Thursday, June 11,2020 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm · Thursday, June 11,2020 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm A Celebration of the 2019 Book Completion Award Winners

Thursday, June 11,2020

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

A Celebration of the 2019 Book Completion Award Winners

Book Completion Award http://bit.ly/2iJkA6K

Celebration of the

2019 Book Completion Award Winners

Thursday, June 11, 2020 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Welcoming Remarks Effie MacLachlan, Interim Assistant University Dean for Research, CUNY

Announcement of 2020 Book Completion Award Winners Tamera Schneider, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, CUNY

Panel Discussion: ASK UP – the University Press website for prospective authors Fredric Nachbaur, Director, Fordham University Press Gisela Fosado, Editorial Director, Duke University Press Ilene Kalish, Executive Editor, Social Sciences, New York University Press Trevor Perri, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Northwestern University Press And May the Best Blurb Win! 2019 Book Completion Award winners will present promotional burbs for current and upcoming projects to the esteemed panelists for top prizes (bookshop.org gift cards)

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Meet the ASK UP Panel Ask UP is designed to help scholars and the public learn more about scholarly publishing, from books,

journals, and digital publishing. The site has been created by members of the Association of University Presses' Faculty Outreach Committee, which is composed of members from university presses and other scholarly professional organizations. ASK UP will launch in the Fall of 2020 and we hope it will prove a great resource to scholars. Find out more at https://ask.up.hcommons.org/

Gisela Fosado is the Editorial Director at Duke University Press and publishes books in a wide range of areas in the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, American and Atlantic World history, gender and sexuality studies, race and ethnicity, African American and Africana studies, environmental studies, and Latin American and Latinx Studies. She works with authors writing scholarly books, as well as those for general readerships, and is particularly interested in books that foreground marginalized perspectives, adopt an intersectional approach, and contribute to our understanding of social movements and inequality.

Ilene Kalish is Executive Editor, Social Sciences at New York University Press. She acquires books in the areas of Sociology, Criminology, Women’s Studies and Politics. Before coming to NYU Press she was a Senior Editor at Routledge and an Assistant Editor at Prentice Hall, acquiring books in Psychology, Education, and Anthropology. She publishes books for the scholarly and general interest reader and is interested especially in books that advance scholarship in innovative ways, advocate for marginalized perspectives, and offer compelling points of view.

Fredric Nachbaur is Director of Fordham University Press, publisher of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences as well as trade books focusing on the metropolitan New York region. In addition to overseeing the operations of the press, he acquires in cultural studies, history, religion, and urban studies. Fred got his start in publishing at John Wiley & Sons where he was marketing manager for professional and trade books. He made the foray into academic publishing by becoming the marketing director of arts and humanities at Routledge. Before taking the helm at Fordham, Fred was at NYU Press as the marketing and sales director. Trevor Perri is Senior Acquisitions Editor at Northwestern University Press. He acquires books in a range of humanities disciplines including critical theory, film and media studies, literary studies, and philosophy. Before joining Northwestern University Press, he earned a PhD in philosophy and worked as Editorial Associate at the University of Chicago Press.

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Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation Amy Adamczyk and Christian Smith John Jay College Handing Down the Faith explores how and why American religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children. The authors draw on 215 in-depth, personal interviews with religious parents from many different traditions and parts of the country, and on sophisticated analyses of two nationally representative surveys of American parents. Rich in empirical evidence and unique in many of the topics it explores and explains, the book will interest scholars of religion; social scientists interested in the family, parenting, and socialization; clergy and religious educators and leaders; and religious parents themselves. The book has entered the production process at Oxford University Press. It will be published in March 2021: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/handing-down-the-faith-9780190093327?cc=us&lang=en& Pedagogy of Happiness Jill Belli New York City College of Technology 'Pedagogies of Happiness,' currently under revision, explores the ideological commitments and consequences of current research of subjective happiness and well-being on the personal, public, and institutional levels. The recent global interest in happiness is fueled by the popularity of positive psychology, "the science of happiness," which views well-being as both desirable and teachable, something to be cultivated and shaped into political, socioeconomic, and educational policies. These developments deserve sustained and critical attention because they fuel activist agendas in the interest of the public good, increasingly claiming authority on what type of well-being is valued and then incentivized and maximized in both private and public spheres. The book centers on the rhetoric, pedagogy, values, and real-world impact of "positive education" (positive psychology efforts to teach well-being) through contextualized applications (self-help, classrooms, the

U.S. Army, politics, technology), their mediating ideologies, and the radicalizing lenses of utopian studies, critical pedagogy, and critical digital humanities. I explore positive education's version of the happy individual and good society, highlighting its potential impact not only in educating our students but also in the more ambiguous and arguably more consequential work of envisioning alternatives and educating desire.

Photo Credit: Pen Mendonça, Graphic Recording of Jill Belli's "Happiness & Utopia" Workshop, 'Utopographies: Evaluation, Consensus, and Location' (Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK, 28 March, 2014)

The "Black Art" Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism across Continents Joshua I. Cohen City College of New York Reading African art’s impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, the “Black Art” Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during the benighted colonial period, the Paris avant-garde “discovery” of African sculpture—known then as art nègre, or “black art”—eventually came to affect nascent Afro-modernisms, whose artists and critics commandeered visual and rhetorical uses of the same sculptural canon and the same term. Within this trajectory, “black art” evolved as a framework for asserting control over appropriative practices introduced by Europeans, and it helped forge alliances by redefining concepts of humanism, race, and civilization. From the Fauves and Picasso to the Harlem Renaissance, and from the work of South African artist Ernest Mancoba to the imagery of

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Negritude and the École de Dakar, African sculpture’s influence proved transcontinental in scope and significance. Through this extensively researched study, Joshua I. Cohen argues that art history’s alleged centers and margins must be conceived as interconnected and mutually informing. The “Black Art” Renaissance reveals just how much modern art has owed to African art on a global scale.

This book is scheduled for publication in July 2020 with University of California Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520309685/the-black-art-renaissance

Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved:” The Case for Reparations Maureen Fadem Kingsborough Community College Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on this influential American novel and novelist. It scrupulously builds the argument that Morrison’s first concern is justice and the chief aim of Beloved is to serve as a clarion call for material—and not merely symbolic—reparations. This contemporary classic is positioned as a formal tragedy and a novel of objects. From these come a third conclusion: Beloved as a case for reparations. That status is founded, Fadem argues, on two key objects: the character of Beloved as embodying the subject-object relations defining the slave state and the grammatical object “weather” in the sentence “The rest is…,” a reference placing Beloved into an intertextual genealogy with Hamlet and Orestia. Fadem’s research is meticulous in engaging the full spectrum of tragedy theory, much critical theory, and a full swathe of the scholarship on Beloved. Few critics take up the matter of reparations, still fewer the politics of genre, craft, and form. Fadem does both, divining a fascinating new reading and singular treatment of Morrison’s postmodern tragedy, positing it as a searing critique of modernity, as meaningfully intertextual, as

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profoundly “thingly” (Brown), and finally as the case for reparations for slavery that are long overdue. The manuscript has just been submitted to Routledge and should be on shelves in Fall 2020. Multimodal Participation and Engagement: Social Interaction in the Classroom Christine M. Jacknick Borough of Manhattan Community College Participation is colloquially understood to mean speaking, and many syllabi count "participation" towards students' grades, generally considered to be their willingness to contribute to class discussions. This monograph, currently in press and scheduled for publication in February 2021 by Edinburgh University Press, presents a more complete picture of what doing being a student looks like in classroom interaction, including consideration not only of students’ verbal contributions in class, but also their embodied actions. In doing so, I propose a reconceptualization of participation as a hybrid phenomenon consisting not only of the interactional alignment of student actions but also their alignment in terms of the teacher’s pedagogical agenda. I also suggest a definition of engagement as students’ close monitoring of the interaction, as evidenced by the precise temporal and sequential deployment of multimodal resources. Finally, I illustrate the limits of observable behaviors, highlighting what this means for our characterizations of student participation and engagement, for the analyst as well as the teacher.

Claiming Identity: The Dialectical Journeys of Popular Romance Fiction and its Heroines Jayashree Kamblé

LaGuardia Community College Romance heroines undertake dialectical journeys of identity, struggling to synthesize who they are in a

world that tries to limit their paths and their right to self-definition. This book defines what makes romance heroines heroic and examines their dialectical process of identity formation in the spheres of labor, gender, sexual desire, and nation through an analysis of eight novels spanning 1985-2014. In each, heroines build themselves by weaving together identities presented to them as incompatible or mutually exclusive, such as paid and unpaid work, versions of womanliness, ideologies about sexuality, and dual citizenship. These ultimatums reflect the dichotomies women continue to face this century, such as professional vs. homemaker, silly femme vs. intelligent butch, sexual predator vs. sexual naïf, and native vs. outsider. The quests undertaken by romance heroines are also stories of how the romance novel observes itself through the eyes of its critics and constructs itself with and against their often contradictory judgments (e.g., predictable/illogical, addictive/boring, etc.) In other words, the heroines’ journeys to negotiate selfhood mirror the binary “real literature vs. trashy novels” rhetoric that this genre faces; rejecting false binaries for a dialectical synthesis is therefore the genre’s natural narrative mode. The book supplements this argument by offering the first theory of escapism, a label familiar to the genre. The manuscript is undergoing exclusive review at Indiana University Press.

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An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia Natalie L. Kimball College of Staten Island

Many women throughout the world face the challenge of confronting an unexpected or an unwanted pregnancy, yet these experiences are often shrouded in silence. An Open Secret

draws on personal interviews and medical records to uncover the history of women’s experiences with unwanted pregnancy and abortion in the South American country of Bolivia. This Andean nation is home to a diverse population of indigenous and mixed-race individuals who practice a range of medical traditions. Centering on the cities of La Paz and El Alto, the book explores how women decided whether to continue or terminate their pregnancies and the medical practices to which women recurred in their search for reproductive health care between the early 1950s and 2010. It demonstrates that, far from constituting private events with little impact on the public sphere, women’s intimate experiences with pregnancy contributed to changing policies and services in reproductive health in Bolivia. An Open Secret was recently published by Rutgers University Press and is available here: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/an-open-secret/9780813590738

Sounds Like Helicopters: Classical Music in Modernist Cinema Matthew Lau Queensborough Community College Classical music masterworks have long played a key supporting role in the movies—silent films were often accompanied by a pianist or even a full orchestra playing classical or theatrical repertory music—yet the complexity of this role has thus far been underappreciated. Sounds Like Helicopters corrects this oversight through close interpretations of classical music works in key modernist films by Francis Ford Coppola, Werner Herzog, Luis Buñuel, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke, and Terrence Malick. Beginning with the famous example of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” in Apocalypse Now, Matthew Lau demonstrates that there is a significant continuity between classical music and modernist cinema that belies their seemingly ironic juxtaposition. Though often regarded as a stuffy, conservative art form, classical music has a venerable avant-garde tradition, and key films by important directors show that modernist cinema restores the original subversive energy of these classical masterworks. These films, Lau argues,

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remind us of what this music sounded like when it was still new and difficult; they remind us that great music remains new music. The pattern of reliance on classical music by modernist directors suggests it is not enough to watch modernist cinema: one must listen to its music sense its prehistory, its history, and its obscure, prophetic future. Published in 2019 by SUNY Press: https://www.sunypress.edu/p-6766-sounds-like-helicopters.aspx Marcando el Territorio [Marking the Territory]: Performance, Conceptual Graphics and Video Art in Chile, 1973-1983 Carla Machiavello Borough of Manhattan Community College

This book approaches the question of territoriality in art during the authoritarian context of the military and civic dictatorship in Chile.

It explores the intersection of territorial images and discourses, their potential for transformation through art, in relation to disputes on sovereignty and identities in Chile between 1973-1983. A territorial outlook linked to nationalism, discrimination, and neocolonialism that also left its marks in the emergence of a

neo-avantgarde artistic scene, and the submergence of others in Chilean art history. The book examines the emergence of this scene, how territorial discourses were contested through performative gestures and conceptual graphic

practices, and how the scene itself reproduced and reterritorialized others. Forthcoming from Metales Pesados (Chile). Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation Erin Mayo-Adam Hunter College

Queer Alliances investigates coalition formation among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists in the United States, revealing how these new alliances impact political movement formation. Erin Mayo-Adam examines how grassroots

groups seek to bridge historic divisions based on race, gender, class, and immigration status through the development of coalitions, looking specifically at coalition building around expanding LGBTQ rights in Washington State and (im)migrant rights in Arizona. Through an analysis of in-depth interviews with movement advocates and archival research, Queer Alliances centers local, coalition-based mobilization across and within multiple movements rather than national campaigns and court cases. Mayo-Adam argues that coalition formation has paradoxical effects. While the development of shared political movement narratives and common opponents can expand movements during the process of coalition formation, the episodic nature of rights-based campaigns can simultaneously contain and undermine movement expansion, reinforcing movement divisions. Mayo-Adam reveals the extent to which inter- and intra-movement coalitions

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formed to win rights or thwart rights losses and represent and serve intersectionally marginalized communities—who are often absent from contemporary accounts of social movement formation. Queer Alliances is currently available for pre-order with publication set for July 2020. Broken Irelands: Irrealism and Ungrammaticality in Post-Crash Irish Literature Mary McGlynn Baruch College Examining Irish novels of the last twelve years, Broken Irelands seek to account for a proliferation of formal and stylistic tendencies that downplay realistic and grammatical coherence in novels by Anne Enright, Colum McCann, Mike McCormack, Lisa McInerney, Sebastian Barry, and others. Noting that these traits have the effect of diminishing human agency, blurring questions of responsibility, and privileging emotion over rationality, I argue that they reflect and respond to social and economic conditions during the global economic crisis and its aftermath of recession, austerity, and precarity. Rather than focusing on overt discussions of the crisis and aftermath, I look at how the dominance of an economic worldview, including a pervasive climate of financialized discourse, shapes the way stories are told. Broken Irelands traces the formal iterations of individualism in an age of affect and unpacks new textual conventions to shed light on how common current techniques align with a cultural moment shaped by feelings of impotence and personal responsibility. My manuscript was solicited by a leading university press in my field; my goal is to have it ready for submission in August.

Social and Economic Democratic Communities: Emilia Romagna, Mondragon, And Jackson, Mississippi Catherine P. Mulder John Jay College This study is an analysis of three distinct communities that have rejected global capitalism in favor of a more egalitarian structure of cooperatives, or otherwise known as Worker Self Directed Enterprises. Specifically, Emilia Romagna, Italy; Mondragon, Spain; and Jackson, MS are analyzed to emphasize that alternatives to capitalist firms not only exist, but are efficient and flourish. The three areas chosen are distinct, yet they all emphasize community development and focus on human cooperation, not greed or profits. Finally, it will be shown that cooperatives or WSDEs are not only viable and efficient, but can compete and exist within a global capitalist hegemony. Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy: Tudor and Stuart Black Legends Victoria Munoz Hostos Community College The stories of King Arthur, Roland, Amadis, and Tirant lo Blanc emerged in the backdrop of the medieval Crusades, glorifying holy war as God’s will to push back “infidel” non-Christians and Mohammedans from Western Europe and the Holy Land. During the Protestant Reformation, sixteenth century writers reapplied the holy war motif to the emerging conflicts within and without the Christian world. During the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585 to 1604, tales of love of arms also formed part of England’s cultural myth-making against Imperial Spain, reviving visions of medieval Crusade, and romanticizing global conquest as a divine mandate for England’s westward expansion. Writers cited the

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Spanish Inquisition and state autos-da-fé, along with Spanish colonial atrocities in Europe and the Americas, as justification for England’s entry into the great chess game of imperial politics.

This “Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty” circulated notions of British exceptionalism and white saviorism decades before the establishment of England’s own permanent colonies in North America. By unpacking the cultural reemergence of Crusade legend as a response to anxieties over Spain’s global conquests, this book uncovers a key ideological foundation of British imperialism. Currently in revision, the book is scheduled for release in Fall 2020 (Anthem Press). The Nature of Tomorrow: A History of the Environmental Future Michael Rawson Brooklyn College

In the industrialized West, visions of the future have long emphasized the kind of fantastic scientific and technological

feats that have become synonymous with the world of tomorrow. But visions of polished laboratories and gleaming machines often blind us to the fact that most such stories are, on their most fundamental levels, environmental fables that

reflect the expectation that humans will strive for endless growth on a finite planet. The contending visions of tomorrow that have emerged from this expectation—one a technological utopia that has transcended environmental limits, the other a terrifying prophecy of environmental overshoot —have been locked in a contest for the future since the nineteenth century. The Nature of Tomorrow will draw on this history to argue that our current environmental problems reflect a long-term failure of imagination, a failure to envision an attractive future society capable of recognizing environmental limits and living within them. The book will be published by Yale University Press in fall 2021. Communities of Care: The Relational Ethics of Victorian Fiction Talia Schaffer Queens College

In “Communities of Care,” I use the feminist philosophy of “ethics of care” to explore a feature of Victorian fiction: the groups of voluntary carers who coalesce around someone in need in novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Yonge, George Eliot, and Henry James. These spontaneous care communities function according to important tacit rules, specific ways of experiencing time, negotiating status, and enacting care. Because Victorian culture was steeped in such shared amateur social caregiving, these values pervade the period, spurring us to rethink authorship, sentimentality and sympathy, disability, influence, discourse, and silence. Today we still

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operate in care communities, small mutually supportive groups, and I ask whether we can use this care ethics to improve our own reading, teaching, and social relations. Forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2021. Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to Petrarch: Responding to a Versatile Muse Julie Van Peteghem Hunter College The Latin poet Ovid, and especially his poem the "Metamorphoses," continue to fascinate readers today. In this book, I examine what drew medieval Italian writers to the Latin poet’s works, characters, and themes. While accounts of Ovid’s influence in Italy often start with Dante’s "Divine Comedy," I show that mentions of Ovid are found in some of the earliest poems written in Italian, and remain a constant feature of Italian poetry over time. By situating these early Italian poems and the poetry of Dante, Cino da Pistoia, and Petrarch within the rich and diverse history of reading, translating, and adapting Ovid’s works, this book offers a novel account of the reception of Ovid in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy. Forthcoming from Brill on June 18, 2020.

Twentieth Century Fox Frederick Wasser Brooklyn College This is a history of Fox Films aka Twentieth Century -Fox and Twenty-First Century Fox from its beginnings in 1914 to its sale to Disney in 2019. This book is part of the Routledge Centenary series on Hollywood studios and the guiding theme is to trace studios from the time when they were stand-alone film studios to the present when they are all part of media conglomerates. Fox, of course. has been an integral part of American and global mass culture. The book focuses on entertainment with only some acknowledgement of Fox's current reputation as a propaganda machine. This reputation is ironic since its earlier history was devoted to immigrant audiences and to contributing to democratic culture. The cultural fragmentation of the sixties and the technological revolution of the last quarter of the 20th century contributed to Fox's degradation although notable films continue to be produced by its specialty divisions.

This book is due to be published summer 2020 https://www.routledge.com/Twentieth-Century-Fox/Wasser/p/book/9781138921269

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May the Best Blurb Win! Contestants

1. Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation (2020 BCA Winner) The most powerful causal influence on the religious lives of American teenagers are their parents. Since they are so important, their approach to religion deserves to be understood and explained. Drawing on over 200 interviews and major surveys of parents from diverse religious backgrounds, as well as irreligious parents, Handing Down the Faith is the first academic book to identify the major themes, differences, and complexities concerning how American parents transmit religious faith to their children. 2. Jill Belli Pedagogies of Happiness (2020 BCA Winner) Happiness-inflected agendas thrive with promises of transforming self-help to social hope, but engaged critique is woefully lacking, as are interdisciplinary, humanist perspectives. Both critical and recuperative, 'Pedagogies of Happiness' surfaces the redemptive aspects of this renewed focus on well-being and the good life, and works to align pedagogies of happiness more squarely with the utopian impulse, alternative solutions, and social justice that would allow not just for individual flourishing but also for collective futurity.

3. Shawna Brandle Seldom, Superficial, and Soon Gone: Media Coverage of Refugee Crises (2018 BCA Winner) There is striking consistency in how different media outlets cover refugee issues: neither frequently nor in proportion to the severity of crises. This book combines analysis of print and television news coverage from the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, with UNHCR data and national refugee policies and budgets, finding that refugee stories are covered episodically and fade quickly from media attention. In other words, news media

coverage of refugees is seldom, superficial, and soon gone.

4. Sarah Bishop A Story to Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in the Search for Asylum

(2018 Winner – Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement)

The urgent firsthand narratives in this book reveal what happens when asylum seeking goes wrong—an applicant suffers a courtroom panic attack during her hearing; an x-ray showing a forced sterilization proves to be fake to the surprise of the woman who received it from a doctor; a teenager is denied and deported, only to be murdered weeks later in his childhood home. These intertwining stories illuminate the harrowing reality of pursuing asylum in America. 5. Ashley Dawson Environmentalism from Below: Why We Need a Global Green New Deal

(2020 Winner) How can we cope with today’s twin crises of mass unemployment in the wake of coronavirus and looming climate catastrophe? Instead of accepting more austerity, we need to put people to work building low-carbon infrastructure. But green stimulus policies won’t work if they are just for people in the rich nations. My book profiles the movement for a Global Green New Deal, highlighting the radical transformations afoot in agriculture, urban policy, energy, and transportation in the parts of the Global South. Climate breakdown has already arrived in many of these societies. “Environmentalism from Below” shows how people across the planet are fighting for the future.

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6. Thomas DeGloma Anonymous: The Performance and Impact of Hidden Identities (2020 BCA Winner) With this book, I illuminate the deep social logic and broad relevance of anonymity. Analyzing various cases, I show how anonymity affords protection and facilitates subversion. I reveal how it undergirds problematic forms of hate and discrimination, along with mechanisms of fairness and non-biased assessment. Analyzing anonymity as a counterbalance to pervasive surveillance, obsession with fame, public acts of narcissism, shame, and conspicuous consumption, I unpack the performance and impact of hidden identities. 7. Vincent DiGirolamo Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys (2018 BCA Winner) Reading Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys is like sneaking under the Big Top to watch a brassy three-ring circus in full swing. The raucous spectacle of strikes and riots, wars and elections, panics and disasters is all the more enthralling when viewed from this low, precarious angle. More than a splendid entertainment, DiGirolamo’s prize-winning, pavement-up history of print capitalism will forever alter your understanding of the making of the American working class. 8. Jayashree Kamble Claiming Identity: The Dialectical Journeys of Popular Romance Fiction and its Heroines (2019 BCA Winner) How are women still being entrapped in false binaries of virgin or whore, silly femme or intelligent butch, native or outsider? Claiming Identity addresses this question by analyzing how eight mass-market romance novels (spanning 1985-2014) re-imagine a unified identity for their heroines. In defining romance heroism, it examines these characters’ dialectical rejection of limitations in the spheres of labor, gender, sexuality, and citizenship, and uncovers romance fiction’s own rejection of the real literature vs. trash binary.

9. Erin Mayo-Adam Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation (2019 BCA Winner) Queer Alliances examines the extent to grassroots groups bridged historic divisions based on race, gender, class, and immigration status through the development of grassroots coalitions. The book argues that the construction of common political movement narratives and a shared core of opponents can help expand political movement formation. However, this expansion often comes at a cost as, paradoxically, the episodic nature of rights-based campaigns, or rights episodes, simultaneously contains and undermines coalitions, reinforcing movement divisions. 10. Mary McGlynn Broken Irelands: Irrealism and Ungrammaticality in Post-Crash Irish Literature (2019 BCA Winner) How are instant gratification, YOLO, and social media influencers similar to their supposed counterweights, like mindfulness, slow food, and media fasts? All are born of a worldview of commodified individualism. Economic austerity, reduced attention spans (Twitter, TLDR summaries, emoji, text-speak), and the elevation of emotion over rationality (performed outrage in the public sphere; Instagram's dominance; plotless videos featuring cute animals, recursive vines, and ASMR triggers) have given rise to a new, broken novelistic form in Ireland. 11. Catherine P. Mulder The Survival, Successes, And Struggles of Non-Capitalist Firms in 3 communities: The Cases of Emilia Romagna, Mondragon, And Jackson, Mississippi (2019 BCA Winner) Capitalism is killing us, literally, especially with the 2020 pandemic, Covid 19. The rich are getting richer, and the poor (or low wage workers) are paying for it. While strained, Mulder focuses on three particular communities that endorse non-capitalists enterprises where the majority of firms are known as Worker Self Directed Enterprises. Here the workers make all job decisions democratically. This is the case pandemic or not. The outcomes are more profitable firms, less unemployment, and happier workers than in a

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capitalist setting. There is an alternative and she shows it's possible and has been for over 100 years. 12. Victoria Munoz Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy: Tudor and Stuart Black Legends (2019 BCA Winner) During the Anglo-Spanish War (1585 to 1604), tales of love of arms formed part of England’s cultural myth-making against Imperial Spain, reviving visions of medieval Crusade, and romanticizing global conquest as a divine mandate for England’s westward expansion. This “The Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty” circulated notions of British exceptionalism and white saviorism decades before the establishment of England’s own permanent colonies in the Americas, forming a key ideological foundation of British imperialism.

13. Talia Schaffer Communities of Care: The Relational Ethics of Victorian Fiction (2019 BCA Winner) Sometimes we need the past to help us shape the future. Before the modern medical profession, small personal communities supported people in need, and we can explore such group dynamics by looking at the fictional case studies in Victorian novels. Charles Dickens’s and George Eliot’s care communities help us think about how we navigate discourse, fluidity, activity, status, and collaboration. In a stressful time, such values can help us sustain our communal relations of care.”