Virtual Exhibit Hub: Modern Language Association 2023

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Got to Be Something Here The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound Andrea Swensson 2021 Spring: The story, from start to superstardom, of the musicians who shaped the Minneapolis Sound
Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect Romi Crawford, Editor 2021 Spring: A collaboration of artists and writers commemorates a powerful symbol for social justice and freedom on Chicago’s South Side
Solo Viola A Post-Exotic Novel Antoine Volodine 2021 Spring: A harrowing early novel by one of France’s most unusual contemporary writers
Watershed Attending to Body and Earth in Distress Ranae Lenor Hanson 2021 Spring: A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem
Really Fake Alexandra Juhasz, Ganaele Langlois and Nishant Shah 2020 Fall: More important than flagging things “really fake” is to understand why they are dismissed as fake
Singularity Politics and Poetics Samuel Weber 2021 Spring: An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature
Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care Elan Abrell 2021 Spring: A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States
The Speculative City Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles Susanna Phillips Newbury 2021 Spring: A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles
Yang Warriors Kao Kalia Yang 2021 Spring: Award-winning author Kao Kalia Yang delivers an inspiring tale of resourceful children confronting adversaries in a refugee camp
Fates of the Performative From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism Jeffrey T. Nealon 2021 Spring: A powerful new examination of the performative that asks “what’s next?” for this well-worn concept
Radical Secrecy The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America Clare Birchall 2021 Spring: Reimagining transparency and secrecy in the era of digital data
Curiosity and Power The Politics of Inquiry Perry Zurn 2021 Spring: A trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity
Why We Lost the Sex Wars Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era Lorna N. Bracewell 2021 Spring: Reexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s—the rivalries and the remarkable alliances
The Dispossessed Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor Daniel Bensaïd 2021 Spring: Excavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization
Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin, Editors 2020 Fall: Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in print
Training for Catastrophe Fictions of National Security after 9/11 Lindsay Thomas 2021 Spring: A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world
The Migrant’s Paradox Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain Suzanne M. Hall 2021 Spring: Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how “race” maps onto place across the globe, state, and street
Sweetness in the Blood Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes James Doucet-Battle 2021 Spring: A bold new indictment of the racialization of science
The Digital Black Atlantic Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors 2021 Spring: Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies
Deep Mediations Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures Karen Beckman and Jeff Scheible, Editors 2021 Spring: The preoccupation with “depth” and its relevance to cinema and media studies
The Radical Bookstore Counterspace for Social Movements Kimberley Kinder 2021 Spring: Examines how radical bookstores and similar spaces serve as launching pads for social movements
Lost Souls Honoré de Balzac 2020 Fall: The first new translation of Balzac’s 1847 novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction
The Other Side of the Digital The Sacrificial Economy of New Media Andrea Righi 2021 Spring: A necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity
Nuclear Suburbs Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance Patrick Vitale 2021 Spring: From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War
Undoing Networks Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst and Lea P. Zierott 2020 Fall: Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnecting
Clang Jacques Derrida 2020 Fall: A new translation of Derrida’s groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other
Discomfort Food The Culinary Imagination in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art Marni Reva Kessler 2021 Spring: An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke
Contingent Figure Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment Michael D. Snediker 2021 Spring: A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic pain
Prosthesis David Wills 2021 Spring: An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human body and artificial inanimate objects
Women Who Make a Fuss The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf Isabelle Stengers and Vinciane Despret 2021 Spring: A vibrant call to reevaluate the heritage of women thinkers inside and outside the academy
Breathing Race into the Machine The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Lundy Braun 2021 Spring: How race became embedded in a medical instrument
Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring: How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences
Black Queer Flesh Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel Alvin J. Henry 2020 Fall: A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity
Arc of the Journeyman Afghan Migrants in England Nichola Khan 2020 Fall: A monumental account of one migrant community’s everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations
Timescales Thinking across Ecological Temporalities Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, Editors 2020 Fall: Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis
As We Have Always Done Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2021 Spring: How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism
Ends of Cinema Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Editors 2020 Fall: Leading film and media scholars discuss multiple “ends” in the history of cinema
The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall: A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
Pulses of Abstraction Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 2020 Fall: Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema
Grounded Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic Christopher Schaberg 2021 Spring: As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, a look at how we got here
Blackness in Morocco Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture Cynthia J. Becker 2020 Fall: A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation
Shaving the Beasts Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain John Hartigan Jr. 2020 Fall: A vivid first-person study of a notorious equine ritual—from the perspective of the wild horses who are its targets
Olav Audunssøn I I. Vows Sigrid Undset 2020 Fall: The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—the first new English translation in nearly a century
The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender Marquis Bey 2020 Fall: A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed
Sounds from the Other Side Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music Elliott H. Powell 2020 Fall: A sixty-year history of Afro–South Asian musical collaborations
Drawing the Sea Near Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa C. Anne Claus 2020 Fall: How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life
The Probiotic Planet Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer 2020 Fall: Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
Remote Warfare New Cultures of Violence Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors 2020 Fall: Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare
Universal Emancipation Race beyond Badiou Elisabeth Paquette 2020 Fall: A vital and timely contribution to the growing scholarship on the political thought of Alain Badiou
Scammer’s Yard The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica Jovan Scott Lewis 2020 Fall: Tells the story of Jamaican “scammers” who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair
Black Food Matters Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, Editors 2020 Fall: An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today
The Death of Things Ephemera and the American Novel Sarah Wasserman 2020 Fall: A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature—and its relevance to the twenty-first century
Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab 2020 Fall: A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate
Unraveling Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2020 Fall: Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human
Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall: A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
Cruelty as Citizenship How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy 2020 Fall: Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives?
Capture American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition Antoine Traisnel 2020 Fall: Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human–animal relations
Gaian Systems Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene Bruce Clarke 2020 Fall: A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory’s intersections with neocybernetic systems theory
Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall: A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
A Silvan Tomkins Handbook Foundations for Affect Theory Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson 2020 Fall: An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins
The Death of Asylum Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago Alison Mountz 2020 Spring: Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations
Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify Essays Carolyn Holbrook 2020 Spring: The compassionate and redemptive story of a prominent Black woman in the Twin Cities literary community
Acid Revival The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy Danielle Giffort 2020 Fall: A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science
Invoking Hope Theory and Utopia in Dark Times Phillip E. Wegner 2020 Spring: An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times
Thinking Plant Animal Human Encounters with Communities of Difference David Wood 2020 Spring: Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring: A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Volume II Volume II: Supplemental Texts Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring: Unique access to archival material of a major thinker, including presentations, early drafts, and a thorough introduction to the history of the philosophical notion of the individual
Things Worth Keeping The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World Christine Harold 2020 Spring: A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste
Isherwood in Transit James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2020 Spring: New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer
Action at a Distance John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger and Christina Vagt 2020 Fall: How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media?
Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance Sarah Juliet Lauro 2020 Fall: Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the trouble with making history playable
Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac 2020 Spring: A new annotated translation of the keystone of Balzac’s Comédie Humaine—a sweeping narrative of corrupted idealism in a cynical urban milieu
Bring That Beat Back How Sampling Built Hip-Hop Nate Patrin 2020 Spring: How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
The Elements of Foucault Gregg Lambert 2020 Spring: A new conceptual diagram of Foucault’s original vision of the biopolitical order
Decarcerating Disability Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition Liat Ben-Moshe 2020 Spring: This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration
News Parade The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle Joseph Clark 2020 Spring: A fascinating look at the United States’ conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel
An Archive of Taste Race and Eating in the Early United States Lauren F. Klein 2020 Spring: A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature
The Shapes of Fancy Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature Christine Varnado 2020 Spring: Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality
Red Gold The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna Jennifer E. Telesca 2020 Spring: Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures
What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring: Examining the personal library and the making of self
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn The Wisdom of Children’s Literature Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring: Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors—now in a new edition
The Metabolist Imagination Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner 2020 Spring: Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors
Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring: The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
Border Thinking Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship Andrea Dyrness 2020 Spring: Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders
Hacked Transmissions Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi 2020 Spring: Mapping the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present day
Circuit Listening Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s Andrew F. Jones 2020 Spring: How the Chinese pop of the 1960s participated in a global musical revolution
Clocking Out The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema Karen Pinkus 2020 Spring: An original reflection on Italy’s postwar boom considers potentials for resistance in today’s neoliberal (dis)order
Perpetual Motion Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common Harmony Bench 2020 Spring: A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world
Postcinematic Vision The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook 2020 Spring: A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience
The Decision of Desire Silvia Lippi 2020 Spring: A unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance
Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2019 Spring: A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames
Curating as Ethics Jean-Paul Martinon 2020 Spring: A new ethics for the global practice of curating
The Responsive Environment Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s Larry D. Busbea 2019 Fall: How new conceptions of human–environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s
Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr 2020 Spring: A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power
The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring: A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions
Asemic The Art of Writing Peter Schwenger 2019 Fall: The first critical study of writing without language
Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 2019 Fall: A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games
How Not to Make a Human Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters Karl Steel 2019 Fall: From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts
Resisting Dialogue Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent Juan Meneses 2019 Fall: A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent
Afrotopia Felwine Sarr 2019 Fall: A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century
Re-Enchanted The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century Maria Sachiko Cecire 2019 Fall: From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world
Wageless Life A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone 2020 Spring: Drawing up alternate ways to “make a living” beyond capitalism