Featured English books, to be kept at 5. As books are added, existing books should be deleted to keep the # of featured books at 5.
Robert B. Ray and Christian Keathley Bloomsbury Publishing 2023 Alan J. Pakula’s political thriller All the President’s Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy Award nominations. Through a close reading of key scenes, performances and stylistic decisions, Christian Keathley and Robert […]
Edited by Pamela Gilbert Cambridge University Press 2024 Offering an in-depth overview and reappraisal of the 1860s in British literature, this innovative volume features in-depth analyses from noted scholars at the tops of their fields. Covering characteristic literary genres of the 1860s (including sensation and lyric, as well as Golden Age children’s literature), and topics […]
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Margaret Galvan University of Minnesota Press 2023 In 1982, the protests of antiporn feminists sparked the censorship of the Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, a radical and sexually evocative image-text volume whose silencing became a symbol for the irresolvable feminist sex wars. In Visible Archives documents the community networks that produced this resonant artifact […]
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Barbara Mennel University of Illinois Press 2023 With acclaimed films like Sink or Swim and The Odds of Recovery, Su Friedrich’s body of work stands at the forefront of avant-garde and queer cinema. Barbara Mennel examines the career of an experimental auteur whose merger of technical innovation and political critique connects with both cinephiles and activists. Friedrich’s integration […]
Laura Gonzales Utah State University Press 2022 As technical communicators continue advocating for justice, the field should pay closer attention to how language diversity shapes all research and praxis in contemporary global contexts. Designing Multilingual Experiences in Technical Communication provides frameworks, strategies, and best practices for researchers engaging in projects with multilingual communities. Through grounded case studies […]
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Edited by Laura Gonzales and Michelle Hall Kells Syracuse University Press 2022 Latina Leadership focuses on the narratives, scholarly lives, pedagogies, and educational activism of established and emerging Latina leaders in K-16 educational environments. As the first edited collection foregrounding the voices of Latina educators who talk back to, with, and for themselves and the student […]
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Abigail Castellanos García, Laura Gonzales, Cristina V. Kleinert, Tomás López Sarabia, Edith Matías Juan , Mónica Morales-Good, Nora K. Rivera Intermezzo 2022 This book was written by the organizing committee for the International Unconference of Indigenous Language Interpreters and Translators, which took place in the city of Oaxaca on August 8-9, 2019. This event […]
Malini Johar Schueller Temple University Press 2019 Amidst the throes of the Philippine-American war, American soldiers opened the first school in Corregidor, initiating a comprehensive system of education; following Japanese surrender, the U.S.- led occupation commenced its educational reform. Campaigns of Knowledge argues that the creation of a suitable pedagogical subject through schooling was a […]
Peter L. Rudnytsky Routledge 2019 In Formulated Experiences: Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, Peter L. Rudnytsky continues his quest for a “re-vision” of psychoanalysis by coupling his revival of the unjustly neglected figure of Erich Fromm with his latest groundbreaking research on Ferenczi and Groddeck. Committed at once to a humanistic and […]
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Mark A. Reid Wayne State University Press 2019 African American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class, and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented narrative film from post–World War II through the presidential administration of Barack Obama. Editor Mark A. Reid […]
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