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Books Published by First Book Institute Participants

Books Published by First Book Institute Participants

McInnisAfterlives

Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South (2025)

Jarvis McInnis
(FBI 5)
BarterBlackProSe

Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (2025)

Faith Barter
(FBI 8)
EngExtravagant

Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America (2025)

Chris Eng
(FBI 7)
9781479829477

Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World (2025)

Sarah Ensor
(FBI 3)
SavonickOpenAdmissions

Open Admissions:The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College (2024)

Danica Savonick
(FBI 8)
Scully Book Cover

Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature (2024)

Matthew Scully
(FBI 9)
Hudson Book Cover

Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas (2024)

Renee Hudson
(FBI 7)
Bascom Book Cover

Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early United States (2024)

Ben Bascom
(FBI 6)
Benson Book Cover

Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of Transcription (2023)

Alex Benson
(FBI 5)
Reading Territory Cover

Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State (2023)

Kathryn Walkiewicz
(FBI 6)
Kuhn Book Cover

The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America (2023)

Mary Kuhn
(FBI 6)
Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America

Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America (2023)

Ana Schwartz
(FBI 8)
Mucher Book Cover

Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession (2022)

Christen Mucher
(FBI 1)
Work Requirements Cover

Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Warfare (2022)

Todd Carmody
(FBI 1)
Goode Agrotopias Book Cover

Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability (2022)

Abby L. Goode
(FBI 5)
Kim Warring Genealogies Book Cover

Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War (2022)

Joo Ok Kim
(FBI 5)
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History (2021)

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History (2021)

Juliana Chow
(FBI 6)
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (2021)

Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (2021)

Xine Yao
(FBI 6)
Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America (2021)

Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America (2021)

Gordon Fraser
(FBI 4)
Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security After 9/11 (2021)

Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security After 9/11 (2021)

Lindsay Thomas
(FBI 4)
Reading the Obscene

Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature (2021)

Jordan S. Carroll
(FBI 6)
Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War (2020)

Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War (2020)

Sunny Xiang
(FBI 6)
Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex (2020)

Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex (2020)

Jessica Hurley
(FBI 5)
Mourning the Nation to Come: Creole Nativism in Nineteenth-Century American Literatures (2020)

Mourning the Nation to Come: Creole Nativism in Nineteenth-Century American Literatures (2020)

Jillian J. Sayre
(FBI 4)
Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge (2019)

Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge (2019)

Natalia Cecire
(FBI 4)
The Disappearing Christ

The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era

Phillip Maciak
(FBI 3)
The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (2019)

The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (2019)

Tara Fickle
(FBI 3)
Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War (2019)

Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War (2019)

Joseph Darda
(FBI 4)
The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor (2018)

The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor (2018)

Jennifer Rhee
(FBI 3)
Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America (2018)

Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America (2018)

Douglas Guerra
(FBI 3)
Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship (2018)

Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship (2018)

Carrie Hyde
(FBI 2)
The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race (2017)

The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race (2017)

Adrienne Brown
(FBI 1)
Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present (2017)

Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present (2017)

Theodore Martin
(FBI 1)
Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (2017)

Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (2017)

Sonya Posmentier
(FBI 1)
Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print (2016)

Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print (2016)

Bartholomew Brinkman
(FBI 2)
The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl (2016)

The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming Since the Dust Bowl (2016)

Sarah Wald
(FBI 2)
The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death (2015)

The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death (2015)

Sarah Julie Lauro
(FBI 1)
Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism (2015)

Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism (2015)

Samaine Lockwood
(FBI 1)
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History (2021)

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History (2021)

Juliana Chow
(FBI 6)

Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (2021)

Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (2021)

Xine Yao
(FBI 6)

Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America (2021)

Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America (2021)

Gordon Fraser
(FBI 4)

Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security After 9/11 (2021)

Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security After 9/11 (2021)

Lindsay Thomas
(FBI 4)

Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War (2020)

Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War (2020)

Sunny Xiang
(FBI 6)

Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex (2020)

Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex (2020)

Jessica Hurley
(FBI 5)

Mourning the Nation to Come: Creole Nativism in Nineteenth-Century American Literatures (2020)

Mourning the Nation to Come: Creole Nativism in Nineteenth-Century American Literatures (2020)

Jillian J. Sayre
(FBI 4)

Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge (2019)

Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge (2019)

Natalia Cecire
(FBI 4)

The Disappearing Christ

The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era

Phillip Maciak
(FBI 3)

The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (2019)

The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (2019)

Tara Fickle
(FBI 3)

Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War (2019)

Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War (2019)

Joseph Darda
(FBI 4)

The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor (2018)

The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor (2018)

Jennifer Rhee
(FBI 3)

Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America (2018)

Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America (2018)

Douglas Guerra
(FBI 3)

Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship (2018)

Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship (2018)

Carrie Hyde
(FBI 2)

The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race (2017)

The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race (2017)

Adrienne Brown
(FBI 1)

Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present (2017)

Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present (2017)

Theodore Martin
(FBI 1)

Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (2017)

Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (2017)

Sonya Posmentier
(FBI 1)

Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print (2016)

Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print (2016)

Bartholomew Brinkman
(FBI 2)

The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl (2016)

The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming Since the Dust Bowl (2016)

Sarah Wald
(FBI 2)

The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death (2015)

The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death (2015)

Sarah Julie Lauro
(FBI 1)

Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism (2015)

Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism (2015)

Samaine Lockwood
(FBI 1)