Fall 2025 Seasonal Catalog

Lake Song

A Novel in Stories

Lesley Pratt Bannatyne

9/1/2025

978-0-8142-5954-2

$22.95 T paperback

“This book dazzles and surprises, from page to page and decade to decade over the course of these finely wrought characters’ lives.” —Deesha Philyaw

Linked stories span decades to plumb the complexities, violence, and compassion of small-town life as the twentieth century hurtles forward.

Series: Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction

Fiction

Clutch

An Education at Work

Linda Pawlenty

9/2/2025

978-0-8142-5941-2

$22.95 T paperback

“Clutch is a book of such tenderness—and grit and generosity and moving passages....I might have gone into truck driving myself if I had found this book when I was younger.” —Daisy Hernández

A memoir about gender, class, and labor from someone who was twice an odd one out: as a woman truck driver, and as a working-class laborer in academia.

Series: Machete

Creative Nonfiction

My Prisoner and Other Stories

Tyler McAndrew

9/4/2025

978-0-8142-5951-1

$19.95 T paperback

“Heartbreaking and at times unrelenting in its humanity, My Prisoner and Other Stories offers an empathetic look at the violence and tenderness within everyday existence.” —Thao Thai

Muscular and empathetic tales of ordinary Rust Belt Americans striving for hope and tenderness amid the suffering of others.

Series: The Journal Non/Fiction Prize

Fiction

Scholarly

The Art of Memes in Feminist Digital Culture

Shana MacDonald

8/21/2025

978-0-8142-1495-4

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5956-6

$36.95 S paperback

“In a politically troubling and mediated time, The Art of Memes has much to contribute to our understanding of political action and discourse.” —Heather Suzanne Woods

Examines activist memes as a form of digital resistance, demonstrating that countercultural meme makers intervene in the status quo and offer cultural critiques with potentially broad circulation.

Series: Digital Media, Feminist Resistance

Film & Media Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies

Sacred Sisterhoods

A Celebration of Black Women's Friendships on Television and in Film

Edited by Imani M. Cheers

10/27/2025

978-0-8142-1600-2

$129.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5962-7

$36.95 S paperback

“Sacred Sisterhoods shatters the stereotypes that have plagued Black women in historical and cultural spaces. It speaks to material that has long been deserving of examination.” —Mark Cunningham

Celebrates Black women’s creative authority and offers critical-cultural commentary and personal reflections on the representation of Black women’s friendships in film and on television.

Black Studies, Film & Media Studies

Replaying Marc Anthony

Sonic, Political, and Cultural Resonances

Frances R. Aparicio

9/4/2025

978-0-8142-1595-1

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5957-3

$34.95 S paperback

“Aparicio builds cultural bridges across the diasporas of the Americas, offering readers new methods of interpretations for voices that go unnoticed and/or unheard.” —Jacqueline Avila

The first book-length study of Marc Anthony’s cultural, aesthetic, and political contributions to Latinx popular music, Latinx communities, and Global South solidarities.

Series: Global Latin/o Americas

Latinx & Latin American Studies

Dispelling Fantasies

Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre

Joy Sanchez-Taylor

7/11/2025

978-0-8142-1590-6

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5949-8

$32.95 S paperback

“Sanchez-Taylor introduces a large number of BIPOC authors into the critical arena, engaging with subtleties and variations across different ethnic, religious, and colonialized experiences....Dispelling Fantasies is creative and insightful.” —Farah Mendlesohn

Examines how authors of color, in writing against white-dominated, Eurocentric fantasy narratives, counteract Christian and colonial tropes and offer alternate versions of morality, race, gender, and sexuality.

Series: New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative

Race & Ethnic Studies, Literary Studies

Afrofuturism and World Order

Reynaldo Anderson

8/14/2025

978-0-8142-1594-4

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5955-9

$36.95 S paperback

“A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the intellectual power and political depth of the Black speculative imagination.” —Alex Zamalin

Delves into the evolution of Black speculative thought and Afrofuturism from the early twentieth century onward, addressing its shift in focus from American to transnational.

Series: New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative

Black Studies, Literary Studies

Coming of Age(ncy) on the Migrant Trail

Adolescent Journeys in Contemporary Latinx Young Adult Literature

Susana S. Martínez

12/1/2025

978-0-8142-1602-6

$139.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5965-8

$34.95 S paperback

“[Martínez’s] nuanced analysis makes visible the ways that global capitalist policies and processes on both sides of the border directly impact people.” —Amina Chaudhri

Maps agency in young adult literature involving Latine/x migrant youth, showing how these narratives combat stereotypes and contribute to antiracist pedagogical discussions where youth emerge as catalysts for social change.

Series: Global Latin/o Americas

Latinx & Latin American Studies, American Studies, Literary Studies

Searching for Solidarity

Revolutionary Dreams and Radical Social Movements

Noor Ghazal Aswad

10/13/2025

978-0-8142-1598-2

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5960-3

$32.95 S paperback

“Remarkable in its clarity and courage, [Searching for Solidarity] brilliantly demonstrates how and why turning our emotion and attention to radical subjects and their struggles of resistance holds the best promise for a new emancipatory politics.” —Lilie Chouliaraki

Uncovers the lived experiences of radical subjects, blending their testimonies and philosophies into a powerful rethinking of how we approach liberation struggles worldwide.

Series: Intersectional Rhetorics

Rhetoric & Communication, Cultural Studies

Olfactory Rhetoric

Sniffing Out Environmental Problems

Lisa L. Phillips

8/7/2025

978-0-8142-1593-7

$129.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5953-5

$36.95 S paperback

“Phillips’s intriguing neologisms...will help material rhetorical scholars rethink how our language constructs ocular and language-based biases.” —Emma Frances Bloomfield

Defines, describes, and deploys olfactory rhetoric to argue that how we sense the world around us offers crucial rhetorical evidence when evaluating environmental injustices.

Series: New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality

Rhetoric & Communication

Truth Be Told

White Nostalgia and Antiracist Queer Resistance in “Post-Truth” America

Elliot Laura Tetreault

9/18/2025

978-0-8142-1596-8

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5958-0

$34.95 S paperback

“Truth Be Told offers a tool kit for unpacking disinformation from the standpoint of the oppressed and recognizing activist strategies for challenging disinformation through racial justice and queer lenses.” —Dana L. Cloud

Argues that counter-disinformation strategies based in nostalgia for racialized “civility” are insufficient and advocates for centering the knowledge of oppressed communities to develop survival strategies that resist disinformation.

Series: Intersectional Rhetorics

Rhetoric & Communication, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Race & Ethnic Studies

Patient Sense

Rhetorical Body Work in the Age of Technology

Lillian Campbell

7/15/2025

978-0-8142-1591-3

$119.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5950-4

$34.95 S paperback

“A compelling, timely exploration....Campbell expertly demonstrates that rhetorical body work and patient sense are more important now than ever.” —Emma Bedor Hiland

Develops a theory of rhetorical body work through observations of three healthcare contexts, demonstrating the value of providers’ intuitive patient sense in the face of increasingly technology-mediated healthcare.

Series: New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality

Rhetoric & Communication, Cultural Studies

Kinflix

Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Film

Marina Fedosik

11/3/2025

978-0-8142-1519-7

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5963-4

$34.95 S paperback

“Kinflix forges a completely original conversation between film studies and adoption/ART studies.” —Margaret Homans

Analyzes cinematic representations of adoption and technologically assisted reproduction to identify the intersecting paradigms through which Western cultures understand these ways of making families.

Series: Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture

Film & Media Studies, American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Comic Fascism

Ideology, Catholicism, and Americanism in Italian Children’s Periodicals

Zane Elward

7/25/2025

978-0-8142-1592-0

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5952-8

$36.95 S paperback

“The first of its kind in the anglophone market, Comic Fascism shows how Fascist cultural policies were influenced by different voices within conservative, Catholic, and nationalist circles and fills a distinct gap in the field.” —Guido Bonsaver

Shows how Italian comics reflected the entanglement of conservatives and Catholics with the Fascist project and offers insight into the role of American comics in shaping Italian youth.

Series: Studies in Comics and Cartoons

Comics & Comics Studies

Italy and American Female Imagination

Debra Bernardi

11/17/2025

978-0-8142-1601-9

$89.95 S hardcover

“Ambitious and compelling, Italy and American Female Imagination brings a new perspective to transatlantic studies and women’s studies.” —Brigitte Bailey

The first study to trace the significance of Italy—the physical place and imagined idea—to the identities of middle-class American women from the nineteenth century onward.

Literary Studies

Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism

Jess Shollenberger

10/3/2025

978-0-8142-1597-5

$69.95 S hardcover

“Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism is an extraordinary document of the creativity and intelligence that goes into the ordinary work of creating and sustaining queer lives.” —Brian Glavey

The first book to examine a queer aesthetic of the ordinary in literary modernism, challenging the notion that queerness and ordinariness are incompatible or antagonistic.

Series: Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment

Literary Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Contemporary Feminist Fiction and a Case for Expanding Rhetorical Narratology

Katherine J. Weese

10/20/2025

978-0-8142-1599-9

$89.95 S hardcover

“With enormous skill, Weese shows how an antimimetic narrative can address issues of power and injustice in the real world....A bold and original integration of feminist, rhetorical, and unnatural theories.” —Ellen Peel

Puts major theories of narrative in dialogue with post-postmodernist theory to present a new pluralist narratological framework, expanding consideration of recent works that employ unnatural devices for feminist purposes.

Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Narrative Studies

Cleveland State University Poetry Center

Cleveland State University Poetry Center

Reel

Colleen O’Brien

10/7/2025

979-8-9897084-3-7

$18.00 T paperback

“Reel is at once excitingly melodic, profoundly philosophic, and frequently funny. A truly singular work.” —Hannah Brooks-Motl

A playful debut collection of poetry; O’Brien’s shattering sonic sensibility tethers us to the material world via humor and a vibrant commitment to precision.

Poetry

Cleveland State University Poetry Center

Windower

Michael Loughran

10/7/2025

979-8-9897084-2-0

$18.00 T paperback

“Windower is an essential addition to the grief canon.” —Lisa Wells

A memoir of grief that is the debut of a powerful new essayist, describing the years before and after losing his wife to suicide and the many forms of love and loss.

Creative Nonfiction

New in paperback

The Feeling of Letting Die

Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction

Jennifer MacLure

Available 10/2025

978-0-8142-5890-3

$34.95 S paperback

“Intelligent, well-researched, and situated in the wake of essential critical works of the last decade.” —Audrey Jaffe

Uses the term “necroeconomics” to conceptualize and explore how Victorian novels depict feelings that both fuel and are produced by an economic system that capitalizes upon death.

Victorian Studies, British & Irish Literature, 19th-Century Literature

The Necromantics

Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature

Renée Fox

Available 10/2025

978-0-8142-5873-6

$34.95 S paperback

“Fox’s study offers rewarding—indeed revitalizing—new perspectives on how we understand 19th-century authorship, literature, and historiography.” —Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Anglistik

Critiques the boundary between Victorian studies and Irish studies and interrogates how nineteenth-century works involving reanimated bodies use undead figures to reimagine the past.

Victorian Studies, British & Irish Literature, 19th-Century Literature

Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel

Livia Arndal Woods

Available 10/2025

978-0-8142-5890-5

$34.95 S paperback

“Provides a welcome methodological corrective to current ways of reading bodies in literature.” —Doreen Thierauf, Victorian Studies

Traces the connections between the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth occurring over the Victorian era and contemporary and historical lived experiences to argue for the value of somatic reading.

Victorian Studies, British & Irish Literature, 19th-Century Literature

We-Narratives

Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction

Natalya Bekhta

Available 8/2025

978-0-8142-5591-9

$34.95 S paperback

“Combining theoretical sophistication, interpretive acumen, and a broad range of narratological insights, Natalya Bekhta’s We-Narratives delivers a compelling account of narratives cast in the we-form.” —Marco Caracciolo

Provides a comprehensive account of the structural and linguistic distinctiveness of stories told in the first-person plural, describing its features and rhetorical effects.

Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Narrative Studies

Audionarratology

Lessons from Radio Drama

Edited by Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf

Available 8/2025

978-0-8142-5796-8

$37.95 S paperback

“An innovative volume that opens up an exciting new field in the rapidly expanding area of transgeneric and transmedial narrative theories.” —Ansgar Nünning

Explores how radio dramas construct narrative through sound, music, language, and voice.

Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Narrative Studies, Literary Studies

Courtly and Queer

Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature

Charlie Samuelson

Available 10/2025

978-0-8142-5824-8

$39.95 S paperback

“This is smart scholarship that repays careful reading and that gives literary historians, as well as queer medievalists, important food for thought.” —Emma Campbell, H-France Review

Recasts queerness in medieval French romances by juxtaposing key genres for the first time, revealing how their literary sophistication overlaps with modern conceptions of queerness.

Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture

Medieval Studies, Literary Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Virginia Woolf’s Mythic Method

Amy C. Smith

Available 9/2025

978-0-8142-5820-0

$39.95 S paperback

“Fresh, nuanced, and innovative....Smith’s richly layered analysis and excellent scholarly sources position this book to shape future interpretations of Woolf’s work.” —Vara Neverow

Reinvigorates modernist analysis of myth in Virginia Woolf’s fiction by illuminating Woolf’s use of parataxis to engage both myth and contemporary social and political issues.

Series: Classical Memories/Modern Identities

Classics, Literary Studies

Continental England

Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War

Elizaveta Strakhov

Available 8/2025

978-0-8142-5816-3

$37.95 S paperback

“This learned and adventurous book reorients our understanding of the work of several prominent poets.” —Ruth Evans, Forum for Modern Language Studies

Employs Chaucer as a lens to argue that Anglo-French translation of formes fixes poetry helped rebuild cultural ties between England and Continental Europe during the Hundred Years’ War.

Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture

Medieval Studies, Literary Studies

Enlistment

Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Edited by Eva von Contzen and James Simpson

Available 9/2025

978-0-8142-5837-8

$37.95 S paperback

“This volume establishes an exciting new area for the study of form as a mode of literary and political experimentation that ought to inspire further research on lists and their implications across various media.” —William Rhodes, Review of English Studies

Unearths the cultural significance of medieval and early modern lists from Chaucer’s and Spenser’s epic catalogues of trees, to household vocabulary, to genealogies and bestiaries.

Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture

Medieval Studies

Journals

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.

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.

The Journal of Race & Policy

Michael L. Clemons, Ed.

The Journal of Race & Policy provides an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of research on public policy issues including education, employment, health care, political participation, social welfare, and social justice. As an independent, peer-reviewed, scholarly publication, the journal seeks to promote intellectual debate, rigorous investigation, and the development of new ideas on race, ethnicity, diversity, and public policy in American society and the global arena. JRP seeks to bring to academia and policy makers timely perspectives and insights about race and ethnicity and their relevance to policy-related topics.

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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