Recent Books
Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecological Affects and Prospects
Edited by Brianne Cohen, Erin Espelie, & Bonnie Etherington
Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecological Affects and Prospects gathers contributions from multiple disciplines to investigate intersectional questions of how the changing planet affects specific peoples, communities, wildlife species, and ecosystems in varying and inequitable ways.
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Game Poems
Jordan Magnuson
In Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice, independent game designer Jordan Magnuson explores the convergences between game making and lyric poetry and makes the surprising proposition that videogames can operate as a kind of poetry apart from any reliance on linguistic signs or symbols.
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Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism
Tullio Pagano
Pagano questions the apparent opposition between diaspora and empire and argues that there was a continuity between the “peaceful conquest” through spontaneous emigration envisioned by Italian liberal intellectuals at the turn of the century and the military colonialism of Italian Nationalists and Fascists.
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Judicial Rhapsodies: Rhetoric and Fundamental Rights in the Supreme Court
Doug Coluson
Previous studies of judicial opinions have explored rhetorical strategies that produce legitimacy, but none have examined the laudatory, even operatic, forms of writing Supreme Court justices have used to justify fundamental rights decisions.
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Conferences
Amherst College Press representatives will be attending the following conferences. Email us if you'd like to meet up.
National Women's Studies Association: October 26-29, 2023
ACP will be in-person for this year's NWSA in Baltimore
Modernist Studies Association: October 26-29, 2023
ACP will be in-person at this year's MSA in Brooklyn
Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts: October 5-7, 2023
ACP exhibiting at this year's SCLA in Philadelphia
Northeast Political Science Association: November 2-4, 2023
ACP will be on-site for this year's NPSA in Boston
Assocation for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference: November 30-December 3, 2023
ACP will have a booth at this year's ASEEES in Philadelphia