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“Changing True Rules for Odd Inventions: Three Attempts at Rewriting Shakespeare for Contemporary Audiences”

  Cason Murphy, assistant professor of theatre, was recently published in two journals of note — Theatre Journal and the Aesthetique Journal for International Literary Enterprises (AJILE). Theatre Journal has an international reputation as one of the most authoritative and useful publications of theatre studies, featuring social and historical studies, production reviews and theoretical inquiries … Continue reading “Changing True Rules for Odd Inventions: Three Attempts at Rewriting Shakespeare for Contemporary Audiences”

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“A Straightforward Approach to CJ Research Methods: Practices, Policies, and Procedures”

Carolina Academic Press recently published “A Straightforward Approach to CJ Research Methods: Practices, Policies, and Procedures” by Vanessa Woodward Griffin, associate professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of West George, and Kyle A. Burgason, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University. According to Carolina Academic Press, the book is … Continue reading “A Straightforward Approach to CJ Research Methods: Practices, Policies, and Procedures”

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Matthew Sivils: Transcorporeality and the Pursuit of Happiness in Leonora Sansay’s Laura (1809)

Abstract: Sivils’ article examines how Leonora Sansay’s 1809 novella, Laura, presents suggestive linkages between the early American pursuit of happiness and an appealing, but ultimately doomed, fantasy of conjugal bliss within a pastoral landscape. Sansay, in this largely unstudied novella, employs the seduction novel genre and the pastoral environs of early republic Philadelphia to interrogate … Continue reading Matthew Sivils: Transcorporeality and the Pursuit of Happiness in Leonora Sansay’s Laura (1809)

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Craig Rood’s After Gun Violence: Deliberation and Memory in an Age of Political Gridlock

Mass shootings have become the “new normal” in American life. The same can be said for the public debate that follows a shooting: blame is cast, political postures are assumed, but no meaningful policy changes are enacted. In After Gun Violence, Craig Rood argues that this cycle is the result of a communication problem. Without … Continue reading Craig Rood’s After Gun Violence: Deliberation and Memory in an Age of Political Gridlock

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Coastal Lives: Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru

Peru’s fisheries are in crisis as overfishing and ecological changes produce dramatic fluctuations in fish stocks. To address this crisis, government officials have claimed that fishers need to become responsible producers who create economic advantages by taking better care of the ocean ecologies they exploit. In Coastal Lives, Maximilian Viatori and Héctor Bombiella argue that … Continue reading Coastal Lives: Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru

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Charlie Kostelnick’s Humanizing Visual Design: The Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication published

In the book Kostelnick analyzes the role that human forms play in visualizing practical information and in making that information understandable, accessible, inviting, and meaningful to readers—in short, “humanizing” it. Although human figures have long been deployed in practical communication, their uses in this context have received little systematic analysis. Drawing on rhetorical theory, art … Continue reading Charlie Kostelnick’s Humanizing Visual Design: The Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication published