Letters & Science Bookshelf

Our virtual bookshelf features publications authored, translated, or edited by members of the L&S community. To submit a publication, please use this form or email lscomms@berkeley.edu. 

Looking for a specific title? Please use the search bar; responses will appear in the table below. Email lscomms@berkeley.edu with additional inquiries or requests.

Title Author Year Publication typesort descending
The Flesh Between Us Tory Adkisson 2021 Book
Practice of the Presence Carmen Acevedo Butcher (translator) 2022 Book
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South Stephanie Jones-Rogers 2020 Book
Untimely Sacrifices Work and Death in Finland Daena Aki Funahashi 2023 Book
Stay True Hua Hsu 2022 Book

Back Stages: Essays Across Art, Performance, and the Social

2022

Shannon Jackson explores a range of disciplinary, institutional, and political puzzles that engage the social and aesthetic practice of performance in this collection of twenty essential essays spanning her career. Back Stagesstarts by considering the historical...Read more about Back Stages: Essays Across Art, Performance, and the Social

The Substance of Fiction Literary Objects in China, 1550-1775

2022

Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical...Read more about The Substance of Fiction Literary Objects in China, 1550-1775

The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are

2022

We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world.

With meticulous archival research that draws on a wide array of sources—...Read more about The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are

How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

2022

Today, a world without “gender” is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social debates, shapes policy decisions, and informs our everyday lives. Its formulation, however, is lesser known: Gender was first used in clinical practice. This book tells the story...Read more about How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History

2022

Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination of the West wherein cheerfulness — a momentary uptick in emotional energy, a temporary lightening of spirit — functions as a crucial theme in literary, philosophical, and artistic creations...Read more about Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History

Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

2022

Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and...Read more about Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 14: Tsountas House Area

2022

Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 14: Tsountas House Area presents the results of the excavations in this area at Mycenae conducted under the direction of Wace (1950) and Taylour (1959–60) in collaboration with Papademetriou and later Mylonas. Located in the ‘Cult Centre’, the...Read more about Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 14: Tsountas House Area

In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories

2022

Collected here are seventeen prose stories and two comics created by established and rising stars in American fiction and graphic narrative, all published since the year 2000—masterful works that vary greatly in style and content but spring from a common source: the desire to forge a...Read more about In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories

Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America

2022

This book proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust consciousness in Latin America since the 1970s. Community leaders, intellectuals, writers, and

...Read more about Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America

Troublemaker

2022

12-year-old Jordan feels like he can't live up to the example his older sister set, or his parent's expectations. When he returns home from school one day hoping to hide his suspension, Los Angeles has reached a turning point. In the wake of the acquittal of the police officers filmed beating...Read more about Troublemaker