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Exclusively gay, remarkably famous: The "fabulous potency" of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein.
BY JEFF SOLOMON Assistant professor of English and women, gender, and sexuality studies at Wake Forest University Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein s ...
Art Practice and Protest.
BY NAMIKO KUNIMOTO Assistant professor of art history at The Ohio State University In 1950, Japanese political parties and grassroots organizations ...
Reparative therapies remain alive and well in some US states—Texas and Oklahoma included.
This billboard appeared in Dallas, Texas, in 2015. Despite widespread condemnation, reparative (also known as "ex-gay" or "reorientation") therapies s ...
The boombox on the bus: Erik Satie's furniture music in 2016
BY PAUL ROQUET Postdoctoral fellow in global media and film studies at Brown University 2016 marks the 150th birth anniversary of the French compose ...
On Jeff VanderMeer and material monsters: Did we ever know anything about the world at all?
BY BENJAMIN J. ROBERTSON University of Colorado Boulder In None of This is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer , I focus on the fantastic materia ...
His words, his story, his magnetism: Capturing the voice of Hy Berman, Minnesota’s beloved public historian
BY JAY WEINER Until the work began on what would become Professor Berman: The Last Lecture of Minnesota’s Greatest Public Historian, I didn’t know ...
Remembering the struggles and achievements of Māori filmmaker Barry Barclay.
While filming Barclay's Tangata Whenua television series in 1972, cameraman Keith Hawke has the camera about 10 meters from the people on the porch, l ...
#UPWeek finale: More authors on working with a university press
On Monday , we kicked off University Press Week with a tremendous blurb from Nona Willis Aronowitz about the value of working with a university press ...
#UPWeek: Throwback Thursday | University presses and other publishers and their founding dates.
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#UPWeek Day One: Nona Willis Aronowitz on working with a university press
For me, working with a university press was absolutely the right choice. I didn't just feel like one of a million authors at the mercy of a breakneck ...