Marjorie Rubright's collection Logomotives: Words that Change the World 1400-1700 has just been released with Edinburgh University Press.
Bearing a wide range of linguistic, regional, and disciplinary expertise, the volume’s twenty-five contributors traverse multiple geographies (Asia, Africa, Iberian Peninsula, Europe, & the Americas), work across fifteen languages, and span from antiquity to our current moment. Contributors advance new developments in philologies of race, in queer-, feminist-, trans*-, transnational-, and postcolonial philologies to discover the world-transforming work performed by words and to curate new ways of thinking about the crosscurrents of words-, bodies-, affects-, and knowledges-in-motion.
The collection also features an essay on the word "Gross" by Adam Zucker.
To learn more about Rubright's work, visit her faculty profile.