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From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides
A Latinx Comics Anthology
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Angela M. Sánchez
08/13/2025
978-0-8142-5948-1
19.95 T paperback
“From childhood food memories and first bites to gripping tales of lucha libre, fútbol, and fandom, these stories come together like a graphic pozole of flavor explosions.” —Lalo Alcaraz
A comics anthology in which writers and artists from across the US pay tribute to the ways food and sports endure as touchstones in the Latin American diaspora.
Series: Latinographix
Comics & Comics Studies, Latinx & Latin American Studies, Memoir
When the World Explodes
Essays
Amy Lee Scott
3/6/25
978-0-8142-5917-7
19.95 T paperback
Winner of the Gournay Prize
“When the World Explodes speaks to the vast, haunting layers of transracial adoptee grief. These essays sing forth with lyrical and sensory depth, braided with questions of belonging and selfhood...This collection will open your heart.” —Jane Wong
Excavates both personal and public calamities to explore parental loss, motherhood, and transracial adoptee experience.
Series: 21st Century Essays
Creative Nonfiction, Asian & Asian American Studies
At the Park on the Edge of the Country
Poems
Austin Araujo
2/24/25
978-0-8142-5936-8
16.95 T paperback
“Simply cinematic—utterly memorable and moving. In these fierce and fiery poems of goldenrod and tostadas, Araujo covers satisfying and crackling ground. An imaginative debut.” —Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Poems that map the intricacies of memory, immigration, and belonging through the experiences of one Mexican American family in the rural American South.
Series: The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize
Poetry, Latinx & Latin American Studies
Scrap Theory
Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination
Mali D. Collins
6/11/25
978-0-8142-1589-0
99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5947-4
32.95 S paperback
“Collins launches the conversation around black maternal health and well-being into a new stratosphere...Scrap Theory will have a long life on any black feminist theory syllabus.” —Zenzele Isoke
Examines works documenting Black mother–child separation, centering them within reproductive and archival justice movements to illustrate how creative work plays a crucial role in processing racial and maternal trauma.
Black Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS
A Narrative Remix
Nghana tamu Lewis
1/16/25
978-0-8142-1580-7
99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5934-4
32.95 S paperback
“By merging her close readings with sobering statistics about the impact of HIV and AIDS on Black women and girls, Lewis passionately argues for us to pay attention to the stories of Black women and the continuing effects of HIV/AIDS.” —Christina N. Baker
Chronicles how five black women creators used hip hop feminism strategies to document the HIV/AIDS epidemic’s effects on black women and girls and provide solutions-oriented responses to the crisis.
Black Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Medical Humanities
Get Yo' Life
Black Queer Placemaking
R. J. Millhouse
3/6/25
978-0-8142-1584-5
99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5940-5
36.95 S paperback
“Get Yo’ Life powerfully demonstrates how Black queer people challenge exclusion, antiblackness, and queerphobia through their resistive placemaking efforts...Millhouse has produced a deeply persuasive argument.” —Rinaldo Walcott
Via case studies of two Brooklyn nightclubs threatened by gentrification, introduces Black queer spatiality as an analytic method to understand Black queer placemaking, life, and culture.
Series: Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Black Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Minor Troubles
Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood’s Queerness
Erin J. Rand
1/20/25
978-0-8142-1581-4
99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5935-1
34.95 S paperback
“Minor Troubles belongs with the highest tier of recent rhetorical scholarship, offering the kind of intersectional, nuanced, and theoretically rich approach the discipline needs.” —Lisa A. Flores
Focuses on the rhetorical process of figuration as instrumental in creating cultural ideas about childhood, providing a road map for understanding alarmist discourses about children, race, gender, and sexuality.
Rhetoric & Communication, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Race & Ethnic Studies
Rhetorics of Refusal
Medical Dissent and the US-Somali Diaspora
Kari Campeau
5/28/25
978-0-8142-1588-3
99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5946-7
34.95 S paperback
“Campeau’s theory of refusal is generative, agentic, and future-oriented, offering a tangible contribution of rhetoric into the practice of public health, medicine, and our daily, medicalized lives.” —Heidi Yoston Lawrence
Reassesses vaccine refusals and other instances of medical dissent not as evidence of poor health literacy but as strategic, informed rhetorical refusals that can allow marginalized populations to press for change.
Rhetoric & Communication, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies
Recreational Colonialism and the Rhetorical Landscapes of the Outdoors
Kyle Boggs
5/14/25
978-0-8142-1587-6
119.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5945-0
34.95 S paperback
“Boggs not only theorizes and critiques a new form of colonialism but also offers pathways, through reflexivity and comradeship, for outdoor enthusiasts to resist colonialism and support Indigenous sovereignty. An essential read for both scholars and practitioners of outdoor recreation.” —Danielle Endres
Synthesizes theories of rhetoric, environmental studies, and settler colonialism to confront the ways outdoor recreational discourses reinforce settler imaginaries and colonial power structures.
American Studies, Rhetoric & Communication, Race & Ethnic Studies
Reading in the Postgenomic Age
Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature
Lesley Larkin
4/16/25
978-0-8142-1585-2
99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5943-6
37.95 S paperback
“Reading in the Postgenomic Age joins Josie Gill’s Biofictions as among the most valuable monographs on genetics and literatures so far this decade.” —Everett Hamner
Examines how “postgenomic literature” from the turn of the millennium engages in genomic discourse, with particular attention paid to interdisciplinarity and the rearticulation of racial ideology.
Series: New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Race & Ethnic Studies, Literary Studies
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
Michelle Bumatay
2/13/25
978-0-8142-1582-1
99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5937-5
36.95 S paperback
“On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power is the first study of its kind, seamlessly traveling between comics scholarship, postcolonial/decolonial scholarship, ecocriticism, and African art history to fill a sizeable gap in postcolonial/decolonial francophone studies and comics studies.” —Jennifer Howell
Centers the diversity of Black francophone cartoonists while demonstrating the reparative nature of their work in combatting stereotypes and challenging transcolonial power imbalances.
Series: Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Comics & Comics Studies
Unsettling Acts
Performing Transnational Adoption
Jieun Lee
2/27/25
978-0-8142-1583-8
119.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5938-2
34.95 S paperback
“Unsettling Acts beautifully demonstrates and fulfills the need to challenge and add nuance to discourses surrounding adoptees’ experiences and to center the work of adoptee artists and activists who call for accountability and justice.” —Elizabeth W. Son
Analyzes how contemporary theater and performance works about Korean transnational adoption intervene in longstanding transnational adoption narratives, reimagining and remaking the adoptee experience.
Series: Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture
Adoption Studies, Asian & Asian American Studies, Performance Studies
Other Lovings
An AfroAsian American Theory of Life
Seulghee Lee
3/12/25
978-0-8142-1509-8
69.95 S hardcover
“Animated by theoretical erudition and historical attunement, Other Lovings is timely and perennial. Lee’s sensitive exploration of the overlapping frontiers between Afro-American and Asian American literatures...is an extraordinary achievement.” —Fred Moten
Argues for the shared positive affective function of love in Asian American and Black literature and popular culture, countering critical trends that center negativity.
Asian & Asian American Studies, Literary Theory, Black Studies
Against!
Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States
Asha Jeffers
1/10/25
978-0-8142-1579-1
99.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5933-7
34.95 S paperback
“Against! makes a significant intervention into gender studies and diasporic literature and redirects the conversation around Caribbean American fiction.” —Angeletta KM Gourdine
Evaluates how texts by Afro-Caribbean and African US-based women writers address the recurring theme of rebellious immigrant daughters to reconsider the relationship between Blackness and immigranthood in the US.
Literary Studies, Black Studies
Brave Humanism
Black Women Rewriting the Human in the Age of Jane Crow
Mollie Godfrey
4/9/25
978-0-8142-1529-6
119.95 S hardcover
978-0-8142-5942-9
34.95 S paperback
“Godfrey’s deft attention to the diverse novels and cultural histories of the likes of Hopkins, Larsen, Hurston, and Petry is thorough and compelling, and her many analytical threads connect back to ongoing conversations about Black women’s writing.” —Howard Rambsy II
Recovers Jane Crow–era Black women’s writing as a challenge to the white supremacist and patriarchal logics of Western humanism that underwrote de jure segregation.
Literary Studies, Black Studies
Dysfluent in Fiction
Vocal Disability and Nineteenth-Century Literature
Riley McGuire
4/23/25
978-0-8142-1586-9
69.95 S hardcover
“McGuire deftly combines literary texts, biographical and historical sources, reception theory, and contemporary criticism to illuminate vocal disability not as a minor aspect of secondary characters but as a central facet of nineteenth-century narratives.” —Karen Bourrier
Lays out a transatlantic literary history of vocal disability, arguing that this underexamined nineteenth-century literary trope helps us to understand contemporary vocal hierarchies.
Victorian Studies, Literary Studies, Disability Studies
Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature
Edited by Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala
Available 5/2025
978-0-8142-5836-1
36.95 S paperback
“Important and urgent … Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature is an all-around outstanding collection sure to serve as a resource for medievalists, feminists, and cultural historians for many years to come.” —Lynn Shutters, Journal of English and German Philology
Charts the understudied topic of women’s friendship in medieval literature across a range of texts and historical contexts, with attention to gender, religion, politics, sexuality, and civic structures.
Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Literary Studies, Medieval Studies
Translation Effects
Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England
Mary Kate Hurley
Available 1/2025
978-0-8142-5795-1
34.95 S paperback
“Translation Effects is lucid, forceful, and a joy to read.” —Robert Stanton
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
Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England
Marisa Libbon
Available 3/2025
978-0-8142-5788-3
39.95 S paperback
“A brilliant book—bold and engaging, full of fresh insights.” —Eleanor Johnson
Uses the life of Richard I to argue that medieval England's public talk was essential to the production of texts and was a fundamental part of the transmission and reception of literature.
Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
European Literature, Medieval Studies, Literary Theory
Fictions of Migration
Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia
Lorena Cuya Gavilano
Available 2/2025
978-0-8142-5787-6
32.95 S paperback
“Fictions of Migration is a much-needed meditation on the meanings and manifestations of migration within Andean narrative practices...It is a more than auspicious moment to be considering migration and what it means, and this study does this admirably.” —Jorge Coronado
Analyzes the impact of political and economic trends on migration narratives and films in Peru and Bolivia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Latinx & Latin American Studies, Film & Media Studies, Race & Ethnic Studies
Narrative Bonds
Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
Alexandra Valint
Available 3/2025
978-0-8142-5779-1
34.95 S paperback
“Valint’s study is a valuable piece of scholarship for the study of multinarrative novels in the nineteenth century, and both Victorianists and narratologists can benefit from it.” —James Hamby, DIEGESIS
Comprehensive and illuminating, this study illustrates the significance and impact of the multi-narrator structure in Victorian novels.
Narrative Studies, Victorian Studies, 19th-Century Literature
Twisted Words
Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain
Katherine Judith Anderson
Available 5/2025
978-0-8142-5827-9
34.95 S paperback
“An ambitious and wide-ranging monograph that will be of interest to many scholars working on liberalism, violence, empire, and readerly experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.” —Rachel Ablow, Nineteenth-Century Literature
Applies critical terrorism studies to fiction by Eliot, Trollope, and others to argue that Victorians ushered in our modern definition of torture as a tool of the state.
Victorian Studies, Literary Studies
Modern Odysseys
Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Michelle Zerba
Available 4/2025
978-0-8142-5781-4
34.95 S paperback
“The book’s distinctiveness and charm are enhanced by the author’s clarity and usefulness. Modern Odysseys makes a valuable intervention in the popular subfield of reception studies within classics.” —Alexander Beecroft
Does groundbreaking work on race and gender studies by examining how C. P. Cavafy, Virginia Woolf, and Aimé Césaire’s modern works intersect with Odyssean tropes.
Series: Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Classics, Gender & Sexuality Studies, British & Irish Literature
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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.
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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