Publications
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Asexual Erotics
(2019-05-01)
Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality attends to the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking from the late 1960s to the present. Drawing on the knowledge generated by asexual ...
Unbecoming Language
(2018-11-19)
In Unbecoming Language, Annabel L. Kim examines a corpus of French literature writing against difference. Inaugurated by Nathalie Sarraute and sustained in the work of Monique Wittig and Anne Garréta, this corpus highlights ...
Science Communication Online
(2019-05-01)
As science communication has moved online, a range of important new genres have emerged: crowdfunding proposals, blogs, microblogs, databases, and more. Rhetorics of Science Online takes up these genres to explore how ...
Prevention
(2018-10-16)
Approximately 70% of the global total of people living with HIV/AIDS in 2016 were in sub-Saharan Africa. After delayed governmental responses, the media has been consistently deployed as an essential tool for prevention. ...
Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas
(2018-10-04)
Most importantly, the book shows how literature constitutes an alternative public sphere for Black people. In a society largely controlled by white supremacist actors and institutions, Black authors have conjured fiction ...
Black Love, Black Hate
(2018-11-02)
Felice D. Blake’s Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraracial deceptions, cruelties, and contempt in Black literature. Literary criticism ...
Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives
(2017-01-01)
'Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives' is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives, a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and neglected in standard grammatical ...
Challenging Communion
(2017-01-01)
In this book, Jennifer Garrison examines literary representations of the central symbol of later medieval religious culture: the Eucharist. In contrast to scholarship that depicts mainstream believers as enthusiastically ...
Sponsored Migration
(2018-04-30)
Sponsored Migration places Puerto Rico’s migration policy in its historical context, examining the central role the Puerto Rican government played in encouraging and organizing migration during the postwar period. Meléndez ...
Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature
(2017)
Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature and Culture: Literary and Cultural Essays explores how Spanish literary critics from the U.S. and Spain view and study Chicano literature and culture, and reflects on Chicano ...
Migrating Fictions
(2018-01-01)
In Migrating Fictions, Manzella turns to U.S. Women’s literature that represents internal migrations in the US in the twentieth century. This project situates itself within the “spatial turn” of literary studies to analyze ...
Hip Sublime
(2017-11-01)
In their continual attempt to transcend what they perceived as the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America, the Beat writers turned to the classical authors who provided, on ...
Typical Girls
(2021)
In the years following 1975, a group of female-created comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally male-dominated medium. Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips uncovers the understudied ...
Violent Exceptions
(2021)
Violent Exceptions turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril in twenty-first-century political discourse to better understand how this figure is appropriated by political constituencies for purposes rarely to ...
Diagnosing Desire
(2020)
In Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century, Alyson K. Spurgas examines the “new science of female sexuality” from a critical, sociological perspective, considering how today’s ...
Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime
(2021)
In Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime, Dana M. Olwan examines how certain forms of violence become known, recognized, and contested across multiple geopolitical contexts—looking specifically ...
Comics and the Body
(2020)
Eszter Szép’s Comics and the Body is the first book to examine the roles of the body in both drawing and reading comics within a single framework. With an explicit emphasis on the ethical dimensions of bodily vulnerability, ...
How Comics Travel
(2022)
Engages with comics as sites of struggle over representation by developing a new methodology of reading for difference in transnational contexts.
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
(2019)
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Death and the Pearl Maiden
(2019)
Shows how English responses to the Black Death were hidden in plain sight—as seen in the Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poems.
Precarious Crossings
(2019)
Examines the underlying precarity in twenty-first-century immigrant fiction and reveals the contradictions inherent in neoliberalism as an ideology.
Reality Bites
(2018)
Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political ...
Culturally Speaking
(2019)
Examines racial and gendered dimensions of voice in American culture, showing how vocal sound helps to shape cultural power dynamics.
Vaccine Rhetorics
(2020)
Addresses the underlying rhetoric of vaccination debates by examining the full spectrum of viewpoints to develop a nuanced way forward.
Black Dragon
(2022)
In Black Dragon, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian, and Asian American people and cultures to offer new insights into the relationships among these groups. Drawing ...
Adoption across Race and Nation
(2022)
Analyzes transnational and transracial adoption, highlighting the past and continuing discourses around adoption as it relates to race, nation, immigration, belonging, and citizenship.
Beyond the Icon
(2022)
Demonstrates how contemporary Asian American creators employ graphic narrative to counter harmful misrepresentations and show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals.
Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature
(2022)
In Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature, Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala bring together established scholars and new voices to illuminate a previously understudied but consequential element of life in the Middle ...
Deflective Whiteness
(2022)
Details the appropriation of social justice rhetoric to claim Whiteness as an aggrieved social status, enabling White supremacy and deepening racial inequities.
Grassroots Activisms
(2024)
What is the nature of grassroots activism? How and why do individuals get involved or attempt to make change for themselves, others, or their own communities? What motivates activists to maintain momentum when their efforts ...
Just Kids
(2024)
Although children have prompted and participated in numerous acts of protest and advocacy, their words and labors are more likely to be dismissed than discussed as serious activism. Whether treated disparagingly by ...
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts
(2023)
Explores how digital epitexts surrounding contemporary novels by Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Catherine Lacey, Meg Wolitzer, and Dave Eggers influence audience understanding and response.
A Nation’s Undesirables
(2024)
"In a moving blend of family history and cutting-edge scholarship, Tracey Owens Patton’s A Nation’s Undesirables synthesizes work in rhetorical postmemory studies, critical adoption studies, Afrofuturism, and more to tell ...
Trafficking Rhetoric
(2024)
"Human trafficking has generated intense global concern, with stories of sex slavery and images of women forced into prostitution so persuasive that states have raced to respond ahead of empirical data and clear definitions ...
Against!
(2025)
Human trafficking has generated intense global concern, with stories of sex slavery and images of women forced into prostitution so persuasive that states have raced to respond ahead of empirical data and clear definitions ...
Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS
(2025)
In Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS, Nghana tamu Lewis chronicles the work of five black women creators to demonstrate how hip hop feminism operates as a vital tool for interpreting and building ...
Dysfluent in Fiction
(2025)
In Dysfluent in Fiction, Riley McGuire unspools a literary history of vocal disability in the nineteenth century, arguing that this underexamined literary trope helps us to understand vocal hierarchies that still ...
Brave Humanism
(2025)
In Brave Humanism, Mollie Godfrey argues that long before the post-1960s critiques of Western humanism emerged, an earlier generation of Black women writers were committed to reclaiming and redefining the human on their ...
A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century
(2019-11-01)
Story, in the largest sense of the term, is arguably the single most important aspect of narrative. But with the proliferation of antimimetic writing, traditional narrative theory has been inadequate for conceptualizing ...