Recommended citation: Arthur Z. Wang, "The Game Theory of Sex," in "American Game Studies," ed. Patrick Jagoda and Jennifer Malkowski, special issue, American Literature 94, no. 1 (2022): 103–131. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9697015
Winner, tenth annual L.S. Dembo Prize (best article published in Contemporary Literature in 2020)
Recommended citation: Arthur Z. Wang, "Situation, Occasion, Encounter: Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Lyric Theory in the Historical Present," Contemporary Literature 60, no. 4 (2020): 515-548. https://doi.org/10.3368/cl.60.4.515
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