Willey, Angela. Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology. Raleigh: Duke University Press, 2016. In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey offers a radically interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of monogamy in U.S. science and culture, propelled by queer feminist desires for new modes of conceptualization and new forms of belonging.

Ellenzweig, Sarah. “The Persistence of Clarissa,” in Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives, Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016), 170-201. Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world – mechanistic materialism and vitalism – in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot. Focusing on embodied experience and the materialization of thought in poetry, novels, art, and religion, the literary scholars in this collection offer new and intriguing readings of these canonical authors.

Emden, Christian and Keith Ansell-Pearson (eds.). Nietzsche and the Ethics of Naturalism, special issue of Journal of Nietzsche Studies 47 (2016).

Ellenzweig, Sarah. “Richard Bentley’s Paradise Lost and the Ghost of Spinoza,” in God in the Enlightenment, William J. Bulman and Robert Ingram, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 257-77. We have long been taught that the Enlightenment was an attempt to free the world from the clutches of Christian civilization and make it safe for philosophy. The lesson has been well learned. In today's culture wars, both liberals and their conservative enemies, inside and outside the academy, rest their claims about the present on the notion that the Enlightenment was a secularist movement of philosophically driven emancipation.

Hoang, Kimberly. “Perverse Humanitarianism and the Business of Rescue: What’s Wrong with NGOs and What’s Right with the Johns?” Political Power and Social Theory 30.1 (2016): 19-43. Drawing on ethnographic field research on female sex workers and male clients in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s global sex industry, this paper complicates our understanding of human trafficking in two ways.

Willey, Angela. “Biopossibility: A Queer Feminist Materialist Science Studies Manifesto, with Special Reference to the Question of Monogamous Behavior,. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 41.3 (2016): 553-577.

Kaiser, Jess. "Nervous Figures: Enlightenment Neurology and the Personified Mind." ELH 82.4 (2015): 1073-1108.

Hoang, Kimberly and Rhacel Parrenas, eds. Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Rethinking the Problem, Envisioning New Solutions. New York: International Debate Education Association, 2015. Human Trafficking Reconsidered is a unique collection of original essays that investigates the issue of sex and labor trafficking. The book has three main objectives: (1) to examine the definition of trafficking; (2) to analyze the effectiveness of current anti-trafficking regimes; and (3) to discuss the challenges faced by anti-trafficking advocates on the ground.

Ansell-Pearson, Keith. "Beyond the Human Condition: Bergson and Deleuze," in Deleuze and the Non/Human, Jon Roffe (ed.) (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2015): 81-102.   This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection interrogates the significance of Deleuze's work in the recent and dramatic nonhuman turn. It confronts questions about environmental futures, animals and plants, nonhuman structures and systems, and the place of objects in a more-than-human world.

Hoang, Kimberly. Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection interrogates the significance of Deleuze's work in the recent and dramatic nonhuman turn. It confronts questions about environmental futures, animals and plants, nonhuman structures and systems, and the place of objects in a more-than-human world.

Ellenzweig, Sarah. “Paradise Lost and the Secret of Lucretian Sufficiency,” MLQ 75.3 (2014): 385-410.  The question of how and why a body falls in Paradise Lost persistently returns to the declining bodies that occupy Lucretius’s De rerum natura. Milton’s Christian support of the Arminian doctrine of free will, his argument that man is “Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall,” thus unfolds in a provocative dialogue with the Lucretian theory of agency.

Kerry Ward was selected for the 2013-2014 Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Fellowship at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.