Faculty Research Bookshelf
Books and films by faculty members published 2006 - 2007:
Stephen Deng and Barbara Sebek, eds., Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008)
Jennifer Fay, Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany (University of Minnesota Press)
Kenneth Harrow, Postcolonial African Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2007). Ken looks at films by Sembène Ousmane, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Souleymane Cisse, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Jean-Marie Teno, Bassak ba Kohbio, and Fanta Nacro, offering a new critical approach to African cinema.
Gordon Henry, The Failure of Certain Charms, and Other Disparate Signs of Life (Salt Publishing)
Sandra Logan, Text/Events in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007). Sandra investigates four crucial moments in the reign of Elizabeth I and shows how text and events, past and present, history and poetry were blurred in the rhetorical struggles of the Elizabethan Age.
Sheng-mei Ma, East-West Montage: Reflections on Asian Bodies in Diaspora (University of Hawaii Press, 2007). Sheng-mei examines the intersection between east and west: the Asian diaspora and the cultural expressions by and about people of Asian descent on both sides of the Pacific.
Scott Michaelsen (MSU) and David E. Johnson (SUNY Buffalo), Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture (Fordham University Press)
Justus Nieland, Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life (University of Illinois Press)
Judith Roof, The Poetics of DNA (University of Minnesota Press, 2007). Judith examines the rise of DNA as a powerful symbol for who we “are” and discusses the implications of its ascendancy for the ways we think about ourselves, about one another, and about the world.
Geneva Smitherman, Word From The Mother: Language and African Americans (Routledge, 2006). The definitive statement on African American English, from one of the most important linguists at work today.
M. Teresa Tavormina, Sex, Aging, & Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: Trinity College (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006). Tess’s two-volume collection includes editions of over a dozen texts from an important late-medieval manuscript, studies of the physical manuscript itself (its contents and textual relations to other middle English medical compendia, its scribe, scribal dialect, and the translation strategies of its principal translator), and concludes with an extensive scholarly apparatus.
Bill Vincent, The Final Curtain (IndieHorror, 2007). Bill wrote the screenplay of the movie; Jeff Burton was the producer. It’s available through Blockbuster Videos.
Edward (Ned) Watts, In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780–1860 (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). Ned looks at the image of the French in nineteenth-century America, arguing that—in the context of a developing empire— the model of the colonial French served for some as a way of life to be forgotten, for others as a way of life to be remembered nostalgically.
Jeff Wray (director), The Soul Searchers: Three Stories (independent film)
