HI New Publications Celebration

Fitz Books + Waffles (1462 Main St.)

The Spring HI New Publications Celebration (formerly New Books) returns on May 1, bigger and better than ever!

Please join the Humanities Institute in celebrating the recent publications by UB faculty whose work has been supported by our research programs including Faculty Fellowships, VPRED/HI Research Funding in the Arts and Humanities, and the VPRED/HI Publication Support Fund.

Hearty snacks and beverages will be provided at this free and open-to-the-public event.

David Alff, Associate Professor, English, Histories of Science: Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (6/1/25, University of Virginia Press)

Millie Chen, Professor, Art, SRS (Silk Road Songbook)* (9/1/25, Minerva Projects)

Joseph Conte, Professor and David Gray Chair of English, English, Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel (2/1/21, Routledge)

James Currie, Associate Professor, Music, Doing Nothing (2/6/26, Duke University Press)

Nicole Morris Johnson, Assistant Professor, English, The Souths in Her: Black Women Writers and Choreographers and the Poetics of Transmutation (1/13/26, Columbia University Press)

Ruth Mack, Associate Professor, English, Handicraft Philosophies: Craft, Representation, and Social Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain (6/8/25, Stanford University Press)

Cody Mejeur, Assistant Professor, Media Study, Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be (Co-editors Alisha Karabinus, Carly Kocurek, and Emma Vossen; 7/25/25, punctum books)

Ariel Nereson, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance, Looking with Nona Faustine: Portraiture, Performance, and Possession (12/19/25, TDR: The Drama Review)

Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Hunting for Justice: The Cosmology of Diké in Aeschylus's "Oresteia" (3/1/25, SUNY Press)

Michael Rembis, Associate Professor, History, Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum (12/17/24, Oxford University Press)

Stephanie Schmidt, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain (4/8/25, University of Texas Press)

Tanya Shilina-Conte, Associate Professor, English, Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine (11/30/24, Oxford University Press)

Jasmina Tumbas, Associate Professor, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Case Studies in Hauntology (Co-edited with Jonathan Blackwood, 10/1/25, Routledge)

Barbara Wejnert, Professor, Environment and Sustainability, The Global Rise of Autocracy. Its Threat to a Sustainable Future** (5/15/25, Routledge, London and New York) and Democracy in Retreat and the Climate Crisis (1/20/26, Springer Nature)

Ogechukwu Williams, Associate Professor, History, Birth Politics: Colonial Power, Medical Pluralism, and Maternity in. Nigeria (8/25/25, Johns Hopkins University Press)

*Co-authors: Millie Chen & Arzu Ozkal

Texts by: Reza Baraheni, Millie Chen, Cho’lpon, Ashot Danielyan, Baran Ehsaei (Faunoos), Alev Ersan, Kristen Jasmin Fort, Feride Girgin, Adem Gülşen, Nurgul Karyberkova, Fakhriddin Nizamov, Arzul Ozkal, Gulzada Ryskulova, Vadim Shvedchikov, Deniz Taşar, Alexey Ulko, Mei Yang, Fanghai Yin, Junfang Zhang

Design by: Arzu Ozkal

**book cover notes provided by: Richard Caplan, Oxford University, UK; Geoffrey Harris, European Parliament Official 1976-2016; Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, University of Maryland, College Park