Fall 2026 Seasonal Catalog

Where the Moon Stands Still

Revealing the Cosmic Genius of Ohio's Indigenous Earthworks

James W. Graham

9/1/2026

978-0-8142-5991-7

$22.95 T paperback

“Brilliant! In this page-turning mystery, James W. Graham reveals the genius of ancient Indigenous astronomers in the Newark Earthworks, a genius that has always been there, reminding us that at night we see the same celestial moon that they saw .” —Donald L. Fixico (Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Muscogee, and Seminole), author of The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State

The story of an astronomer’s and a philosopher’s decades-long quest to prove the ancient expertise behind Ohio’s Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks and their astonishing lunar alignments.

Ohio, History

Any Time But This Time

Adam Peterson

11/13/2026

978-0-8142-5998-6

$22.95 T paperback

“Uniquely funny and profoundly moving, this is a rare and exciting feat of literature.” —Erin Slaughter, author off A Manual for How to Love Us

For fans of George Saunders and Kelly Link, funny, daring, and deliciously weird stories that span our history and confront our future.

Series: Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction

Fiction

Unraveling Threads

Essays on Inheritance

brenda Lin

8/12/2026

978-0-8142-5988-7

$19.95 T paperback

“Unraveling Threads translates the tactile into text, weaving essays on motherhood, daughterhood, textiles, and language into a profound and luminous meditation: insightful, intelligent, and sumptuously gorgeous.” —Shawna Yang Ryan, author of Green Island

Essays on motherhood, inheritance, creativity, and Asian diasporic experience.

Series: The Journal Non/Fiction Prize

Creative Nonfiction

Gold Country

Vanesha Pravin

11/2/2026

978-0-8142-5997-9

$18.95 T paperback

“Gold Country is a fearless, thrilling book. I admire the social detail and awareness, the unsentimental sympathy with people who work for a living, the quality of including and getting beyond political territory. Pravin has enlarged her first book’s masterful verbal music to include a tremendous sweep of subject matter and tone.” —Robert Pinsky, former United States Poet Laureate

An urgent and indelible panorama-in-poetry about working-class experience in contemporary America.

Poetry

Touchdown!

Latinos Breaking Through the NFL's White Lines

Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González

11/10/2026

978-0-8142-5994-8

$19.95 T paperback

“Touchdown! goes beyond merely recounting the many ‘firsts’ of Latinos in the NFL to take a critical look at how Latino inclusion is often tied more to NFL market expansion rather than genuine acceptance of another group into the fold.”—Jorge Iber, author of The Sanchez Family: Mexican American High School and Collegiate Wrestlers from Cheyenne, Wyoming

Tells the long and lively history of Latinos in the NFL, celebrating successes and explaining institutional barriers to fill a critical gap in sports literature and Latina/o/e studies.

Series: Latinx Shorts

Latinx & Latin American Studies, Film & Media, Race & Ethnic Studies

Scholarly

J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic

Gina Gwenffrewi

9/2/2026

978-0-8142-1620-0

$149.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5992-4

$32.95 S paperback

“‘No, Trans People Are Not Death Eaters’ could have been the subtitle of Gwenffrewi’s blistering takedown of Rowling’s bigotry. But this book is also a deeply considered indictment of anti-trans feminists’ bone-deep embrace of permanent victimhood in order to continue oppressing the tiny percentage of women who are transgender.” —Riki Wilchins, author of Bad Ink: How “The New York Times” Sold Out Transgender Teens

Weaves the author’s lived experience as a trans woman with pop culture and media analysis to dissect J. K. Rowling’s emergence as an anti-trans activist within the context of the UK’s anti-trans moral panic.

Series: Digital Media, Feminist Resistance

Gender & Sexuality Studies, Film & Media, Cultural Studies

Hard Right

Muscular Rhetoric and the New Nationalism

Casey Ryan Kelly

8/1/2026

978-0-8142-1621-7

$199.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5993-1

$34.95 S paperback

“Hard Right reveals fresh insights on how masculinity discourses shape who and what is considered valuable. As scholars continue to interrogate the new ways that autocratic and fascist goals gather support, this book makes plain the motivations for those pursuits and how rhetoric facilitates such purposes.” —Leslie A. Hahner, coauthor of Make America Meme Again: The Rhetoric of the Alt-Right

Examines the link between extreme fitness culture and the far right, showing how preoccupations with muscularity converge with political logics of white nationalism and late fascism.

Rhetoric & Communication, American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies

Ordinary Abortion

Reproductive Choice in Twenty-First-Century Women’s Writing

Mary Thompson

7/21/2026

978-0-8142-1617-0

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5987-0

$34.95 S paperback

“Thompson does an excellent job placing scholarly work on abortion narratives in conversation with political and activist work. Analyzing abortion’s representation in twenty-first-century literature from poetry to thrillers, Ordinary Abortion makes an exciting and important contribution to literary scholarship on abortion.” —Karen Weingarten, author of Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice, 1880–1940

Analyzes abortion as an undramatic feature of everyday life in contemporary literature, contrary to public discourse.

Literary Studies, American, Gender & Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies

“We Must Document Ourselves Now”

Black Lesbian Cultural Legacies and the Politics of Self-Representation

Stephanie Andrea Allen

7/9/2026

978-0-8142-1616-3

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5986-3

$32.95 S paperback

“Allen offers a galvanizing exploration of Black lesbian creatives, which exists between conventional scholarship and a more personal hybrid of theory and narrative. “We Must Document Ourselves Now” takes seriously its titular imperative drawn from Barbara and Beverly Smith’s 1978 admonition, challenging the systemic devaluation and misrepresentations of Black lesbians and their cultural legacies.” —Jaime Cantrell, coeditor of Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories

Centers cultural output by and about Black lesbians, examining feminist creative practice as a form of self and community care that hinges on visibility as resistance to heteropatriarchal systems.

Series: Digital Media, Feminist Resistance

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

A Conditional Embrace

Black Queer Feminism in Performance

Kristyl D. Tift

7/31/2026

978-0-8142-1619-4

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5990-0

$29.95 S paperback

“A Conditional Embrace is a groundbreaking study that illuminates Southern queer Black performance artists, situating their bold feminist work within vital sociohistorical contexts. With the powerful idea of ‘lovin’ on,’ Tift expands the canon and ensures visionary artists receive the recognition they deserve now and into the future.” —Sharrell D. Luckett, editor of African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity

Puts the work of well-known and more obscure artists within Black queer feminist performance in conversation, analyzing their work to investigate society’s “conditional embrace” of Black queer art.

Series: Black Performance and Cultural Criticism

Black Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Plants Beyond Borders

Edited by Courtney B. Ryan and Alicia Carroll

11/17/2026

978-0-8142-1626-2

$69.95 S hardcover

“Unique in its multidisciplinary approach and composed with a genuine sense of political urgency, Plants Beyond Borders is a generous introduction to the burgeoning field of critical plant studies. It is necessary reading.” —Vin Nardizzi, author of Marvellous Vegetables in the Renaissance

A critical plant studies anthology examining how vegetal life uproots human borders through the lenses of race, class, gender, sexuality, and decolonization.

Cultural Studies, Race & Ethnic Studies

Intimate Scholarship

Ways of Knowing Through Black Feminist Forms

Adena Rivera-Dundas

10/22/2026

978-0-8142-1624-8

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5999-3

$34.95 S paperback

“Intimate Scholarship is a love letter to Black feminist epistemologies. Rivera-Dundas thoughtfully engages with Black feminist texts ranging from the academic to the speculative, from poetic to fantastical, and from classical to contemporary, while also gesturing to non-Black women of color who share the same epistemological and social justice commitments.” —Victoria Reyes, author of Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope

Theorizes Black feminist scholars’ use of intimacy and formal experimentation to construct connection through the exchange of ideas.

Black Studies, Literary Studies, American, Race & Ethnic Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Archival Entanglements

Edited by Puja Batra-Wells and Harmony Bench

9/1/2026

978-0-8142-1622-4

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5995-5

$34.95 S paperback

“Edited volumes are their own kind of archive, preserving the felicitous entanglements of prolonged conversation. These authors explore the limits of archival capture across a wide range of memory projects, while exemplifying the possibilities of creative redeployment.” —Dorothy Noyes, author of Humble Theory: Folklore’s Grasp on Social Life

A multidisciplinary collection that probes the possibilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities of the archive and its entangled relationship with the arts and humanities.

Series: On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities

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

The Epic Catalogue

List Form and Reception from Beowulf to Paradise Lost

Eva von Contzen

7/27/2026

978-0-8142-1618-7

$99.95 S hardcover

“The Epic Catalogue opens an important conversation about why and how a controversial transhistorical literary form—one that readers have tended to skip or elide—survived. Von Contzen eschews a totalizing narrative of literary history, instead valuing the generative and associative aspects of literary forms.” —Marisa Libbon, author of Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England

The first sustained study of the catalogue as form in epic poetry.

Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture

Medieval Studies, Narrative Studies, Literary Theory

Narrative Co-Construction

Author-Audience Interactions and Their Contexts

Edited by Malcah Effron, Margarida McMurry, and Virginia Pignagnoli

9/1/2026

978-0-8142-1623-1

$89.95 S hardcover

“Narrative Co-Construction shakes up long-standing practices prioritizing authors and texts over readers in studies of narrative communication and rhetorical narratology. The coeditors’ generous spirit of inclusion invites practitioners and theorists to collaborate on readers’ active roles, showing how the creative contributions of readers, texts, and authors interact productively.” —Suzanne Keen, author of Empathy and Reading: Affect, Impact, and the Co-Creating Reader

Highlights the author-audience collaboration at the heart of narrative vitality to deepen our understanding of narrative’s world-building power and argue for a more inclusive, interdisciplinary approach to understanding story.

Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Literary Theory, Literary Studies, American, Narrative Studies

New in paperback

On Edge

Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett

Ashley Lawson

Available 9/2026

978-0-8142-5927-6

$34.95 S paperback

“[An] illuminating study....On Edge aptly balances in-depth analysis with a big-picture view....This book serves as an exemplary model for considering the ‘popular’ and the ‘literary’ as neither indistinct nor fully severed, but inextricably linked and mutually influential.” —Emily Banks, Studies in the Novel

Reframes postwar American literary fiction through the work of Leigh Brackett, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith, arguing that recognizing genre play as literary skill is essential for a more inclusive canon.

Literary Studies, American, Literary Theory

Narrative in the Anthropocene

Erin James

Available 10/2026

978-0-8142-5831-6

$44.95 S paperback

“Narrative in the Anthropocene is both a stellar review of narrative theory, in general, and a call to action to address the social and ecological challenges of the Anthropocene. Narrative theorists, literary ecocritics, science writers, and even film and comics scholars will discover countless essential propositions to inspire their own work.” —Eric C. Otto, author of Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism

Argues that a richer understanding of the forms and functions of narrative in the Anthropocene provides us with invaluable insight into how stories shape our world.

Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Literary Studies, American, Literary Studies, European, Narrative Studies, Literary Theory

Hawking Women

Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture

Sara Petrosillo

Available 9/2026

978-0-8142-5860-6

$39.95 S paperback

“A fascinating exploration … Hawking Women is an astute and rewarding volume that is as successful in its study of medieval falconry as it is in its stimulating readings of a satisfying range of medieval texts. Scholars of medieval romance will find much to appreciate in this work, which combines well conducted close readings with excellent engagement with secondary scholarship.” —Randy P. Schiff, The Medieval Review

Uniting feminist, formalist, and material historical approaches, explores how symbolic and literal hawking women resisted patriarchal control in medieval culture.

Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture

Literary Studies, European, Medieval Studies

Fictionality and Literature

Core Concepts Revisited

Lasse R. Gammelgaard, Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, James Phelan, Richard Walsh, Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, and Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen

Available 8/2026

978-0-8142-5858-3

$49.95 S paperback

“Fictionality and Literature offers a thought-provoking and timely revisiting of literary concepts and perspectives. The collection provides a substantial overview of the family of rhetorical fictionality theories but beyond that, it revisits reasons for why we are interested in studying fiction and literature in the first place.” —Elin Ivansson, Anglia

Employs a rhetorical definition of fictionality to reconceive of basic literary concepts such as author, narrator, plot, character, consciousness, tropes, intertextuality, and paratext.

Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Narrative Studies, Literary Theory

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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