OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of College 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
"One foot on the other side": Towards a Periodization of West African Spiritual Surrealism	2
Dream Keepers	2
The Contemporary Novel’s Containment of Multitudes: Poetic Citation and Intertextual Framing in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days	2
“There Were Some Things That Did Not Change”: Postcolonial Reckonings with Gender in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series	1
"Then I re-read it very carefully": Arthur Conan Doyle's "The ' Gloria Scott '" and the Role of Generic Expectations in Reading, Interpreting, and Evaluating a "Holmes Story"	1
From History to the Future: The Chinese Experience in Margaret Cezair-Thompson's The True History of Paradise	1
Living without Insects in Jane Austen's Emma: A Horizontal Reading	1
Instituting Bestsellers: The First Ten Years of "Sales of Books During the Month"	1
"I wish i were my / self – mexican": Tom Raworth and Mexico	1
Stenographic Authorship: Pauline E. Hopkins and Literary Infrastructures	1
The Otherness of Communication: Systems Theory and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go	0
Errata	0
“Crammed With Tongues”: Cosmopolitan Creole in Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution	0
Afterword: Writing Black Children, Writing "Black Aliveness"	0
Feeling Change: Simile and the Figurality of Gender Transition	0
Gulf Gothic: Mexico, the U.S. South and La Llorona’s Undead Voices by Dolores Flores-Silva and Keith Cartwright (review)	0
Empire, Infrastructural Violence, and the Speculative Turn	0
"Visions Again Came To Me of My African Ancestors Bound and Dragged onto Slave Ships": From Political Autobiography to Burton's Post-Black Power Neo-Abolitionist Memoir	0
Louise Glück at the Window	0
"Narrativity and Cognition: Early Mind-Driven Plots in Henry James's Notebook Synopses"	0
Merrill Moore’s Sonnetorium: Reading Writing and the Scale of Poetic Technique	0
Literature and Professional Society: Modernism, Aesthetics, and Ian McEwan’s Saturday	0
Tracing the Figure of Roland Barthes in The Argonauts : A "many-gendered mother" of Maggie Nelson's Heart	0
Pioneers and Populists: Sutton E. Griggs, Oscar Micheaux, and Independent Black Publishing at the Turn of the Century	0
John Donne and Scientific Observations of the Soul	0

The Man of Letters: Professor Barrett Wendell and the Style of White Supremacy	0
“The Proprioceptive Probe”: Amiri Baraka’s New Ark in Tales and Tales of the Out and the Gone	0
Undoing “East” and “West” in Orhan Pamuk’s Novels: “A Novelist’s Politics” and the Idea of Europe	0
Politics and Pedagogy in Palestinian Women’s Anglophone Writing	0
Computation as Context: New Approaches to the Close/Distant Reading Debate	0
Es’kia Mphahlele and the Literary Project of African Humanism	0
Jonathan Swift and the Nature of Modern Violence	0
"A Gratifying Divergence": Immigrant Settlement and the National Narrative in Willa Cather's My Ántonia	0
Middlebrow Affective Mapping: Reading Modern Motherhood in Louis Bromfield's Mrs. Parkington (1942)	0
"I see the blade continue cutting": The Circuitry of Healing in Jean Toomer's Pastoral Poetry in Cane	0
Colloquial Circulations: The Poetry Society of America’s Poetry in Motion Public Transportation Project	0
“Nevermore a manly shape retaine”: Francis Beaumont’s Salmacis and Hermaphroditus , Fairness, and Trans Femininity c. 1602	0
“Style as Generative Constraint”: Jordy Rosenberg on Trans Poetics in the Shadow of the Far Right	0
How Not to Defend Aesthetic Education: Bildung as Self-Defeating Mechanism in John Williams's Stoner	0
Literary Sites of Institutional Confirmation and Critique: Howells in the Study, Cather in the Office	0
Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature by Colby Gordon (review)	0
"My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls": Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, "Black" Hair, and the Revenge of Postcolonial Education	0
Margaret Fuller's Illegibilities: Afterlives of an Unreadable, Unrecoverable Manuscript	0
"As an illuminator the Oil is without a figure—it is the light of the age": Traumas and Aporias of Oil as a Global Object of Desire in Ella Hickson's Oil	0
William Gaddis, the Us Army, and the Unwriting of an American War Novel	0
The Booksellers' School and the Rise of American Independent Bookselling	0
(Mis)Reading in the Age of Terror: Promoting Racial Literacy through Counter-Colonial Narrative Resistance in the Post-9/11 Muslim Novel	0
"A Man of Two Faces and Two Minds": Just Memory and Metatextuality in The Sympathizer's Rewriting of the Vietnam War	0
When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader ed. by Susan Stryker (review)	0
Genres of Empire: An Introduction	0
Semiperipherality and the Taiwanese American Novel	0
American Literary Institutions Around 1900	0
On Willful Learning: Pedagogies of Testimonio in Alicia Partnoy’s The Little School	0
Global Milton and Visual Art ed. by Mario Murgia and Angelica Duran (review)	0
Robert Lowell's Still Lifes and the Market Economy of the Poetic Profession	0
A Standoff, Getting Off, and Letting Oneself Off the Hook: Psychoanalytic Discourse and Trans*ness	0
Provoking Aesthetic Enigma: Trish Salah and torrin a. greathouse on Trans Poetics	0
Afterword: Literary Institutions and Their Afterlives	0
In Search of Faith Ringgold's Picture Books	0
From Great Books to World Literature: Anthologies as Institutional Supplements Around 1900 and Today	0
What's in a Name?: Naomi Shihab Nye's "Blood" and the Unspeakable Ordeal of the Real; A Lacanian Reading	0
Trans Barbie Aesthetics	0
Blogging Race, Blogging Nation: Digital Diaspora as Home in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah	0
A Revolting Archive: Incarcerated Trans Resistance and the Destruction of Neoliberal Realism	0
Jason Reynolds's Stamped: A Young Adult Adaptation for All Ages	0
A Neurocognitive Approach to Rudyard Kipling's Early Works and to Kim	0
Postures of Disbelief: Secularism and Postcolonialism in Tabish Khair's How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position	0
Dark Poetry and the Anti-Elegiac: Approaching the Unspeakable	0
Hanif Kureishi’s Passages of Queerness: Diasporic Sensualities and the Creation of Selves	0
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study by John Guillory (review)	0
Editorial Remarks: Fifty Years of College Literature	0
“Racial Greatness” Reconsidered: Race Theory, Masking, and Pragmatism in Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio	0
Kant, the Canon, and Pleasure's Transcendental Sociability	0
Isis as Little Red Riding Hood: Illuminating Zora Neale Hurston's "Drenched in Light"	0
"The Eager Arab Astronaut": Fantasies of (Superheroic) Flight in the Lebanese Diasporic Imagination	0

How to Write a Novel in the Present-Indefinite: Charles Yu, Mohsin Hamid, and Science Fiction as Critique	0
Introduction: Whose Trans Literatures?	0
Human Rights and the Novel After UNDRIP: On Louise Erdrich's Justice Trilogy	0
On the Catastrophe of Sartre’s Faulknerian Boredom	0
Meet the New Boss: Dave Eggers's The Circle and the New Digital Totalitarianism	0
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas by Theresa Delgadillo (review)	0
Necropolitics and Resilience in Sara Baume's Spill Simmer Falter Wither (2015)	0
The Temporal Imagination of Indigenous Futurisms	0
The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study by, Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan	0
Philip Larkin, Egg	0
Joy or Vexation: Respectable Motherhood and the Trope of Childhood in Nella Larsen's Passing	0
"Mature Themes": Childhood in the African American Literary Scene of Encounter	0
The Twentieth-Century Adaptation of the Captivity Narrative and the Act of Looking in Elmore Leonard’s Western Stories	0
The Unspeakable Whiteness in Whitman's Democracy: Empire and the Limits of American Literature	0
Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance by Peter P. Reed (review)	0
The Space Between: Proper Names and Other Disturbances in Jack Spicer's Poetry	0
Engraved Legacies: Bringing Phillis Wheatley’s Idle Pose to the Classroom	0
Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World by Nouri Gana (review)	0
Vampiric (neo-)Victorianisms: Vamping the Past in Rachel Klein's The Moth Diaries	0
Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature by Claudia Stokes, and: Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry by Jennifer Putzi	0
From Materiality to Metaphor and Back Again: gaita nihil and Cole Rizki on Editing, Translating, and Publishing Trans Literatures	0
A School of Its Own: US Naturalism and the Demands of Professional Labor	0
Science, Michel Serres, and the Topological Poetics of A. R. Ammons	0
Academic and Conversational Genre: Revisionist Visions of Anti-Racist Rhetoric in Claudia Rankine’s Just Us	0
World, Class, Tragicomedy: Johannesburg, 1994	0
Calm Modernism: Virginia Woolf, Kazimir Malevich, and Eternal Rest	0
On the Limits of "Playing Crazy": Madness and Motherhood in Toni Morrison's Beloved	0
Children, Too, Sing America: Ending Apartheid in and of Children's Literature	0
The Allure of "Fail Better": Uses of Beckett's Modernist Cliché	0
On Originality in Poetic Diction and the Linguistics of “Nativelike Speech”	0
Cosmetics as Tools of Resistance and Survival in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four	0
Castration Desire: Less is More in Emma Donoghue's Room	0
Authorial Designs: Daniel Berkeley Updike, Edith Wharton, and Institutional Reciprocity in the American Literary Marketplace	0
A Blueprint for Black Girlhood: bell hooks's Homemade Love	0
Writing Through the Middle: Dispatches from the Journals of Red Jordan Arobateau	0
Transcultural Poetics: Chinese Literature in English Translation ed. by Yifeng Sun and Dechao Li (review)	0
Citational Gothic: Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Archive	0
Hawthorne and the Problem of Immigrant Fiction in Jhumpa Lahiri's Hema and Kaushik	0
Trans-Atlantic Time in the Borderlands: Racialized Gender and Becoming in the Work of Alan Pelaez Lopez	0