Sensory studies arises at the conjuncture (and within) the fields of anthropology • sociology • history • archeology • geography • communications • religion • philosophy • literature • art history • museology • film • mixed media • performance • phenomenology • disability • aesthetics • architecture • urbanism • design

Sensory Studies can also be divided along sensory lines into, for example, visual culture, auditory culture (or sound studies), smell culture, taste culture and the culture of touch, not to mention the sixth sense (however it might be defined)

Books of Note 2019

Aesthesis and Perceptronium: On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter
by Alexander Wilson
University of Minnesota Press

Audible Geographies in Latin America: Sounds of Race and Place
by Dylon Lamar Robbins
Palgrave

Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sensibilities in the American Nineteenth Century
by Elizabeth Freeman
Duke University Press

Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body
by Gili Hammer
Univeristy of Michigan Press

Body Matters: Exploring the Materiality of the Human Body
Edited by Luci Attala and Louise Steel
University of Wales Press

Creolized Aurality: Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics
by Jérôme Camal
The University of Chicago Press

Distant Impressions: The Senses in the Ancient Near East
Edited by Ainsley Hawthorn and Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel
Eisenbrauns

Elements: Histories of Emotions and the Senses
Edited by Jan Plamper
Cambridge University Press

Emerging Affinities: Possible Futures of Performative Arts
Edited by Mateusz Borowski, Mateusz Chaberski, and Malgorzata Sugiera
Transcript: Independent Academic Publishing

Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines
by Andrew J. Rotter
Oxford University Press

Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social
By Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai
Oxford University Press

Hearing Southeast Asia: Sounds of Hierarchy and Power in Context
Edited by Nathan Porath
NIAS Press

Hearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
by Sarah Finley
University of Nebraska Press

Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South-Africa: Aesthetics of Power
by Duane Jehtro
Routledge

Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark: Living with Light
by Mikkel Bille
Bloomsbury

How Water Makes Us Human: Engagements with the Materiality of Water
by Luci Attala
University of Wales Press

The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening
by Lawrence Kramer
University of California Press

Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Époque
by Hollis Clayson
The University of Chicago Press

The Language of Touch: Philosophical Examinations in Linguistics and Haptic Studies
by Mirt Komel
Routledge

Learning to Make Sense: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sensory Education and Embodied Enculturation
A special issue of The Senses and Society
Edited by Dee Reynolds and Boris Wiseman
Taylor & Francis
*Open Access Articles

Listening and Knowledge in Reformation Europe: Hearing, Speaking and Remembering in Calvin’s Geneva
by Anna Kvicalova
Palgrave

The Looking Machine: Essays on Cinema, Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking
by David MacDougall
Manchester University Press

Material and Mind
by Christopher Bardt
MIT Press

Material Culture and Kinship in Poland: An Ethnography of Fur and Society
by Siobhan Magee
Routledge

The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air
by Katherine R. Larson
Oxford University Press

The Multi-Sensory Image from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Edited by Heather Hunter-Crawley and Erica O’Brien
Routledge

Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome: Power and Space in Roman Houses
by Hannah Platts
Routledge

A Multisensory Philosophy of Perception
Casey O’Callaghan
Oxford University Press

Music as Atmosphere: Collective Feelings and Affective Sounds
Edited by Friedlind Riedel & Joha Torvinen
Routledge

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination
Edited by Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mads Walther-Hansen, and Martin Knakkergaard
Oxford University Press

Par le prisme des sens : médiation et nouvelles réalités du corps dans les arts performatifs
By Isabelle Choinière, Enrico Pitozzi and Andrea Davidson
Presses de l’Université du Québec

Paysages Sensoriels: Approches Pluridisciplinaires
Edited by Mehl Véronique and Péaud Laura
Presses Universitaires De Rennes

Perception Metaphors 
Edited by Laura J. Speed, Carolyn O’Meara, Lila San Roque, and Asifa Majid
John Benjamins Publishing Company

Places, Affordances, Atmospheres: A Pathic Aesthetics
By Tonino Griffero
Routledge

Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil
by Theresa L. Miller
University of Texas Press

The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music
by Nina Sun Eidsheim
Duke University Press

Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern
by Liz Gunner
Cambridge University Press

Renoir, The Body, The Senses
Edited by Esther Bell and George T. M. Shackelford
Yale University Press

Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communication and Cultures
By Rosario Caballero, Ernesto Suárez-Toste, and Carita Paradis
John Benjamins Publishing Company

The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology
edited by Jo Day and Robin Skeates
Routledge

The Sense of Movement: An Intellectual History
by Roger Smith
Process Press

“Senses and Sensibilities in Classical and Medieval Worlds”
A Special Issue of Mirabilia: Electronic Journal of Antiquity, Middle & Modern Ages
Edited by Gerardo Fabián Rodriguez and Gisela Coronado Schwindt
*Open Access Articles

The Senses and the History of Philosophy
Edited by Brian Glenney and José Filipe Silva
Taylor & Francis

Sensing the Everyday: Dialogues from Austerity Greece
by C. Nadia Seremetakis
Routledge
*Open Access

Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts
By Fiona Griffiths and Kathryn Starkey
De Gruyter 

A Sensory Sociology of Autism: Habitual Favourites
By Robert Rourke
Routledge

Sensory Substitution and Augmentation
Edited by Fiona Macpherson
Oxford University Press

Sensuous Curriculum: Politics and the Senses in Education
Edited by Walter S. Gershon
Information Age Publishing

Los sentidos del cuerpo: un giro sensorial en la investigación social y los estudios de género
Edited by Olga Sabido Ramos
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género

Signing the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France
by Katherine Dauge-Roth
Routledge 

Smell and History: A Reader
Edited by Mark M. Smith
West Virginia University Press

Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: A Social Sense
by William Tullett
Oxford University Press

Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science
Edited by Tony Cheng, Ophelia Deroy and Charles Spence
Routledge

The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics
by Robin James
Duke University Press

Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art
Edited by Peter Weibel
MIT Press

Sound, Image, Silence: Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World
by Michael Gaudio
University of Minnesota Press
*Open Access

Sound-Politics in São Paulo
by Leonardo Cardoso
Oxford University Press

The Sound Inside the Silence: Travels in the Sonic Imagination
by Sean Street
Palgrave Macmillan

Sounding Places: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Sound and Music
Edited by Karolina Doughty, Michelle Duffy and Theresa Harada
Edward Elgar Publishing

Translating across Sensory and Linguistic Borders: Intersemiotic Journeys between Media
Edited by Madeleine Campbell, and Ricarda Vidal
Palgrave Macmillan

Troubling Law’s Sensorium: Explorations in Sensational Jurisprudence
Edited by David Howes
A Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society
Cambridge University Press

The Varieties of Historical Experience
Edited by Charles Stewart and Stephan Palmie
Routledge

Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat
by Ai Hisano
Harvard University Press