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

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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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms

Published: 10/03/2025

Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms brings together activists, artists, scholars, and migrants with diverse histories to explore what the experience of migration does with, and to, knowledge, and how its own ways of knowing find expressive form. As the volume’s authors think about physical and imaginative crossings, and the traversals and transactions of knowledge they[…]

The Xeno-Monde: Worlds of Strangers

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FORTHCOMING Spring 2026

The Xeno-Monde: Worlds of Strangers emerges as a response and challenge to the history of “being” in philosophy. The discourse of “being” and “being” in a world is an ancient one, to which Martin Heidegger returns in his early lectures and writings. Indeed, existential philosophy, if it has foundations at all, emerges as a way[…]

Malleus Daemonum: The Hammer of Demons

FORTHCOMING Summer 2026

The Malleus Daemonum provides an exciting introduction into the religious world of early modern Italy. It consists of a series of personal exorcisms which the Italian Observant Franciscan Alessandro Albertino composed and which he claims have proven themselves by experience. It bears witness to the end of a period in which priests could freely compose[…]

Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 9

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FORTHCOMING Summer 2025

Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies offers a platform in which the old meets the new, in which archaeological, papyrological, and philological research into Meroitic, Old Nubian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources confront current investigations in modern anthropology and ethnography, Nilo-Saharan linguistics, and the critical and theoretical approaches of postcolonial and African studies. Dotawo gives[…]

The Art of Compilation: Manuscripts and Networks in the Early Medieval Latin West

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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[…]