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 2018

The Aesthetics of Atmopsheres
By Gernot Böhme and Jean-Paul Thibaud
Routledge

Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies: Culture, Technology, and Things to Come
by Erik Steinskog
Palgrave

Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing
By David Parisi
University of Minnesota Press

Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions 
by Catherine Keyser
Oxford University Press

Atmospheres and the Experiential World: Theory and Methods
By Shanti Sumartojo and Sarah Pink
Routledge

Being and Hearing: Making Intelligible Worlds in Deaf Kathmandu
by Peter Graif
Hau Books

Beyond Sight: Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200-1750
Edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal
University of Toronto Press

Darkness: A Cultural History
by Nina Edwards
The University of Chicago Press

Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity
Edited by Nancy K. Stalker
Oxford University Press

Digital Sound Studies
edited by Mary Caron Lingold, Darren Mueller, Whitney Trettien
Duke University Press

Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing
by Jonathan Potter
Palgrave 

Electric Light: An Architectural History
by Sandy Isenstadt
MIT Press 

Embodied Family Choreography: Practices of Control, Care, and Mundane Creativity
by Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Asta Cekaite
Routledge

Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque
Edited by Lisa Beaven and Angela Ndalianis
Western Michigan University 

Empire of the Senses: Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America
Edited by Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite
Brill

The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone
by Antoine Bousquet
University of Minnesota Press

Figures of Touch Sense, Technics, Body
Edited by Mika Elo & Miika Luoto
Unigrafia

The Forgotten Sense: Meditations on Touch 
By Pablo Maurette
The University of Chicago Press

Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design 
Edited by Francesco Aletta and Jieling Xiao
IGI Global

Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature 
by Angela Leighton
Harvard University Press

Law in the Time of Oxymora: A Synaesthesia of Language, Logic and Law
by Rostam J. Neuwirth
Routledge

Methods of Aesthetic Enquiry: Interdisciplinary Encounters
A Special issue of The Senses and Society
Edited by Dee Reynolds and Boris Wiseman
Taylor & Francis

The Painter’s Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard
by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Princeton: Princeton University Press

Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory
Edited by Fiona Macpherson and Fabian Dorsch
Oxford University Press

A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames
by Brendan Keogh
MIT Press

Poïétique des flots. Une anthropologie sensible de la mer dans le banc d’Arguin (Mauritanie)
By Hélène Artaud
Petra

The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening
by Salomé Voegelin
Bloomsbury

Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
by Rachel Plotnick
MIT Press 

Reading by Design: The Visual Interface of the English Renaissance Book
by Pauline Reid
University of Toronto Press

Reformation of the Senses: The Paradox of Religious Belief and Practice in Germany
by Jacob B. Baum
University of Illinois Press

Rembrandt’s Roughness
by Nicola Suthor
Princeton University Press

The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies
Edited by Michael Bull
Routledge

Sculptural Seeing: Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy
by Christopher R. Lakey
Yale University Press

SEE
Edited by Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
University of Westminster Press 

Senses, Affects and Archaeology: Changing the Heart, the Mind and the Pants
by José Roberto Pellini
Cambridge Scholars

Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo
by Tala Jarjour
Oxford University Press

Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources (4 volumes)
by David Howes
Routledge

The Senses in Antiquity Series
Edited by Mark Bradley & Shane Butler
Routledge

Senses in Cities: Experiences of Urban Settings
Edited by Kelvin E.Y. Low and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Routledge

The Senses of Democracy: Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America 
by Francine R. Masiello
University of Texas Press

Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Edited by Robin Macdonald, Emilie K.M. Murphy, and Elizabeth L. Swann
Routledge

Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
by Amber Jamilla Musser
NYU Press

Sensual Religion: Religion and the Five Senses
Edited by Graham Harvey and Jessica Hughes
Equinox Publishing

Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium
by Roland Betancourt
Cambridge University Press

The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde: Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia
By Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith
Bloomsbury

Skin Matters: Thinking Through the Body’s Surfaces
Edited by Marc Lafrance
Theory Culture & Society Journal Special Issue

Sonic Skills: Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present)
by Karin Bijsterveld
Palgrave

Sound and the Aesthetics of Play: A Musical Ontology of Constructed Emotions
by Justin Christensen
Palgrave

Sound and the Ancient Senses 
Edited by Shane Butler and Sarah Nooter
Routledge

Sounding Composition: Multimodal Pedagogies for Embodied Listening
By Steph Ceraso
University of Pittsburgh Press

Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World
by Patrick Eisenlohr
University of California Press

TASTE
Edited by Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
University of Westminster Press

Taste and the Ancient Senses 
Edited by Kelli C. Rudolph
Routledge

Touch and the Ancient Senses 
Edited by Alex Purves
Routledge

Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities
by David Bissell
MIT Press

Virginia Woolf: Music, Sound, Language
by Elicia Clements
University of Toronto Press