Virtual Exhibit Hub: Modern Language Association 2023

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LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring: Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States
Uproarious How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett 2019 Fall: A radical new approach to humor, where traditional targets become its agents
The Alchemy of Meth A Decomposition Jason Pine 2019 Fall: Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold
Bleak Joys Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova 2019 Fall: A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life
Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring: All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it
The Price of Nice How Good Intentions Maintain Educational Inequity Angelina E. Castagno, Editor 2019 Fall: How being “nice” in school and university settings works to reinforce racialized, gendered, and (dis)ability-related inequities in education and society
An Ecotopian Lexicon Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors 2019 Fall: Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation
Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall: A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field
Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment Ryan Hediger 2019 Fall: Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945
When Time Warps The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence Megan Burke 2019 Fall: An inquiry into the phenomenology of “woman” based in the relationship between lived time and sexual violence
What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors 2019 Fall: Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss
Sensations of History Animation and New Media Art James J. Hodge 2019 Fall: A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history
Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall: A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization
Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring: A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
This Wound Is a World Billy-Ray Belcourt 2019 Fall: The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States
Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation Jonathan Beecher Field 2019 Fall: Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible
Standing with Standing Rock Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, Editors 2019 Spring: Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline
Daring to Be Bad Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition 2019 Fall: An award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity powered second-wave feminism—30th anniversary edition
The Eloquent Screen A Rhetoric of Film Gilberto Perez 2019 Spring: A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move us
Burgers in Blackface Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2019 Fall: A powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding
Archives Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak and Rick Prelinger 2019 Fall: How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users
Playing with the Book Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader Hannah Field 2019 Spring: A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts
Architectures of the Unforeseen Essays in the Occurrent Arts Brian Massumi 2019 Spring: A beautifully written study of three pioneering artists, entwining their work and our understanding of creativity
Glissant and the Middle Passage Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss John E. Drabinski 2019 Spring: A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness
Break Up the Anthropocene Steve Mentz 2019 Fall: Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch
Translated Nation Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Christopher Pexa 2019 Spring: How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Arne De Boever 2019 Fall: Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring: The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
Remain Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider 2019 Spring: Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures
Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring: Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
Edges of the State John Protevi 2019 Fall: Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature
Men in Place Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America Miriam J. Abelson 2019 Spring: Daring new theories of masculinity, built from a large and geographically diverse interview study of transgender men
Reading for Reform The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era Laura R. Fisher 2019 Spring: An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century
Bad Film Histories Ethnography and the Early Archive Katherine Groo 2019 Spring: A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives
Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring: An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé
Anthropocene Poetics Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction David Farrier 2019 Spring: How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time
Information Fantasies Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China Xiao Liu 2019 Spring: A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses
Machine Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler 2019 Spring: On the social consequences of machines
Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring: A media theory of markets
Communication Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton and Mercedes Bunz 2019 Spring: On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman forms
The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring: A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall: A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
Chromographia American Literature and the Modernization of Color Nicholas Gaskill 2018 Fall: The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880–1930
The Poem Electric Technology and the American Lyric Seth Perlow 2018 Fall: An enlightening examination of the relationship between poetry and the information technologies increasingly used to read and write it
None of This Is Normal The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer Benjamin J. Robertson 2018 Fall: How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own
The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance Kenneth J. Saltman 2018 Fall: How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring: Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
Internet Daemons Digital Communications Possessed Fenwick McKelvey 2018 Fall: A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known—but very consequential—programs into the spotlight
Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall: Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
Conversations in Maine A New Edition Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, Freddy Paine and Lyman Paine 2018 Fall: Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in print
Biology in the Grid Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life Phillip Thurtle 2018 Fall: How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms
The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall: Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
The Sound of Things to Come An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film Trace Reddell 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema
Disconnect Facebook’s Affective Bonds Tero Karppi 2018 Fall: An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it
Before the Law The Complete Text of Préjugés Jacques Derrida 2018 Fall: Thinking judgment in relation to the work of Jean-François Lyotard
Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall: The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
Pattern Discrimination Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer and Hito Steyerl 2019 Spring: How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?
Outsider Theory Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas Jonathan P. Eburne 2018 Fall: A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies
99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value A Postcapitalist Manifesto Brian Massumi 2018 Fall: A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future forms
Survival of the Fireflies Georges Didi-Huberman 2018 Fall: Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism
Critical Mass Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave Steven Ungar 2018 Fall: Thirty-five years of nonfiction films offer a unique lens on twentieth-century French social issues
Circulating Queerness Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Natasha Hurley 2018 Spring: A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives
Speaking of Indigenous Politics Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Editor 2018 Spring: “A lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory.” —Robert Warrior, from the Foreword
With Stones in Our Hands Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana, Editors 2018 Spring: Bringing together scholars and activists, With Stones in Our Hands confronts the rampant anti-Muslim racism and imperialism across the globe today
After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring: A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring: Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
The Anime Ecology A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media Thomas Lamarre 2018 Spring: A major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animation
What Is Information? Peter Janich 2018 Spring: A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker
Archaeologies of Touch Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi 2018 Spring: A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media
Deconstruction Machines Writing in the Age of Cyberwar Justin Joque 2018 Spring: A bold new theory of cyberwar argues that militarized hacking is best understood as a form of deconstruction
Interpreting Anime Christopher Bolton 2018 Spring: For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches
A Capsule Aesthetic Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art Kate Mondloch 2018 Spring: How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
Making Things and Drawing Boundaries Experiments in the Digital Humanities Jentery Sayers, Editor 2017 Fall: A major new look at why art, digitization, and design are vital to “making” in the humanities
Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring: Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
Spectacle of Property The House in American Film John David Rhodes 2017 Fall: A fascinating and unprecedented look at our relationship with the house in cinema
Veer Ecology A Companion for Environmental Thinking Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, Editors 2017 Fall: An innovative toolkit designed to prompt new awareness of the risk and potential of living on—and with—an alarmingly dynamic planet
Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall: Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall: A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall: An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires
Stomping the Blues Albert Murray 2017 Fall: The 40th anniversary edition of a landmark study of blues and jazz by one of America’s premier essayists and novelists
The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen Sean Sherman 2017 Fall: Award-winning recipes, stories, and wisdom from the celebrated indigenous chef and his team
Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring: Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring: Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring: Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane, Editors 2017 Spring: Innovative essays that challenge us to imagine African American children’s literature during the slavery and reconstruction eras
The Language of Plants Science, Philosophy, Literature Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan and Patrícia Vieira, Editors 2017 Spring: Exploring the idea that plants can think, feel, and communicate as a way of reconfiguring our relationship with the natural world
Metagaming Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux 2017 Spring: A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames
For All Waters Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes Lowell Duckert 2017 Spring: The Shakespearean era’s wet writers guide our eco-way today
Queer Game Studies Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw, Editors 2017 Spring: A landmark anthology opens video game studies to queer culture
Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring: A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory
Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring: Challenging the view that caring is only human
The Book of the Dead Shinobu Orikuchi 2016 Fall: The first complete English translation of a Japanese literary masterpiece
Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast A Multispecies Impression Julian Yates 2017 Spring: Refocusing our lens on literature and history to lives beyond the human
Indirect Action Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism Lisa Diedrich 2016 Fall: The interconnectedness of illness, thought, and activism prior to the arrival of AIDS in the United States
Like Clockwork Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall, Editors 2016 Fall: From Dragon*Con to IBM’s big data and neo-Victorianism to disability studies—the fascinating rise of an international subculture
The Child to Come Life after the Human Catastrophe Rebekah Sheldon 2016 Fall: A bold new reading of the child for the twenty-first century, with implications for contemporary environmentalism
Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers Past as Prologue Sohail Daulatzai 2016 Fall: A fresh, important intervention into understanding our post-9/11 world
The Slumbering Masses Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2016 Fall: An eye-opening look at why a “good night’s sleep” might be anything but
Human Programming Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom Scott Selisker 2016 Fall: The first cultural history of the idea of the programmable mind in U.S. culture, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
The World and All the Things upon It Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration David A. Chang 2016 Spring: Centering indigenous perspectives on the age of exploration
How Noise Matters to Finance N. Adriana Knouf 2016 Spring: The stock market is the background of how we begin to deal with the complex imbrication of humans, machines, and noise