Thursday, June 11,2020

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

A Celebration of the 2019 Book Completion Award Winners

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Celebration of the 2019 Book Completion Award Winners

Thursday, June 11, 2020 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Welcoming Remarks Effie MacLachlan, Interim Assistant University Dean for Research, CUNY

Announcement of 2020 Book Completion Award Winners Tamera Schneider, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, CUNY

Panel Discussion: ASK UP – the University Press website for prospective authors

Fredric Nachbaur, Director, Fordham University Press

Gisela Fosado, Editorial Director, Duke University Press

Ilene Kalish, Executive Editor, Social Sciences, New York University Press

Trevor Perri, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Northwestern University Press

And May the Best Blurb Win! 2019 Book Completion Award winners will present promotional burbs for current and upcoming projects to the esteemed panelists for top prizes (bookshop.org gift cards)

Meet the ASK UP Panel

Ask UP is designed to help scholars and the public learn more about scholarly publishing, from books, journals, and digital publishing. The site has been created by members of the Association of University Presses' Faculty Outreach Committee, which is composed of members from university presses and other scholarly professional organizations. ASK UP will launch in the Fall of 2020 and we hope it will prove a great resource to scholars. Find out more at https://ask.up.hcommons.org/

Gisela Fosado is the Editorial Director at Duke University Press and publishes books in a wide range of areas in the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, American and Atlantic World history, gender and sexuality studies, race and ethnicity, African American and Africana studies, environmental studies, and Latin American and Latinx Studies. She works with authors writing scholarly books, as well as those for general readerships, and is particularly interested in books that foreground marginalized perspectives, adopt an intersectional approach, and contribute to our understanding of social movements and inequality.

Ilene Kalish is Executive Editor, Social Sciences at New York University Press. She acquires books in the areas of Sociology, Criminology, Women’s Studies and Politics. Before coming to NYU Press she was a Senior Editor at Routledge and an Assistant Editor at Prentice Hall, acquiring books in Psychology, Education, and Anthropology. She publishes books for the scholarly and general interest reader and is interested especially in books that advance scholarship in innovative ways, advocate for marginalized perspectives, and offer compelling points of view.

Fredric Nachbaur is Director of Fordham University Press, publisher of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences as well as trade books focusing on the metropolitan New York region. In addition to overseeing the operations of the press, he acquires in , history, religion, and urban studies. Fred got his start in publishing at John Wiley & Sons where he was marketing manager for professional and trade books. He made the foray into academic publishing by becoming the marketing director of arts and humanities at Routledge. Before taking the helm at Fordham, Fred was at NYU Press as the marketing and sales director.

Trevor Perri is Senior Acquisitions Editor at Northwestern University Press. He acquires books in a range of humanities disciplines including critical theory, film and media studies, literary studies, and philosophy. Before joining Northwestern University Press, he earned a PhD in philosophy and worked as Editorial Associate at the University of Chicago Press.

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Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their U.S. Army, politics, technology), their mediating Religion on to the Next Generation ideologies, and the radicalizing lenses of utopian studies, critical pedagogy, and critical digital humanities. I Amy Adamczyk and Christian Smith explore positive education's version of the happy John Jay College individual and good society, highlighting its potential impact not only in educating our students but also in the

more ambiguous and arguably more consequential work Handing Down the Faith explores how and why of envisioning alternatives and educating desire. American religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children. The authors draw on 215 in-depth, personal interviews with religious parents from many different traditions and parts of the country, and on sophisticated analyses of two nationally representative surveys of American parents. Rich in empirical evidence and unique in many of the topics it explores and explains, the book will interest scholars of religion; social scientists interested in the family, parenting, and socialization; clergy and religious educators and leaders; and religious parents themselves. Photo Credit: Pen Mendonça, Graphic Recording of Jill Belli's "Happiness & Utopia" Workshop, 'Utopographies: Evaluation, Consensus, and Location' (Chelsea College of The book has entered the production process at Art & Design, London, UK, 28 March, 2014) Oxford University Press. It will be published in

March 2021: The "Black Art" Renaissance: African Sculpture and https://global.oup.com/academic/product/handing- Modernism across Continents down-the-faith-9780190093327?cc=us&lang=en&

Joshua I. Cohen Pedagogy of Happiness City College of New York

Jill Belli Reading African art’s impact on modernism as an College of Technology international phenomenon, the “Black Art”

Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century 'Pedagogies of Happiness,' currently under revision, engagements with canonical African sculpture by explores the ideological commitments and consequences of current research of subjective European, African American, and sub-Saharan happiness and well-being on the personal, public, and African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its institutional levels. The recent global interest in occurrence during the benighted colonial period, happiness is fueled by the popularity of positive the Paris avant-garde “discovery” of African psychology, "the science of happiness," which views sculpture—known then as art nègre, or “black well-being as both desirable and teachable, something art”—eventually came to affect nascent Afro- to be cultivated and shaped into political, modernisms, whose artists and critics socioeconomic, and educational policies. These commandeered visual and rhetorical uses of the developments deserve sustained and critical attention same sculptural canon and the same term. Within because they fuel activist agendas in the interest of the this trajectory, “black art” evolved as a framework public good, increasingly claiming authority on what type for asserting control over appropriative practices of well-being is valued and then incentivized and maximized in both private and public spheres. The book introduced by Europeans, and it helped forge centers on the rhetoric, pedagogy, values, and real- alliances by redefining concepts of humanism, race, world impact of "positive education" (positive and civilization. From the Fauves and Picasso to the psychology efforts to teach well-being) through Harlem Renaissance, and from the work of South contextualized applications (self-help, classrooms, the African artist Ernest Mancoba to the imagery of 3

Negritude and the École de Dakar, African Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s sculpture’s influence proved transcontinental in “Beloved:” The Case for Reparations scope and significance. Through this extensively researched study, Joshua I. Cohen argues that art Maureen Fadem history’s alleged centers and margins must be Kingsborough Community College conceived as interconnected and mutually informing. The “Black Art” Renaissance reveals just Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: how much modern art has owed to African art on a The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution global scale. to the scholarship on this influential American novel and novelist. It scrupulously builds the argument that Morrison’s first concern is justice and the chief aim of Beloved is to serve as a clarion call for material—and not merely symbolic—reparations. This contemporary classic is positioned as a formal tragedy and a novel of objects. From these come a third conclusion: Beloved as a case for reparations. That status is founded, Fadem argues, on two key objects: the character of Beloved as embodying the subject- object relations defining the slave state and the grammatical object “weather” in the sentence “The This book is scheduled for publication in July 2020 rest is…,” a reference placing Beloved into an with University of California Press: intertextual genealogy with Hamlet and Orestia. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520309685/th Fadem’s research is meticulous in engaging the full e-black-art-renaissance spectrum of tragedy theory, much critical theory, and a full swathe of the scholarship on Beloved. Few critics take up the matter of reparations, still fewer the politics of genre, craft, and form. Fadem does both, divining a fascinating new reading and singular treatment of Morrison’s postmodern tragedy, positing it as a searing critique of modernity, as meaningfully intertextual, as

4 profoundly “thingly” (Brown), and finally as the case Claiming Identity: The Dialectical Journeys of for reparations for slavery that are long overdue. Popular Romance Fiction and its Heroines The manuscript has just been submitted to Routledge and should be on shelves in Fall 2020. Jayashree Kamblé LaGuardia Community College Multimodal Participation and Engagement: Social Interaction in the Classroom Romance heroines Christine M. Jacknick undertake Borough of Manhattan Community College dialectical journeys of Participation is colloquially understood to mean identity, speaking, and many syllabi count "participation" struggling to towards students' grades, generally considered to synthesize who be their willingness to contribute to class they are in a discussions. This monograph, currently in press world that tries to limit their paths and their right to and scheduled for publication in February 2021 by self-definition. This book defines what makes Edinburgh University Press, presents a more romance heroines heroic and examines their complete picture of what doing being a student dialectical process of identity formation in the looks like in classroom interaction, including spheres of labor, gender, sexual desire, and nation consideration not only of students’ verbal through an analysis of eight novels spanning 1985- contributions in class, but also their embodied 2014. In each, heroines build themselves by actions. In doing so, I propose a reconceptualization weaving together identities presented to them as of participation as a hybrid phenomenon consisting incompatible or mutually exclusive, such as paid not only of the interactional alignment of student and unpaid work, versions of womanliness, actions but also their alignment in terms of the ideologies about sexuality, and dual citizenship. teacher’s pedagogical agenda. I also suggest a These ultimatums reflect the dichotomies women definition of engagement as students’ close continue to face this century, such as professional monitoring of the interaction, as evidenced by the vs. homemaker, silly femme vs. intelligent butch, precise temporal and sequential deployment of sexual predator vs. sexual naïf, and native vs. multimodal resources. Finally, I illustrate the limits outsider. The quests undertaken by romance of observable behaviors, highlighting what this heroines are also stories of how the romance novel means for our characterizations of student observes itself through the eyes of its critics and participation and engagement, for the analyst as constructs itself with and against their often well as the teacher. contradictory judgments (e.g., predictable/illogical, addictive/boring, etc.) In other words, the heroines’ journeys to negotiate selfhood mirror the binary “real literature vs. trashy novels” rhetoric that this genre faces; rejecting false binaries for a dialectical synthesis is therefore the genre’s natural narrative mode. The book supplements this argument by offering the first theory of escapism, a label familiar to the genre.

The manuscript is undergoing exclusive review at Indiana University Press.

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An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Sounds Like Helicopters: Classical Music in Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia Modernist Cinema

Natalie L. Kimball Matthew Lau College of Queensborough Community College

Many women Classical music masterworks have long played a key throughout supporting role in the movies—silent films were the world face often accompanied by a pianist or even a full the challenge orchestra playing classical or theatrical repertory of confronting music—yet the complexity of this role has thus far an unexpected been underappreciated. Sounds Like or an Helicopters corrects this oversight through close unwanted interpretations of classical music works in key pregnancy, yet modernist films by Francis Ford Coppola, Werner these Herzog, Luis Buñuel, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc experiences Godard, Michael Haneke, and Terrence Malick. are often Beginning with the famous example of Wagner’s shrouded in “Ride of the Valkyries” in Apocalypse Now, Matthew silence. An Lau demonstrates that there is a significant Open Secret continuity between classical music and modernist draws on personal interviews and medical records cinema that belies their seemingly ironic to uncover the history of women’s experiences with juxtaposition. Though often regarded as a stuffy, unwanted pregnancy and abortion in the South conservative art form, classical music has a American country of Bolivia. This Andean nation is venerable avant-garde tradition, and key films by home to a diverse population of indigenous and important directors show that modernist cinema mixed-race individuals who practice a range of restores the original subversive energy of these medical traditions. Centering on the cities of La Paz classical masterworks. These films, Lau argues, and El Alto, the book explores how women decided whether to continue or terminate their pregnancies and the medical practices to which women recurred in their search for reproductive health care between the early 1950s and 2010. It demonstrates that, far from constituting private events with little impact on the public sphere, women’s intimate experiences with pregnancy contributed to changing policies and services in reproductive health in Bolivia.

An Open Secret was recently published by Rutgers University Press and is available here: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/an-open- secret/9780813590738

6 remind us of what this music sounded like when it practices, and how the scene itself reproduced and was still new and difficult; they remind us that great reterritorialized others. music remains new music. The pattern of reliance on classical music by modernist directors suggests it Forthcoming from Metales Pesados (Chile). is not enough to watch modernist cinema: one must listen to its music sense its prehistory, its history, Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political and its obscure, prophetic future. Movement Formation

Published in 2019 by SUNY Press: Erin Mayo-Adam https://www.sunypress.edu/p-6766-sounds-like- Hunter College helicopters.aspx Queer Alliances investigates Marcando el Territorio [Marking the Territory]: coalition Performance, Conceptual Graphics and Video Art formation in Chile, 1973-1983 among LGBTQ, immigrant, and Carla Machiavello labor rights Borough of Manhattan Community College activists in the , This book approaches the question of territoriality revealing how in art during the authoritarian context of the these new military and civic dictatorship in Chile. alliances impact political It explores the movement intersection of formation. Erin territorial images Mayo-Adam and discourses, examines how their potential for grassroots transformation groups seek to bridge historic divisions based on through art, in race, gender, class, and immigration status through relation to disputes the development of coalitions, looking specifically at on sovereignty and coalition building around expanding LGBTQ rights in identities in Chile Washington State and (im)migrant rights in Arizona. between 1973- Through an analysis of in-depth interviews with 1983. A territorial movement advocates and archival research, Queer outlook linked to Alliances centers local, coalition-based mobilization nationalism, across and within multiple movements rather than discrimination, and national campaigns and court cases. Mayo-Adam neocolonialism that argues that coalition formation has paradoxical also left its marks in effects. While the development of shared political the emergence of a movement narratives and common opponents can neo-avantgarde artistic scene, and the expand movements during the process of coalition submergence of others in Chilean art history. The formation, the episodic nature of rights-based book examines the emergence of this scene, how campaigns can simultaneously contain and territorial discourses were contested through undermine movement expansion, reinforcing performative gestures and conceptual graphic movement divisions. Mayo-Adam reveals the extent to which inter- and intra-movement coalitions

7 formed to win rights or thwart rights losses and Social and Economic Democratic Communities: represent and serve intersectionally marginalized Emilia Romagna, Mondragon, And Jackson, communities—who are often absent from Mississippi contemporary accounts of social movement formation. Catherine P. Mulder John Jay College Queer Alliances is currently available for pre-order with publication set for July 2020. This study is an analysis of three distinct Broken Irelands: Irrealism and Ungrammaticality in communities that have Post-Crash Irish Literature rejected global capitalism in favor of a Mary McGlynn more egalitarian Baruch College structure of cooperatives, or Examining Irish novels of the last twelve years, otherwise known as Broken Irelands seek to account for a proliferation Worker Self Directed of formal and stylistic tendencies that downplay Enterprises. Specifically, Emilia Romagna, Italy; realistic and grammatical coherence in novels by Mondragon, Spain; and Jackson, MS are analyzed to Anne Enright, Colum McCann, Mike McCormack, emphasize that alternatives to capitalist firms not Lisa McInerney, Sebastian Barry, and others. Noting only exist, but are efficient and flourish. The three that these traits have the effect of diminishing areas chosen are distinct, yet they all emphasize human agency, blurring questions of responsibility, community development and focus on human and privileging emotion over rationality, I argue that cooperation, not greed or profits. Finally, it will be they reflect and respond to social and economic shown that cooperatives or WSDEs are not only conditions during the global economic crisis and its viable and efficient, but can compete and exist aftermath of recession, austerity, and precarity. within a global capitalist hegemony. Rather than focusing on overt discussions of the crisis and aftermath, I look at how the dominance of Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global an economic worldview, including a pervasive Supremacy: Tudor and Stuart Black Legends climate of financialized discourse, shapes the way stories are told. Broken Irelands traces the formal Victoria Munoz iterations of individualism in an age of affect and Hostos Community College unpacks new textual conventions to shed light on how common current techniques align with a The stories of King Arthur, Roland, Amadis, and cultural moment shaped by feelings of impotence Tirant lo Blanc emerged in the backdrop of the and personal responsibility. My manuscript was medieval Crusades, glorifying holy war as God’s will solicited by a leading university press in my field; my to push back “infidel” non-Christians and goal is to have it ready for submission in August. Mohammedans from Western Europe and the Holy Land. During the Protestant Reformation, sixteenth century writers reapplied the holy war motif to the emerging conflicts within and without the Christian world. During the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585 to 1604, tales of love of arms also formed part of England’s cultural myth-making against Imperial Spain, reviving visions of medieval Crusade, and romanticizing global conquest as a divine mandate for England’s westward expansion. Writers cited the

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Spanish Inquisition and state autos-da-fé, along reflect the expectation that humans will strive for with Spanish colonial atrocities in Europe and the endless growth on a finite planet. The contending Americas, as justification for England’s entry into visions of tomorrow that have emerged from this the great chess game of imperial politics. expectation—one a technological utopia that has transcended environmental limits, the other a terrifying prophecy of environmental overshoot — have been locked in a contest for the future since the nineteenth century. The Nature of Tomorrow will draw on this history to argue that our current environmental problems reflect a long-term failure of imagination, a failure to envision an attractive future society capable of recognizing environmental limits and living within them. The book will be published by Yale University Press in fall 2021.

Communities of Care: The Relational Ethics of Victorian Fiction

This “Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty” circulated Talia Schaffer notions of British exceptionalism and white Queens College saviorism decades before the establishment of England’s own permanent colonies in North America. By unpacking the cultural reemergence of Crusade legend as a response to anxieties over Spain’s global conquests, this book uncovers a key ideological foundation of British imperialism. Currently in revision, the book is scheduled for release in Fall 2020 (Anthem Press).

The Nature of Tomorrow: A History of the Environmental Future

Michael Rawson Brooklyn College In the In “Communities of Care,” I use the feminist industrialized philosophy of “ethics of care” to explore a feature West, visions of of Victorian fiction: the groups of voluntary carers the future have who coalesce around someone in need in novels by long Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, emphasized the Charlotte Yonge, George Eliot, and Henry James. kind of fantastic These spontaneous care communities function scientific and according to important tacit rules, specific ways of technological experiencing time, negotiating status, and enacting feats that have become synonymous with the world care. Because Victorian culture was steeped in such of tomorrow. But visions of polished laboratories shared amateur social caregiving, these values and gleaming machines often blind us to the fact pervade the period, spurring us to rethink that most such stories are, on their most authorship, sentimentality and sympathy, disability, fundamental levels, environmental fables that influence, discourse, and silence. Today we still 9 operate in care communities, small mutually Twentieth Century Fox supportive groups, and I ask whether we can use this care ethics to improve our own reading, Frederick Wasser teaching, and social relations. Brooklyn College

Forthcoming from Press in This is a history of Fox Films aka Twentieth Century - 2021. Fox and Twenty-First Century Fox from its beginnings in 1914 to its sale to Disney in 2019. This Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to book is part of the Routledge Centenary series on Petrarch: Responding to a Versatile Muse Hollywood studios and the Julie Van Peteghem guiding theme Hunter College is to trace studios from The Latin poet Ovid, and especially his poem the the time when "Metamorphoses," continue to fascinate readers they were today. In this book, I examine what drew medieval stand-alone film Italian writers to the Latin poet’s works, characters, studios to the and themes. While accounts of Ovid’s influence in present when Italy often start with Dante’s "Divine Comedy," I they are all part show that mentions of Ovid are found in some of of media the earliest poems written in Italian, and remain a conglomerates. constant feature of Italian poetry over time. By Fox, of course. situating these early Italian poems and the poetry of has been an Dante, Cino da Pistoia, and Petrarch within the rich integral part of and diverse history of reading, translating, and American and adapting Ovid’s works, this book offers a novel global mass account of the reception of Ovid in thirteenth- and culture. The book focuses on entertainment with fourteenth-century Italy. Forthcoming from Brill on only some acknowledgement of Fox's current June 18, 2020. reputation as a propaganda machine. This reputation is ironic since its earlier history was devoted to immigrant audiences and to contributing to democratic culture. The cultural fragmentation of the sixties and the technological revolution of the last quarter of the 20th century contributed to Fox's degradation although notable films continue to be produced by its specialty divisions.

This book is due to be published summer 2020 https://www.routledge.com/Twentieth-Century- Fox/Wasser/p/book/9781138921269

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May the Best Blurb Win! Contestants

1. Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk coverage of refugees is seldom, superficial, and soon Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their gone. Religion on to the Next Generation (2020 BCA Winner) 4. Sarah Bishop A Story to Save Your Life: Communication and Culture The most powerful causal influence on the religious in the Search for Asylum lives of American teenagers are their parents. Since (2018 Winner – Undocumented Storytellers: they are so important, their approach to religion Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement) deserves to be understood and explained. Drawing on over 200 interviews and major surveys of parents The urgent firsthand narratives in this book reveal from diverse religious backgrounds, as well as what happens when asylum seeking goes wrong—an irreligious parents, Handing Down the Faith is the first applicant suffers a courtroom panic attack during her academic book to identify the major themes, hearing; an x-ray showing a forced sterilization proves differences, and complexities concerning how to be fake to the surprise of the woman who received American parents transmit religious faith to their it from a doctor; a teenager is denied and deported, children. only to be murdered weeks later in his childhood home. These intertwining stories illuminate the 2. Jill Belli harrowing reality of pursuing asylum in America. Pedagogies of Happiness (2020 BCA Winner) 5. Ashley Dawson Happiness-inflected agendas thrive with promises of Environmentalism from Below: Why We Need a Global transforming self-help to social hope, but engaged Green New Deal critique is woefully lacking, as are interdisciplinary, (2020 Winner) humanist perspectives. Both critical and recuperative, 'Pedagogies of Happiness' surfaces the redemptive How can we cope with today’s twin crises of mass aspects of this renewed focus on well-being and the unemployment in the wake of coronavirus and good life, and works to align pedagogies of happiness looming climate catastrophe? Instead of accepting more squarely with the utopian impulse, alternative more austerity, we need to put people to work solutions, and social justice that would allow not just for building low-carbon infrastructure. But green stimulus individual flourishing but also for collective futurity. policies won’t work if they are just for people in the rich nations. My book profiles the movement for a 3. Shawna Brandle Global Green New Deal, highlighting the radical Seldom, Superficial, and Soon Gone: Media Coverage transformations afoot in agriculture, urban policy, of Refugee Crises energy, and transportation in the parts of the Global (2018 BCA Winner) South. Climate breakdown has already arrived in many of these societies. “Environmentalism from Below” There is striking consistency in how different media shows how people across the planet are fighting for outlets cover refugee issues: neither frequently nor in the future. proportion to the severity of crises. This book combines analysis of print and television news coverage from the

US, UK, Canada, and Australia, with UNHCR data and national refugee policies and budgets, finding that refugee stories are covered episodically and fade quickly from media attention. In other words, news media

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6. Thomas DeGloma 9. Erin Mayo-Adam Anonymous: The Performance and Impact of Hidden Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Identities Movement Formation (2020 BCA Winner) (2019 BCA Winner)

With this book, I illuminate the deep social logic and Queer Alliances examines the extent to grassroots broad relevance of anonymity. Analyzing various groups bridged historic divisions based on race, cases, I show how anonymity affords protection and gender, class, and immigration status through the facilitates subversion. I reveal how it undergirds development of grassroots coalitions. The book argues problematic forms of hate and discrimination, along that the construction of common political movement with mechanisms of fairness and non-biased narratives and a shared core of opponents can help assessment. Analyzing anonymity as a counterbalance expand political movement formation. However, this to pervasive surveillance, obsession with fame, public expansion often comes at a cost as, paradoxically, the acts of narcissism, shame, and conspicuous episodic nature of rights-based campaigns, or rights consumption, I unpack the performance and impact of episodes, simultaneously contains and undermines hidden identities. coalitions, reinforcing movement divisions.

7. Vincent DiGirolamo 10. Mary McGlynn Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys Broken Irelands: Irrealism and Ungrammaticality in (2018 BCA Winner) Post-Crash Irish Literature (2019 BCA Winner) Reading Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys is like sneaking under the Big Top to watch How are instant gratification, YOLO, and social media a brassy three-ring circus in full swing. The raucous influencers similar to their supposed counterweights, spectacle of strikes and riots, wars and elections, like mindfulness, slow food, and media fasts? All are panics and disasters is all the more enthralling when born of a worldview of commodified individualism. viewed from this low, precarious angle. More than a Economic austerity, reduced attention spans (Twitter, splendid entertainment, DiGirolamo’s prize-winning, TLDR summaries, emoji, text-speak), and the elevation pavement-up history of print capitalism will forever of emotion over rationality (performed outrage in the alter your understanding of the making of the public sphere; Instagram's dominance; plotless videos American working class. featuring cute animals, recursive vines, and ASMR triggers) have given rise to a new, broken novelistic 8. Jayashree Kamble form in Ireland. Claiming Identity: The Dialectical Journeys of Popular Romance Fiction and its Heroines 11. Catherine P. Mulder (2019 BCA Winner) The Survival, Successes, And Struggles of Non- Capitalist Firms in 3 communities: The Cases of Emilia How are women still being entrapped in false binaries Romagna, Mondragon, And Jackson, Mississippi of virgin or whore, silly femme or intelligent butch, (2019 BCA Winner) native or outsider? Claiming Identity addresses this question by analyzing how eight mass-market Capitalism is killing us, literally, especially with the romance novels (spanning 1985-2014) re-imagine a 2020 pandemic, Covid 19. The rich are getting richer, unified identity for their heroines. In defining romance and the poor (or low wage workers) are paying for it. heroism, it examines these characters’ dialectical While strained, Mulder focuses on three particular rejection of limitations in the spheres of labor, gender, communities that endorse non-capitalists enterprises sexuality, and citizenship, and uncovers romance where the majority of firms are known as Worker Self fiction’s own rejection of the real literature vs. trash Directed Enterprises. Here the workers make all job binary. decisions democratically. This is the case pandemic or not. The outcomes are more profitable firms, less unemployment, and happier workers than in a

12 capitalist setting. There is an alternative and she 13. Talia Schaffer shows it's possible and has been for over 100 years. Communities of Care: The Relational Ethics of Victorian Fiction 12. Victoria Munoz (2019 BCA Winner) Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy: Tudor and Stuart Black Legends Sometimes we need the past to help us shape the (2019 BCA Winner) future. Before the modern medical profession, small personal communities supported people in need, and During the Anglo-Spanish War (1585 to 1604), tales of we can explore such group dynamics by looking at the love of arms formed part of England’s cultural myth- fictional case studies in Victorian novels. Charles making against Imperial Spain, reviving visions of Dickens’s and George Eliot’s care communities help us medieval Crusade, and romanticizing global conquest think about how we navigate discourse, fluidity, as a divine mandate for England’s westward activity, status, and collaboration. In a stressful time, expansion. This “The Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty” such values can help us sustain our communal circulated notions of British exceptionalism and white relations of care.” saviorism decades before the establishment of England’s own permanent colonies in the Americas, forming a key ideological foundation of British imperialism.

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