Leerom Medovoi

Interests

Research

20th and 21st Century Literature, Film, and Culture, Religion, Secularism, and Politics, Islamophobia and Critical Race Theory, Globalization Studies, War Studies, Environmental Humanities, Biopolitics

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Medovoi, L., & Bentley, E. (2020). Religion, Secularism and Political Belonging. Duke University Press.
• Medovoi, L. (2005). Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity. Duke University Press.

Chapters

• Klotz, M., & Medovoi, L. (2020). Neoliberal Political Theology. In Religion, Secularism and Political Belonging. Duke University Press.
• Medovoi, L. (2019). Fundamentalism. In Religion, Secularism and Political Belonging. Duke University Press.
• Medovoi, L. (2020). Fundamentalism. In Religion, Secularism and Political Belonging. Duke University Press.
• Medovoi, L., & Klotz, M. (2018). Neoliberal Political Theology. In Religion, Secularism and Political Belonging. Duke University Press.
• Medovoi, L. (2016). Reperiodizing the Postmodern, Textualizing the World System. In Postmodern/Postwar--and After(pp 93-110). Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
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  Book chapter for a collection edited by Jason Gladstone, Daneil Worden, and Andrew Hoberek
• Medovoi, L. (2016). Sustainability. In Fueling Culture: Energy, History, Politics. New York City: Fordham University Press.
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  Book chapter for a collected volume edited by Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wentzel, and Patricia Yeager.
• Medovoi, L. (2014). Government. In Keywords For American Cultural Studies(pp 122-124). New York and London: New York University Press.
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  One of sixty-four Keyword Entries by major scholars in the field for a new anthology. Edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler.
• Medovoi, L. (1997). Reading the blackboard: Youth, masculinity, and racial cross-identification. In Race and the Subject of Masculinities. Durham: Duke University. Press.

Journals/Publications

• Medovoi, L., & Feldman, K. (2016). "Introduction to Race/Religion/War". Social Text.
• Medovoi, L., Medovoi, L., Feldman, K., & Feldman, K. (2016). Special Issue on Race/Religion/War. Social Text.
• Medovoi, L. (2014). Remediation as Pharmikon. Comparative Literature, 66(1), 15--24.
• Medovoi, L. (2012). Dogma-Line Racism Islamophobia and the Second Axis of Race. Social Text, 30(2 111), 43--74.
• Medovoi, L. (2012). Swords and Regulation: Toward a Theory of Political Violence in the Neoliberal Moment. symploke, 20(1), 21--34.
• Medovoi, L. (2011). “Terminal Crisis?” From the Worlding of American Literature to World-System Literature. American Literary History, 23(3), 643--659.
• Medovoi, L. (2010). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Ecology: Sustainability as Disavowal. New Formations, 69(1), 129--143.
• Medovoi, L. (2010). Age Trouble: A Timely Subject in American Literary and Cultural Studies. American Literary History, 22(3), 657--672.
• Medovoi, L. (2007). Global Society Must Be Defended BIOPOLITICS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES. Social Text, 25(2 91), 53--79.
• Medovoi, L. (2005). Nation, globe, hegemony: post-Fordist preconditions of the transnational turn in American Studies. interventions, 7(2), 162--179.
• Medovoi, L. (2002). Globalization as narrative and its three critiques. The Review of Education, Pedagogy \& Cultural Studies, 24(1-2), 63--75.
• Medovoi, L. (2000). Cold-War American culture as the age of Three worlds. Minnesota Review, 167--186.
• Medovoi, L. (1998). Theorizing historicity, or the many meanings of Blacula. Screen, 39(1), 1--21.
• Medovoi, L. (1997). Democracy, capitalism, and American literature: The cold war construction of JD Salinger's Paperback Hero. The Other Fifties: Interrogating Midcentury American Icons, 255--287.
• Medovoi, L. (1991). Mapping the rebel image: Postmodernism and the masculinist politics of rock in the USA. Cultural Critique, 153--188.

Reviews

• Medovoi, L. (2021. Review of "Life in Plastic: Responses to Petromodernity".
• Medovoi, L. (2023. Review of "Life in Plastic: Responses to Petromodernity".
• Medovoi, L. (2019. Review, Wendy Brown's In the Ruins of Neoliberalism.
• Medovoi, L., & Klotz, M. (2016. Long Live the New Flesh! Book Review(pp 641-644).

Others

• Medovoi, L. (2000, December). American science fiction and the Cold War: Literature and film. Science Fiction Studies.
• Medovoi, L. (1995). Bad Boys: Masculinity, Oppositional Discourse, and American Youth Culture in the 1950's.
• Medovoi, L., Raman, S., & Robinson, B. (1990, December). CAN THE SUBALTERN VOTE. Socialist Review.