Our faculty members are among the leading voices in their fields. Their ground-breaking research and creative works have taken many forms, including novels, works of literary criticism, edited anthologies, public lectures, documentary films, and poems. True to the spirit of interdisciplinary, creative, and politically engaged inquiry that has long been central to York University’s mission, these publications have earned plaudits from audiences around the world. Learn more about some of our recent publications by browsing the book covers below.
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Early Modern English Foodways
David B. Goldstein & Victoria Yeoman
Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology of food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates how food connects all forms of life in the most intimate and public ways.
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David B. Goldstein
2026
An anthology of food-related writing giving insights into early modern food writing and food history, as well as cultural studies, ...
Lesley Higgins
2025
Confessing the Flesh is an expansive, interdisciplinary analysis of how aesthetic and religious discourses function in dialogue in the work of ...
Jean-Thomas Tremblay
2024
Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction brings cinema studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis into novel configuration around the concept of negative life, a ...
Kenzie Allen
2024
Intimate, dissecting, and liberating, Cloud Missives is a poetry collection of excavation and renewal. Like an anthropologist entering a dig site and ...
B.W. Powe
2024
B.W. Powe’s Mysteria fuses graphic poetry, prose, and visual art to explore memory, identity, and shifting realities. Through lyrical prose, evocative ...
Natalie Neill
2023
Mary Charlton's 1799 Rosella, or Modern Occurrences is a fascinating novel that brokers between conservative and feminist ideas, humour and horror, and ...
B.W. Powe
2023
You’ll find included in this collection a selection of public presentations and thoughts on our spiritual and ecological crises, including ...
Deanne Williams
2023
Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories of the ...
Jean-Thomas Tremblay
2022
In Breathing Aesthetics, Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked ...
Lesley Higgins, Marie-Christine Leps
2022
After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the ...
Jonathan Warren, Alison Halsall
2022
New book attends to global scope of LGBTQ+ comics criticism. York University Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) ...
Marcus Boon
2022
In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary ...
Robert Zacharias
2022
Mennonite literature has long been viewed as an expression of community identity. However, scholars in Mennonite literary studies have urged ...
Natalie Neill
2022
Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing ...
Allan Weiss
2021
This study introduces the history, themes, and critical responses to Canadian fantastic literature. Taking a chronological approach, this volume covers ...
Lily Cho
2021
Under the terms of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, Canada implemented a vast protocol for acquiring detailed personal information ...