Supported Publications

In this highly readable work, KRISTIN WENDLAND situates yoga practice within a musical context in the life and work of famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin.

Literary value has been a topic of debate since Plato, yet no consensus has emerged. In this innovative work, ROBERT MEYER-LEE offers a preliminary theory of literary valuing and explores the problem in respect to editing, canonicity and interpretation.

In Since Time Immemorial, YANNA YANNAKAKIS argues that Indigenous claims to custom, which on the surface aimed to conserve the past, provided a means to contend with historical change and produce new rights for the future.

Art historian SUSAN ELIZABETH GAGLIARDI examines tensions between the seen and unseen that makers, patrons, and audiences of arts in western West Africa negotiate through objects, assemblages, and performances.

Karel van Mander's Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (1604) was the first systematic treatise on painting published in Dutch. WALTER S. MELION's English-language edition provides unprecedented access to Van Mander’s crucially important art treatise. 

In Genres of Listening XOCHITL MARSILLI-VARGAS explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires, the city that has the highest number of practicing psychologists and psychoanalysts in the world.

In Volume II of this expansive examination of Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa social imaginaries, DIANNE STEWART explores the meaning-making traditions of Yoruba-Orisa devotees.

In The White Indians of Mexican Cinema MÓNICA GARCÍA BLIZZARD theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1930s to 1950s).

In Spatial Revolution CHRISTINA CRAWFORD offers the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning, weaving a narrative arc across a vast geography and revealing how outside experts participated in the construction of the Soviet industrial complex.

The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an “epistolary revolution” in the following century. HWISANG CHO's The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of these changes.

Placing theorists in conversation with comedians, Uproarious, by CYNTHIA WILLETT and JULIE WILLETT, offers a full-frontal approach to the very foundation of comedy and its profound political impact.

In Molecular Feminisms, DEBOLEENA ROY investigates science as feminism at the lab bench, engaging in an interdisciplinary conversation between molecular biology, Deleuzian philosophies, posthumanism, and postcolonial and decolonial studies.

In this offering from Duke University Press, CALVIN L. WARREN intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being.

by Kylie M. Smith

University of North Carolina Press, 2025