Conference sale: Modern Language Association 2025

Leah seeks innovative book projects that overturn expectations and offer new ways of thinking about culture, literature, and media. She values interdisciplinary work in emerging areas of scholarship as well as manuscripts that speak to broader audiences, particularly within the fields of disability studies, childhood studies, queer and transgender studies, and feminism. Her primary editorial interests include justice and equity, race and ethnicity studies, avant-garde and experimental cinema, digital culture and new media, gender and sexuality, and literary criticism. Special interests include multiethnic and comparative race, mass media, and labor studies. She welcomes work by scholars from a diversity of backgrounds, including marginalized and underrepresented groups, contingent faculty, and nontraditional scholars. Leah also acquires titles for our Forerunners: Ideas First series, a thought-in-process series of short, breakthrough works in all areas where Minnesota currently acquires. Leah can be reached at penny032@umn.edu.

Doug focuses his acquisitions on Minnesota’s translation program and on projects in social, political, and critical theory. He is the in-house editor for the Posthumanities series and occasionally acquires general projects on literature, culture, art, and digital media. Concepts prevalent in his current acquisitions program are biopolitics, ecocriticism, speculative realism, animal studies, consumerism, utopianism, cosmology, nonlinear thought, materialism, technology, and the history and practice of theory. He also looks for books that follow an essayistic or speculative rather than traditional monographic structure as well as works that advance a strong argumentive reading of contemporary society. Doug can be reached at armat001@umn.edu.