Our faculty members are among the leading voices in their fields. Their ground-breaking research and creative works have taken many forms, including novels, works of literary criticism, edited anthologies, public lectures, documentary films, and poems. True to the spirit of interdisciplinary, creative, and politically engaged inquiry that has long been central to York University’s mission, these publications have earned plaudits from audiences around the world. Learn more about some of our recent publications by browsing the book covers below.
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Cloud Missives
Kenzie Allen
Intimate, dissecting, and liberating, Cloud Missives is a poetry collection of excavation and renewal. Like an anthropologist entering a dig site and unearthing bones, Kenzie Allen reveals a life from what endures after tragedies and acts of survival. Across five sections, poems explore pop culture—the stereotypes in Peter Pan, Indiana Jones, and beyond—fairy tales, myths, protests, and forgotten histories, before arriving at a dazzling series of love poems that deepen our understanding of romantic, platonic, and communal love.
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Kenzie Allen
2024
Intimate, dissecting, and liberating, Cloud Missives is a poetry collection of excavation and renewal. Like an anthropologist entering a dig site and …
Deanne Williams
2023
Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories of the …
Natalie Neill
2023
Mary Charlton’s 1799 Rosella, or Modern Occurrences is a fascinating novel that brokers between conservative and feminist ideas, humour and horror, and …
B.W. Powe
2023
You’ll find included in this collection a selection of public presentations and thoughts on our spiritual and ecological crises, including …
Robert Zacharias
2022
Mennonite literature has long been viewed as an expression of community identity. However, scholars in Mennonite literary studies have urged …
Natalie Neill
2022
Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing …
Marcus Boon
2022
In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary …
Jonathan Warren, Alison Halsall
2022
New book attends to global scope of LGBTQ+ comics criticism. York University Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) …
Lesley Higgins, Marie-Christine Leps
2022
After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the …
Brett Zimmerman
2021
Locating Poe firmly within his Zeitgeist vis-à-vis the science and pseudoscience of the early nineteenth century, Edgar Allan Poe as …
Tina Young Choi
2021
Contingency is not just a feature of modern politics, finance, and culture—by thinking contingently, nineteenth-century Britons rewrote familiar narratives and …
Lily Cho
2021
Under the terms of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, Canada implemented a vast protocol for acquiring detailed personal information …
Allan Weiss
2021
While scholars have been studying the short story cycle for some time now, this book discusses a form that has …
Allan Weiss
2021
This study introduces the history, themes, and critical responses to Canadian fantastic literature. Taking a chronological approach, this volume covers …
Jonathan Warren
2021
“This admirable new and expanded Norton Critical Edition, with its judiciously selected and expertly curated secondary materials, both historical and …
Julia Creet
2020
Since the early 2000s, genealogy has become a lucrative business, an accelerating online industry, a massive data mining project, and …