Forthcoming

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,[…]

Romance Studies: Manifesto and Method. Twenty-Eight Lectures, with Drinks Pairings

FORTHCOMING Winter 2027

What is Romance Studies? What could it be? This book is a sustained attempt to define—indeed, invent—the field, both in theory and in practice. It is therefore both a manifesto for Romance Studies as a discipline that may be an antidote to bureaucratic reason and, more broadly, a provocative but accessible introduction to methods of[…]

African Pastoral: Versions of Virgil’s Eclogues

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FORTHCOMING Fall 2026

African Pastoral: Versions of Virgil’s Eclogues presents a fresh and unexpected version of the ten pastoral poems that comprise the Eclogues of Virgil (70–19 BCE). Although these poems focus on the lives of shepherds and goatherds, Virgil makes their seemingly circumscribed existence a mirror of the wider world, a world that is both his and[…]

Ack! Knowledge! Work!

FORTHCOMING Summer 2026

Katherine Behar’s artworks bring automation technologies into visibility, highlighting in particular how such technologies “work” to make work invisible. Motifs of human absence run throughout Behar’s robotic installations, sculptures, and video works and that absence is matched by material footprints of nonhuman over-productivity. The result is an abundance of slippages between knowledge work, white-collar class[…]

Drag Education: RuPaul, Queer Theory, and the Politics of Teaching

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FORTHCOMING Winter 2027

“I think of myself as less of a judge and more of a teacher.” So said the Queen of Drag, RuPaul Andre Charles, on the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race—the Emmy Award-winning reality show competition that cemented RuPaul’s status as the most influential drag queen in the world. Via her international and still-expanding Drag[…]