Core Faculty Publications
The graduate program in Visual and Cultural Studies (VCS) is an active research community. Below are some of the books published by VCS current and former faculty.
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Robert Foster
Uneven Connections: A Partial History of the Mobile Phone in Papua New Guinea
ANU Press, 2024
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Anna Rosensweig
Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage
Northwestern UP, 2021
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Christopher Heuer
Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic, the End of the Image
Zone Books/MIT Press, 2019
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Joel Burges
Out of Sync & Out of Work: History and the Obsolescence of Labor in Contemporary Culture
Rutgers UP, 2018
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John Michael
Secular Lyric: The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson
Fordham University Press, 2018
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Llerena G. Searle
Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India
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Christopher Heuer
The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries
Routledge, 2009
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Robert Foster
Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea
Palgrage-McMillan, 2008
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Robert Foster
Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea
Indiana UP, 2002
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John Michael
Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values
Duke UP, 2000
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Robert Foster
Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia: Mortuary Ritual, Gift Exchange, and Custom in the Tanga Islands
Cambridge UP, 1995