Recent Books
Unserious Ecocriticism: Humor, Play & Environmental Destruction in Art & Visual Culture
Edited by Jessica Landau and Maria Lux
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental injustice are complex, messy, and gravely important issues. In addressing these concerns, traditional ecocriticism understandably has taken itself very seriously. Unserious Ecocriticism, by contrast, highlights alternative responses to the challenges of environmental collapse and catastrophe.
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Forgotten Friendships: Yugoslavia and the Anticolonial Francophone World
Alexandra Perišić
Forgotten Friendships: Yugoslavia and the Anticolonial Francophone World examines transnational friendships and alliances between intellectuals from Yugoslavia and the Francophone African and Caribbean world during the mid-twentieth century. The book argues that transnational political friendships helped shape major intellectual movements like Négritude, African socialism, and global socialist feminisms, which surged beyond national, regional, and even diasporic spaces.
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Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s: Inventing the Post-Soviet Public Sphere
Maya Vinokour
Examining Russian-language media from the “long 1990s”—the period beginning with Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost (“openness”) and ending with the election of President Vladimir Putin—Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s shows how post-Soviet civil society emerged simultaneously with the explosion of new media, especially a newly liberated television and internet.
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Painting History: The Murals of Northern Ireland, 1908–2024
Tony Crowley
Painting History: The Murals of Northern Ireland, 1908–2024 is the first book-length study of the oldest and most enduring tradition of political wall art. Tony Crowley shows how muralism became an important medium for the unionist and loyalist community in its political domination of public space before and after Partition.
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Open Access Books for a Democratic Future
Titles to read for understanding threats to US democracy
Published December 4th, 2024
What is Virtual Reality Good For?
Brian Beams on the past, present, and future potential of VR
Published October 16th, 2024
New Series Announcement: Urgent Knowledges
Translation series that highlights Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and similarly marginalized intellectual traditions in the geocultural area known as Latin America, including the Caribbean.
Published September 12th, 2024
Conferences
Amherst College Press representatives will be attending the following conferences. Email us if you'd like to meet up.
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention: November 20-23, 2025
ACP was on site for the 2025 ASEEES Convention in Washington, D.C.
Northeast Modern Language Association's Annual Convention: March 5-8, 2026
ACP will be on site for this year's NeMLA Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania