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Duke Press at the Association for Asian Studies Meeting

The annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies took place in Toronto March 15-18. Editorial Director Ken Wissoker and Sales Manager Michael McCullough attended for the Press. We enjoyed selling books and meeting our authors.

Yomi Braester, author of Painting the City Red.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ian Condry, author of Hip-Hop Japan and The Soul of Anime (forthcoming Spring 2013). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kyung Hyun Kim, author of Virtual Hallyu. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Madeleine Yue Dong, co-editor of The Modern Girl around the World.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yasmin Saikia, author of Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh and Fragmented Memories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robin Visser, author of Cities Surround the Countryside.

American Anthropological Association, 2011

We had a terrific meeting in Montreal this year, where we enjoyed selling books, meeting authors, and celebrating our journal Public Culture at a wine and cheese party.

Jafari Allen and his book ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tim Choy and his book Ecologies of Comparison: An

Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong.

 

Kregg Hetherington and his book Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay.

 

 

 

 

Carole McGranahan and her book Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War

 

 

 

For mor photos, please visit our Facebook page. Thanks to Helena Knox for taking them.

American Studies Association, 2011

We had a great time in Baltimore at the American Studies Association annual meeting this past weekend. Ken Wissoker, Christine Choi, and Helena Knox attended for the Press. Many of our authors stopped by and Helena got a few pictures of them.

Anne Balsamo with her book Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work.

 

 

Sylvia Chong and her book The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era.

 

 

 

 

Kevin Fellezs and his book Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion.

 

 

Erik McDuffie with Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism.

 

 

 

See more photos on our Facebook page!

Duke Authors at the Association for Asian American Studies 2011 Meeting

We had a great time at the 2011 Association for Asian American Studies Conference in New Orleans, LA, May 18th-21st. Here are photos of some of the authors who stopped by our booth and from Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu's book launch party.

   

 

Margo Machida, author of Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary

 

 

 

 

Eleana J. Kim, author of Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

 

 

 

 

Junaid Rana, author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion, at her book party sponsored by the Center for Asian American Studies at UT-Austin.

 

 

 

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu and Nhi Lieu, author of The American Dream in Vietnamese (Minnesota), pose together at their book party.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to our editorial associate, Christine Choi, for taking these photos!

Duke Press at Book Expo

This week we've been hobnobbing with other publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, and media at the annual Book Expo America in New York City. Our marketing team has been pitching our Fall 2011 books and meeting with various vendors who manage our metadata and help us get our books out into the world electronically. We also meet with some of our sales representatives and enjoy catching up with our favorite booksellers. The New York Times reports on the convention here, saying "there is a Wild West quality to the book business these days." Academic publishing moves more slowly than commercial publishing, but we do feel like we have a lot to figure out about our future, and it's good to connect with the rest of the industry once a year and see where we stand. Below, you can see some of the general interest highlights from our Fall catalog that we were featuring in our booth.

 

Benjamin Lowy's pictures from Iraq won the 5th Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. 

 

Foreign affairs expert Swanee Hunt draws lessons for global security from her time spent as an activist for peace and women's rights in Bosnia.

 

 

Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey make the science of global climate change accessible to a general audience in this beautiful book with batik illustrations by Mary Edna Fraser.

 

Rock critic Chuck Eddy collects some of his best pieces a quarter-century of writing about music.

 

 

 

Jake Austen, author of the offbeat music zine Roctober, collects some its best profiles and interviews.

 

 

Dana Polan writes a cultural history of Julia Child's beloved television show The French Chef.

 

 

Queer theorist Judith Halberstam writes playfully about such films as Dude, Where's My Car and Finding Nemo as she develops the concept of "low theory."

 

Check out these and all our Fall 2011 titles on our website!

 

Duke Authors at the Association for Asian Studies Conference

We had a great time at the 2011 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Honolulu, HI, March 31st-April 3rd. Here are photos of some of the authors who stopped by our booth.

 

 

Rochona Majumdar, author of Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal

 

 

 

 

Mark Driscoll, author of Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945

 

 

 

 

Jesook Song, author of South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society

 

 

 

 

Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth, editors of Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Poliices in the Long Twentieth Century

 

 

 

Thanks to our exhibits manager, Helena Knox, for taking these photos.

Duke Authors at the College Art Association 2011 Meeting

We had a great time at the 2011 Annual Conference of the College Art Association in New York, NY, February 10th-12th. Here are some photos of the many authors who stopped by our booth.

 

 

Carolee Schneemann, author of Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and her Circle

 

 

 

 

John P. Bowles, author of Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment

 

 

 

 

Kellie Jones, author of EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art

 

 

 

 

Suzanne Lacy, author of Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974-2007

 

 

 

 

Mira Schor, author of A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life

 

 

 Authors MIra Schor and Suzanne Lacy

 

 

Wanda Corn and Cherise Smith, author of Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith

 

Maria Elena Buszek, editor of Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art

 

 

 

Thanks to our exhibits manager, Helena M. Knox, for these photos!

Duke Authors at the Modern Language Association 2011 Meeting

We had a great time attending the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association in Los Angeles, CA, January 6-9th. We had a lot of Duke authors and journal editors stop by our booth. Here are some photos we took.

 

Homay King, author of Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier

 

 

 

 

Monica L. Miller, author of Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

 

 

 

 

 

Heather Love, special issue editor of "Rethinking Sex," a special issue of GLQ

 

 

 

 

R. John Williams (Yale), winner of the American Literature Section's Foerster Prize

 

 

 

Monika Kaup, co-editor of Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest

 

 

 

 

Andrew Parker, co-editor of After Sex?: On Writing since Queer Theory

 

 

 

 

Marshall Brown, editor of MLQ

 

 

 

 

 

Frances Smith Foster, winner of American Literature Section's Hubbell Prize

 

 

 

 

Barbara Foley, author of Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

 

 

 

 

Richard T. Rodriguez, author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

 

 

 

 

 

Sophia A. McClennen, author of Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope

 

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Holberg, editor of Pedagogy

 

 

 

 

Jocelyn Dawson, our Journals Assistant Marketing Manager with journal special issue awards for GLQ and positions

 

 

Anne Balsamo, author of Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work

 

Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century

Rachel VanWieren, Edward Chauca, and Victoria Garrett at the minnesota review cash bar

 

The great turn-out at the GL/Q cash bar

 

 

Thanks to our Books Exhibits Manager, Helena Knox, and our Journals Assistant Marketing Manager, Jocelyn Dawson, for these great photos!

Duke University Press Award Winners at MLA

Duke University Press was the proud publisher of three award-winners at this year's Modern Language Association conference, held in Los Angeles, CA January 6-9. 

We'd like to congratulate Anjali Arondekar, author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India for winning this year's Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian, gay, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies from the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. 

 

We'd also like to recognize two of our journal special issues for being named Best Journal Special Issue from the Council of Editors and Learned Journals: "Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity," a special issue of GLQ.  edited by Daniel Heath Justice,  Mark Rifkin, and Bethany Schneider, and "Beyond the Strai(ght)s: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics," a special issue of positions, edited by Petrus Liu and Lisa Rofel.  

Here are some pictures from the awards ceremonies:

CELJ award ceremony: Bethany Schneider accepts award on behalf of GLQ's "Sexuality, Nationality, and Indigeneity"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anjali Arondekar and "For the Record," which won the Alan Bray Memorial Award from the GL/Q Caucus

Photos from American Library Association Midwinter Meeting

Kimberly Steinle, our Library Relations Manager and Leslie Eager, our Institutional Exhibits and Direct Marketing Coordinator attended the ALA Midwinter meeting in San Diego last week.  Here are some photos that they brought back from the conference:

Leslie mans the booth.

Kim and Leslie hang out with Mark Twain (from University of CA Press).

Kim and Vicki Lange from the University of Chicago Press with the "Dummy" at the Wiley booth.