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