March 4, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Derrida/Searle, Survivors of Slavery, Hitchcock, the Homoerotics of Orientalism, and More New Books!

The following books are now available: Derrida/Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language Raoul Moati Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives Laura T. Murphy Must We Kill the Thing We Love?: Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock William Rothman The...

April 2, 2014

Survivors of Modern Slavery Speak

This week our featured book is Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura T. Murphy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed...

April 4, 2014

What You Can Do to End Slavery

This week our featured book is Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura T. Murphy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed...

April 3, 2014

The Story of James Kofi Annan

This week our featured book is Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura T. Murphy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed...

April 1, 2014

The Allure of Work

This week our featured book is Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura T. Murphy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed...

March 2, 2023

Narrative Activism

#MeToo from Harriet Jacobs to Tarana Burke

Leigh Gilmore

Especially in its early months in 2017, #MeToo was often described as unprecedented. Social media received credit for bringing a new level of public awareness to the scale of sexual abuse and, as a result, generating consequences for abusers. Certainly,...

April 4, 2014

University Press Roundup

Read our weekly roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing!

January 31, 2014

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! It’s been a few weeks since our last installment so we have quite a bit of catching up to do. Our list of links is...

October 10, 2012

Interview with Marianne Hirsch, Author of "The Generation of Postmemory"

The following is an interview with Marianne Hirsch, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust Question: “Postmemory” – what is it? The description of your book claims that we can inherit other people’s memories,...