OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Texas Studies in Literature and Language 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Pilgrim Guide: Coming to Our Senses amid the Climate Crisis	1
Speculative-Real Ethnoracial Spaces and the Formation of a Nepantlera Warrior	1
Infinite Storms of Beauty: Hopkins, Dillard, and the Epistemology of Downturn, 1870s/1970s	1
A Man in Search of Family: Kinship and Decline in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission	1
“To Get a Feel for What This Means”: Annie Dillard’s Thought Experiments and the Quest to Understand Compassion	0
Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name and the Badiou-Agamben Debate on Paul the Apostle	0
Irony, Recusancy, and Repentance in Robert Southwell’s Saint Peter’s Complaint	0
Stevie as Revolutionary in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent	0
Robert Rodriguez: Teaching Creativity	0
About Our Cover Art	0
Ommateum and the Early Career of A. R. Ammons	0
Under the Sign of the Middle Passage: Black Solidarity Reimagined	0
The Reading Closet	0
Emotional Repression in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
Reimagining Community at the Open Marshland: Ecocritical Anti-Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go	0
A Melting Glossary of Water: Seeping into Separations	0
Nothing to See Here, Move On: A New Look at Humor in Aldous Huxley’s Mock-Dystopic Brave New World	0
“Why Am I a Girl?”: Gender Variance and the Racial Ideal in Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West”	0
Miserable Communions: Sentimentality in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric	0
García Márquez’s Literary Smuggling in The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor	0
“Observance of Civility”: Jewish Identity and Anxiety in Seinfeld and William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice	0
Negotiating the Politics of Chinese Fiction: The Case of Yan Lianke’s “Child”	0
The Politics of the Poison Pen: Communism, Caricature, and Scapegoats in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man	0
An Extremist’s Exercise: What We Can and Cannot Think and Say with Wallace Stevens	0
Out of the Closet and Into the Home: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and the Affordances of the Domestic Interior	0

Roles That Contain and Restrain: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Klara and the Sun, and Living	0
Intratextual Ishiguro: Transitional Spaces and the Unmaking of Interpretative Communities	0
Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Naturalism/Dialect Poetry Divide	0
The Roots and Routes of Black Emancipation in Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio	0
Vampirism in the Ether: Radio’s Horrific Potential in Orson Welles’s “Dracula”	0
“The Surface on Which You Work”: Self-Alienation and the Culture of Narcissism in The Edible Woman	0
Silence, Space, and Absence in Joseph Conrad’s African Fiction	0
The Daughter’s Paradox: Filial Piety and Rebellion in Three Chinese Mother-Daughter Narratives	0
Lord Byron in Colonial Korea: Korean Intellectuals Pursuing National Freedom in the Spirit of Byron	0
Jiujitsu of the Spirit: Trueblood, His Audience, and Lyrical Subversion in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man	0
Reopening the Dan White Trial in Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice	0
Creative Creatures	0
Samuel Beckett’s Allusions to John Donne	0
The Unfinishedness & Untimeliness of A Raisin in the Sun	0
From Dawn Till Dusk: El Rey Network and the Evolution of Cable Television in the 2010s	0
The Importance of Being Earnest in The Importance of Being Earnest	0
“No Sorcery”: Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in The Queen’s Gambit	0
Archive Notes: An Introduction to the Kazuo Ishiguro Papers	0
Between Transgression and Conviviality: Everyday Urban Space and the Carnivalesque Strategies in The Lonely Londoners	0
Compromised Men and Aspiring Women: The Fatality of Romance in James M. Cain’s Depression-Era Novels	0
Transnational Intimacy in Israel Potter	0
Charles d’Orléans’s “Fowle Langage”	0
Introduction: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek at Fifty	0
Teaching Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in Beijing	0
A Rite of Finitude: Richard Wilbur’s Hermeneutic Ontology	0
Opium Smoking, Religion, and Commodity Culture in The Mystery of Edwin Drood	0
Love as Subjectification in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go	0
The Dialectics of Barbarous Civilization: Black Transnational Modernism in Claude McKay’s Banjo	0
The Latinx Fantastic: Robert Rodriguez and the Power of His Speculative Storytelling	0
Where Is HERE, When Is NOW? Literary “Presentism” after Romanticism	0
Reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in the Digital Age: On Corpus Stylistics and “Intricacy”	0
“The Moon Slides Down the Stair / To See Who’s There”: The Poetics of the Crossword and the Cross Words of Poetics	0
The Wizard of Awe: An Introduction in Three Parts	0
Performing Race: Heterotopias in David Henry Hwang’s FOB and Bondage	0
What Is Aggro? Situationist Aesthetics in the Plays of Howard Brenton	0
End of the Road: Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and True Crime in the Auto-Apocalyptic West	0
Paradise Lost and the Genre of Disaster Films	0
Between Land and Settler Subjectivity: The Modernist Animal’s Territory in Katherine Mansfield’s “Prelude”	0
Owning a Sense of Perversity in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne	0
Reading Post-slavery Subjectivities in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth	0
“You Are a Cortez!”: Robert Rodriguez’s Tejano Sensibility and Restorative Kinship in the Spy Kids Series	0
The Other James: James Joyce, Henry James, and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark	0
“Understanding Each Other Perfectly”: The Desire for Unmediated Communion in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”	0
The Surprising Success of C. R. Maturin’s Bertram: A Collaboration with Scott, Byron, Kean, and Murray	0
The Politics of Black Domesticity in Martin R. Delany’s Blake, or the Huts of America	0
The South/Western Gothic: White Capitalist Zombies in Katherine Anne Porter’s Noon Wine	0
Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited: A Roundtable Discussion	0