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African American Life Series

Series Editor: Melba Joyce Boyd, Wayne State University

The African American Life Series publishes scholarship and books for general readers that engage with Black life in the United States, with a particular focus on Black radical politics, poetics, rhetoric, and the arts.


Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies

Series Editor: Barry Keith Grant, Brock University

The Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series has as its focus original areas of film research and innovative critical approaches to film, television, and new media. The series publishes works that open further avenues for research and debate for the scholar. The titles are suitable for classroom use at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels.

Advisory Editors: Robert J. Burgoyne, University of St. Andrews; Caren J. Deming, University of Arizona; Patricia B. Erens, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Peter X. Feng, University of Delaware; Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh; Frances Gateward, Howard University; Tom Gunning, University of Chicago; Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware; Walter Metz, Southern Illinois University.


Darom: Global South Perspectives in Jewish Studies

Series Editors: Bryan Roby, University of Michigan, and Shirly Bahar, Columbia University

This new series curates works on Jewish communities and cultures of the Global South and their diasporas. The series celebrates the fact that studies of Jewish communities and cultures of the Global South and its diasporas have been inspired by the critical work of interrogating race and racialization in the US and globally, as well as community-building efforts to resist structural white supremacy and ashkenormativity. By centering the geographical and conceptual peripheries of Jewish studies, we elicit creative ways of approaching Jewish histories and cultures.

Advisory Board: Maxwell Greenberg, Goucher College; Yali Hashash, Or Yehuda College; Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University; Roni Masel, UC Berkeley; Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder; Rafe Neis, University of Michigan; Yigal Shalom Nizri, University of Toronto; Iris Rachamimov, Tel Aviv University; Adi Saleem, University of Michigan; Ella Shohat, New York University; Santiago Slabodsky, Hofstra University-NY; Efrat Yerday, Tel Aviv University


The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies

Series Editor: Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University

This book series is devoted to works that significantly advance our understanding of the fairy tale as it has taken shape across history and a broad range of media. The series illuminates both the production and reception of the fairy tale as it has appeared in print, film, modern media, the visual and performing arts, and other cultural forms.

Advisory editors: Cristina Bacchilega, University of Hawai`i, Mānoa; Stephen Benson, University of East Anglia; Nancy L. Canepa, Dartmouth College; Christine A. Jones, University of Utah; Ulrich Marzolph, University of Göttingen; Carolina Fernández Rodríguez, University of Oviedo; Maria Tatar, Harvard University; Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota


Great Lakes Books Series

Series Editor: Thomas Klug

The Great Lakes Books Series specializes in books of regional interest and importance to Michigan and the entire Great Lakes region. Inaugurated in 1986, the series includes titles on state and regional history and culture, the Upper Peninsula, the Great Lakes and maritime history, automotive history, art and architecture, literature, sports, ecology and the environment, and books for young readers. We are keenly interested in projects that intersect our region with race, women’s and gender studies, labor studies, and Indigenous studies.

Marcia Black, Black Bottom Archives
Lily Jiale Chen, Detroit Historical Society
DeWitt Dykes, Oakland University
Joe Grimm, Michigan State University
Laurie Harris, Shelby Township, MI
Dennis Moore, National Park Service
Deborah Smith Pollard, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Shae Rafferty, Walter P. Reuther Library
Michael O. Smith, Detroit Jewish News
Matthew Jaber Stiffler, Center for Arab Narratives
Ramya Swayamprakash, Grand Valley State University
Guillaume Teasdale, University of Windsor
Arthur M. Woodford, Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan


Made in Michigan Writers Series

Series Editors: Natalie Bakopoulos, Nandi Comer, Desiree Cooper, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Associate Editor of Poetry: Kamelya Youssef


Queer Screens

Series Editors: David A. Gerstner, College of Staten Island, CUNY and Cáel M. Keegan, Concordia University, Montréal

Queer Screens expands our senses by reimagining the relationship between queerness and the screen. In short, it engages in theoretical mayhem. Embracing mayhem’s destructive and reconstructive energies, each book in the series opens the “queer screen” to new questions about method, content, and form. Through rigorous textual analysis, Queer Screens refuses to let queerness rest or settle; it presses queer up against considerations of transness, race, and class analyses. Probing the edges of both queerness and the screen, the series provokes unexpected theorizations of visuality, aesthetics, mediation, canonicity, cinephilia, and auteurism.


TV Milestones Series

Series Editor: Barry Keith Grant, Brock University

TV Milestones is a distinct series of short monographs written in a critical but accessible and lively manner. Each book offers a comprehensive account of a particular television show, placing it in the context of the history of television and broader cultural history, as well as discussing representative episodes of the show in detail. The titles are suitable for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

TV Milestones is currently closed to new proposals.