexuality, Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage	0
Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging inPapers, Please	0
War on Dirt: Aesthetics, Empire, and Infrastructure in the Low Nineteenth Century	0
Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit	0
Science Fiction and Utopia in the Anthropocene	0
“Alive in Every Fibre”: Chopin and Wharton on Pain, Pleasure, and Private Feeling	0
Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoiesis in “The Circular Ruins” and The People of Paper	0
Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	0
The Subsident Gulf: Refiguring Climate Change in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage	0
Announcement	0
Artificial Bloom	0
The Sentimentalist Terrain of Ora V. Eddleman Reed’s Twin Territories Fiction	0
Literary AI: Are We Ready for the Future We Imagine?	0
Muriel Rukeyser “among Wars”: Feminist Internationalism in the Second Wave	0
Street Scenes: Langston Hughes, Lyric Pop, and Walter Benjamin’s Baudelaire	0
“Never Allowed for Property”: Harriet Jacobs and Layli Long Soldier before the Law	0
Can We Read Neural Networks? Epistemic Implications of Two Historical Computer Science Papers	0
Shakespeare “Translated and Improved”: The Translational Politics of the American Yiddish Theater and Its Afterlife	0
Critical AI: A Field in Formation	0
“A Face of Anguish”: Pain and Portraiture in the Civil War Hospital	0
The Many Ecologies of AI	0
More than “A Matter of Deciding To”: Citizenship, Border Positionality, and Irresolution in Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman	0
A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender	0
Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics	0
Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820–1860Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism	0
When Citizenship and National Belonging Diverge	0
All the Microworld’s a Stage: Realism in Interactive Fiction and Artificial Intelligence	0
Afterword: A “Citizen of the Ocean” in an Empire of Small Islands	0
Artificial Intelligence in Video Games	0
Transparent Citizenship: The Racialization of Privacy in Post–World War II Japanese American Fiction	0
Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’sMan Who Lived Underground	0
Giving Postblackness the Silent Treatment	0
Power of Body / Power of Mind: Arts and Crafts, New Thought, and Popular Women’s Literature at the Fin de Siècle	0
The Information Isolation Trope: Isolation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature	0
Post-Automation Poetics; or, How Cold-War Computers Discovered Poetry	0
The Mystery of the Missing AIDS Crisis: A Comparative Reading of Caper in the Castro and Murder on Main Street	0
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart	0
Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century	0
Darkness on the Edge: Revisionary Black Radicalism in the Depression Era	0
Authentic-Deconstructionist Games and Tragic Historiography in Assassin’s Creed III	0
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American EssayEmpire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial CultureReaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victoria	0
Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’sLetters to Memory	0
On (Not)Waiting for Godot: Absurdity and Action in Mississippi	0
Brief Mention	0
Black Feminist Geohaptics and the Broken Earth	0
Rest Cure versus Rest Tour: The Queer Routes of White Women’s Health	0
With, Without, Even Still: Frederick Douglass,L’Union, and Editorship Studies	0
“In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the US Armed Services Editions	0
Redistributions of the Sensible: An Introduction to “Senses with/out Subjects”	0
Hymnic Placemaking: Samson Occom’sCollectionand Brothertown Orientations	0
The Erotic Fictions of Finance Capitalism in The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho	0
Military Technologies and Human Labor	0
Measuring the Harlem Renaissance: The U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary FormOn Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America	0
The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War	0
Announcement	0
Counterfeit Detectors: The Literary Origins of the US Secret Service	0
Introduction: How American Literature Understands Poverty	0
Breaking Up (with) AI Ethics	0
Announcement	0
Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century AmericaRespawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life	0
Ouch: Pain, Heard and Referred	0
“Jack In, Young Pioneer”: Frontier Politics, Ecological Entrapment, and the Architecture of Cyberspace	0
The Suspended States of Latinx Literature	0
All Hail Cthulhu! On Lovecraft, Monstress, and Asian American Bildung	0
Afro-Asian Antagonism and the Long Korean War	0
“A Handful of Syllables Thrown Back across the Water”:Dictée’s Aesthetic Legacy and Thai American Poetics	0
Democratic Aesthetics: Scenes of Political Violence and Anxiety in Nari Ward and Ocean Vuong	0
Brief Mention	0
Market Nation: Forging Economic Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century African America	0