New Books Celebration

Photo of crowd in attendance at 2024 Spring Book Celebration, standing and listening to David Castillo provide introductions in a white-walled room with framed images on the wall, black-and-white checkered floor, with a round table with books on display stands.

Each Spring, HI hosts the New Books Celebration to celebrate the recent publications by UB faculty whose work has been supported by the research funding programs offered by the Humanities Institute, a unit of the College of Arts and Sciences and additionally funded by the UB Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED).

Spring 2024 Books

In Spring 2024, the Humanities Institute celebrated the following recent publications:

Resonances against Fascism

Modernist and Avant-Garde Sounds from Kurt Weill to Black Lives Matter, edited by Laura Chiesa (SUNY Press, January 2024)

Utopian Imaginings

Saving the Future in the Present, edited by Victoria W. Wolcott (SUNY Press, April 2024)

Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism

by Katja Praznik (6/1/2021, University of Toronto Press)

The Irish Revival: A Complex Vision 

by Joseph Valente (9/15/2023, Syracuse University Press)

Difference, Sameness and DNA 

by Paul Vanouse (3/20/2024,Palgrave Macmillan)

Special Recognition

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

by Cristanne Miller (4/2/2024, Harvard University Press)

Share your new book!

If your recent publication was supported by the Humanities Institute and you would like to have it included on our website and in the Spring 2025 New Books Celebration, please email huminst@buffalo.edu