16 Apr 2019
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
Over a period of five years (2013-18) a Faculty Committee on Influential Books discussed, debated and finally compiled a list of intellectually and culturally significant books to encourage reading by undergraduates and provide inspiration for continued reading by college alumni. The committee benefited...
Read more → 14 Aug 2018
Posted by Katie Lazarowicz 
Set in contemporary South China, The Emperor of Shoes is about a young Jewish Bostonian preparing to take over his family’s shoe business. But he ends up falling in love with a factory worker who may or may not be using him as a pawn to start a pro-democratic revolution in the factory. For author...
Read more → 02 Jul 2018
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
Writer and actor Stephen Fry says Galen Strawson “opens windows and finds light-switches like no other philosopher writing today,” and novelist Ian McEwan simply dubs Strawson “one of the cleverest men alive.” High praise for this UT professor of philosophy, who discusses his latest book, Things...
Read more → 04 Jun 2018
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A SAMPLING OF TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages Cambridge University Press, March 2018By Geraldine Heng, associate professor, Department of English Questioning the common assumption that race and racisms began in the modern era, Heng argues...
Read more → 15 May 2018
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A SAMPLING OF TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: Wes Anderson University of Illinois Press, Sept. 2017 By Donna Kornhaber, associate professor, Department of English Using filmmaker Wes Anderson’s focus on collecting as its organizing principle, Kornhaber approaches Anderson’s trademark style...
Read more → 18 Jan 2018
Posted by David Ochsner 
When it comes to staging a revolution, timing is everything. In 1959 an island nation of 7 million revolted against its U.S.-backed dictator, and with its subsequent export of revolution to Latin America became a major driver of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. In a story as compelling as it is complex,...
Read more → 03 Nov 2017
Posted by Rachel Griess 
Since 1995, the Texas Book Festival has connected Texas authors with readers through literary panels and readings, book signings, demonstrations, live music, family-fun and local eats. This year at the festival, Germanic Studies Professor John Hoberman will present his third book on the social impacts...
Read more → 26 Jun 2017
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A SAMPLING OF NEW AND FORTHCOMING TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco University of Pennsylvania Press, June 2017 By Cary Cordova, assistant professor, Department of American Studies Cordova combines urban, political and art history...
Read more → 02 May 2017
Posted by David Ochsner 
If you search “women in the 1920s” in Google Images, what you get are a few photos of women working or protesting, but many more photos of sexually liberated flappers — at the beach, on the town, or dancing the night away at some speakeasy. The 1920s look like one big party. But the decade wasn’t...
Read more → 28 Apr 2017
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A sampling of new and forthcoming titles from our college community: The Subject of Experience Oxford Unversity Press, March 2017 By Galen Strawson, professor, Department of Philosophy What is a person? How should we think of our death? Is there really such a thing as the “self”?...
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