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On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett
Ashley Lawson$59.95 $41.97 Hardcover
Nominated for the 2025 Macavity Awards, Anthony Awards, and Edgar Awards
Honorable Mention, Popular Culture Association Emily Toth Award For Best Single Work In Women’s Studies

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Daniel Worden$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Shortlisted for the 2025 Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize
Nominee, 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Ashley Hope Pérez$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Winner, 2024 MLA Matei Calinescu Prize

Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance: The Victorians and the Song of Songs
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Duc Dau$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Finalist, 2025 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies
Runner Up, Australasian Victorian Studies Association Barbara Garlick Book Prize

Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Margaret C. Flinn$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Shortlisted for the 2025 Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize

Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alex Beringer$36.95 $25.87 Paper
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Esra Mirze Santesso$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Honorable Mention, 2024 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies

The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
Renée Fox$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Honorable Mention, 2023 North American Victorian Studies Association First Book Prize
Winner, 2025 Sonya Rudikoff Award for the Best First Book in Victorian Studies from the Northeast Victorian Studies Association

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Lisa Biggs$37.95 $26.57 Paper
Winner, 2023 NCA Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies
Winner, 2023 ASTR Errol Hill Award
Finalist, 2023 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Eleanor Ty$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Edited Book Prize

Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Ewa Stańczyk$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph

Narrative in the Anthropocene
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Erin James$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Finalist, 2023 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Book Award

How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Honorable Mention, 2023 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph

Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
José Alaniz $37.95 $26.57 Paper
2023 Eisner Nominee for Best Comics-Related Book

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Roger A. Sneed$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Finalist, American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Susan E. Kirtley$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Winner, 2022 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph

Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Joy Sanchez-Taylor$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2021 NEPCA Peter C. Rollins Book Award

We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Natalya Bekhta$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Winner, 2021 ISSN Perkins Prize

Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood
New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality
Allison L. Rowland$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Winner, 2021 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine Book Award

Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, Eds.$32.95 $23.07 Paper
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Christina Meyer$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Eisner Award Nominee

Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
Stephanie Fetta$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner of the 2019 MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies

Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
David K. Coley$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Winner of the 2020 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize from the Canadian Society of Medievalists
Disrupting Narrative Rhetoric: Experimental Fictionality on Digital Platforms
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Stefan Iversen$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Forthcoming March 2026

Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Kate McCullough$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover

Slow Narrative across Media
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by Marco Caracciolo and Ella Mingazova$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover

Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Ashley Hope Pérez$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Winner, 2024 MLA Matei Calinescu Prize

Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alex Beringer$36.95 $25.87 Paper
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Virginia Pignagnoli$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover

Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V.
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Luc Herman and John M. Krafft$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover

The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Paul Dawson$49.95 $34.97 New in Paper

Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by Lasse R. Gammelgaard, Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, James Phelan, Richard Walsh, Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, and Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover

A New Anatomy of Storyworlds: What Is, What If, As If
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Marie-Laure Ryan$89.95 $62.97 Hardcover

Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover

Narrative in the Anthropocene
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Erin James$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Finalist, 2023 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Book Award

With Bodies: Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Marco Caracciolo and Karin Kukkonen, Eds.$34.95 $24.47 Paper

Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf, Eds.$37.95 $26.57 New in Paper

Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper

Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Alexandra Valint$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper

Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by John Pier$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper

Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
W. Michelle Wang$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper March 2023

Environment and Narrative
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by Erin James and Eric Morel$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper

A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Brian Richardson
$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper

Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Elizabeth Alsop$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper

Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption
Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture
Eric C. Walker$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance: The Victorians and the Song of Songs
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Duc Dau$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Finalist, 2025 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies
Runner Up, Australasian Victorian Studies Association Barbara Garlick Book Prize

The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
Renée Fox$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Honorable Mention, 2023 North American Victorian Studies Association First Book Prize
Winner, 2025 Sonya Rudikoff Award for the Best First Book in Victorian Studies from the Northeast Victorian Studies Association

Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Alexandra Valint$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper

Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Winter Jade Werner$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper May 2023

Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Mark Knight
$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper

Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Edited by Joshua King and Winter Jade Werner$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Joanna Davis-McElligatt$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Forthcoming March 2026
The Color of Paper: Representing Race in the Comics Medium
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Chris Gavaler$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Forthcoming February 2026

Contemporary Feminist Fiction and a Case for Expanding Rhetorical Narratology
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Katherine J. Weese$89.95 $62.97 Hardcover

Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism
Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment
Jess Shollenberger$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover

Afrofuturism and World Order
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Reynaldo Anderson$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Comic Fascism: Ideology, Catholicism, and Americanism in Italian Children’s Periodicals
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Zane Elward$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Joy Sanchez-Taylor$32.95 $23.07 Paper

Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Lesley Larkin$37.95 $26.57 Paper

On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Michelle Bumatay$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Cassandra L. Jones$29.95 $20.97 Paper

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett
Ashley Lawson$59.95 $41.97 Hardcover
Nominated for the 2025 Macavity Awards, Anthony Awards, and Edgar Awards
Honorable Mention, Popular Culture Association Emily Toth Award For Best Single Work In Women’s Studies

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Daniel Worden$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Shortlisted for the 2025 Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize
Nominee, 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Ashley Hope Pérez$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Winner, 2024 MLA Matei Calinescu Prize

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins$29.95 $20.97 Paper

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alison Halsall$37.95 $26.57 Paper

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Esra Mirze Santesso$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Honorable Mention, 2024 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies

Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Virginia Pignagnoli$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover

Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V.
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Luc Herman and John M. Krafft$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Eleanor Ty$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Edited Book Prize

Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Virginia Woolf’s Mythic Method
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Amy C. Smith$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Alison Rose Reed$36.95 $25.87 Paper

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Roger A. Sneed$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Finalist, American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies

Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Joy Sanchez-Taylor$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2021 NEPCA Peter C. Rollins Book Award

Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper

Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Michelle Zerba$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper

American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Jordan Carson
$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper

Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
W. Michelle Wang$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper

Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Elizabeth Alsop$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper

A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies
Scott Dill$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper
The Color of Paper: Representing Race in the Comics Medium
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Chris Gavaler$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Forthcoming February 2026

Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Joy Sanchez-Taylor$32.95 $23.07 Paper

Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Lesley Larkin$37.95 $26.57 Paper

Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
R. J. Millhouse$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption
Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture
Jieun Lee$34.95 $24.47 Paper

Human Rights on the Move
On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities
Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Momar K. Ndiaye, and Amy Shuman$34.95 $24.47 Paper

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins$29.95 $20.97 Paper

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alison Halsall$37.95 $26.57 Paper

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Esra Mirze Santesso$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Honorable Mention, 2024 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Lisa Biggs$37.95 $26.57 Paper
Winner, 2023 NCA Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies
Winner, 2023 ASTR Errol Hill Award
Finalist, 2023 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Eleanor Ty$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Edited Book Prize

Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics
New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality
Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant, Eds.$34.95 $24.47 Paper

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Alison Rose Reed$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Zachary F. Price$29.95 $20.97 Paper

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Roger A. Sneed$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Finalist, American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies

Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Joy Sanchez-Taylor$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner, 2021 NEPCA Peter C. Rollins Book Award

Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Michelle Zerba$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper

Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones$32.95 $23.07 New in Paper
Kinflix: Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Film
Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture
Marina Fedosik$34.95 $24.47 Paper

Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism
Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment
Jess Shollenberger$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover

The Art of Memes in Feminist Digital Culture
Digital Media, Feminist Resistance
Shana MacDonald$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
R. J. Millhouse$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Kate McCullough$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover

Human Rights on the Move
On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities
Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Momar K. Ndiaye, and Amy Shuman$34.95 $24.47 Paper

Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Edited by Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover

Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Margaret C. Flinn$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Shortlisted for the 2025 Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize

Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood
Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture
Kimberly D. McKee$32.95 $23.07 Paper

Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practices
Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo$29.95 $20.97 Paper

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Lisa Biggs$37.95 $26.57 Paper
Winner, 2023 NCA Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies
Winner, 2023 ASTR Errol Hill Award
Finalist, 2023 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History

Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Sara Petrosillo$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Eleanor Ty$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Edited Book Prize

Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 New in Paper

Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History
New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality
Jason Barrett-Fox$34.95 $24.47 Paper

Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Charlie Samuelson$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Alison Rose Reed$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Susan E. Kirtley$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Winner, 2022 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph

Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Michelle Zerba$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper

Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Eszter Szèp$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Silent Medievalisms: Reimagining the Middle Ages During Film’s Foundational Era
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Edited by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl$89.95 $62.97 Hardcover
Forthcoming March 2026
Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Joanna Davis-McElligatt$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Forthcoming March 2026
Disrupting Narrative Rhetoric: Experimental Fictionality on Digital Platforms
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Stefan Iversen$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Forthcoming March 2026
The Color of Paper: Representing Race in the Comics Medium
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Chris Gavaler$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Forthcoming February 2026
Kinflix: Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Film
Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture
Marina Fedosik$34.95 $24.47 Paper

The Art of Memes in Feminist Digital Culture
Digital Media, Feminist Resistance
Shana MacDonald$36.95 $25.87 Paper

On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Michelle Bumatay$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Daniel Worden$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Shortlisted for the 2025 Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize
Nominee, 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Margaret C. Flinn$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Shortlisted for the 2025 Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize

Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alex Beringer$36.95 $25.87 Paper
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alison Halsall$37.95 $26.57 Paper

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Esra Mirze Santesso$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Honorable Mention, 2024 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Edited by Eleanor Ty$32.95 $23.07 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Edited Book Prize

Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 Paper

Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Ewa Stańczyk$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Winner, 2023 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph

Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover

How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Honorable Mention, 2023 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph

Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
José Alaniz $37.95 $26.57 Paper
2023 Eisner Nominee for Best Comics-Related Book

Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Zachary F. Price$29.95 $20.97 Paper

Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Daniel Stein$34.95 $24.47 Paper

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Susan E. Kirtley$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Winner, 2022 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph

Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Eszter Szèp$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Classical Memories/Modern Identities
Edited by Paul Allen Miller and Mario Telò$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
Forthcoming June 2026
Silent Medievalisms: Reimagining the Middle Ages During Film’s Foundational Era
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Edited by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl$89.95 $62.97 Hardcover
Forthcoming March 2026
Mortal Forms: Affect and Temporality in Early English Poetry
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
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Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory
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Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture
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Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
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Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 New in Paper

Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature
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Virginia Woolf’s Mythic Method
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Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama during Europe’s Age of Reason
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Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War
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Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
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Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy
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Mario Telò$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper

Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
David K. Coley$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Winner of the 2020 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize from the Canadian Society of Medievalists

The Medieval Risk-Reward Society: Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
Will Hasty$35.95 $25.17 New in Paper

Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics
New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality
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Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
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Susan E. Kirtley$36.95 $25.87 Paper
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The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel
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The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
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Honorable Mention, 2023 North American Victorian Studies Association First Book Prize
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Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature
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Virginia Woolf’s Mythic Method
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Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War
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Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama
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Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
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Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
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We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction
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Natalya Bekhta$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Winner, 2021 ISSN Perkins Prize

Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature
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Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala, Eds.$36.95 $25.87 New in Paper

Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper

Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy
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Romanticism’s Other Minds: Poetry, Cognition, and the Science of Sociability
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John Savarese$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper

Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology
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A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature
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The Medieval Risk-Reward Society: Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages
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American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent
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Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction
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Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
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Environment and Narrative
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A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives
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Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction
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Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue
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Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel
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Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England
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Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment
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Through Fences
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Quintin Collins$14.95 $10.46 Paper
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