2014 Humanities Books

2014 Faculty-Authored Publications

Adrian, Chris
The New World (Atavist Books)

Allen, Jeffrey Renard
Song of the Shank: A Novel (Graywolf Press)

Antoon, Sinan
The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf (Palgrave Macmillan)

Appiah, Kwame Anthony
Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (Harvard University Press)

Apter, Emily
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (Princeton University Press)
The Age of the Poets and Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose (Verso)

Baer, Ulrich
The Rilke Alphabet (Fordham University Press)

Baiocchi, Gianpaolo
The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life (Paradigm Publishers)

Baldwin, Peter
The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (Princeton University Press)

Basilio, Miriam
Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War (Ashgate Publishing Co.)

Bentley, Amy
Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet (University of California Press)

Bertino, Marie-Helene
2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas (Crown)

Bianchi, Emanuela
The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos (Fordham University Press)

Blake, Bill
Theatre and the Digital (Palgrave Macmillan)

Boraine, Alex
What’s Gone Wrong? South Africa on the Brink of Failed Statehood (New York University Press)

Boyd, Danah
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (Yale University Press)

Bromley, Bruce
Shopping: Material Culture Perspectives (University of Delaware)
Making Figures: Reimagining Body, Sound, and Image in a World That Is Not for Us (Dalkey Archive Press)

Brown, Jonathan
In the Shadow of Velazquez (Yale University Press)

Calhoun, Craig
Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemmas of the New Public Participation (New York University Press)

Callihan, Nicole
SuperLoop (Sock Monkey Press)

Canemaker, John
The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis & the Secrets of Walt Disney’s Movie Magic (Weldon Owen)

Carson, Anne
The Albertine Workout (New Directions)

Chaudhuri, Una
Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project (Palgrave Pivot)
Animal Acts: Performing Species Today (University of Michigan Press)

Cinotto, Simone
Soft Soil, Black Grapes: The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California (New York University Press)

Cohen, Robert
The Essential Mario Savio: Speeches and Writings That Changed America (University of California Press)

Connelly, Joan Breton
The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West’s Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It (Vintage)

Connolly, Joy
The Life of Roman Republicanism (Princeton University Press)

Cooper, Frederick
Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960 (Princeton University Press)
Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State (Harvard University Press)

Davila, Arlene
Contemporary Latina/o Media: Production, Circulation, Politics (New York University Press)

Doctorow, E.L.
Andrew’s Brain (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

Englander, Nathan
New American Haggadah (Little, Brown and Company)

Eugene, Nicole
Le Demon rassembleur (P.O.L.)

Ferrer, Ada
Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge University Press)

Fitterman, Robert
No Wait. Yep, Definitely Still Hate Myself. (Ugly Duckling Press)

Fitzgerald, Adam
The Late Parade: Poems (Liveright)

Foer, Jonathan Safran
New American Haggadah (Little, Brown and Company)

Foy, George
Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence (Scribner)

Friedland, Roger
Amore: An American Father’s Roman Holiday (Wave Books)

Gaffney, Elizabeth
When the World Was Young (Random House)

Galloway, Alexander
Laruelle: Against the Digital (University of Minnesota Press)

Garcia, Jay
Retrieving the Human: Reading Paul Gilroy (State University of New York Press)

Garrett, Don
Hume (Routledge)

Geronimus, Dennis
Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence (Lund Humphries)

Gilligan, Carol
When Boys Become Boys: Development, Relationships, and Masculinity (New York University Press)

Gilman, Ernest
Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900-1970 (Syracuse University Press)

Giorgi, Gabriel
Formas Comunes (Etena Cadencia)

Gitelman, Lisa
Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (Duke University Press)

Grandin, Greg
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (Metropolitan Books)

Guruianu, Andrei
Made in the Image of Stones (Brickhouse Books)

Hahn, Kimiko
Brain Fever: Poems (W.W. Norton & Company)

Hirsch, Edward
A Poet’s Glossary (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Hood, Ann
Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting (W.W. Norton & Company)
An Italian Wife (W.W. Norton & Company)

Hoover, David
Digital Literary Studies: Corpus Approaches to Poetry, Prose, and Drama (Routledge)

Jacob, Mira
The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing (Random House)

Jassen, Alex
Scripture and Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Cambridge University Press)

Karbiener, Karen
Whitman Among the Bohemians (University of Iowa Press)

Kay, Sarah
Une Muse savante?Poesie et savoir, du Roman de la rose aux grands rhetoriqueurs (Classiques Garnier)

Konstan, David
Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea (Oxford University Press)

Kotsonis, Yanni
States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and the Early Soviet Republic (University of Toronto Press)

Lasky, Dorothea
Rome (Liveright)

Laurino, Maria
The Italian Americans: A History (W.W. Norton & Company)

Lockridge, Larry
Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County (Indiana University Press)

Maazel, Fiona
Woke Up Lonely (Graywolf Press)

Martin, Molly
Veronica Gambara, Complete Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies and ITER)

Masri, Heather
Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts (Bedford / St. Martin’s)

Maudlin, Tim
New Foundations for Physical Geometry: The Theory of Linear Structures (Oxford University Press)

McLane, Maureen
This Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Meineck, Peter
Philoctetes (Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.)
Combat Trauma and Ancient Greeks (Palgrave Macmillan)

Merjian, Ara
Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris (Yale University Press)

Meruane, Lina
Viral Voyages: Tracing Aids in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan)

Morton, Brian
Florence Gordon (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Nero, Shondel
Vernaculars in the Classroom: Paradoxes, Pedagogy, Possibilities (Routledge)

Nestle, Marion
Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal (New York University Press)

Newman, Roberta
Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar (University Press of Mississippi)

Nissenbaum, Helen
Values at Play in Digital Games (The MIT Press)

Noel, Tomas Urayoan
In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press)

Patell, Cyrus
Emergent US Literatures (New York University Press)

Peachin, Michael
The Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World (Oxford University Press)
Greek and Latin Inscriptions at New York University (L’Erma di Bretschneider)

Policoff, Stephen
Come Away (Dzanc Books)

Sammons, Jeffrey
Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality (University Press of Kansas)

Sandhu, Sukhdev
The Edge Is Where The Centre Is (The Circadian Press)

Sartori, Andrew
Liberalism in Empire: An Alternative History (University of California Press)

Scherzinger, Martin
Music in Contemporary Philosophy (Routledge)

Senft, Theresa
The Social Media Handbook (Routledge)

Sieburth, Richard
Louise Labe, Love Sonnets and Elegies (NYRB Poets)

Smith, Mark
Poetic Heroes: Literary Commemorations of Warriors and Warrior Culture in the Early Biblical World (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.)
How Human is God? Seven Questions about God and Humanity in the Bible (Liturgical Press)

Solt, George
The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze (University of California Press)

Stimpson, Catherine
Critical Terms for the Study of Gender (The University of Chicago Press)

Sullivan, Edward
From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller & Caribbean Art in the Era of Impressionism (Yale University Press)

Talvacchia, Kathleen
Queer Christianities: Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms (NYU Press)

Taylor, Justin
Flings (Harper)

Tortorici, Zeb
Queering Archives: Historical Unravelings (Duke University Press)

Unger, Peter
Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy (Oxford University Press)

Usher, Phillip John
Illustrations Inconscientes: Ecritures de la Renaissance (Classiques Garnier)
Epic Arts in Renaissance France (Oxford University Press)

Villanueva, Ronald
Reliquaria (University of Nebraska Press)

Vitz, Evelyn
Medieval and Early Modern Performers in the Eastern Mediterranean (Brepols Publishers)

Weiss, Gregory
Interstate (WordTech Communications)

Whitehead, Colson
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death (Doubleday)

Willis, Deborah
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists (Belknap Press)

Wilson, Adam
What’s Important Is Feeling (Harper Perennial)

Wolf, Nicholas
An Irish-Speaking Island: State, Religion, Community, and the Linguistic Landscape, in Ireland, 1770-1870 (The University of Wisconsin Press)

Zucker, Rachel
The Pedestrians (Wave Books)