Presents and Futures of Catalan Studies: A North American Perspective ed. by Dr. Anna Casas Aguilar et al.
This special edition of Catalan Review was edited by Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, Ignasi Gozalo and Núria Silleras and was published by Liverpool University Press on July 26, 2023. Read Volume 37, Issue 1, “Presents and Futures of Catalan Studies: A North American Perspective”.
Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene by Dr. William Brown
Dr. William Brown‘s book Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene was published on June 26, 2023 by CollectiveInk. Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene radically re-interprets Buster Keaton’s iconic 1924 film, The Navigator, through the combined lenses of posthumanism and critical race theory. This book deconstructs the film’s underlying anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity while […]
Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the World of Wen: Reading Sheldon Pollock from the Sinographic Cosmopolis ed. by Dr. Ross King
Sheldon Pollock’s work on the history of literary cultures in the ‘Sanskrit Cosmopolis’ broke new ground in the theorization of historical processes of vernacularization and served as a wake-up call for comparative approaches to such processes in other translocal cultural formations. But are his characterizations of vernacularization in the Sinographic Sphere accurate, and do his […]
Marx’s Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology by Dr. Thomas Kemple
Dr. Thomas Kemple‘s book, Marx’s Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology, was published on October 13, 2022 by Palgrave Macmillan Cham. PDF downloads are free for members of the UBC community. Overview Demonstrates how influential classical sociologists read Capital Identifies the implications of Marx’s reception for later social scientists Examines how early thinkers understand theory and […]
Culture Work: Folklore For the Public Good ed. by Dr. Tim Frandy and Dr. B. Marcus Cederström
Culture Work: Folklore For the Public Good edited by Dr. Tim Frandy and Dr. B. Marcus Cederström was published on August 1, 2022 by the University of Wisconsin Press. “A timely and much-needed resource for those inside and outside academia, Culture Work provides a powerful overview of the value of public folklore and humanities across private and […]
Bilingual Legacies: Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona by Dr. Anna Casas Aguilar
Dr. Anna Casas Aguilar‘s book Bilingual Legacies: Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona was published by the University of Toronto Press in May 2022. Bilingual Legacies examines fatherhood in the work of four canonical Spanish authors born in Barcelona and raised during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Drawing on the autobiographical texts of Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Barral, […]
Sovereignty in German History ed. by Dr. Rüdiger Graf and Dr. Heidi Tworek
This special edition of the journal Central European History was edited by Dr. Rüdiger Graf and Dr. Heidi Tworek and published by Cambridge University Press on April 8, 2022. Read Volume 55 – Special Issue 1 “Sovereignty in German History”.
Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic by Dr. Katherine Bowers
Dr. Katherine Bowers‘ first monograph, Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic was published in 2022 by the University of Toronto Press. About the book In Russia, gothic fiction is often seen as an aside – a literary curiosity that experienced a brief heyday and then disappeared. In fact, its legacy is much more enduring, […]
Preparing Teachers to Work with Multilingual Learners by Meike Wernicke et al.
Preparing Teachers to Work with Multilingual Learners by Meike Wernicke, Svenja Hammer, Antje Hansen, Tobias Schroedler was published by Multilingual Matters on April 15, 2021. This collection examines a diverse range of approaches to multilingualism in teacher education programmes across Europe and North America. The authors investigate how pre-service teachers are being prepared to work […]