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Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alex Beringer$36.95 $25.87 Paper
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction
Jennifer MacLure$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Winner, 2023 North American Victorian Studies Association First Book Prize
Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel
Livia Arndal Woods$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Runner-Up, 2023 Victorian Popular Fiction Association First Book Prize
Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Esra Mirze Santesso$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Honorable Mention, 2024 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies
The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
Renée Fox$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Honorable Mention, 2023 North American Victorian Studies Association First Book Prize
The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Lisa Biggs$37.95 $26.57 Paper
Winner, 2023 NCA Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies
Winner, 2023 ASTR Errol Hill Award
Finalist, 2023 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History
Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Eleanor Ty$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Edited Book Prize
Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics
V. Jo Hsu$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2023 NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Winner, 2024 RSA Book Award
Winner, 2024 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award
Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Ewa Stańczyk$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph
Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States
Sara Austin$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2024 Children’s Literature Association Book Award
Narrative in the Anthropocene
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Erin James$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Finalist, 2023 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Book Award
Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor
Wilfredo Alvarez$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2023 NCA Ethnography Division’s Best Book Award
How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Honorable Mention, 2023 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph
Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
José Alaniz $37.95 $26.57 Paper
2023 Eisner Nominee for Best Comics-Related Book
American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States
Christa J. Olson$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2022 NCA Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award
The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities
Ally Day$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2022 NWSA Alison Piepmeier Prize
The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Roger A. Sneed$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Finalist, American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies
Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Susan E. Kirtley$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Winner, 2022 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph
Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Joy Sanchez-Taylor$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2021 NEPCA Peter C. Rollins Book Award
We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Natalya Bekhta$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Winner, 2021 ISSN Perkins Prize
Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood
Casey Ryan Kelly$29.95 $20.97 Paper
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood
New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality
Allison L. Rowland$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2021 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine Book Award
Vaccine Rhetorics
Heidi Yoston Lawrence$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Finalist, 2021 ARSTM Book Award
Honorable Mention, 2021 CCCC Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication
Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, Eds.$29.95 $20.97 Paper
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Christina Meyer$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Eisner Award Nominee
Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship
Shui-yin Sharon Yam$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Winner, 2021 CCCC Outstanding Book Award
Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture
Amanda Nell Edgar$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, Critical/Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association • A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories
Barbara Black$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Winner, 2020 Victorian Society in America Award
Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
Stephanie Fetta$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner of the 2019 MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
David K. Coley$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Winner of the 2020 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize from the Canadian Society of Medievalists
Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Kate McCullough$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Slow Narrative across Media
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by Marco Caracciolo and Ella Mingazova$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Ashley Hope Pérez$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alex Beringer$36.95 $25.87 Paper
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures
Edited by Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma $59.95 $41.97 Hardcover
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Virginia Pignagnoli$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V.
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Luc Herman and John M. Krafft$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Paul Dawson$74.95 $52.47 Hardcover
Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by Lasse R. Gammelgaard, Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, James Phelan, Richard Walsh, Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, and Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
A New Anatomy of Storyworlds: What Is, What If, As If
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Marie-Laure Ryan$89.95 $62.97 Hardcover
Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Narrative in the Anthropocene
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Erin James$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Finalist, 2023 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Book Award
With Bodies: Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Marco Caracciolo and Karin Kukkonen, Eds.$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf, Eds.$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Alexandra Valint$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by John Pier$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital
Marco Codebò$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
W. Michelle Wang$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper March 2023
Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel
Adam Grener$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper March 2023
Environment and Narrative
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by Erin James and Eric Morel$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Brian Richardson
$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Elizabeth Alsop$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper
Dysfluent in Fiction: Vocal Disability and Nineteenth-Century Literature
Riley McGuire$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Forthcoming May 2025
Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature
Riya Das$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption
Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture
Eric C. Walker$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance: The Victorians and the Song of Songs
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Duc Dau$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction
Jennifer MacLure$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Winner, 2023 North American Victorian Studies Association First Book Prize
Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel
Livia Arndal Woods$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Runner-Up, 2023 Victorian Popular Fiction Association First Book Prize
The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
Renée Fox$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Honorable Mention, 2023 North American Victorian Studies Association First Book Prize
Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders
Gretchen Braun$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain
Katherine Judith Anderson$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre
Dara Rossman Regaignon$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Alexandra Valint$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies
Edited by Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel
Adam Grener$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper March 2023
Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Winter Jade Werner$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper May 2023
Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
Lissette Lopez Szwydky$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper February 2023
The Tenniel Illustrations to the “Alice” Books, Second Edition
Michael Hancher$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Mark Knight
$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Edited by Joshua King and Winter Jade Werner$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Gothic Geoculture: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Cuba in the Transamerican Imaginary
Ivonne M. García$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper
Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character
Megan Ward$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper
Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Lesley Larkin$37.95 $26.57 Paper
Forthcoming April 2025
Brave Humanism: Black Women Rewriting the Human in the Age of Jane Crow
Mollie Godfrey$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Forthcoming April 2025
Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life
Seulghee Lee$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Forthcoming March 2025
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Michelle Bumatay$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Forthcoming February 2025
Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States
Asha Jeffers$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition
Laura Elizabeth Vrana$59.95 $41.97 Hardcover
Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Cassandra L. Jones$29.95 $20.97 Paper
On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett
Ashley Lawson$59.95 $41.97 Hardcover
Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Daniel Worden$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature
Hasnul Insani Djohar$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State
Roberta Wolfson$69.96 $48.97 Hardcover
Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Ashley Hope Pérez$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alison Halsall$37.95 $26.57 Paper
Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Esra Mirze Santesso$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Honorable Mention, 2024 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies
City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures
Edited by Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma $59.95 $41.97 Hardcover
Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War
Audrey Wu Clark $34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Virginia Pignagnoli$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V.
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Luc Herman and John M. Krafft$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Eleanor Ty$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Edited Book Prize
Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures
Jose O. Fernandez$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature
Mitchum Huehls$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States
Sara Austin$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2024 Children’s Literature Association Book Award
Virginia Woolf’s Mythic Method
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Amy C. Smith$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Alison Rose Reed$36.95 $25.87 Paper
The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities
Ally Day$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2022 NWSA Alison Piepmeier Prize
The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Roger A. Sneed$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Finalist, American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies
Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project
J. J. Butts$32.95 $23.07 New in Paper
Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Joy Sanchez-Taylor$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2021 NEPCA Peter C. Rollins Book Award
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka
Edited by Jean-Philippe Marcoux$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Michelle Zerba$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation
John Murillo III$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Reconstruction Fiction: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar Britain
Paula Derdiger$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions
Colleen G. Eils$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital
Marco Codebò$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Jordan Carson
$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
W. Michelle Wang$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Elizabeth Alsop$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper
A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Scott Dill$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper
Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Lesley Larkin$37.95 $26.57 Paper
Forthcoming April 2025
Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
R. J. Millhouse$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Forthcoming March 2025
Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life
Seulghee Lee$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Forthcoming March 2025
Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption
Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture
Jieun Lee$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Forthcoming February 2025
Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition
Laura Elizabeth Vrana$59.95 $41.97 Hardcover
Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century
Audrey Wu Clark$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay
Cruz Medina$24.95 $17.47 Paper
Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature
Hasnul Insani Djohar$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State
Roberta Wolfson$69.96 $48.97 Hardcover
Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire
Leah Perry$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Human Rights on the Move
On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities
Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Momar K. Ndiaye, and Amy Shuman$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alison Halsall$37.95 $26.57 Paper
Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Esra Mirze Santesso$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Honorable Mention, 2024 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies
Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War
Audrey Wu Clark $34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption
Jennifer Lin LeMesurier$29.95 $20.97 Paper
The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Lisa Biggs$37.95 $26.57 Paper
Winner, 2023 NCA Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies
Winner, 2023 ASTR Errol Hill Award
Finalist, 2023 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History
Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics
Hannah Noel$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Eleanor Ty$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Edited Book Prize
Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures
Jose O. Fernandez$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics
New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality
Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant, Eds.$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics
V. Jo Hsu$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2023 NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Winner, 2024 RSA Book Award
Winner, 2024 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award
Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor
Wilfredo Alvarez$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2023 NCA Ethnography Division’s Best Book Award
Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Alison Rose Reed$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Zachary F. Price$29.95 $20.97 Paper
American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States
Christa J. Olson$29.95 $20.97 Paper
The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Roger A. Sneed$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Finalist, American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies
Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project
J. J. Butts$32.95 $23.07 New in Paper
Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Joy Sanchez-Taylor$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2021 NEPCA Peter C. Rollins Book Award
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka
Edited by Jean-Philippe Marcoux$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Michelle Zerba$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation
John Murillo III$32.95 $23.07 Paper
The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions
Colleen G. Eils$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Gothic Geoculture: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Cuba in the Transamerican Imaginary
Ivonne M. García$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper
Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones$32.95 $23.07 New in Paper
Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
R. J. Millhouse$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Forthcoming March 2025
Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life
Seulghee Lee$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Forthcoming March 2025
Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix
Nghana tamu Lewis$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Kate McCullough$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers
Pamela VanHaitsma$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature
Hasnul Insani Djohar$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire
Leah Perry$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Human Rights on the Move
On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities
Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Momar K. Ndiaye, and Amy Shuman$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas
Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Edited by Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Margaret C. Flinn$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood
Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture
Kimberly D. McKee$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practices
Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption
Jennifer Lin LeMesurier$29.95 $20.97 Paper
The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Lisa Biggs$37.95 $26.57 Paper
Winner, 2023 NCA Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies
Winner, 2023 ASTR Errol Hill Award
Finalist, 2023 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History
Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Sara Petrosillo$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Eleanor Ty$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Edited Book Prize
Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics
V. Jo Hsu$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2023 NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Winner, 2024 RSA Book Award
Winner, 2024 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book
Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 New in Paper May 2025
Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States
Sara Austin$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2024 Children’s Literature Association Book Award
Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History
New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality
Jason Barrett-Fox$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Charlie Samuelson$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Alison Rose Reed$36.95 $25.87 Paper
The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities
Ally Day$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Susan E. Kirtley$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Winner, 2022 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph
Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre
Dara Rossman Regaignon$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Michelle Zerba$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Eszter Szèp$32.95 $23.07 Paper
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Michelle Bumatay$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Forthcoming February 2025
Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix
Nghana tamu Lewis$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Daniel Worden$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Margaret C. Flinn$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alex Beringer$36.95 $25.87 Paper
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alison Halsall$37.95 $26.57 Paper
Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Esra Mirze Santesso$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Honorable Mention, 2024 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies
Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Eleanor Ty$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Edited Book Prize
Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Ewa Stańczyk$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph
Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States
Sara Austin$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2024 Children’s Literature Association Book Award
How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Honorable Mention, 2023 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph
Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
José Alaniz $37.95 $26.57 Paper
2023 Eisner Nominee for Best Comics-Related Book
Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Zachary F. Price$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Daniel Stein$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Susan E. Kirtley$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Winner, 2022 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph
Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Eszter Szèp$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Edited by Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Sara Petrosillo$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Edited by Eva von Contzen and James Simpson
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Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 New in Paper May 2025
Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Charlie Samuelson$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Virginia Woolf’s Mythic Method
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Amy C. Smith$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama during Europe’s Age of Reason
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Edited by Blair Hoxby$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Elizaveta Strakhov$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Michelle Zerba$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Mario Telò$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
David K. Coley$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Winner of the 2020 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize from the Canadian Society of Medievalists
The Medieval Risk-Reward Society: Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Will Hasty$35.95 $25.17 New in Paper
Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race
Edited by Robert Asen and Casey Ryan Kelly$37.95 $26.57 Paper
The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers
Pamela VanHaitsma$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay
Cruz Medina$24.95 $17.47 Paper
Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity
Claire Sisco King$32.95 $23.07 Paper
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Jennifer Lin LeMesurier$29.95 $20.97 Paper
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Hannah Noel$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics
New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality
Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant, Eds.$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics
V. Jo Hsu$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2023 NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Winner, 2024 RSA Book Award
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Stigma Stories: Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness
Molly Margaret Kessler$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History
Jason Barrett-Fox$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor
Wilfredo Alvarez$32.95 $23.07 Paper
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American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States
Christa J. Olson$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Susan E. Kirtley$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Winner, 2022 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph
Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre
Dara Rossman Regaignon$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War
Audrey Wu Clark $34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature
Mitchum Huehls$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 New in Paper May 2025
Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders
Gretchen Braun$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project
J. J. Butts$32.95 $23.07 New in Paper
Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre
Dara Rossman Regaignon$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Mario Telò$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies
Edited by Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Romanticism’s Other Minds: Poetry, Cognition, and the Science of Sociability
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
John Savarese$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions
Colleen G. Eils$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by John Pier$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital
Marco Codebò$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Scott Dill$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper
The Medieval Risk-Reward Society: Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Will Hasty$35.95 $25.17 New in Paper
Reconstruction Fiction: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar Britain
Paula Derdiger$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Jordan Carson
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Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel
Adam Grener$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
W. Michelle Wang$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Winter Jade Werner$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
Lissette Lopez Szwydky$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Environment and Narrative
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by Erin James and Eric Morel$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
The Tenniel Illustrations to the “Alice” Books, Second Edition
Michael Hancher$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Brian Richardson
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Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Elizabeth Alsop$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Edited by Joshua King and Winter Jade Werner$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Mark Knight
$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
David K. Coley$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Winner of the 2020 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize from the Canadian Society of Medievalists
Gothic Geoculture: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Cuba in the Transamerican Imaginary
Ivonne M. García$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper
Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character
Megan Ward$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper
Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones$32.95 $23.07 New in Paper
When the World Explodes: Essays
Amy Lee Scott$19.95 $13.96 Paper
Forthcoming March 2025
Winner of the Gournay Prize
Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker
Written by Marcela T. Garcés and Illustrated by Andrés E. Garcés$14.95 $10.46 Paper
The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories
Miles Harvey$22.95 $16.06 Paper
Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist
Marlena Williams$19.95 $13.96 Paper
The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland
Agata Izabela Brewer$24.95 $17.47 Paper
Winner of the 2022 Gournay Prize
Finalist, 2024 Housatonic Book Award, Nonfiction
Shortlisted for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Nonfiction Category
Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
Christine Imperial$21.95 $15.36 Paper
Winner of the Gournay Prize
Con Papá - With Papá
Written by Frederick Luis Aldama and
Illustrated by Nicky Rodriguez$14.95 $10.46 Hardcover
Claim Tickets for Stolen People
The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize
Quintin Collins$14.95 $10.46 Paper
2023 BCALA Honor Book, Poetry
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology
Edited by
Alex Hernandez
Matthew David Goodwin
and
Sarah Rafael García$24.95 $17.47 Paper
Finalist, 2022 World Fantasy Awards •Finalist, 2022 Utopia Awards
United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel
Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren$19.95 $13.96 Paper
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
Jerald Walker$19.95 $13.96 Paper
Finalist, 2020 National Book Awards
On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine
Sonya Bilocerkowycz$19.95 $13.96 Paper
Winner of the Gournay Prize
Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life
Alberto Ledesma$19.95 $13.96 Paper
Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology
Frederick Luis Aldama, Ed.$19.95 $13.96 Paper
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