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Cultural Studies Association 2026

May 28, 2026 / Online

We are excited to celebrate authors, editors, and friends of the Press virtually for the CSA 2026 annual conference!

Below, browse our new and forthcoming titles in cultural studies. Or, browse our complete list of books and journals in the field. If you are looking to connect with any of our editors about your book project, see our editors’ specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Use coupon code CLTSA26 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through July 9, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group.

Cover of Insufferable Tools features an emoji face on the body of a man in a suit. The emoji is wearing sunglasses and laughing.
Insufferable Tools

Feminism Against Big Tech

Sarah Sharma

Book

Cover of The New Politics of Online Feminism is dark purple. The title text is in a modern, geometric serif typeface in gradient shades ranging from light purple to orange. The author's name is below in green, in a smaller font.
The New Politics of Online Feminism

Akane Kanai

Book

Cover of Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun features a room with cylinders covering the floor and floating casting shadows on the walls. There appears three solid overlapping circles aligned vertically and centered on the cover in golden yellow, dark
Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun

An Elegy

Crystal Mun-hye Baik

Book

Cover of Beautiful Mystery features an image of the author and her daughter treated with a colorful gradient, giving it a blueish tone. The beach and a house are visible in the background.
Beautiful Mystery

Living in a Wordless World

Danilyn Rutherford

Book

Living On After Failure cover image
Living On After Failure

Affective Structures of Modern Life

Irving Goh

Book

The cover is a duotone of teal green and a berry red. A crowd is gathered with their arms wrapped around each other. In the background hung on a building is an art piece showing two figures and text in Korean.
The Minjung Art Movement

Decolonization and Democracy in South Korea

Sohl Lee

Book

Cover of Domesticating Brown has painted patches of browns and creams. A semitransparent photograph of a family with young children is overlayed.
Domesticating Brown

Movements of Racial Imagination

Christopher B. Patterson

Book

Cover of Bear With Me is yellow and features an image of Smokey the Bear, holding a shovel, pointing directly at the viewer.
Bear With Me

A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America

Daniel Horowitz

Book

Cover of Everyday Erotics features a black-and-white cover illustration on a blue background depicts the backs of two women with short hair, one turned slightly towards the other with an arm across her back.
Everyday Erotics

Older Chinese Women and Same-Sex Desire

Denise Tse-Shang Tang

Book

Cover of Torn is black and white and features a double exposed photograph of a person holding two thin long tubes up to each eye.
Torn

Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence

Anna M. Moncada Storti

Book

The top half of the cover is a photograph of a sewing room featuring an industrial looking space, industrial grade sewing machines, and many garments. The bottom half of the cover is a gradient from black to indigo.
Precarious Accumulation

Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou

Nellie Chu

Book

Cover of The Gloria Wekker Reader has a sepia photograph of Gloria Wekker. The title appears to the left of Wekker's face in a cream sans-serif font. A dotted line is under the title.
The Gloria Wekker Reader

Gloria Wekker

Book

Cover of The Goddess in the Mirror depicts a woman applying makeup to another woman in front of a large round mirror. The scene captures both the women directly and their reflections.
The Goddess in the Mirror

An Anthropology of Beauty

Tulasi Srinivas

Book

Freeing Black Girls cover image
Freeing Black Girls

A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering

Tamura Lomax

Book

Cover of Loving Black Boys features a purple and orange color overlay depicting two young boys walking together on a street, one with an arm around the other's shoulder.
Loving Black Boys

A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering

Tamura Lomax

Book

Melodrama cover image
Melodrama

An Aesthetics of Impossibility

Jonathan Goldberg

Book

Cover of Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy features a skyline with trees and the outline of a large industrial looking object against a grainy dark blue night sky. The black object has two red orbs on it evoking eyes.
Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy

Daisuke Miyao

Book

My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio cover image
My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio

Writings and Interviews, 1983–2024

Nayland Blake

Book

Cover of Inventing Nadar features a sepia colored old photograph of Paris from above showing a landscape of buildings and a fading horizon. Landmarks such as the “Arc de Triomphe” and “Les Ternes” are marked in a red script.
Inventing Nadar

A History of Photographic Firsts

Emily Doucet

Book

Negative Originals cover image
Negative Originals

Race and Early Photography in Colombia

Juanita Solano Roa

Book

Cover of When Home Is a Photograph features a silver iridescent couch on a hardwood floor surrounded by a gallery wall of framed artwork and photographs on a white wall. The art is arranged by color to create a rainbow.
When Home Is a Photograph

Blackness and Belonging in the World

Leigh Raiford

Book

Alive in the Sound cover image
Alive in the Sound

Black Music as Counterhistory

Ronald Radano

Book

Cover of Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign features David Bowie on the left and Prince on the right. Between the two artists the title is written in a bold sans serif font in a gradient fading from orange to pink to purple.
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign

The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince

Daphne A. Brooks, editor

Book

The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it
P FKN R

How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

Book

The cover background is light beige and textured, featuring faint text blocks. The title is displayed in large, colorful letters with each word in a different vibrant hue.
Clowns in the Burying Ground

The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy

Christopher K. Coffman

Book

Cover of Puto: Plays features white fabric with two faces sketched on it in navy blue. The two faces have their eyes closed, noses touching, and tongues entangled as they kiss open mouthed.
Puto

Plays

Ricardo A. Bracho

Book

Total Market American cover image
Total Market American

Race, Data, and Advertising

Marcel Rosa-Salas

Book

Cover of Art as Sanctuary is white with a light blue gradient featuring a piece of art showing Africana aesthetics. The art features the face of a woman in blue with a cowrie shell drawn on her forehead.
Art as Sanctuary

Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic

Michael D. Harris

Book

Dyeing with the Earth cover image
Dyeing with the Earth

Textiles, Tradition, and Sustainability in Contemporary Japan

Charlotte Linton

Book

Cover photo on Media Rurality depicts mountains in the far background, behind a city, and winding roads leading to rural fields in the foreground.
Media Rurality

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney, editors

Book

Geographies of the Ear cover image
Geographies of the Ear

The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona

Tania Gentic

Book

Cover of Into the Loop features the book’s title and subtitle repeated in concentric spirals, creating a hypnotic, looping visual effect. The text varies in color—white, red, and teal—against a dark green background.
Into the Loop

An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

Samuele Collu

Book

Pierre Bourdieu′s Political Economy of Being cover image
Pierre Bourdieu′s Political Economy of Being

Ghassan Hage

Book

Cover of A Thousand Paper Cuts features a textured background in shades of pink, orange, and green with faint abstract floral and geometric patterns.
A Thousand Paper Cuts

US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War

Anjali Nath

Book

Brutal Fantasies cover image
Brutal Fantasies

Imagining North Korea in the Long Cold War

Christine Kim

Book

Humanity′s Ruins cover image
Humanity′s Ruins

Ethics, Feminism, and Genocidal Humanitarianism

Danielle Bouchard

Book

Cover of Cleansing the Nation features a photograph of people gathered holding red and white flags. There is smoke around the crowd and a dark cloud of smoke rising in the background.
Cleansing the Nation

India, the Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender

Raka Shome

Book

Winner of the 2026 Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship, ICA