Cultural Studies
Truth-Seeking in an Age of (Mis)Information Overload
Offers a thorough, multidisciplinary picture of the informational challenges of our media ecosystem, as well as collaborative strategies for addressing them.
Bodies of Water
Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.
Leisure
Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future.
The Overlooked Pillar
Elevates in systematic ways the importance of organizational thinking about sustainability and emphasizes the importance of cultural organizations in facilitating societal sustainability goals.
Theatres of Value
Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.
From Havana to Hollywood
Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.
Masculine Pregnancies
Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.
Impact/Impasse
Makes a case for the value—and ultimately impact—of seemingly mundane moments in college classrooms.
Transatlantic Bondage
A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.
Deeper Learning with Psychedelics
Through a philosophical lens, this book explores the powerful educational capabilities of classic psychedelics.
Reclaiming Time
Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.
Geophilosophy of the Mediterranean
Aims to rethink Europe under the sign of openness and hospitality, starting from the Mediterranean—the sea that is so important for the history of the entire West—a sea of differences with a deep unitary root conceived as a paradigm for rethinking new and original forms of social and political coexistence.
Between Care and Justice
Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.
The Serpent's Plumes
Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.
Through a Nuclear Lens
Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.
The Recursive Frontier
Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.
Listening to Others
A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.
When History Returns
Turns to theories and cultural representations of psychosocial life to reflect on, and better understand, the challenges of learning in times of social strife.
Utopian Imaginings
Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.
Tracking Capital
Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.
From Blues to Beyoncé
Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.
Resonances against Fascism
Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.
Jazz with a Beat
The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.
Damned Agitator
The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.
Italian Trans Geographies
Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.