Virtual Exhibit Hub: Modern Language Association 2023

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The Life Worth Living Disability, Pain, and Morality Joel Michael Reynolds 2022 Spring: A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain
The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring: A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain
Algorithms of Education How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar and P. Taylor Webb 2022 Spring: A critique of what lies behind the use of data in contemporary education policy
Justice at Work The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock 2022 Spring: A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept U.S. cities
Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring: A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
Global Debates in the Digital Humanities Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhuri and Paola Ricaurte, Editors 2022 Spring: A necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the digital humanities
On the Rural Economy, Sociology, Geography Henri Lefebvre Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Editors 2022 Spring: A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work
The Owls Are Not What They Seem Artist as Ethologist Arnaud Gerspacher 2022 Fall: Toward a posthumanist art and ethology
Solarities Seeking Energy Justice After Oil Collective Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, Editors 2022 Fall: A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation
The Dylan Tapes Friends, Players, and Lovers Talkin’ Early Bob Dylan Anthony Scaduto 2021 Fall: The raw material and interviews behind Anthony Scaduto’s iconic biography of Bob Dylan draw an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the singer-songwriter who defined his era
The Lab Book Situated Practices in Media Studies Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka 2021 Fall: An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life
Side Affects On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Hil Malatino 2022 Spring: How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing
Nothing Has to Make Sense Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism Sherene H. Razack 2022 Spring: How Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world
What If? Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilém Flusser 2022 Spring: An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter
Studious Drift Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education Tyson Lewis and Peter B. Hyland 2022 Fall: What kind of university is possible when digital tools are not taken for granted, but hacked for a more experimental future?
Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2021 Fall: Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassion
Does the Earth Care? Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology Mick Smith and Jason Young 2022 Fall: Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency
Out of Breath Vulnerability of Air in Contemporary Art Caterina Albano 2022 Fall: Explores the intrinsic relation of life to air, and breathing, through contemporary art
Cacaphonies The Excremental Canon of French Literature Annabel L. Kim 2022 Spring: Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matter
Cinema Illuminating Reality Media Philosophy through Buddhism Victor Fan 2022 Spring: A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse
Cosplay The Fictional Mode of Existence Frenchy Lunning 2022 Spring: An exploration of cosplay and its relationship with the realms of its global fandom, performance, and the modes of fictional existence
Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2022 Spring: Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment
Earthworks Rising Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Chadwick Allen 2022 Spring: A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices
Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation Matthew Biro 2022 Spring: The first comprehensive study of the artist Robert Heinecken and his critical views on the culture of mass media
Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2021 Fall: More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands
A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal Andrew Culp 2022 Spring: A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it
Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring: Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization
Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2022 Spring: Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures
The Alienated Subject On the Capacity to Hurt James A. Tyner 2022 Spring: A timely and provocative discussion of alienation as an intersectional category of life under racial capitalism and white supremacy
Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring: How media shapes our actions and feelings about race
Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring: Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
The Poetics of Cruising Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr 2022 Spring: A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets
Technics Improvised Activating Touch in Global Media Art Timothy Murray 2022 Spring: Seeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of technology and worldmaking futures
Cut/Copy/Paste Fragments from the History of Bookwork Whitney Trettien 2021 Fall: How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?
Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall: A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world
Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now 2022 Spring: A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world
A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960-2017 Timothy J. Kehoe and Juan Pablo Nicolini, Editors 2021 Spring: A major, new, and comprehensive look at six decades of macroeconomic policies across the region
The Big No Kennan Ferguson, Editor 2021 Fall: What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no
People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall: An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship
The Digital Is Kid Stuff Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy 2021 Fall: How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America
Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall: A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice
Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall: Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor
Disorderly Families Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault 2021 Fall: The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille
Magical Realism for Non-Believers A Memoir of Finding Family Anika Fajardo 2021 Fall: A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she’s never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means
Snowshoe Country Florence Page Jaques 2021 Fall: The classic and gorgeous accounts of two legendary naturalists’ journeys through summer and winter in the north country—in two new stand-alone paperback editions
Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring: How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
Language, Madness, and Desire On Literature Michel Foucault 2021 Fall: Insight into the importance of literature for Michel Foucault—published in English for the first time
Canoe Country Florence Page Jaques 2021 Fall: The classic and gorgeous accounts of two legendary naturalists’ journeys through summer and winter in the north country—in two new stand-alone paperback editions
Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower, Editors 2021 Fall: How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm
Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall: A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age
The World Is Gone Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic Gregg Lambert 2022 Spring: Exploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditations
Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall: A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
The Burden of Representation Essays on Photographies and Histories John Tagg 2021 Fall: A powerhouse in photographic theory—updated and with a new essay
Building on Borrowed Time Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Lukas Ley 2021 Fall: A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster
We Are Meant to Rise Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, Editors 2021 Fall: A brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota
Settler Colonial City Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis David Hugill 2021 Fall: Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis
An Essay for Ezra Racial Terror in America Grant Farred 2021 Fall: An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconscious
Anime's Identity Performativity and Form beyond Japan 2021 Fall: A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism
For a New Geography Milton Santos 2021 Fall: For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography
Practicing Cooperation Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism Andrew Zitcer 2021 Fall: A powerful new understanding of cooperation as an antidote to alienation and inequality
Commodities of Care The Business of HIV Testing in China Elsa L. Fan 2021 Fall: How global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve
Young-Girls in Echoland #Theorizing Tiqqun Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson 2022 Spring: Who’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child?
Gichigami Hearts Stories and Histories from Misaabekong Linda LeGarde Grover 2021 Fall: Award-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior
How We Became Sensorimotor Movement, Measurement, Sensation Mark Paterson 2021 Fall: An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body’s inner senses
Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall: What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
Modelwork The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt and Sarah Wasserman, Editors 2021 Fall: How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be
Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall: The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child
Talkin’ Up to the White Woman Indigenous Women and Feminism Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2021 Fall: A twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface
Reconstructing the Garrick Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece John Vinci, Editor 2021 Fall: A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated biography of one of Chicago’s greatest lost buildings
Olav Audunssøn II II. Providence Sigrid Undset 2021 Fall: The second volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in a new English translation, the first in nearly a century
Therapy Tech The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare Emma Bedor Hiland 2021 Fall: A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it
Remembering Our Intimacies Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2021 Fall: Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i
Days Like Smoke A Minnesota Boyhood Jon Hassler 2021 Fall: The memoir of a small-town childhood by one of Minnesota’s favorite writers, now published for the first time
Profit over Privacy How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet Matthew Crain 2021 Fall: A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet
Our Grateful Dead Stories of Those Left Behind Vinciane Despret 2021 Fall: An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the living
The Three Sustainabilities Energy, Economy, Time Allan Stoekl 2021 Fall: Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future
Grandmother’s Pigeon Louise Erdrich 2021 Fall: A grandmother’s sudden departure leaves her family with an even more puzzling, and wondrous, surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award–winning author—at last back in print
Envisioning Evil “The Nazi Drawings” by Mauricio Lasansky Rachel McGarry 2021 Fall: The definitive study of this powerful series of drawings by the influential artist
Louis Sullivan’s Idea Tim Samuelson 2021 Fall: A visual compendium revealing the philosophy and life of America’s renowned architect
Tolerance and Risk How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims Mitra Rastegar 2021 Fall: How apparently positive representations in U.S. media cast Muslims as a racial population
Written by the Body Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities Lisa Tatonetti 2021 Fall: Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film
The Editor Function Literary Publishing in Postwar America Abram Foley 2021 Fall: Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history
Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall: An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century
Assuming the Ecosexual Position The Earth as Lover Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens 2021 Spring: The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
Swedish-American Borderlands New Histories of Transatlantic Relations Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén, Editors 2021 Spring: Reframing Swedish–American relations by focusing on contacts, crossings, and convergences beyond migration
Visibility Interrupted Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming Carly Thomsen 2021 Fall: A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest
Media and Management Rutvica Andrijasevic, Julie Yujie Chen, Melissa Gregg and Marc Steinberg 2021 Spring: An essential account of how the media devices we use today inherit the management practices governing factory labor
Ambivalent Childhoods Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child Jacob Breslow 2021 Spring: Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possible
Skiing into the Bright Open My Solo Journey to the South Pole Liv Arnesen 2021 Spring: The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there
The Global Shelter Imaginary IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher 2021 Fall: Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed
The Dance of the Arabian Babbler Birth of an Ethological Theory Vinciane Despret 2021 Spring: A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory
Private Metropolis The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie and Alba Alexander, Editors 2021 Spring: Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions
The Digitally Disposed Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value Seb Franklin 2021 Spring: Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism
Letters from Tove Tove Jansson 2021 Fall: A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins
The Rhythm of Images Cinema beyond Measure Domietta Torlasco 2021 Spring: A rigorous and imaginative inquiry into rhythm’s vital importance for film and the moving image
Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala Emil’ Keme 2021 Spring: Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration
Batman Saves the Congo How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey 2021 Spring: How celebrity strategic partnerships are disrupting humanitarian space
The Black Reproductive Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood Sara Clarke Kaplan 2021 Spring: How Black women’s reproduction became integral to white supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy—and remains key to their dismantling
The Lesser Existences Étienne Souriau, an Aesthetics for the Virtual David Lapoujade 2021 Spring: On the complex aesthetics and ontology at work in Étienne Souriau’s unique oeuvre
B. J. O. Nordfeldt American Internationalist Gabriel Weisberg, Editor 2021 Spring: This “painter’s painter” constantly explored the variety of American modernist art, inspired by many locations and artistic styles
Outward Adrienne Rich’s Expanding Solitudes Ed Pavlić 2021 Spring: The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships
The Filing Cabinet A Vertical History of Information Craig Robertson 2021 Spring: The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information