The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel (University of Minnesota Press, 2020).

"Wasserman’s incisive book considers what fiction can tell us about living among things that are so frequently disposable, such that we “confront at every turn not so much the death of things, but their perpetual dying.” The Death of Things manages to show us quite a lot, too, about how fiction can serve as its own kind of cache—one that doesn’t preserve ephemera, exactly, but creates its own kind of afterlives for fading things."        —Sophie Haigney, The Nation

"Moving with ease between theories of the novel, object-oriented ontologies, and critical infrastructure studies, the book makes us notice the agency of “stuff” in our desires to re-animate futures that never came to pass, revivifying narrative categories of setting and object. Wasserman’s witty, direct style makes the ambiguities and anxieties that circulate around the ephemeral a pleasure to read."  —MSA First Book Prize, Honorable Mention Citation

Also short-listed for ASU's Institute for the Humanities 2022 Book Award.

Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing. With Martin Brückner and Sandy Isenstadt, Eds. (University of Minnesota Press, 2021).

With entries on Sensing, Knowing, Making, and Doing, this volume makes clear that regardless of time period or physical media, modeling invokes particular registers of phenomenology and epistemology; as a facsimile of a thing or a process, it inevitably creates ways of sensing, knowing, and operating in the world. The volume points toward larger conceptual debates about the way in which models of the past as well as new digital ones—models within models—profoundly shape the world around us. Contributors include Johanna Drucker, Peter Galison, Lisa Gitelman, Annabel Wharton, and several others.

Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality and the Digital Age. With Babette B. Tischleder, Eds. (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).

Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension of an economic system. The contributors to this book investigate obsolescence as a historical phenomenon, an aesthetic practice, and an affective mode. This volume thus brings together essays from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives on the topic of obsolescence. Contributors include Bill Brown, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, John Durham Peters, Susan Strasser, William Urrichio and several others.