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 2018 By Geraldine Heng, associate professor, Department of English Questioning the common assumption that race and racisms began in the modern era, Heng argues that...
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”?...
Read more → 09 Dec 2016
Posted by Fatma Tarlaci 
Foucault's Critical Ethics Fordham University Press, September 2016 By Richard A. Lynch, DePauw University Plan II Honors Alumnus (1991) Tracing the evolution of Foucault’s analysis of power from his early articulations of disciplinary power to his theorizations of biopower and governmentality,...
Read more → 18 Nov 2016
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
Despite crime rates being at a historic low, the United States is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to achieve an 80 percent recidivism rate. We’ve spent $1 trillion during the past 40 years on criminal justice, not including $1 trillion more on the war on drugs. William Kelly, a professor...
Read more → 11 Aug 2016
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A History of American Civil War Literature Cambridge University Press, Dec. 2015 Edited by Coleman Hutchison, associate professor, Department of English The first omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War, A History of American Civil War Literature examines the way in which the war has been...
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