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 Fall 2025
In times of Earthly crises, habituated Euro-Western vocabularies and imaginaries—dichotomist and human-centric—need to be questioned, and radically different ones developed. Thinking with the Sleeping Body: A Feminist Reimagination of Human-Earth Relations employs the sleeping body as a theoretically informed and politically motivated figure to open novel imaginaries and relationalities—ones that are not based on wakeful[…]
Published: 12/01/2022
In the face of unimaginably violent systems, our most vulnerable bodies—sick, disabled, unable to rise from bed—offer the resistance of imperative vulnerability. What can we learn from the body that cannot help but fail? How can porosity perform treachery within entrenched opressions? What kind of reading and relationship to text can enrich relationship instead of[…]
Published: 11/11/2022
A worldwide struggle between democracy and authoritarianism set against a backdrop of global surveillance capitalism is unmistakable. Examples range from Myanmar, China, and the Philippines to Hungary, Turkey, Russia, and the United States. Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom offers a multidisciplinary analysis drawing on psychology and literature to provide readers with a deeper[…]
Published: 11/28/2019
Check out the interactive website for Steal This Classroom HERE! In Steal This Classroom: Teaching and Learning Unbound, which comprises a book as well as an interactive website (designed by Alli Crandell), Jody Cohen and Anne Dalke construe “classrooms” as testing grounds, paradoxically boxed-in spaces that cannot keep their promise to enclose, categorize, or name.[…]