Spring 2026 Seasonal Catalog

Men I Hate

A Memoir in Essays

Lynette D’Amico

2/17/2026

978-0-8142-5969-6

$23.95 T paperback

“Without shying away from the complicated details of a life that demands shifts in how she defines and understands herself, [D’Amico] skillfully guides us through many challenges we all face.” —Claudia Rankine

A memoir in essays that examines love, marriage, and identity in light of a spouse’s transition, asking what happens to us when the people we are closest to change.

Series: 21st Century Essays

Creative Nonfiction, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Memoir

Place Envy

Essays in Search of Orientation

Michael Lowenthal

2/9/2026

978-0-8142-5966-5

$24.95 T paperback

“Lowenthal is a vivid narrator of his journeys as a young gay man, sharing his travels by car, bus, plane, Amish buggy, and cruise ship from Brookline to Buchau and Scotland to Salvador, Brazil.” —Will Schwalbe

Chronicles the author’s quest for orientation in the world: as an agnostic Jew, as a queer traveler and lover, and as a writer who can tell or twist the truth.

Series: Machete

Creative Nonfiction, Essays

City of Toys

Essays

Lesley Jenike

3/9/2026

978-0-8142-5975-7

$24.95 T paperback

“City of Toys is a beautiful and masterful work of obsessions, the essays stunning in their focus and in how they accumulate.” —Hanif Abdurraqib

A madcap and poignant exploration of motherhood, memory, and art that plumbs domestic life and cultural mythologies alike to examine the world we are building and destroying for our children.

Series: 21st Century Essays

Creative Nonfiction, Essays, Ohio

The Water Defenders

How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed

Robin Broad and John Cavanagh with Graphic Adaptation by Jon Sack

5/11/2026

978-0-8142-5968-9

$21.95 T paperback

“A fast-paced account of environmental justice and determination in the face of challenging odds.” —Library Journal

The graphic adaptation of the acclaimed story of El Salvador’s grassroots environmental and human rights victory over a multinational mining corporation.

Series: Latinographix

Comics & Comics Studies, Latinx & Latin American Studies

The Afterlife of Sweetness

Poems

Jaia Hamid Bashir

2/27/2026

978-0-8142-5971-9

$16.95 T paperback

“In her adept portrayal of many contrasting subjects, settings, beauties, and griefs, Bashir creates a nuanced and fresh mode of encountering the world with all its dangers and raptures.” —Marcus Jackson

Exuberant, searching poems that draw on Islamic, Hindu, Christian, and Greek traditions to reconcile holiness and rot, myth and memory, beauty and decay.

Series: The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize

Poetry

Becoming Educated

A Midwest Story

Simone C. Drake

6/22/2026

978-0-8142-5984-9

$22.95 T paperback

“In revisiting her educational journey, Simone Drake shines a poignant light upon the endurance of Black girlhood in this wise and bighearted memoir.” —Wil Haygood

An engaging and bold memoir about race, class, gender, and the meaning of education in the urban Midwest.

Ohio, Memoir, Higher Education

The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg

Louis Bromfield
With a new introduction by Stephen Heyman, author of The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution

3/24/2026

978-0-8142-5974-0

$27.95 T paperback

“The best religious mystery story this reviewer has ever read.” —The New Republic

A revived, surprisingly modern 1928 novel about skepticism, religious fanaticism, and expat life by legendary author and sustainability pioneer Louis Bromfield.

Fiction

Scholarly

Shock and Yawn

Resisting Banal Terror Through Queer Storytelling

Megan Sibbett

3/23/2026

978-0-8142-1610-1

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5979-5

$32.95 S paperback

“Sibbett’s framing of ‘mundane violence’ and ‘intimate terrorism’ through queer and decolonial storytelling offers a much-needed intervention to gender studies, critical ethnic studies, critical prison studies, and more.” —Anita Tijerina Revilla

Builds on theories of Gloria Anzaldúa and others to argue that queer storytelling is an ideal avenue for recognizing, theorizing, and subverting state-sanctioned, mundane violence committed in the name of protection.

Gender & Sexuality Studies, Latinx & Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies

Black Aliens

Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora

Joanna Davis-McElligatt

3/9/2026

978-0-8142-1608-8

$129.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5977-1

$36.95 S paperback

“Davis-McElligatt not only demonstrates a robust research and archival process but makes brilliant use of those pieces through creative juxtaposition and original theorization.” —Vincent Haddad

Explores the Black alien figure as constructed, imagined, and experimented on by Black writers, musicians, and artists to represent a cosmic diasporic experience.

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

Black Studies

Transgressing Time

The Device at the Heart of Time Travel

Edward Royston

4/27/2026

978-0-8142-1613-2

$129.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5982-5

$34.95 S paperback

“Transgressing Time offers both structural rigor and the playfulness inherent in the wide range of speculative literature it examines.” —Bogi Takács

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings of Octavia E. Butler, Scott Alexander Howard, Jack Finney, and others.

Narrative Studies, Literary Studies

The Color of Paper

Representing Race in the Comics Medium

Chris Gavaler

2/6/2026

978-0-8142-1604-0

$129.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5970-2

$36.95 S paperback

“Chris Gavaler delves into the complexities of racial representation with the same discerning care and insight that distinguishes his acclaimed scholarship on form.” —Qiana Whitted

Analyzes the technical elements of racial representation in comics, demonstrating that the ink-on-paper materiality of comics reveals the illogic of metaphorical colors as racial categorizations.

Series: Studies in Comics and Cartoons

Comics & Comics Studies

Crip Love Onscreen

Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability

Sarah Rainey-Smithback

1/30/2026

978-0-8142-1603-3

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5967-2

$34.95 S paperback

“Crip Love Onscreen showcases the radical ways that disabled sexuality can dismantle cultural assumptions not only about disabled people but about sex and sexuality more broadly.” —Cynthia Barounis

Examines how disabled people’s sexual lives are represented in Western popular film and television, with a close look at sources that push back against heteronormative and ableist values.

Disability Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Film & Media Studies

Sovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie

Forms of the Secret in US Political Rhetoric

Atilla Hallsby

2/13/2026

978-0-8142-1605-7

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5972-6

$34.95 S paperback

“Smart, playful, and theoretically sophisticated, Sovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie introduces us to the hard truths of secrecy in American politics. A one-of-a-kind book.” —Joshua Reeves

Examines presidential scandals, detective narratives, national security disclosures, and racist dog whistles to understand the rhetorical forms of political secrets and their material consequences.

Series: New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality

Rhetoric & Communication, American Studies, Cultural Studies

At Risk

Rhetoric, Deviance, and the Politics of HIV Prevention

McKinley Green

5/11/2026

978-0-8142-1614-9

$129.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5983-2

$36.95 S paperback

“Green demonstrates the need to account for sociopolitical systems and contexts in a richly contextualized and illustrative way. Our fields need more books like this.” —J. Blake Scott

Advances a rhetoric of deviance to show how young people with HIV defy public health recommendations in favor of their own risk mitigation strategies informed by structural inequities.

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

Embodied Encuentros

Oral History Archives of Latina/o/e Experiences

Elena Foulis

4/20/2026

978-0-8142-1612-5

$149.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5981-8

$34.95 S paperback

“Embodied Encuentros brilliantly prepares the next generation of oral history practitioners with a radical yet necessary approach to the field.” —Jesús Jesse Esparza

Offers a practical guide for completing ethical fieldwork in Latina/o/e and other marginalized communities, emphasizing equitable and culturally sustaining practices for gathering oral histories.

Series: Global Latin/o Americas

Latinx & Latin American Studies, American Studies

Radical Science

Plants, Agency, and Nineteenth-Century British Narrative

Mary Bowden

3/16/2026

978-0-8142-1609-5

$69.95 S hardcover

“With confidence and precision, Bowden brings nineteenth-century scientific texts into vibrant focus.” —Lynn Voskuil

Expands beyond Darwin’s work in physiological botany to examine how nineteenth-century debates about plants’ agency were also applied to people throughout literary and popular discussions of race, gender, and class.

Victorian Studies, 19th-Century Literature

Mortal Forms

Affect and Temporality in Early English Poetry

Evelyn Reynolds

2/17/2026

978-0-8142-1606-4

$99.95 S hardcover

“Reynolds brilliantly reimagines the relationship between form and temporality in medieval poetry....A groundbreaking contribution to early English poetry studies.” —Rebecca Davis

Freshly theorizes how medieval English poetic forms communicate the unspeakable (grief, pain, eternity), revealing previously unrecognized commonalities among Old and Middle English poems.

Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture

Medieval Studies

Disrupting Narrative Rhetoric

Experimental Fictionality on Digital Platforms

Stefan Iversen

3/2/2026

978-0-8142-1607-1

$69.95 S hardcover

“A bold and theoretically rich book that, true to its title, disrupts established notions of narrative rhetoric and fictionality, bringing them into productive dialogue with platformed communication studies.” —Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Investigates how experimental uses of fictionality on digital platforms transform public storytelling, playing with boundaries between fiction and nonfiction to inspire action or reconsideration of urgent public issues.

Narrative Studies

Silent Medievalisms

Reimagining the Middle Ages During Film’s Foundational Era

Edited by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl

3/30/2026

978-0-8142-1611-8

$89.95 S hardcover

“Pugh and Weisl do an excellent job of bridging what are sometimes disparate disciplines and remind us of experiments and achievements in silent film that have been forgotten over the past century.” —John M. Ganim

Examines how early films used medieval stories and tropes to propagate contemporary political, national, and social messages at a time of technology-driven seismic shifts in the creation and consumption of narratives.

Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture

Medieval Studies, Film & Media Studies

Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Edited by Paul Allen Miller and Mario Telò

6/8/2026

978-0-8142-1615-6

$99.95 S hardcover

“Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle is truly standard setting. Brilliant, moving, and insightful.” —Shane Butler

Radically rethinking classics, contributors link ancient texts to modern crises and highlight how destruction and its remnants resist erasure and shape historical memory.

Series: Classical Memories/Modern Identities

Classics

New in paperback

The Story of Fictional Truth

Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel

Paul Dawson

Available 1/2026

978-0-8142-5879-8

$49.95 S paperback

“A field-changer and a must-read for literary and narrative scholars working on history of the novel, novelistic techniques, fictionality, and other related topics.” —Mengchen Lang, Journal of Literary Semantics

Challenges prevailing accounts of the novel’s rise to reveal how changing concepts of fictionality have shaped the realist novel from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries.

Narrative Studies

City Scripts

Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures

Edited by Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma

Available 3/2026

978-0-8142-5886-6

$34.95 S paperback

“City Scripts offers a new way to think about the relationship between cities on the page and the cities in which we live.” —Jamin Creed Rowan, Modern Language Review

Via German and American case studies, analyzes uses of narrative and scripting to appeal to stakeholders in urban change, with consequences for urban futures worldwide.

Narrative Studies

Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts

Virginia Pignagnoli

Available 4/2026

978-0-8142-5871-2

$39.95 S paperback

“Pignagnoli’s monograph fulfills a vital need of linking trends in the digital literary sphere with formal and thematic obsessions of today’s literary fictions.” —Torsa Ghosal, DIEGESIS

Explores how digital epitexts surrounding contemporary novels by Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Catherine Lacey, Meg Wolitzer, and Dave Eggers influence audience understanding and response.

Narrative Studies

Becoming Pynchon

Genetic Narratology and V.

Luc Herman and John M. Krafft

Available 5/2026

978-0-8142-5865-1

$39.95 S paperback

“A thematically rich and historically astute contribution to Pynchon studies.” —Tore Rye Andersen, American Literary History

Examines the development of Thomas Pynchon’s foundational novel, V., bringing the author back into the frame of narratology and offering an important corrective to the field.

Narrative Studies

Experiencing Visual Storyworlds

Focalization in Comics

Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri

Available 2/2026

978-0-8142-5829-3

$39.95 S paperback

“A long time in the making, Experiencing Visual Storyworlds explores a diverse selection of examples in order to offer a highly original perspective on focalization in comics.” —Jan-Nöel Thon

Through close readings of comics from a range of genres, this book uses the narratological concept of focalization to demonstrate how comics draw readers into characters’ experiences.

Narrative Studies, Literary Theory, Comics & Comics 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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