TGHC Bibliography for Fall 2026
This bibliography showcases recent or significant publications by TGHC visiting scholars for fall 2026, offering a snapshot of their work. If any of these texts align with your course themes or pedagogical goals, we invite you to consider incorporating them into your syllabus and encouraging students to attend the scholars’ upcoming talks. Our hope is that these visits foster deeper engagement with current humanities research and create meaningful points of connection between classroom learning and the vibrant humanities community at Tulane.
Torbjörn E. Törnqvist & Nathaniel Rich
Torbjörn E. Törnqvist
- Törnqvist, Torbjörn E., et al. “Climate-Driven Depopulation and Adaptation Realities in America’s Coastal Ground Zero.” Nature Sustainability [London], vol. 9, no. 6, June 2026, pp. 803–812.
- Törnqvist, Torbjörn E., et al. “Evaluating IPCC Projections of Global Sea‐Level Change From the Pre‐Satellite Era.” Earth’s Future [Bognor Regis], vol. 13, no. 8, August 2025.
Nathaniel Rich
- CloudThief: A Novel. MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.
- Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade. First edition., MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- Losing Earth: A Recent History. First edition., MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Toby Wikström
Keywords: Performance studies, early modern France, global performance, port cities.
- Look out for a forthcoming monograph on early modern French global theater.
- “Exploring Early-modern Globalization through Seventeenth-Century French Tragedy” in Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy. Modern Language Association of America, 2021. pp. 254–266.
- “Was there a pan-european orientalism? Icelandic and flemish perspectives on captivity in muslim North Africa (1628–1656)” in The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., Nov. 9, 2017, pp. 155–170.
Myles Jackson
Keywords: History of science, sound studies, German studies, music history.
- Broadcasting Fidelity: German Radio and the Rise of Early Electronic Music. Princeton University Press, 2024.
- The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race. MIT Press, 2015.
- Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument makers in nineteenth-century Germany. MIT Press, 2006.
- Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics. MIT Press, 2000.
Mary Guiteras
Keywords: Havana & New Orleans, Performance studies, Music studies, AfroCuban, Creole.
- Carolina Caballero, Shannon Flaherty, Denise Frazier, Grace Harmon, Chris Kaminstein, and Richon May. Carlotta . Directed by Dr. Denise Frazier, Peter J Bowling, and Yusa, Goat in the Road Productions, March 2026, New Orleans, LA.
Jonathan Galka
Keywords: Maritime history, environmental history, seabed infrastructures; speculative futures and scientific imagination; material culture of marine science; histories of biology and natural history.
- “‘The Nodules Are Alive and Well on the Sea Floor’: Deep Ocean Minerals, Invertebrate Traces, and Multispecies Histories of Abyssal Environments: The Nodules Are Alive and Well on the Sea Floor.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences [Cham], vol. 47, no. 2, March 2025.
- “Bohemia at the Pacific Seabed: Archiving the Future of Deep-Sea Mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization.” Social Studies of Science [London, England], vol. 54, no. 5, October 2024, pp. 678–705.
- “Oceans of Ooze: Deep-sea Sedimentary Data, Mineral Resource Frontiers, and Imperial Continuities in Ocean History.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol. 53, no. 5, November 2023, pp. 481–517.
Eric Tagliocozzo
Keywords: Southeast Asian history, Maritime history, History of exploration, Global diaspora.
- “Afterword: Migration’s Longue Durée.” International Migration [Oxford], vol. 63, no. 1, January 2025.
- In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama. Princeton University Press, 2022.
- The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865–1915 . 1st ed., Yale University Press, 2005.
Debashree Mukherjee
Keywords: Film & media studies, Bollywood, South Asian history, Indentured labor, Plantation capitalism.
- “Shipwreck Media: Crisis Ornaments and How to Read Them.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 65, no. 1, September 2025, pp. 106–130.
- Bombay Talkies: An Unseen History of Indian Cinema. Mapin Publishing, 2023.
- “Media Wars: Remaking the Logics of Propaganda in India’s Wartime Cine-Ecologies.” Modern Asian Studies [Cambridge, UK], vol. 57, no. 5, September 2023, pp. 1585–1614.
- Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City. Columbia University Press, 2020.
Cajetan Iheka
Keywords: African literature, comparative literature, environmental humanities, Caribbean studies.
- African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics. Duke University Press, 2022.
- “Intricate Intimacies: Reading the Transatlantic Queer in Dinaw Mengestu’s All Our Names.” New Literary History [Baltimore], vol. 53, no. 1, December 2022, pp. 85–107.
- “The Media Turn in African Environmentalism: The Niger Delta and Oil’s Network Forms.” Journal of Visual Culture [London, England], vol. 20, no. 1, April 2021, pp. 60–84.
- African Migration Narratives: Politics, Race, and Space. University of Rochester Press, 2019.
- Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2018.