Books published by The University of Michigan Press

Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. It also explores how individuals' consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives.

In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. Alternating between the comic, the tragic, and the neurotic, McLeod's second collection transports readers from the American mainstream to the dark edges of cities and the heartland's lost, forgotten towns.

Timely critical insights into today's growing initiative in publicly engaged scholarship