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Welcome to the University of Minnesota Press’s Library of Open-Access Titles 

Welcome to the University of Minnesota Press’s Library of Open-Access Titles

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Newest Releases

New and recently updated titles to which we'd like to direct your attention. Click here to see our entire library of open titles.

  • Sounds from the Other Side

    Elliott H. Powell
    Published November, 2020
  • Universal Emancipation

    Elisabeth Paquette
    Published October, 2020
  • Capture

    Antoine Traisnel
    Published September, 2020
  • A Silvan Tomkins Handbook

    Adam J. Frank, Elizabeth A. Wilson
    Published August, 2020
  • Deadly Biocultures

    Nadine Ehlers, Shiloh Krupar
    Published May, 2020
  • Arrested Welcome

    Irina Aristarkhova
    Published May, 2020
  • An Archive of Taste

    Lauren F. Klein
    Published May, 2020
  • The Shapes of Fancy

    Christine Varnado
    Published May, 2020
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Projects in Progress

Follow these nascent projects from the University of Minnesota Press as they evolve in parallel with their author's research and writing. As you engage with these projects here and on Twitter, you help provide shape and scope to the final versions of record.

  • The Lab Book

    Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson, Jussi Parikka
    Updated January, 2021
  • In/visible Archives of the 1980s

    Margaret Galvan
    Updated January, 2020
  • Cut/Copy/Paste

    Whitney Trettien
    Updated July, 2020
  • Going the Rounds

    Ryan Cordell, David A. Smith, Abby Mullen, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, Avery Blankenship
    Updated November, 2020
  • Social Theory for Nonhumans

    John Hartigan Jr.
    Updated September, 2020

TOME Titles

These monograph projects have been made openly available through their participation in the TOME project. Read more about TOME and discover additional scholarship the program has made available here.

  • Sounds from the Other Side

    Elliott H. Powell
    Published November, 2020
  • Capture

    Antoine Traisnel
    Published September, 2020
  • A Silvan Tomkins Handbook

    Adam J. Frank, Elizabeth A. Wilson
    Published August, 2020
  • Arrested Welcome

    Irina Aristarkhova
    Published May, 2020
  • An Archive of Taste

    Lauren F. Klein
    Published May, 2020
  • The Shapes of Fancy

    Christine Varnado
    Published May, 2020
  • Perpetual Motion

    Harmony Bench
    Published March, 2020
  • Sound, Image, Silence

    Michael Gaudio
    Published December, 2019
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Critical Ethnic Studies

Critical Ethnic Studies explores the guiding question of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association: how do the histories of colonialism and conquest, racial chattel slavery, and white supremacist patriarchies and heteronormativities affect, inspire, and unsettle scholarship and activism in the present? By decentering the nation-state as a unit of inquiry, focusing on scholarship that expands the identity rhetoric of ethnic studies, engaging in productive dialogue with indigenous studies, and making critical studies of gender and sexuality guiding intellectual forces, this journal appeals to scholars interested in the methodologies, philosophies, and discoveries of this new intellectual formation.

Edited by Neda Atanasoski and Christine Hong, https://doi.org/10.5749/CES

  • CES Volume 6, Issue 1

    Neda Atanasoski, Christine Hong
    Published January, 2021

Electronic Mediations

Electronically mediated communication has established lasting and significant changes in society and culture, politics and economics, thinking and being. From the development, adoption, and now international ubiquity of the Internet to virtual reality technologies, the mainstream popularity of video games, the genre of literary hypertexts, and a proliferation of digital art and other new media art forms, technology has infused everyday life and all aspects of our interaction, communication, and expression. The books in this series explore the humanistic and social implications of these new technologies.

  • The Perversity of Things

    Hugo Gernsback, Grant Wythoff
    Published November, 2016
  • Metagaming

    Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux
    Published April, 2017
  • Internet Daemons

    Fenwick McKelvey
    Published October, 2018
  • Perpetual Motion

    Harmony Bench
    Published March, 2020

Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science

This influential series devoted to the philosophy of science brings together essays by leading scholars on themes and topics that are crucial to the history, academic development, and current debates in this field.

  • The Language of Nature

    Geoffrey Gorham, Benjamin Hill, Edward Slowik, C. Kenneth Waters
    Published November, 2018
  • The Experimental Side of Modeling

    Isabelle F. Peschard, Bas C. Fraassen
    Published November, 2018
  • Beyond the Meme

    Alan C. Love, William C. Wimsatt
    Published September, 2019

Forerunners: Ideas First

Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange.

  • Virtue Hoarders

    Catherine Liu
    Published January, 2021
  • Grounded

    Christopher Schaberg
    Published December, 2020
  • The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender

    Marquis Bey
    Published December, 2020
  • Cruelty as Citizenship

    Cristina Beltrán
    Published September, 2020
  • Trans Care

    Hil Malatino
    Published July, 2020
  • Kill the Overseer!

    Sarah Juliet Lauro
    Published July, 2020
  • Furious Feminisms

    Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill, Barbara Gurr
    Published January, 2020
  • LatinX

    Claudia Milian
    Published November, 2019
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