I am excited and honored that my book Discorrelated Images has been shortlisted for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) 2021 Book Prize. It is in amazing company:
Jennifer Bajorek, Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa (Duke 2020)
Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Jill Richards, The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (Columbia 2020)
Shane Denson, Discorrelated Images (Duke 2020)
Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum (Chicago 2020)
Matthew Hart, Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction (Columbia 2020)
Jessica Hurley, Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex (Minnesota 2020)
Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (Harvard 2020)
Samantha Pinto, Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Civil Rights (Duke 2020)
Thanks to the committee for the 2021 Book Prize: Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Chair, Professor, Spanish, Latin American Studies, & Film and Media Studies, Washington University in St. Louis), Lauren M. Cramer (Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies, University of Toronto), and Min Hyoung Song (Professor, English, Boston College).
And congratulations to all of the shortlisted authors!