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We Know How This Ends: Living while Dying We Know How This Ends Living while Dying Bruce H. Kramer 2017 Fall
Surprising lessons in finding joy and personal growth in the last months of life
Tales of Wonder: Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards Tales of Wonder Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards Jack Zipes 2017 Fall
A pictorial history of fairy-tale postcards throughout the world over two hundred years
Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year Onigamiising Seasons of an Ojibwe Year Linda LeGarde Grover 2017 Fall
Fifty short essays evoke the four seasons of the year, and of life, for the Ojibwe in northeastern Minnesota
The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen Sean Sherman 2017 Fall
Award-winning recipes, stories, and wisdom from the celebrated indigenous chef and his team
Stomping the Blues 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
Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s Lewd Looks American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s Elena Gorfinkel 2017 Fall
The untold story of the American sexploitation film—a major development in screen sex in the decade before “porno chic”
Bioaesthetics: Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts Bioaesthetics Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts Carsten Strathausen 2017 Fall
A comprehensive critique of the ideas behind bioaesthetics, and a necessary, methodical account of both its insights and its deficiencies
Zombie Theory: A Reader 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
Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color Writing Human Rights The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color Crystal Parikh 2017 Fall
Reading works by American writers of color through the lens of human rights
Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism William E. Connolly 2017 Fall
Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
The Great Lakes at Ten Miles an Hour: One Cyclist’s Journey along the Shores of the Inland Seas The Great Lakes at Ten Miles an Hour One Cyclist’s Journey along the Shores of the Inland Seas Thomas Shevory 2017 Fall
A chronicle of travels by bicycle around the Great Lakes, combining personal observations with reflections on the geology, ecology, history, and culture of the region
The Construction of Equality: Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City The Construction of Equality Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City Jennifer Mack 2017 Fall
A compelling case study that traces the transformation of a Swedish city by an active and engaged immigrant community
When the Hills Are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community Thomas W. Pearson 2017 Fall
An overlooked part of fracking’s environmental impact becomes a window into the activists and industrial interests fighting for the future of energy production—and the fate of rural communities
Being Together in Place: Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World Being Together in Place Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World Soren C. Larsen and Jay T. Johnson 2017 Fall
How place summons Native and non-Native people into dialogue to take up the challenging work of coexistence with each other and the nonhuman world
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media 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
Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall
Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement
A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church A House of Prayer for All People Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church David K. Seitz 2017 Fall
Revealing the underappreciated progressive contributions of a liberal LGBT church
Foucault on Painting Foucault on Painting Catherine M. Soussloff 2017 Fall
A timely exploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with painting as knowledge
New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map New Lines Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map Matthew W. Wilson 2017 Fall
A provocative critique of Geographic Information Science
Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human Fictionalizing Anthropology Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human Stuart McLean 2017 Fall
On anthropology, creativity, and becoming other
Ecology without Culture: Aesthetics for a Toxic World Ecology without Culture Aesthetics for a Toxic World Christine L. Marran 2017 Fall
Reconfiguring the intentions and parameters of ecocriticism
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity 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
Historic Capital: Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Historic Capital Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Cameron Logan 2017 Fall
A chronicle of historic preservation’s profound impact on Washington, D.C., highlighting the major changes urban revitalization has made on American cities
Life: A Modern Invention Life A Modern Invention Davide Tarizzo 2017 Fall
A paradigm-shifting genealogy of biological life as metaphysical concept rather than a scientific category
Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking 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
The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous The Long Take Art Cinema and the Wondrous Lutz Koepnick 2017 Fall
An impassioned argument for the cinematic long take as a compelling source of wonder and a unifying force of contemporary art
Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh after Empire Postcolonial Biology Psyche and Flesh after Empire Deepika Bahri 2017 Fall
Rethinking the body of the colonized and its ongoing transformation in today’s global order
Spectacle of Property: The House in American Film 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
Callous Objects: Designs against the Homeless Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring
Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
Flames of Discontent: The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike Flames of Discontent The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike Gary Kaunonen 2017 Fall
A working-class history of a 1916 miners’ strike in northern Minnesota, one of the most important events in organized labor of the early twentieth century
A Literature of Questions: Nonfiction for the Critical Child A Literature of Questions Nonfiction for the Critical Child Joe Sutliff Sanders 2017 Fall
A critical analysis of children’s nonfiction that focuses on the extent to which such works invite young readers to ask questions
Advances Advances Jacques Derrida 2017 Fall
An unlimited prehistory of the world that opens up its unpredictable future
Superhumanity: Design of the Self Superhumanity Design of the Self Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle and Mark Wigley, Editors 2018 Spring
A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self
Arranging Marriage: Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora Arranging Marriage Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora Marian Aguiar 2018 Spring
The first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global context
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America The Inconvenient Indian A Curious Account of Native People in North America Thomas King 2018 Spring
A brilliantly subversive and darkly humorous history of Indian–White relations in North America since first contact
Fawn Island Fawn Island Douglas Wood 2018 Spring
Join the beloved author of Old Turtle as he embarks on journeys large and small
Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities 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
Youth Media Matters: Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education Youth Media Matters Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education Korina M. Jocson 2017 Fall
How young people making media have potential to shape pedagogy, raise social awareness, and promote creative self-expression
Modernism as Memory: Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany Modernism as Memory Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany Kathleen James-Chakraborty 2017 Fall
Reexamining architecture and memory in postwar Berlin
The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous The Modernist Corpse Posthumanism and the Posthumous Erin E. Edwards 2018 Spring
An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who—and what—counts as human while offering bold insights into the modernist project
A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art 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
The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting The Truth Is Always Grey A History of Modernist Painting Frances Guerin 2018 Spring
Changing how we look at and think about the color grey
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil The Anti-Black City Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil Jaime Amparo Alves 2018 Spring
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas reveals the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil
Movement, Action, Image, Montage: Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis Movement, Action, Image, Montage Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis Luka Arsenjuk 2018 Spring
A major new study of Sergei Eisenstein delivers fresh, in-depth analyses of the iconic filmmaker’s body of work
Four Metaphors of Modernism: From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme Four Metaphors of Modernism From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme Jenny Anger 2018 Spring
Exploring the significance of metaphor in modern art
Interpreting Anime Interpreting Anime Christopher Bolton 2018 Spring
For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games: Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher Paul 2018 Spring
An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy’s negative contribution to video game culture—and what can be done about it
Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect Playing with Feelings Video Games and Affect 2018 Spring
How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code
Deconstruction Machines: Writing in the Age of Cyberwar 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
Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing 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