In Roadrunner (Duke University Press, September 2021), English professor Joshua Clover charts Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song "Roadrunner's" emotional power and its elaborate history in pop music along with its connection to American car culture, industrialization, consumption, mobility and politics.

He is affiliated faculty in French and Italian Department, Cultural Studies, Film Studies Program and the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. He is the Director of the Marxist Institute for Research. 

His recent book Riot.Strike.Riot: the New Era of Uprisings (Verso in 2016), which foresaw a series of dramatic global and national events, theorizes riot as historically concrete form of class struggle, and uses the dialectic of riot and strike to develop a revised history of capital accumulation. He has contributed articles to journals from Representations to Critical Inquiry. Forthcoming work focuses on forms and trajectories of liberatory struggle within the two constraints that are the end of capitalist growth and catastrophic climate collapse. 

He has also published three books of poetry, most recently Red Epic; been translated into a dozen languages; and appears in many anthologies including the Norton Introduction to Literature. 

View the book at Duke University Press