2024 Modern Language Association Annual Meeting

UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Modern Language Association annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth (217B) to say hello to Lucas Church & Thomas Bedenbaugh and to browse our new titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth!


Congratulations Irvin J. Hunt! Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement received an honorable mention for the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association.


UNC Press is proud to publish the following journals:

The Comparatist

Early American Literature

Studies in Philology

More information about these journals, including how to subscribe, can be found at the links above.


Use promo code 01DAH40 to receive our 40% conference discount. Titles on display include:

Sound-Blind
American Literature and the Politics of Transcription
Alex Benson

The Race for America
Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny
R. J. Boutelle

Awakening the Ashes
An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
Marlene L. Daut

Southern Lights
75 Years of the Carolina Quarterly
Sophia Houghton, Kylan Rice, Daniel Wallace

Encyclopédie noire
The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World
Sara E. Johnson

Rendered Obsolete
Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling
Jamie L. Jones

Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
Daphne Lamothe

We Pursue Our Magic
A Spiritual History of Black Feminism
Marina Magloire

The Afro-Latino Memoir
Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism
Trent Masiki

Reading Territory
Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State
Kathryn Walkiewicz

Stop by either our in-person booth or our virtual booth to browse our titles on display! Be sure to use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout to receive our 40% conference discount. And if your order totals over $75, domestic US shipping is FREE.