Joseph Pomp

I am acquiring books that break new ground in politics, critical theory, and cultural studies as well as those that offer original viewpoints on current events. I have recently signed authors writing about Chinese natural resource extraction in Africa, op-ed journalism and the novel in Spain, and the virtues of being wrong. In all fields, I look for projects tackling political and philosophical questions with an international perspective. In critical theory, I seek works both new and old that have yet to appear in English. Before joining HUP as an editor, I completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice.

Recent Harvard University Press Titles in Critical Theory, Politics, Current Events

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Mehrsa Baradaran

Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring
Asef Bayat

Statelessness: A Modern History
Mira L. Siegelberg

After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
Jedediah Purdy

The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
Payal Arora

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Elizabeth Hinton

The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China’s Instant City
Juan Du

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
Frank Pasquale

Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America
Nathaniel Frank

A People’s History of Computing in the United States
Joy Lisi Rankin

Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States
Brian Rosenwald

Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy
Nadia Urbinati