Introduction: a new humanism
Self, identity, and ideas
Revisiting Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault
Derrida gets medieval
Imaginary empires, real nations
Edward Said spaced out
Modernity, what?
Teachers, scholars, and the humanities today
Translation matters
Can music resist?
The "cultural studies turn" in Brown studies
Pulling up stakes in Latin/o American theoretical claims
Fugitive thoughts on justice and happiness
Why literature matters
Interpretation, interdisciplinarity, and the people.