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The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Becky Hagenston
August 11th
978-0-8142-5794-4
$21.95 T paperback
“Funny and sparkling and slyly inventive .” —Eric Puchner
The real and the fantastic collide in wildly imaginative stories of characters discovering what—for better or worse—they are capable of.
Series: The Journal Non/Fiction Prize
Fiction
Dark Tourist
Essays
Hasanthika Sirisena
December 10th
978-0-8142-5812-5
$19.95 T paperback
“[These essays] ring with depth and unexpected associations.” —Elena Passarello
Weaves reportage, cultural criticism, and memoir to excavate sites of personal, cultural, and political trauma and find wider truths about sexuality, art, language, and identity.
Series: 21st Century Essays
Creative Nonfiction
Supremely Tiny Acts
A Memoir of a Day
Sonya Huber
October 16th
978-0-8142-5804-0
$19.95 T paperback
“It’s hard not to be impressed with the ambition of Supremely Tiny Acts. … It’s a thrill when Huber pulls it off.” — Ander Monson
Recounts the quotidian details of an arrest and subsequent court appearance to reflect on privilege, protest, and everyday life as seedbed for political change.
Series: 21st Century Essays
Creative Nonfiction
Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays
Steve Fellner
November 4th
978-0-8142-5807-1
$23.95 T paperback
“Astonishing high-wire acts of truth-telling.” —Tiffany Midge
Darkly funny essays about self-preservation, betrayal, family, gay sex, mental illness, and the inherently flawed way we live and love.
Series: Machete
Creative Nonfiction
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers
A Latinx Anthology
Edited by Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, and Sarah Rafael García
September 8th
978-0-8142-5798-2
$24.95 T paperback
“This is a knockout.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
An array of tantalizing new works from some of the most exciting Latinx creators working in the speculative vein today, for teenagers and up.
Fiction, Latinx & Latin American Studies
Las aventuras de Chupacabra Charlie
Frederick Luis Aldama
Ilustrado por Chris Escobar
August 19th
978-0-8142-5801-9
$9.95 T paperback
The Spanish-language edition of The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie
Series: Latinographix
Juvenile Fiction, Spanish Language
A History of Hate in Ohio
Then and Now
By Michael E. Brooks and Bob Fitrakis with an Introduction by Marilyn K. Howard
July 28th
978-0-8142-5800-2
$24.95 T paperback
“Extensively researched and meticulously documented.”—Barry Balleck, author of Allegiance to Liberty: The Changing Face of Patriots, Militias, and Political Violence in America
The first comprehensive study of white supremacy and hate groups in the Buckeye State, from the colonial era to the present day.
Ohio, History, Current Events
Diverse Futures
Science Fiction and Authors of Color
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
August 3rd
978-0-8142-1473-2
$129.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5797-5
$29.95 S paperback
Examines how authors of color juxtapose science fiction tropes with specific cultural references to comment on issues of inclusiveness in Eurowestern cultures.
Series: New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Rhetoric & Communication, Race & Ethnic Studies, Literary Studies
The Dreamer and the Dream
Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought
Roger A. Sneed
October 6th
978-0-8142-1479-4
$99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5806-4
$29.95 S paperback
Analyzes the interplay of Black religious thought with science fiction to illuminate Afrofuturism as an important channel for Black religion and spirituality.
Series: New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Black Studies, Literary Studies, American Studies
Black Dragon
Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
Zachary F. Price
November 16th
978-0-8142-1460-2
$99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5813-2
$29.95 S paperback
Deploys martial arts as a lens to analyze performance, power, and identity within the evolving fusion of Black and Asian American cultures in history and media.
Series: Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Black Studies, Film & Media, Race & Ethnic Studies
Dark Mirror
African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project
J. J. Butts
September 6th
978-0-8142-1477-0
$64.95 S hardcover
Demonstrates how Black writers negotiated and revised New Deal ideas through their contributions to the Federal Writers’ Project, ultimately introducing a more inclusive, pluralist understanding of American culture and history.
Black Studies, Literary Studies, American Studies, History
Authorizing Superhero Comics
On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre
Daniel Stein
August 31st
978-0-8142-1476-3
$99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5802-6
$34.95 S paperback
Analyzes the evolution of the superhero genre by looking not only at the genre but also its reception.
Series: Studies in Comics & Cartoons
Comics & Comics Studies, Film & Media
Building Confianza
Empowering Latinos/as Through Transcultural Health Care Communication
Dalia Magaña
October 15th
978-0-8142-1481-7
$99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5809-5
$29.95 S paperback
Using linguistic analysis, identifies strategies that medical providers can use to improve transcultural competence and effectiveness when communicating with Spanish-speaking patients.
Series: Global Latino/a Americas
Latinx & Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Spanish Language, Health
The Political Economy of Stigma
HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities
Ally Day
September 29th
978-0-8142-1478-7
$99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5805-7
$29.95 S paperback
Looks at HIV memoirs to analyze how we interpret and circulate narratives about disability, unveiling strikingly different reading practices between medical providers and those they treat.
Disability Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Health, Cultural Studies
American Magnitude
Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States
Christa J. Olson
December 9th
978-0-8142-1483-1
$99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5811-8
$29.95 S paperback
Analyzes how imagery and rhetoric of pan-American grandeur from 1845 to 1950 used Latin America as a foil for creating US national identity and a particular American way of feeling.
Rhetoric & Communication, American Studies, Latinx & Latin American Studies
Out of Mind
Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative
Torsa Ghosal
November 2nd
978-0-8142-1482-4
$89.95 S hardcover
Integrates narrative theory, multimodality studies, cognitive sciences, and disability studies to situate contemporary literature’s depiction of thought within current debates about cognition.
Series: Cognitive Approaches to Culture
Narrative Studies, Literary Studies
With Bodies
Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition
Marco Caracciolo and Karin Kukkonen
October 11th
978-0-8142-1480-0
$99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5808-8
$34.95 S paperback
Draws on recent cognitive and neuroscientific research and wide-ranging works from antiquity to the present to explore the embodied dimension of reading literary narrative.
Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Narrative Studies, Literary Studies
Audionarratology
Lessons from Radio Drama
Edited by Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf
July 22nd
978-0-8142-1472-5
$99.95 S hardcover
Explores how radio dramas construct narrative through sound, music, language, and voice.
Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Narrative Studies, Literary Studies
Translation Effects
Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England
Mary Kate Hurley
July 16th
978-0-8142-1471-8
$99.95 S hardcover
Explores how translation in texts from Ælfric’s Lives of the Saints to Chaucer imagines political, cultural, and linguistic communities.
Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Medieval Studies, Literary Studies
Material Remains
Reading the Past in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature
Edited by Jan-Peer Hartmann and Andrew James Johnston
August 13th
978-0-8142-1474-9
$99.95 S hardcover
Examines how medieval and early modern British texts use descriptions of archaeological objects to produce aesthetic and literary responses to questions of historicity and epistemology.
Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Medieval Studies, Literary Studies
The Gee Years
2007–2013
Herbert B. Asher
978-0-8142-1475-6
$29.95 S hardcover
Chronicles E. Gordon Gee’s second tenure as president of The Ohio State University, from 2007–2013.
Higher Education, Ohio
Hotel London
How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories
Barbara Black
978-0-8142-5561-2
$34.95 S paperback
Available September 4th
Explores how London’s grand hotels helped construct a consumer economy that underscored the city’s internationalism in Victorian literature and culture.
Victorian Studies, Literary Studies, History
Chemical Crimes
Science and Poison in Victorian Crime Fiction
Cheryl Blake Price
978-0-8142-5523-0
$29.95 S paperback
Available September 8th
An exploration of poison’s transformation into chemical crime during the nineteenth century and the impact on crime fiction and Victorian perceptions of science.
Literary Studies, Victorian Studies
Post-Personal Romanticism
Democratic Terror, Prosthetic Poetics, and the Comedy of Modern Ethical Life
Bo Earle
978-0-8142-5444-8
$34.95 S paperback
Available September 5th
Takes up Hegel’s historical ethics to argue that signature Romantic lyrics offer a way forward that avoids postmodernism’s wholesale rejection of autonomous selfhood.
Romantic Studies, Literary Studies
Enlightened Individualism
Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from the Beats to the Present
Kyle Garton-Gundling
978-0-8142-5524-7
$34.95 S paperback
Available September 28th
Reconciles seemingly conflicting views of Asian transcendence and American freedom to argue that post-WWII American writers envision a more enlightened individualism.
Series: Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Literary Studies, Religion
Capturing Mariposas
Reading Cultural Schema in Gay Chicano Literature
Doug P. Bush
978-0-8142-5517-9
$29.95 S paperback
Available September 4th
Examines the role of cultural schema in readers’ understanding of and identification with gay Chicano texts.
Series: Cognitive Approaches to Culture
Literary Studies
Necessary Nonsense
Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology
Irving Massey
978-0-8142-5496-7
$29.95 S paperback
Available September 3rd
Explores the cognitive possibilities of nonsense, literary and philosophical, from Kant to Carroll, from examinations of Asperger’s to the waking state.
Series: Cognitive Approaches to Culture
Literary Studies, Narrative Studies, Latinx & Latin American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies
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Our journals program welcomes submissions to our award-winning journals, which are closely related to many of our books program’s major subject areas. Current content for each journal can be found on its Project MUSE landing page.
Adoption and Culture
Emily Hipchen, Ed.
Adoption & Culture publishes essays on any aspect of adoption’s intersection with culture, including but not limited to scholarly examinations of adoption practice, law, art, literature, ethics, science, life experiences, film, or any other popular or academic representation of adoption. It is the journal of The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture .
American Periodicals
Sarah Salter and Jean Roggenkamp, Eds.
American Periodicals, the journal of the Research Society for American Periodicals, is devoted exclusively to scholarship and criticism relating to American magazines and newspapers of all periods. It includes essays, notes, reviews, bibliographies, and histories on all aspects of American periodicals.
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Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
Qiana Whitted, Ed.
Inks, the journal of the Comics Studies Society, features scholarly research on sequential art, graphic narrative, and cartooning. It brings together scholarly essays, archival materials, and insights from leading comics professionals. It invites essays on all periods of comic history, as well as considering both a US or an international comics focus.
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Narrative
James Phelan, Ed.
Narrative is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. Its mission is to publish essays that contribute to both narrative theory and the interpretation of individual narratives. The journal is interested in narrative across disciplines and across media.
North American Journal of Celtic Studies
Joseph Eska, Ed.
The North American Journal of Celtic Studies is the official journal of the Celtic Studies Association of North America. CSANA fosters research in all aspects of Celtic studies—including literature, language, history, law, folklore, art, and archeology. NAJCS provides a forum for publication across all disciplines and all time periods that bear upon Celtic studies.
Victorians
Deborah Logan, Ed.
Victorians welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to Victorian literature and culture and continues to respond to developmental shifts in the discipline of Victorian studies.
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