Featured Blog Post: Agency in Gerwig's Little Women - but for whom?

By Anne K. Phillips

"Summing up nineteenth-century American literature as Moby Dick and Little Women, Greta Gerwig, writer-director of the newest film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, argues that the latter is 'one of our great works of American literature, but because it’s a women’s novel, it’s treated like an asterisk'..."
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Spotlight: Science Fiction

Since 2017, Sherryl Vint (UC Riverside) has curated a selection of annotated bibliographic articles across the literature and cinema studies modules in Oxford Bibliographies. These articles have been made freely available and explore the growing scholarly area of Science Fiction. From The Matrix to Mary Shelley, this project aims to cover the major themes and works in the field, and will continue to grow in the coming years.
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A Bibliographic Introduction to Islam in the Modern World

Readers interested in learning more about the current state of Islam in the world and what key factors have had a significant impact on it will surely welcome this selection of freely available Oxford Bibliographies articles. This collection spans various disciplines in order to further illuminate the rich history of Islam.
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Featured Blog Post: Slavoj Žižek on what really makes him mad

By Slavoj Žižek

"What really makes me mad when I read critical (and even some favorable) reactions to my work is the recurring characterization of me as a postmodern cultural critic – the one thing I don’t want to be. I consider myself a philosopher dealing with fundamental ontological questions, and, furthermore, a philosopher in the traditional vein of German Idealism..."
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