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Fall 2022 Catalog

Growing Up Chicago
Edited by David Schaafsma, Lauren DeJulio Bell and Roxanne Pilat
“An entertaining and touching tumble of sexual awakenings, identity quests, dangerous liaisons, early sorrows, boundary crossings, and 16-inch softball. There’s a different Chicago in each piece—the city serves as witness, backdrop, companion, solace.” —S.L. Wisenberg, author of The Adventures of Cancer Bitch
AVAILABLE MAY 2022

The Biopolitics of Punishment
Derrida and Foucault
Edited by Rick Elmore and Ege Selin Islekel
“This spectacular group of writers opens a vital conversation about border zones and hunger strikes; detention centers and supermax prisons; Blackness, criminality, and necropolitics. Speaking from the heart of a prison society, it teaches us how to summon a world without prisons. A must-read book.” —Lynne Huffer, author of Foucault’s Strange Eros

The Hygienic Apparatus
Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder
by Paul Dobryden
“In this superb reconsideration of Weimar cinema, Paul Dobryden places film at the heart of a struggle for environmental and hygienic control that is at once fascinating and unnervingly timely.” —Brian R. Jacobson, author of Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space

Ideas in Unexpected Places
Reimagining Black Intellectual History
Edited by Leslie M. Alexander, Brandon R. Byrd and Russell Rickford
“The volume brings together an array of talented scholars who offer brilliant insights that will forever change how we write about Black thought, history, and culture.” —Keisha N. Blain, author of Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
Featured Titles
Incidental Noyes
University Press Week 2021: Forward Thinking
It’s University Press Week! “Keep UP!,” the 2021 University Press Week theme, marks the tenth anniversary and celebrates how university presses have evolved over the past decade. In honor of…
Read MoreNew Hires at Northwestern University Press
Evanston, IL— Northwestern University Press is pleased to announce the hires of Faith Wilson Stein as senior acquisitions editor (scholarly) and Kirsten Markusic as digital content and systems coordinator, effective…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2021-2022 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellows
The University of Washington Press, the MIT Press, Cornell University Press, the Ohio State University Press, University of Chicago Press, Northwestern University Press, and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses)…
Read MoreRecent & Upcoming Events
2022 Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture: Women and the Making of Jewish Modernity
May 1 @ 1:00 pm - May 1 @ 2:00 pm
Andrea A Davis In Person Book Launch "Horizon, Sea, Sound"
April 21 @ 5:00 pm - April 21 @ 8:00 pm
Monday Night Poetry: Victoria Redel + Vievee Francis + Carl Phillips
April 18 @ 6:00 pm - April 18 @ 8:00 pm