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In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres.

In The Sonic South, Rebeccah Bechtold traces how white listeners both heard and imagined the plantation South and its Black communities and examines the legacy of these ways of hearing in the popular plantation literature of the 1830s to 1860s, written by both pro- and antislavery authors.

Before Disability is a literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil War. It shows how disability helped to shape US citizenship as it developed as well as how the formation of US citizenship, in turn, fundamentally shaped disability.

In Ancien Régime France, the discourse of society was usually referred to as bruit, or noise. Public Acoustics explores how writers manipulated this acoustic metaphor to theorize the political and social force of common talk, offering an alternative history of the public sphere that resonates with the noisy digital media environments of today.

Bringing critical race theory and science fiction together, Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction takes seriously the theoretical, stylistic, and rhetorical possibilities inherent in the genre of science fiction toward challenging perceptions of race, ethnicity, whiteness, and Blackness in US culture.