The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton by Tiffany Jo Werth argues that the mineral (clay, rocks, stones, bezoars, iron) offers an unsettling touchstone for rethinking Renaissance humanism and literary creation. The volume features canonical writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, Wroth, Herbert, Milton, and Pulter.
Dosman’s 147-page book covers such topics as choral philosophies and approaches, programming and logistics, strategies for notational literacy and vocal technique, diverse repertoire selections, choral program management, lesson and rehearsal planning and leadership skills.
The book Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama by Jon D. Rossini demonstrates the ways these diasporic playwrights worked to implement strategies and nuanced models for facilitating liberation, while remaining cognizant of the potential impact on those closest to us.
Fighting Words! A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression, looks at some of these linguistic dumpster fires–what Dr. Russell calls “acts of linguistic transgression,” or the ways people cross boundaries through language. He explains the necessity of learning about linguistic transgression by likening it to disease.
In Dancing the Afrofuture, published February 2024, Osumare tells the story of her life since the early 1990s when she, seeing how impactful it would be on our society, began studying hip-hop. In the book, she uses a lens of afro-futurism to look at where people of African descent are going culturally and technologically.
In Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century, Stefan H. Uhlig offers a new account of the emergence of literary studies. As an associate professor of comparative literature at UC Davis, Uhlig draws on a variety of European writers to demonstrate how different schools of literary study emerged and clashed in the decades around 1800.
Co-edited by Professor Elisabeth Krimmer and Associate Professor Chunjie Zhang, Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections explores gender issues primarily within German colonialism. The book looks at the lasting repercussions of German colonialism not only in Europe but also Dutch and Belgian colonialism in Indonesia, Africa and the Americas.
Engaging and accessible, The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha raises an array of important questions surrounding relic identity and authenticity in seventeenth-century Europe. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and casual readers interested in European history, religious history, material culture, and Renaissance studies.
Tools and the Organism by Colin Webster is the first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations. The book makes the compelling case for why telling the history of ancient Greco-Roman medical theories, from the Hippocratics to Galen, should pay close attention to the question of technology.
'American Purgatory' by Benjamin Weber tells the story of American incarceration, from its roots in racial slavery and colonialism to the present day, through the stories of the people who built resistance and freedom movements from within its confines. In the book, stories of survival and resistance take many forms. These stories show how criminal law and imprisonment have been used as tools to control and subdue groups who stand in political opposition.
