The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes  Modernist Latitudes Series, Columbia University Press 2020

  • Winner of the 2021 First Book Prize from the Modernist Studies Association

  • Book Forum, “Archives of Crime and Activism,” in Critical Analysis of Law: An International and Interdisciplinary Law Review with response essays from Inderpal Grewal, Gabriel Hankins, Scott Herring, and Janice Ho

Through attention to the daily life of feminist action, The Fury Archives assembles a counter-archive of women’s rights, practiced by female arsonists, suffragette rioters, industrial saboteurs, self-named terrorists, lesbian criminals, and queer resistance cells. Setting aside the question of the vote, this turn to the daily life of feminist action suggests an alternative conceptual vocabulary for rights claims, moving beyond juridically defined freedoms and obligations understood in relation to the nation-state. At the same time, the book examines the criminal proceedings that emerged in the wake of these actions, tracing the way that “citizen” and “human” emerged as linked categories for women on the fringes of an international campaign for suffrage.

Reviews: Association of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Art Review Asia, Human Rights Quarterly, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 ; excerpts in LitHub, Harriet Blog: The Poetry Foundation

 The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism Contemporaries Series, Columbia University Press 2020; Turkish translation, Columbia University Press, 2023

  • Winner of the 2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Humanities awarded by the Association of American Publishers

  • Shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize

  • Honorable Mention, Modernist Language Association of American Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship, 2023

Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante’s intense depiction of female friendship and women’s intellectual lives, four critics embarked upon a project that was both work and play: to create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together. Their letters make visible the slow, fractured, and creative accretion of ideas that underwrites all literary criticism and also illuminate the authors’ lives outside the academy.

Reviews: The New Republic, The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Education, World Literature Today, Publishers Weekly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Booklist Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, Sydney Review of Books, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies