Bookshelf

(Lexington Books, 2024).

The volume, co-edited with Marzia Caporale and Habib Zanzana from the University of Scranton, is the first to investigate post-2000 French banlieue (periurban) cinema through an intersectional lens. Some interpretive axes and areas of critical investigation include toxic masculinity, hypermasculinity, female identity at the intersection of gender, age, race, and socioeconomic status, queer identities and spaces, sexual politics, patriarchal dominance, and artistic expression as a form of resistance.

(Sticking Place Books, 2024).

MacDonald is the author of five volumes of A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers and more than two dozen other books. Named an Academy Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences in 2011, he says about this work:

(Polyverse Publishing, 2024).

A retired professor, Sangster is a self-described news junkie and fan of crime novels and Law and Order on TV. So it wasn’t a stretch for him to write a novel about a college professor who gets wrapped up in the legal system.

(Oxford University Press, 2024)

Oscar-winning documentarians, filmmakers, a cine-historian and video-essayist, the list goes on. Throughout this volume, which completes MacDonald’s “avant-doc trilogy,” readers will find interviews and essays that “model a generalist approach to modern audiovisual media, prioritizing remarkable cinematic accomplishments that can get lost within our overwhelming modern mediascape.”

(Bunny Presse, 2025)

Winner of the 2023 Bunny chapbook contest, Naughton’s slim book of poetry describes debt as something intensely private, yet significantly interconnected with global systems of power.

(Koehler Books, 2024)

Through a series of compelling conversations with Lassoe, a psychotherapist, a woman named Diane shares the story of how she overcame significant hardships and abuse with unwavering resilience. Her intimate memories as a white woman who spends most of her life in an African American community also offer a fascinating perspective on race relations.

(self-published, 2024)

By trade, Worden is a lawyer who focuses on helping people and corporations reach fair settlements in high-stakes lawsuits. In this book he shares several surprising stories about individuals and events that led to the three pivotal American wars.

(Short Story America Press, 2024)

This collection features 12 stories (11 of which have been previously published in literary magazines) set in the Piedmont region of the Carolinas. Also included is the first chapter of one of two novels the author has written in the last six years.

(Duke University Press, 2024)

The author, an associate professor of African American studies and history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, shows how cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, as well as rural areas in the heartland, became central and enduring incubators of Marcus Garvey’s Black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and its offshoots.

(Oxford University Press, 2025).

Along with Merouan Mekouar, a York University social scientist, Jumet compiled “narratives from 19 scholars, representing 15 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, South America, Central Asia, and South Asia, who conducted fieldwork in their native repressive and/or illiberal countries,” according to the publisher’s description.