Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the Modern Language Association.
Scroll through our newest releases!
We’re looking forward to getting together at the conference. But in case you won’t be 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 Assistant Editor Thomas Bedenbaugh or Executive Editor Lucas Church, and learn about new titles published in our new book series, Great Circle Books, and Radical Souths.
Congratulations!
Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough 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
UNC Press is proud to publish the following journals. Check out their web pages to see subscription and additional info:
And, read about two new journals debuting this year.
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 below 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.
Titles on Display for MLA
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.
Eating on a Mountain at the End of the World
How I Found Love, Humor, and Beauty in My Quest for Ethical Food
A Daughter's Memoir of Caregiving, Grief, and Possibility
Preserving Data at the End of the World
The Reconstruction Diary of Frances Anne Rollin
A Critical Edition
Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless
What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
Aesthetic Violence in American Literature and Art, 1945–2001
A Rediscovered Novel
A Story of the Black Belt
Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi
Capitalist Selfhood and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan
The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency
The Politics and Poetics of Richard Wright
Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music
Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era
Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South
Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
Grief in Early America
Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980–2020
A Peripheral History of the Jargon Society as Told through Its Missing Books
Reading Collaboratively Written Native American Autobiography
Twenty-First-Century Black US Persona Poetry and the Archive
Writing Community in Native North America
A Carolinian's Piedmont Memoir
Black Women's Humor and Humanity
Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815–1845
Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures
The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840
The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World
American Literature and the Politics of Transcription
75 Years of the Carolina Quarterly
An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny
A Spiritual History of Black Feminism
Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling
Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism
Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State
The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America
Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South
A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative
Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures
The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater
An American Literary History of Sustainability
Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II
The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music
Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands
Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement
Citizens and Rulers of the World
The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire
Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music
Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction
The Earliest African American Literatures
A Critical Reader
Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean
The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States
A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution
A History of the Black National Anthem
What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today
Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives
Toward a New History of Southern Thought
The Black Arts Movement in the South
John Fahey, the Blues, and Writing White Discontent
The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
The Colored Conventions Movement
Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century
The Rise of the Hip-Hop South
History, Hollywood, and the Highland South
Housing Segregation and Black Life in America
Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South
Liberalism and Women's Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America
Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream
Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature
Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music
Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing
Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage
The Slave's Value in National Culture after 1865
Prose and Poetry
Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture
Religious Intolerance in America, Second Edition
A Documentary History
Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary
Depression America and the Formation of Modern Poetics
Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis