American Studies

Hard Right

Casey Ryan Kelly

2026

At Risk: Rhetoric, Deviance, and the Politics of HIV Prevention

McKinley Green

2026

Embodied Encuentros: Oral History Archives of Latina/o/e Experiences

Elena Foulis

2026

Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora

Joanna Davis-McElligatt

2026

Sovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie: Forms of the Secret in US Political Rhetoric

Atilla Hallsby

2026

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

Edited by Imani M. Cheers

2025

Contemporary Feminist Fiction and a Case for Expanding Rhetorical Narratology

Katherine J. Weese

2025

Replaying Marc Anthony: Sonic, Political, and Cultural Resonances

Frances R. Aparicio

2025

Recreational Colonialism and the Rhetorical Landscapes of the Outdoors

Kyle Boggs

2025

Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking

R. J. Millhouse

2025

Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay

Cruz Medina

2024

Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race

Edited by Robert Asen and Casey Ryan Kelly

2024

Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico

Lillian Gorman

2024

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics

Daniel Worden

2024

Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire

Leah Perry

2024

Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas

Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman

2024

Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency

Risa Applegarth

2024

Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting

Danielle Endres

2023

Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice

Ramón E. Soto-Crespo

2023

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

Jennifer Lin LeMesurier

2023

Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging

Vivian Nun Halloran

2023

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation

Lisa Biggs

2022

Adoption across Race and Nation: US Histories and Legacies

Edited by Silke Hackenesch

2022

Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics

Hannah Noel

2022

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives

Edited by Eleanor Ty

2022

Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces

Edited by Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen 

2022

Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States

Sara Austin

2022

Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor

Wilfredo Alvarez

2022

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance

Alison Rose Reed

2022

American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States

Christa J. Olson

2021

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought

Roger A. Sneed

2021

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips

Susan E. Kirtley

2021

Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century

Alyson K. Spurgas

2020

Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan

Edited by Yetta Howard

2020

Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek

2020

Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field

Edited by Lisa Melonçon, S. Scott Graham, Jenell Johnson, John A. Lynch, and Cynthia Ryan

2020

American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent

Jordan Carson

2020

American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump

Luke Winslow

2020

Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity

Jennifer Domino Rudolph

2020

Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood

Allison L. Rowland

2020

Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence

Jenny Rice

2020

Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood

Casey Ryan Kelly

2020

False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975–1992)

Frans Weiser

2020

Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States

Megan Eatman

2020

Vaccine Rhetorics

Heidi Yoston Lawrence

2020

Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics

Edited by Sean Guynes and Martin Lund

2020

Talking #browntv: Latinas and Latinos on the Screen

Frederick Luis Aldama andWilliam Anthony Nericcio

2019

Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid

Christina Meyer

2019

Public Negotiations: Gender and Journalism in Contemporary US Latina/o Literature

Ariana E. Vigil

2019

The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism

Edited by Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson

2019

Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture

Amanda Nell Edgar

2019

Staging Black Fugitivity

Stacie Selmon McCormick

2019

Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality

Ela Przybylo

2019

Gothic Geoculture: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Cuba in the Transamerican Imaginary

Ivonne M. García

2019

Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border

Nina Maria Lozano

2019

Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature

Felice D. Blake

2018

Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature

Stephanie Fetta

2018

Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance

Christina N. Baker

2018

Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas

Judith Sierra-Rivera

2018

Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene

Amy D. Propen

2018

Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema

Christopher Carter

2018

Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature

Stacie Cassarino

2018

The Goat-Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics

Eddie Campbell

2018

Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition

Edited by Sheila Murnaghan and Ralph M. Rosen

2018

Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability

Jay Timothy Dolmage

2018

Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

Dana L. Cloud

2018

Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements

Abigail G. H. Manzella

2018

Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States

Edited by James J. Donahue, Jennifer Ann Ho, and Shaun Morgan

2017

James R. Hopkins: Faces of the Heartland

Mark B. Pohlad

2017

Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature: Literary and Cultural Essays

Edited by Jesús Rosales and Vanessa Fonseca

2017

Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States

Edgardo Meléndez’s

2017

Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative

Alexa Weik von Mossner

2017

Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives

Edited by Debra A. Moddelmog and Martin Joseph Ponce

2017

Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army”

Johari Jabir

2017

Mama's Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression

Marlo D. David

2016

La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades

Melissa Castillo-Garsow

2016

The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora

Vivian Nun Halloran

2016

Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism

Bryce Traister

2016

Disappear Here: Violence after Generation X

Naomi Mandel

2015

Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones

2015

The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution

Matt Richardson

2013

Iconoclast in Ink: The Political Cartoons of Jay N. "Ding" Darling

Richard Samuel West

2012

Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas

Madina V. Tlostanova and Walter D. Mignolo

2012

Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms

Wen Jin

2012

Dislocalism: The Crisis of Globalization and the Remobilizing of Americanism

Sarika Chandra

2011

Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945

Timothy R. Buckner

2011

Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology

Carol Colatrella

2011

Historicizing Fat in Anglo-American Culture

Edited by Elena Levy-Navarro

2010

Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn

Christopher P. Wilson

2010

Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative

Amelia DeFalco

2009

Tabloid, Inc.: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives

V. Penelope Pelizzon

2009

Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater

Paula Marie Seniors

2009

The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897–1970

Christine Woyshner

2009

Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention

Toby Miller

2008

Justified by Work: Identity and the Meaning of Faith in Chicago’s Working-Class Churches

Robert Anthony Bruno

2008

Negotiating Relief: The Development of Social Welfare Programs in Depression-Era Michigan, 1930–1940

Susan Stein-Roggenbuck

2008

Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians

Cari M. Carpenter

2008

Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film

Peter Caster

2008

Billy Ireland

Edited by Lucy Caswell

2007