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Mark W. Rectanus – Community-Based Museum Ecologies: Public Doors and Windows and Les Nouveaux Commanditaires (‘The New Patrons’)

July 19, 2019

“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,…

July 16, 2019

Ryan D. Sheeler

Ritchie Valens: His Guitars and Music

June 26, 2019

“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…

June 24, 2019

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…

June 17, 2019

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…

May 30, 2019

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…

May 20, 2019

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.

May 20, 2019