Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Monographs:

The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States. New York: New York University Press (Nation of Nation series), 2018

Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (New World Studies series), 2008

Editor

Special Issue “Revisiting U.S. Post-Soviet and Ukrainian Immigrant Narratives After Russia’s Invasions of Ukraine,” (with Katherina Wiedlack) Twentieth Century Literature 72.1 (March 2026): 15-28. 

Special Issue “Writing (about) Literature While the House Burns Down” (with Lee Zimmerman). Twentieth Century Literature 71.4 (December 2025)

Special Issue “The Cultures of Global Post/Socialisms” (with Ioana Luca). Comparative Literature Studies 59.3 (August 2022)

Special Issue "Postsocialist Literatures in the United States" (with Ioana Luca) Twentieth Century Literature 65.1-2 (March 2019)

Special Issue “Comparative Border Studies” Comparative American Studies 9.4 (December 2011)

Globalization on the Line: Culture, Capital, and Citizenship at U.S. Borders. New York Palgrave: 2002

Representative Articles:

Decolonizing US (Post-)Soviet Fiction After Russia’s Invasions of Ukraine,” Twentieth Century Literature 72.1 (March 2026): 43-64.

Introduction: Revisiting U.S. Post-Soviet and Ukrainian Immigrant Narratives After Russia’s Invasions of Ukraine, (with Katherina Wiedlack) Twentieth Century Literature 72.1 (March 2026): 1-14.

"They let us in but they don’t know what to do with us": Ukrainian Migrants under Temporary Protections, Private Sponsorship, and U.S. Diaspora Dynamics,” Journal of International Migration and Integration, December 2025. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12134-025-01309-2

Introduction: Writing (about) Literature While the House Burns Down, (with Lee Zimmerman) Twentieth Century Literature 71.4 (December 2025): 309-316.

Narratives of Post-Soviet Migration, Neo-Liberal Precarity, and US Migration Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 61(4) (August 2025): 508–522

The Rise of the Nostalgic Spy Thriller: Globalizing the Neo-Cold War Narrative of Totalitarian State Socialism in the TV Series Deutschland TV (2015-2020), Comparative Literature Studies 59.3 (August 2022): 590-611.

Migration Studies in the Age of Climate Change, the Blue Humanities, and Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island, Techniques 2 (Summer 2022) https://techniquesjournal.com/migration-studies 

Climate Migration Fiction and Multispecies Mobility in the Racial Capitalocene, American Studies 60.3/4 (Fall/Winter 2021): 109-126

Introduction: Postsocialist Literatures in the United States, (with Ioana Luca) Twentieth Century Literature 65.1-2 (March 2019): 1-22

Global Migration Meets TV Format Adaptation: The Post-Soviet Diaspora, "Whiteness," and Return Migration in Dancing with the Stars (US) and Ukraine's The Bachelor, European Journal of Cultural Studies 17.6 (December 2014): 753-769

The Centrality of the Canada-US Border for Hemispheric Studies of the Americas, Forum for Interamerican Research 7.3 (December 2014): 20-40 http://interamericaonline.org/volume-7-3/Sadowski-Smith/

Chinese Migration to the Hemisphere: Multiraciality, Transgenerational Trauma, and Comparative American Studies, Transnational Crossroads: Reimagining Asian America, Latin@ America, and the American Pacific. Eds. Camilla Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012: 337-402

U.S. Border Ecologies, Environmental Criticism, and Transnational American Studies, American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship: Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons. Eds. Joni Adamson and Kimberly Ruffin. New York: Routledge, 2012: 144-157

Introduction: Comparative Border Studies, Comparative American Studies 9.4 (December 2011): 273-287 

Neoliberalism, Global "Whiteness," and the Desire for Adoptive Invisibility in Recent U.S. Memoirs of Adoption from Russia and Ukraine, Journal of Transnational American Studies 3.2 (November 2011) http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j13s0pm#page-32

Unskilled Labor Migration and the Illegality Spiral: Chinese, European, and Mexican Indocumentados in the United States, 1882-2007, American Quarterly 60.3 (Fall 2008): 779-804.

Twenty-First Century Chicana/o Border Writing, South Atlantic Quarterly 105.4 (Fall 2006): 825-851

Theorizing the Hemisphere: Inter-Americas Work at the Intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American Studies, (with Claire F. Fox) Comparative American Studies 2.1 (Spring 2004): 41-74.

The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Write Back: Cross-Cultural Transnationalism in Women of Color Fiction, Arizona Quarterly 57.1 (Spring 2001): 91-112

U.S. Border Theory, Globalization, and Ethnonationalisms in Post-Wall Eastern Europe,” Diaspora 8.1 (Spring 1999): 3-22

Post-Cold War Narratives of Nostalgia, The Comparatist 23 (May 1999): 117-127

Ostalgie: Revaluing the Past, Regressing into the Future, GDR Bulletin 25 (Spring 1998): 1-6