The Fire Trees

FORTHCOMING Summer 2026

The Fire Trees studies the sense experience of the body and mind as it relates to wildness and nature—how do we embrace sensualism, pleasure, and joy as a daily practice in the company of our transience? And when we do, what new awareness might we embrace? How do the places we inhabit or occupy influence[…]

Feminism, Activism, Video: Carole Roussopoulos in the 1970s

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FORTHCOMING Fall 2026

In 1968, following the largest general strike in French history, and the inauguration of a student and worker movement that built on and intersected with anti-colonial and anti-imperialist activism, a revolutionary new tool arrived on the French market: the Sony Portapak. The Portapak was a battery-powered, portable, self-contained electronic video recording system that enabled a[…]

The Queer Life of Riddles: (Re)Translations from the Exeter Book

FORTHCOMING

Should we expect a panoply of loquacious objects to chatter on about their experiences exactly as we would? This collection of creative (re)translations, The Queer Life of Riddles, explores the ways these thousand-year-old lyrics lay athwart our expectations, veering in their own directions and refusing to conform to our canons of respectability. How they may[…]

American Incest: How White Supremacy Became White Lawlessness

FORTHCOMING Fall 2026

American Incest takes its readers on a whirlwind, barn-burning, eye-opening yet largely uncharted tour of America. Consider these examples: The first American novel was an incest novel, published in 1789 and intended as a rival document to the U.S. Constitution. The most famous American painting is a painting about incest. The most influential American movie[…]

The Parasocialists: React Streamers, Video Essayists, Debate Bros, Podcasters, and the Cultural Politics of the Online Left

FORTHCOMING Summer 2026

Good, accessible political commentary has always been hard to come by, but the situation today seems worse than ever. Mainstream media is pure propaganda, alternative media remains resolutely alternative, and the once-wide expanse of social media has been narrowed to a handful of platforms governed by attention-maximizing algorithms that reward no one more than the[…]

In Practice: From Higher Education to Liberatory Transformation

FORTHCOMING Winter 2027

In Practice: From Higher Education to Liberatory Transformation examines the relationship between settler institutions of higher education and the settler state and the carceral logics that both produce the border politics of university campuses and police our disciplines, discourses, and communication styles. It also investigates how these structures impact pedagogical and curricular practice. It is[…]

A Beginner’s Guide to Old Nubian

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FORTHCOMING Winter 2027

A Beginner’s Guide to Old Nubian is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the Old Nubian language, a historically significant yet often overlooked linguistic heritage of the medieval Nubian kingdoms. Flourishing between the 8th and 15th centuries CE in the Middle Nile Valley, encompassing parts of present day northern Sudan and southern Egypt, Old Nubian[…]

Reading Postures: On Close Reading, Feminism, and Academic Life

FORTHCOMING Summer 2026

Reading Postures: On Close Reading, Feminism, and Academic Life, Erica Delsandro and Jennifer Mitchell anatomize the many positions that readers embody, willfully perform, fall into unthinkingly, and are compelled to assume. Such postures shape the way we read, write, and even teach the texts we love—and those we love to hate. Informed by modernist studies,[…]