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American Studies Association annual meeting: San Juan, November 20-22, 2025

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Meet our acquisitions editors:

Kristen Elias Rowley, Editorial Director
eliasrowley.1@osu.edu

Acquires in: Latinx studies, race and ethnic studies, cultural studies

Series: Formations: Adoption, Kinship, & Culture • Global Latino/a Americas • Latinx Shorts • Race & Mediated Cultures

Ana Jimenez-Moreno, Editor
jimenez-moreno.1@osu.edu
Acquires in: Literary and Cultural Studies

Series: Black Performance and Social Criticism • Classical Memories/Modern Identities • Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture • New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative • Studies in Comics and Cartoons • Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Recent Award Winners:

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Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition

Laura Elizabeth Vrana

~~$59.95~~ $41.97 Hardcover

Winner, 2025 College Language Association Book Award

American Studies Association annual meeting: San Juan, November 20-22, 2025

conference special: Use code OSUASA at checkout for 30% off and free US shipping on American studies books through December 31st

Meet our acquisitions editors:

Recent Award Winners:

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics

Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip

Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis

Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics

Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought

New and notable in American Studies:

Shock and Yawn: Resisting Banal Terror Through Queer Storytelling

Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora

Sovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie: Forms of the Secret in US Political Rhetoric

Crip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability

Coming of Age(ncy) on the Migrant Trail: Adolescent Journeys in Contemporary Latinx Young Adult Literature

Kinflix: Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Film

Sacred Sisterhoods: A Celebration of Black Women's Friendships on Television and in Film

Truth Be Told: White Nostalgia and Antiracist Queer Resistance in “Post-Truth” America

Replaying Marc Anthony: Sonic, Political, and Cultural Resonances

Olfactory Rhetoric: Sniffing Out Environmental Problems

Afrofuturism and World Order

The Art of Memes in Feminist Digital Culture

Patient Sense: Rhetorical Body Work in the Age of Technology

Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination

Recreational Colonialism and the Rhetorical Landscapes of the Outdoors

Rhetorics of Refusal: Medical Dissent and the US-Somali Diaspora

Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking

Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life

Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption

Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood’s Queerness

Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix

Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States

China Pop! Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups

Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay

Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire

Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race

Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico

Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics

Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature

Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State

Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction

Human Rights on the Move

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction

Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas

Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency

Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip

Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting

The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing

Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practices

Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War

Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

Adoption across Race and Nation: US Histories and Legacies

Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics

Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces

Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures

At Home in the Anthropocene

Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics

Stigma Stories: Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance

Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination

Building Confianza: Empowering Latinos/as Through Transcultural Health Care Communication

Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia

Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime

Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability

Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field

American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump

Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity

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