This article compares Dave Eggers's What Is the What and Invisible Children's Kony 2012,
two recent and much-debated instances of human rights advocacy that mobilize subaltern …

O n March 18, 2015, we had the rare opportunity to inter-view the celebrated American
author Dave Eggers and Mimi Lok, co-founder with Eggers of Voice of Witness, a socially …

This article examines the ways in which two literary texts by the American author Dave
Eggers, his novel You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) and his short story “Up the Mountain …

In 2015, the American author Dave Eggers was awarded Ghent University’s Amnesty
International Chair for his work in the field of human rights. This Chair is awarded each year to …

Whereas many female authors of the long nineteenth century have been recovered and
revalued in recent years, their relationship to the rise of professional authorship as well as their …

In this article, we analyse two testimonial narratives written or published by Dave Eggers, an
American author, editor, and publisher whose oeuvre shows a marked interest in …

The “What are your reading?” section invites (early-career) researchers to report on works
that are deemed relevant to the field and that are of particular significance to the author's …

Though I Am Legend (1954) was Richard Matheson’s first novel, the story of Robert Neville
and his battle against the vast population of vampires became one of the most inspiring …

… Thank you to Jasper, Sean, and Birgit: it was nice sharing an office with you! At two of
LITRA’s workshops, I had the opportunity to get feedback from Michael Rothberg and Marianne …

The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe is the first study to address the rhetorical dimensions of Poe’s
textual and discursive practices. It argues that Poe is a figure and figurer of the emergence …