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Book Reviews

MFS is currently looking for potential book reviewers. Below is our current list of books received. If you are interested in writing a review for us, please send an email containing the title of the book you would like to review and a short CV to mfs@purdue.edu. We will consider requests from doctoral students who are ABD. Also, please explain any personal or professional relationship you have with the author of the book.


Current List of Books Received

John Guillory, Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study (U Chicago, 2022)

Florian Fuchs, Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature (Zone Books, 2023)

Lawrie Balfour, Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom  (Oxford, 2023)

Chantelle Bayes, Reimagining Urban Nature: Literary Imaginaries for Posthuman Cities (Liverpool, 2023)

Virginia Pignagnoli, Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts (Ohio State, 2023)

Morgan Day Frank, Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the American Educational System (Oxford, 2023)

Audrey Wu Clark, Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War (Ohio State, 2023)

John Bolin, J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of the Novel (Cambridge, 2023)

Benjamin Bateman, Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Oxford, 2023)

Tegan Zimmerman, Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past (Mississippi, 2023)

Jia Tan, Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU, 2023) 

Nora Stone, How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022 (Duke 2023)

Claire Kim, Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World (Cambridge, 2023)

Sarah Davidson, Modernist Parody: Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature (Oxford, 2023)

Ashley Shew, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (Norton 2023)

Kate Marshall, Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and The Twenty-First Century (U Chicago, 2023)

Pardis Dabashi, Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel (U Chicago, 2023)

Alexander Manshel, Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon (Columbia, 2023)

Dan Sinyki, Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature (Columbia, 2023)

Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena, and Joshua Reeves, The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital (Minnesota, 2023)