Love and the Politics of Intimacy: Bodies, Boundaries, Liberation (Bloomsbury)

“Reflecting on experiences of intimate, romantic and sexual love, and the role of individual identity, these essays explore historical trajectories that have culminated in particular, contemporary experiences of intimate love. […] This interdisciplinary exploration of what love means in the 21st century incorporates academic writing and original creative work from established and emerging scholars around the globe.”

The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies (Routledge)

“The essays consider the range of emotions and affects elicited by teaching settings and practices: those moments when we in the university are caught off-guard and made uncomfortable, or experience joy, anger, boredom, and surprise. Featuring writing by teachers at different stages in their career, institutions, and national or cultural settings, the book is an innovative and necessary addition to both the study of affect, theories of learning and teaching, and the fields of literary and cultural studies.”

‘That still goes on, doesn't it, in their religion?’ British Values, Islam and Vernacular Discourse” (Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 29, Issue 1)

“This article explores ‘everyday’ or ‘vernacular’ conceptions of Muslims, Islam and their relationship to ‘British values’. Drawing on original data from focus groups in the East of England, it argues that the relationship is typically constructed around a series of binary pairings.”

The Last Gift: The Christmas Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (Louisiana State University Press)

“Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) was one of the most popular American writers at the turn of the twentieth century, and her annual Christmas stories appeared in magazines and periodicals across the globe. […] Now, for the first time, The Last Gift presents a collection of Freeman’s best Christmas writing, introducing these funny, poignant, provocative, and surprisingly timely holiday tales to a new generation of readers.”

“Dora Tamana: Travel, Home and the Transnational Politics of African Motherhood”, (Safundi 2023)

“Drawing on her own personal experiences and losses, Tamana carefully constructed a militant and uncompromising politics of African motherhood that grappled with the violence of settler colonialism and racial capitalism. This emphasis on health, care and kinship also crossed borders, forming the basis of Tamana’s Black international politics which were shaped by the international women’s movement and her travels in Europe, China, Mongolia, and the Soviet Union.”

“Djibouti: Increasing Chinese Influence Amid Multilateral Military Competition” in The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures, ed. Ryan Shaffer (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

“This chapter […] emphasizes the increasing influence of China in shaping practices and processes inside Djiboutian sovereign territory as well as its role in shaping regional intelligence infrastructures amid the complex security environment. This chapter focuses on the organizational alliances, rivalries and inter-relationships between key actors in-country”

"A small flashlight in a great dark space”: Elizabeth Warren, Autobiography, and Populism, in The Divided States Unraveling National Identities in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Laura J. Beard and Ricia Anne Chansky (University of Wisconsin Press)

“Working across auto/biography studies, American studies, and human geography—all of which deal with the current interest in competing narratives, “alternative facts,” and accountability—the essays engage in and contribute to critical conversations in classrooms, scholarship, and the public sphere”

Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (Bloomsbury)

“The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume analyses the discursive strategies used in a variety of settings.”

Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories (Columbia University Press)

“…reveals new insights on the role of ideas at the intersection of U.S. foreign and domestic policy and politics. It shows how the ideals coded as “civilization,” “freedom,” and “democracy” legitimized U.S. military interventions and enabled foreign leaders to turn American power to their benefit.”

Love and the Politics of Care: Methods, Pedagogies, Institutions (Bloomsbury)

“…delivers an attentive and widely relevant examination of the politics of care and makes a compelling case for an urgent reconsideration of the methods that currently structure and regulate it. […] The geographical spread of the case studies stretches across India, Vietnam, Sweden, Brazil, South Africa, the UK and the US and provides broad coverage that crosses the divide between the Global North and the Global South.”

Archaeological Investigations of the Maldives in the Medieval Islamic Period: Ibn Battuta’s Island (Routledge)

“…the first systematic archaeological monograph devoted to the Maldives. Offering an archaeological account of this island-nation from the beginnings of the Islamic period, it complements and nuances the picture presented by external historical data, which identify the Maldives as a key player in global networks.”

Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen? (Routledge)

“…reconceptualizes the idea of what the term ‘intellectual’ means through its discussions of both familiar and often forgotten Black women […] This re-envisioning brings those who have previously been excluded from the scholarship of Black intellectualism more generally, and Black female intellectuals specifically, into the center of the debate.”

Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology
(Cornell University Press)

“…examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show […] how postwar decolonization took shape and what role a colonial discipline like archaeology—forged in the crucible of imperialism—played as the "new nations" asserted themselves in the face of the global Cold War.”

PhotoVoice: Monkoxi Reconnection - A tapestry of stories of autonomy, identity and climate action from the youth of the Monkoxi Nation in Lomerio, Bolivia
(NUR Ediciones)

“This book presents the results of a FotoVoice Project working with indigenous youth from the Monkoxi Nation in Bolivia, to help them reconnect with their territory through photography”

Peace(s) From Below. Challenges and Opportunities for Another Peace
(Editorial Uniersidad del Rosario)

“…aims to create a narrative against the dominant discourses of peace in Colombia and […] demonstrates the need to recognize other ways of building peace beyond the official narratives and institutional arrangements focused on reincorporation, violence reduction, and victim reparations.”

“Agrarian modernization through ‘ideal agricultural subjects’: a lost cause for smallholders in Rwanda?” (Journal of Political Ecology, Vol. 29, Issue 1)

“We show that only endowed farmers with sufficient land and ability to engage in priority crops or livestock production can take advantage of the opportunities presented by agricultural transformation, while smallholders with constraints to their adoption of promoted changes face vulnerability to dispossession and poverty.”

“Philanthropy as Exchange: American Missionaries and the International Religious Liberty Debate”, in American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad, ed. Ben Offiler and Rachel Williams (Bloomsbury)

“…in focusing on what missionaries brought with them, alongside their faith and philanthropic actions, we should not lose sight of the fact that missions were also sites of exchange in which missionaries learned, and the knowledge and understanding gained they took home with them with important consequences for the United States.”

“Forest and dream: Adventure, nostalgia, and the making of a sporting-tourist’s America, 1873-90”
(Comparative American Studies, Vol. 19, Issue 4)

“Rather than treating the West as a region with a discrete cultural history, this article seeks to place it in a larger national context. And accordingly, it suggests that outdoor-recreation magazines can provide a vital perspective on the way nostalgia and adventure fantasy combined in negotiating the relationship between the metropolitan Northeast, the West, and the South in the cultural remaking of the nation at what was a crucial historical juncture.”

What Political Science Can Learn From the Humanities: Blurring Genres
(Palgrave Macmillan)

“This book asks, ‘what are the implications of blurring genres for the discipline of Political Science, and for Area Studies?’ It argues novelists and playwrights provide a better guide for political scientists than the work of physicists. It restates the intrinsic value of the Humanities and Social Sciences and builds bridges between the two territories.”

Chicago: A Literary History (Cambridge University Press)

“The idea of Chicago as a crossroads of modern America is what guides this literary history, which traces how writers have responded to a rapidly changing urban environment and labored to make sense of its place in - and implications for - the larger whole. […] Chicago has been home to a diverse literature that has both captured and guided the themes of modern America.”

Christmas Past: An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth-Century America (Louisiana State University Press)

“…for the first time, this rich anthology brings together some of the most significant of those seasonal stories to retell a forgotten tale of Christmases past. […] The introduction that frames the anthology provides a new literary history of Christmas, contextualizing the selections and making clear the links both between them and to the wider trajectory of American literature.”

Why Representation Matters in Disaster Recovery
(British Academy)

“…we present an argument for why the representations that are created around recovery can be so influential and why understanding them is important if we are to strengthen recovery processes, especially for the most vulnerable and/or marginalised within society. We do so by drawing on a set of case studies from three states in India – Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Kerala”

“The role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in effective and equitable conservation”
(Ecology and Society, Vol. 26, Issue 3)

“Whether for protected areas in biodiversity hotspots or restoration of highly modified ecosystems, whether involving highly traditional or diverse and dynamic local communities, conservation can become more effective through an increased focus on governance type and quality, and fostering solutions that reinforce the role, capacity, and rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities.”

“The Potential Benefits of Subtitles for Enhancing Language Acquisition and Literacy in Children” (Translation, Cognition & Behavior, Vol. 4, Issue 1)

“This study provides an integrative review of existing studies in this area and finds extensive evidence that subtitled AV content can indeed aid the acquisition of other languages in children and adolescents, and that it can moreover enhance the literacy skills of children learning to read in their L1 or the official language of the country in which they live and receive schooling. ”

“Moving with risk: Forced displacement and vulnerability to hazards in Colombia” (World Development, Vol. 144)

“The paper examines the processes through which people forced from their homes by conflict can become exposed to heightened risk from environmental hazards in the places where they resettle. […] We support the call for adaptable approaches to disaster risk management that can support displaced people more effectively and equitably.”

“The Wauja Snake-basket:Weaving Songs in Amazonia” in Basketry and Beyond: Constructing Cultures, ed. T.A. Heslop and Helen Anderson (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts)

“…this ground-breaking book is composed of twenty-two fully illustrated essays covering the creation of basketry across five continents and over many millennia. Much neglected, basketry is one of the oldest human technologies that has helped us establish the ways in which we live in the world and thrive in a wide range of environments. In addition, by structuring our thought processes and contributing to our sense of order, it is embedded in human culture.”

Whistle-blowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Security (Columbia University Press)

“Bringing together contributors from a range of disciplines to consider political, legal, and cultural dimensions, […] Whistleblowing Nation sheds new light on the tension of secrecy and transparency, security and civil liberties, and the politics of truth and falsehood.”

National Conceptualisations of the Body Politic: Cultural Experience and Political Imagination (Springer)

“This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor ‘the Nation as a Body’ among 1,800+ respondents from 30 linguistic and cultural backgrounds. […]The book provides a historical and cultural map of the traditions underlying differences in how the nation as a body – or, ‘the body politic’ – is understood.”

The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400-1800 (Routledge)

“… shows how once-traditional and often Euro-chauvinistic depictions of oceanic ‘mastery’ during the early modern period have been replaced by newer global ideas. […] The contributors provide readers with fresh insights concerning early modern entanglements between humans and the vast, unpredictable ocean.”

COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Recovery
(British Academy)

“…the lessons we report on are oriented to the needs and concerns of those most vulnerable to long-term impacts, as shaped by differential exposure to hazards and barriers to recovery associated with poverty, marginalisation and exclusion. The aim is to promote longer-term, integrated thinking and planning, to create pathways out of the pandemic that more effectively support recovery.”

Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century: Dynamic and Unstable Grounds
(Palgrave Macmillan)

“…the first English-language book to provide a critical panorama of the last twenty years of Peruvian cinema. […]The principal structural concept of this collection is the interplay between film production and market forces, an interaction which makes dynamism and instability the defining features of 21st-century Peruvian cinema.”

“The values of trees and woodland: a discourse-based cross-disciplinary perspective on integrating ‘revealed’ evaluations of nature into environmental agendas” (Critical Discourse Studies, Vol. 18, Issue 4)

“The study highlights new critical perspectives that may be gained from the analysis of evaluative discourse and the importance of considering and fostering people’s affective relationship with the natural world in building a strong basis for environmental action.”

“‘Telling it in our own way’: Doing music-enhanced interviews with people displaced by violence in Colombia” (New Area Studies, Vol. 1 , Issue 1)

“For socially and politically marginalised people who have suffered enormous loss and trauma, and the disempowering effects of violence, conventional social science interviews may re-open wounds and cause extreme distress. […] We intended for participants to ‘territorialise’ the research encounter by creating comfortable spaces where their taste and habits were central and where they exercised greater control and agency to decide the topics discussed.”

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy (Routledge)

“…the first comprehensive, state of the art overview of the complex relationship between the field of translation studies and the study of philosophy. […] A pioneering resource for students and scholars in translation studies and philosophy alike.”

Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain
(Louisiana State University Press)

“…the first book to provide a comprehensive narrative account of Twain’s intimate and long-lasting creative engagement with the Mississippi. This expansive study traces two separate but richly intertwined stories of the river as America moved from the aftermath of the Civil War toward modernity.”

The Artfulness of Death in Africa (Reaktion)

“This is a unique survey of the ‘artful’ nature of funerals in Africa. Drawing on a wide range of historical, anthropological, archeological, art historical and literary sources, John Mack charts the full range of African funereal art, drawing on examples from across the continent, and from ancient times to today.”

Brilliant Absence: Pursuing the Kingfisher in the Work of Hans Waanders
(Uniform Books)

“In a series of thematic essays, Ross Hair examines Waanders’ work in close detail—from the commonality of the kingfisher, to its broader context in art and literature, and the species’ associations with colour and reverie, and time and space.”

Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics (Rutgers University Press)

“Interdisciplinary in scope and attuned to theories and methods from both literary and visual studies, the book provides detailed formal analysis to show that the highly personal and hand-drawn aesthetics of comics can help artists push against established narrative and visual conventions, and in the process invent new ways of seeing and being seen.”

Audiovisual Translation as Intercultural Mediation, special issue (Multilingua, Vol. 38, Issue 5, 2019)

“This special issue on Audiovisual Translation (AVT) as intercultural mediation is a response to a pressing need to coordinate and develop research in the emergent field of Audiovisual Translation (AVT) as intercultural mediation, and address topical but still under-explored issues of linguistic and cultural representation in telecinematic text.”

Context, Cognition and Conditionals
(Palgrave Macmillan)

“…proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form ‘if p, q’ and those conditional thoughts that are expressed without using ‘if’. […] It is only through adopting such a perspective, and with it, a commitment to context-dependent semantics, that we can successfully represent conditional utterances as they are used and understood by ordinary language users.”

Exploring (Im)politeness in Ancient Languages, special issue (Journal of Historical Pragmatics Vol. 20, Issue 2)

“…a taster of the synchronic applicability of historical (im)politeness research. […] The authors address topics such as the relationship between translation, history, humour and (im)politeness, implications of historical (im)politeness research to the study of nonverbal communication, the interrelation between etiquette and morality (a theme that frequently recurs in modern metadiscourses)…”

“Rapport-building in Suspect’s Police Interviews: The Role of Empathy and Face” (Pragmatics and Society,
Vol. 10, Issue 1)

“This paper takes an original discourse-pragmatic and ethnographic approach to investigating the forms that rapport takes in a sample of authentic ISs, with particular reference to two dimensions, empathy and face. The article discusses the value and suitability of the identified empathic and ‘face’-relevant expressions with respect to current interview aims and practice.”

“The Ai-Novel: Ai no seikatsu and Its Challenge to the Japanese Literary Establishment”
(Japanese Language and Literature, Vol. 53, Issue 1)

“…while her critique of conventional literary inscriptions of woman/gender has hitherto drawn focus in literary criticism on Kanai, in this article I instead focus on her simultaneous critique […] of conventional literary inscriptions of man/self.”

“Translating Tweets in the Soccer Industry: Identity Management and Visibility in a Global Game”
(International Journal of Sport Communication, Vol. 12, Issue 2)

“The findings reveal tensions between global and local identities as soccer players, soccer clubs, and governing organizations manage identity performance and economic potential across language barriers on social media. These tensions foster debate about cross-language communication on social media in the soccer industry and extend existing work on social media and translation”

“Digital Accessibility for Young Adults in Europe: Tools, Training and Participation” (EuroScientist)

“One of the main objectives of the project is to create customised training courses to help young adults understand their rights in terms of digital and web accessibility, to learn about the digital accessibility tools that are most easily available to them, and how they can use them to create media content, to apply for jobs, or exercise their rights.”

Necessary Travel: New Area Studies and Canada in Comparative Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield)

“…marks the resurgence of area-based research in its new guise as New Area Studies […] argues the necessity of broad and deep approaches in order to appreciate what is going on in the world in the 21st century”

Otherwise, Revolution!: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (Bloomsbury Academic)

“…a groundbreaking reading of Almanac for the 21st century, comparing Silko's activist armies with recent international popular social justice activism such as the Arab Spring, the international Occupy movement, and the Indigenous Idle No More movement.”

Religion and International Security (Polity Press)

“…explores the return of religion as a major cause of insecurity in the contemporary world […] arguing that the secular bias that marginalized the role played by religion in recent times must change to reflect the realities of the emerging post-secular international order.”

Two Thousand Years in Dendi, Northern Benin: Archaeology, History and Memory (Brill)

“ Working from the ground up, from the archaeological sites, standing remains, oral traditions and craft industries of Dendi, Haour and her team offer the first in-depth account of the area.”

Travel and Drama in Early Modern England: The Journeying Play
(Cambridge University Press)

“…advances our understanding of theatre history, drama's generic conventions, and what constitutes plays about travel at a time when the professional theatre was rapidly developing and England was attempting to announce its presence within a global economy.”

The Archaeology of Western Sahara: A Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002-2009
(Oxbow Books)

“…the Western Sahara Project has undertaken large scale archaeological and environmental research that has begun to address the gaps in our knowledge of the archaeology and palaeoenvironments of Western Sahara, and to develop narratives of prehistoric cultural adaptation and change from the end of the Pleistocene to the Late Holocene”

Contemporary Peruvian Cinema: History, Identity and Violence on Screen (Bloomsbury)

“…highlights the Peruvian experience as a paradigm for the wider study of film-making in societies faced with violence and terrorism […] this detailed investigation of the growing success and political importance of the industry's output traces the complexities of modern Peruvian history.”

“Riffing on Catallus: Robert Creeley’s Poetics of Adultery”, in Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition, ed. Sheila Murnaghan and Ralph M. Rosen (Ohio State University Press, 2018)

”In this volume, a diverse group of contributors explore for the first time the fascinating tensions and paradoxes that arose from interactions between these avant-garde writers and a literary tradition often seen as conservative and culturally hegemonic[…] A long overdue attention to the Beat movement’s formative appropriation of the Greek and Latin classics.”

Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy (Macmillan)

“Worldmaking is a fresh and compelling new take on the history of American diplomacy. Rather than retracing a familiar story of realism versus idealism, the book suggests that U.S. foreign policy has also been crucially divided between those who view statecraft as an art and those who believe it can aspire toward the certainties of science. The result is a panoramic history driven by ideas and the lives and times of their creators.”

Representations of Anne Frank in American Literature (Routledge)

“This book examines how American authors represent Frank in order to negotiate difficult questions relating to representation of the Holocaust in America, and in order to consider gender, coming of age, and forms of inequality in American culture in various historical moments; and of course, to consider the ways Frank herself is represented in America.”

Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens
(Palgrave Macmillan)

“This collection brings together essays examining the international influence of queens, other female rulers, and their representatives from 1450 through 1700, an era of expanding colonial activity and sea trade. […] By highlighting the links between female power and foreign affairs, Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe contributes to a fuller understanding of early modern queenship.”

Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans & Apartheid, 1945-1960
(University of North Carolina Press)

“This study shows how African Americans and black South Africans navigated transnationally organized state repression in ways that challenged white supremacy on both sides of the Atlantic. The political and cultural ties that they forged during the 1940s and 1950s are testament to the insistence of black activists in both countries that the struggle against apartheid and Jim Crow were intimately interconnected.”

“The Emily Child: Dystopian Innocence and Samuel Delany’s Hogg” (European Journal of American Culture, Vol. 11, Issue 3)

“…contends that the novel, narrated by the unnamed eleven-year-old protagonist who details both his polymorphously perverse sexual exploits as companion to the eponymous Hogg (outcast, murderer and rapist for hire) and acts also as chronicle of Hogg’s experiences over 72 hours, destabilizes the ideology of innocence that acts as a utopian foundation to America’s national understanding of itself as exceptional.”

Special Issue: Disassembling Archeology, Reassembling the Modern World (History of Science, Vol. 55, Issue 3)

“…provides a substantive discussion of the relevance of the history of archeology to the history of science […] attends to issues of professionalization and the constitution of an archeological public, at the same time as discussing issues of empire, colonialism, and the circulation of knowledge.”

“Linking Well-Being with Cultural Revitalization for Greater Cognitive Justice in Conservation: Lessons from Venezuela in Canaima National Park” (Ecology and Society, Vol. 22, Issue 4)

“Across the globe, conservation politics have often suppressed nonscientific forms of knowledge and ways of knowing nature, along with the social practices of the groups that are informed by such knowledge. Reversing this process of epistemic supremacy is crucial both for achieving greater cognitive justice in conservation areas and ensuring that conservation aims are achieved.”

“To Endure for All Time or To Change With the Times?: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment”, in The Second Amendment and Gun Control: Freedom, Fear, and the American Constitution, ed. Kevin Yuill and Joe Street (Routledge)

“…situates discussions about gun controls within contemporary debates about citizenship, culture, philosophy and foreign policy as well as in the more familiar terrain of politics and history […] It is infused with the belief that through honest and open debate the often bitter cultural divide on the Second Amendment can be overcome and real progress made.”

Researching Across Languages and Cultures: A Guide to Doing Research Interculturally (Routledge)

“…a guide for doctoral students and other researchers engaged in multilingual and intercultural research […] Researchers who come from and work in monolingual societies often forget that their context is unusual – most of the world live in multilingual contexts, where linguistic shifts and hybridities are the norm.”

Translation After Wittgenstein (Routledge)

“…demonstrates how tools from Wittgenstein’s work can be of use in translation studies: the notion of the language-game, for example, helps us to understand meaning by looking at the way that words are used, and this can both help us describe translation and suggest ways of translating.”

Political Metaphor Analysis: Discourse and Scenarios (Bloomsbury)

“…provides an innovative approach to the study of figurative language use in political discourse by presenting empirical analyses based on a large corpus of political metaphors and metonymies, linking these analyses to theoretical positions and assessing their limitations and perspectives for further exploration.“

Hugo Chávez, Alí Primera and Venezuela: The Politics of Music in Latin America
(Palgrave Macmillan)

“…essential reading not only for those interested in popular music and politics, but for all those seeking to better understand how Chávez was able to successfully identify himself so profoundly with the Venezuelan masses, and they with him.”

An Archaeology of Ancash: Stones, Ruins and Communities in Andean Peru (Routledge)

“…a well–illustrated synthesis of the archaeology of North Central Peru, and specifically the stone structures of the Ancash region. […]Drawing on Lau’s extensive experience as an archaeologist in highland Peru, this book reveals how ancient groups of the Central Andes have used stone as both a physical and symbolic resource, uncovering the variety of experiences and meanings which marked the region’s special engagement with this material.”

Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific (Sainsbury Research Unit)

“…celebrates the richness and diversity of Fijian artworks and highlights the skills in creating them. It explains the roles and significance of the objects in their indigenous contexts of use, and it explores the nature and impact of exchange relationships between Fijians and Europeans, which have led to many Fijian objects being preserved in museums and collections around the world.”

Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations (University of Nebraska Press)

“…offers varied perspectives on the school by interweaving the voices of students’ descendants, poets, and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars. These contributions reveal the continuing impact and vitality of historical and collective memory, as well as the complex and enduring legacies of a school that still affects the lives of many Native Americans.”

Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices (Manchester University Press)

“…represents the first of its kind: an intervention in current interdisciplinary approaches to the intersections of the written word and the visual image that moves beyond standard theoretical approaches to consider the written and visual artwork in embodied, cognitive and experiential terms. […] A new and vital methodology for the study and appreciation of the correspondences between visual and verbal practices.”