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,[…]
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[…]
Published: 07/25/2025
Historiographies of Game Studies offers a first-of-its-kind reflection on how game studies as an academic field has been shaped and sustained. Today, game studies is a thriving field with many dedicated national and international conferences, journals, professional societies, and a strong presence at conferences in disciplines like computer science, communication, media studies, theater, visual arts,[…]
FORTHCOMING Summer 2026
Unexpected Flourishing is a book about rotting logs, higher education, and critical hope. Katina L. Rogers draws on the hope and possibility of mycorenewal to ask what possibilities for unexpected flourishing we can find within higher education’s decay, and how we can cultivate conditions where these possibilities can thrive: a mycelial university. In a forest,[…]
Imprint: Risking Education
FORTHCOMING Summer 2026
Educated People identifies a specter haunting the discourse of critical thought and it isn’t communism. It is the unseemly figure of the bourgeois individual, the obscene subject and agent of capitalist culture. This subject is the educated person, the protagonist of a historical culture rooted in human exploitation and a hypocritical social myopia, whose trajectory[…]
Imprint: Advanced Methods
Published: 03/21/2025
Mourning the Ends: Collaborative Writing and Performance is an opening, a beginning, an attempt to rethink how we can be, think, and work together. This book, authored by a multitude, explores new methodologies of collaborative scholarship for the arts and humanities within the context of the various ecological, medical, military, and epistemic ends facing the[…]
Imprint: Gracchi Books
Published: 03/04/2025
The Art of Compilation: Manuscripts and Networks in the Early Medieval Latin West interrogates the medieval manuscript book as a dynamic, constantly changing object entangled in intellectual and cultural networks, constructed and deconstructed by different people, and transmuting in form and meaning over time. Medieval manuscripts are not static, permanently bound, and delimited, but rather[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 11/21/2024
Burning Diagrams in Anthropology examines the use of diagrams in anthropology to reimagine how we think about, and challenge, intellectual histories. Highlighting the impossibility of escaping what different disciplines and institutions deem to be “past,” the author combines critical analysis of selected diagrams with an expansive, exploratory reimmersion in their aesthetic, ethical, and political potential.[…]