Hortense J. Spillers

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Hortense J. Spillers is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and History. According to data from OpenAlex, Hortense J. Spillers has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 5 papers in History. Recurrent topics in Hortense J. Spillers's work include Race, History, and American Society (9 papers), American Political and Social Dynamics (4 papers) and American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 papers). Hortense J. Spillers is often cited by papers focused on Race, History, and American Society (9 papers), American Political and Social Dynamics (4 papers) and American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 papers). Hortense J. Spillers collaborates with scholars based in United States. Hortense J. Spillers's co-authors include Marjorie Pryse, Saidiya Hartman, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Jennifer L. Morgan, Ann duCille, Christopher Connery, Carla Kaplan, Jane Gallop, Tania Modleski and Ann Cvetkovich and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Critical Inquiry and American Literature.

In The Last Decade

Hortense J. Spillers

26 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 400 800 1.2k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book
    1987 1.3k citations Hortense J. Spillers profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hortense J. Spillers United States 9 1.0k 510 403 289 171 41 1.9k
Ann Cvetkovich United States 13 1.0k 1.0× 424 0.8× 333 0.8× 385 1.3× 138 0.8× 33 2.2k
Toni Morrison United States 17 1.2k 1.2× 324 0.6× 751 1.9× 252 0.9× 139 0.8× 60 2.5k
Saidiya Hartman United States 14 1.5k 1.4× 636 1.2× 360 0.9× 200 0.7× 532 3.1× 24 2.6k
Sylvia Wynter 7 1.1k 1.1× 533 1.0× 287 0.7× 182 0.6× 252 1.5× 9 2.0k
Avery F. Gordon United States 13 1.2k 1.1× 323 0.6× 205 0.5× 196 0.7× 245 1.4× 34 2.1k
Shelley Fisher Fishkin United States 10 929 0.9× 296 0.6× 659 1.6× 169 0.6× 127 0.7× 45 1.9k
Aldon Lynn Nielsen United States 8 1.3k 1.2× 445 0.9× 436 1.1× 123 0.4× 414 2.4× 32 2.3k
Fred Moten United States 14 825 0.8× 433 0.8× 277 0.7× 101 0.3× 163 1.0× 50 1.7k
Ella Shohat United States 19 1.2k 1.2× 262 0.5× 247 0.6× 296 1.0× 284 1.7× 64 2.0k
David Roediger United States 19 1.8k 1.7× 296 0.6× 170 0.4× 245 0.8× 284 1.7× 61 2.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (2020). “A Moment of Protest Becomes a Curricular Object”. Souls. 22(1). 5–10. 1 indexed citations
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (2020). Critical Theory in Times of Crisis. South Atlantic Quarterly. 119(4). 681–683. 4 indexed citations
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (2016). Racial Blackness and the (Dis)continuity of Western Modernity by Lindon Barrett (review). Modernism/modernity. 23(1). 251–255. 2 indexed citations
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (2015). Art Talk and the Uses of History. Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 19(3). 175–185. 1 indexed citations
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (2012). Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08. boundary 2. 39(2). 3–32.
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (2009). Views of the East Wing: On Michelle Obama. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. 6(3). 307–310. 7 indexed citations
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Connery, Christopher & Hortense J. Spillers. (2009). The Sixties and the World Event. 1 indexed citations
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Connery, Christopher & Hortense J. Spillers. (2009). Introduction: The Still Vacillating Equilibrium of the World. boundary 2. 36(1). 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (2007). Martin Luther King, Jr. and America's Civil Religion. 29. 39–49.
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Spillers, Hortense J., et al.. (2007). "Whatcha Gonna Do?"-Revisiting "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book". 35. 299. 20 indexed citations
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (2006). The Idea of Black Culture. CR The New Centennial Review. 6(3). 7–28. 22 indexed citations
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Stanton, Domna C., Marjorie Perloff, Michael Holquist, et al.. (2005). MLA volume 120 issue 1 Cover and Front matter. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 120(1). f1–f4. 1 indexed citations
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (1996). "All the Things You Could be by Now, If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother": Psychoanalysis and Race. boundary 2. 23(3). 75–75. 27 indexed citations
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (1996). "All the Things You Could Be by Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother": Psychoanalysis and Race. Critical Inquiry. 22(4). 710–734. 47 indexed citations
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (1994). The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date. boundary 2. 21(3). 65–65. 15 indexed citations
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Littlefield, Daniel F., Linda Wagner‐Martin, Andrew Wiget, et al.. (1990). Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1. 1 indexed citations
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Deck, Alice A., Marjorie Pryse, & Hortense J. Spillers. (1987). Emerging Outlines of Black. NOVEL A Forum on Fiction. 21(1). 107–107. 1 indexed citations
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Pryse, Marjorie & Hortense J. Spillers. (1985). Conjuring : black women, fiction, and literary tradition. Indiana University Press eBooks. 80 indexed citations
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (1978). A Day in the Life of Civil Rights. The Black Scholar. 9(8-9). 20–27. 1 indexed citations
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Spillers, Hortense J.. (1971). Martin Luther King and the Style of the Black Sermon. The Black Scholar. 3(1). 14–27. 7 indexed citations

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