Category: Cultural Studies
Tomorrow afternoon in Tucson, AZ, the new editorial team of the JHU Press journal Feminist Formations will hold a celebration to mark the move of the editorial staff to the University of Arizona. Part of the celebration will include a talk from Roxana Galusca, a University of Chicago researcher who contributed an article to the newest issue…
Guest post by Yaacov Ro’i In August 1979 I attended the International Political Science Congress in Moscow. There I had the privilege of directly experiencing the subject of my academic work, the Soviet regime and Soviet society. Even more exciting, however, … Continue reading →
Guest post by Yaacov Ro’i In August 1979 I attended the International Political Science Congress in Moscow. There I had the privilege of directly experiencing the subject of my academic work, the Soviet regime and Soviet society. Even more exciting, however, … Continue reading →
No roaring lions (only polar bears) heralded the end of our mild winter here in Baltimore. Read on to see what we've been up to, who we've been meeting (can anyone say James Franco?), and what's in the works at the JHU Press. Journals News In an effort to help raise awareness about health issues…
Guest post by Christopher N. Phillips What place does storytelling have in literary history today? I didn’t expect this to be a central question in my book, Epic in American Culture, but the more I explored the topic, the more I realized that storytelling caused many of the problems I faced in this project—and story…
Guest post by Blair A. Ruble I just returned from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library where I spoke about my history of U Street with veteran jazz broadcaster Rusty Hassan, currently of DC's WPFW. A very diverse group of about 40 showed up on a rainy afternoon in the middle of the week…
In case you weren’t aware, it’s Black History Month. We’ll leave aside the well-known and somewhat suspicious fact that the shortest month of the year is the one officially designated to understanding, recognizing, and honoring the long and troubled history of the relationship between blacks and whites in the United States and instead take this…