Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the Modern Language Association.










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We’re looking forward to meeting with you at the conference, But if you are not traveling this year, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you. From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, chat with our editor Lucas Church, and more.

Connect with editor Lucas Church, whose acquisition interests include humanities and social sciences, especially sociology, anthropology, literary studies, history of medicine, and social science approaches to health, medicine, and culture.
Have questions about whether UNC Press is the right publisher for you, or how to submit a proposal? Visit our For Prospective Authors page.
Congratulations!

Honorable Mention,
2022 William Sanders Scharborough Prize,
Modern Language Association
UNC Press is proud to partner with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Languages to publish the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.






New from the NC Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series
Back in print — the University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature series.





The Press and its partners, UNC Chapel Hill’s Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and the UNC Library, are pleased to make available 124 monographs, translations, and critical editions. All titles are available as paperbacks and open access ebooks. For a full catalog and more information click here.
All of our books (in fact, our entire site) are available now at our 40 percent MLA conference discount. Plus if your order totals $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE! Just use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout.
Follow the links at the left for information on submitting a book proposal, ordering desk or examination copies (even free digital exam copies), classroom permissions, disability resources, and more. We’ve even created a handy FAQ document, with answers to the most-asked questions we get at exhibit booths.
Click on any book below to learn more. And, using our View Inside feature, you can leaf through the pages for a preview of each new book, just as if you were standing at our booth. Check it out on each book page.
Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands
Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World