Modern Language Association Conference 2021
To capture some of the spirit of gathering together in the MLA exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space, showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of Literary Studies at SUP.
New Books and New SUP Authors
Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP Literary Studies titles with discount code S21XMLA-FM through our virtual exhibit ».
2021 Literature Catalog
From the Blog Archives
“I SLIP INTO YOUR SKIN”: IDENTITY AND NOVELISTIC REPRESENTATION »
A look at the ethical aesthetic of Girl, Woman, Other
THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF SPACE »
Reflecting on boundaries during a pandemic.
Understanding the intersect of literary text and computers.
THE ROMANTICS AND THE INFORMATION AGE »
The fortunes of literature and how the culture of data is older than we think.
Recent Award Winners
Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor »
- Honorable mention in the 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book, sponsored by the Modern Language Association (MLA).
UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary »
- Shortlisted in the 2020 ASAP Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP).
Categorically Famous: Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America »
- Winner of the 2019 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, sponsored by Australian University Heads of English.
Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers »
- Winner of the 2019 Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities, sponsored by the American Studies Association (ASA) – Digital Humanities Caucus.
- Winner of the 2020 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award, sponsored by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).
Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory »
- Winner of the 2019 Antonio Candido Prize – Best Book in the Humanities, sponsored by the LASA Brazil Section.
Who Owns the News?: A History of Copyright »
- Winner of the 2020 AEJMC History Division's Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction »
- Winner of the 2020 Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities and Cultural Studies: Literary Studies, sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS).
Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara »
- Winner of the 2020 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History, sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA).
