Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences congratulates Richard Bausch (English), on the publication of his latest work, Playhouse (Alfred A Knopf, 2023). The story takes place in Memphis, Tennessee, where a theater company is putting together a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear for its gala opening, just after a complete renovation. But, the
Dr. Patrick Fuery (Professor and Director of the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries) recently published his 9th book, Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh: Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis (Bloomsbury, 2023). “This was a book I have wanted to write for some time,” said Dr. Fuery. “All my previous books have looked at different
Creative Writing Professor Lisa Cupolo recently published her book Have Mercy On Us (Regal House Publishing, 2023). The new book is a collection of stories that explores love, relationships, and all the complications: loss, betrayal, and longing. The collection features not only romantic love and relationships, but also that of mothers and daughters, fathers
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences English Professor Alicia Kozameh began writing before she even knew how to read. She remembers being about 3 or 4 years old growing up in Rosario, Argentina and dictating what she needed to express to her mother. Her family sent her to a private teacher at
How can self-help practice bring about true individual happiness or societal happiness when so many problems stem from racist, misogynist, heteronormative, and classist policies and structures? This is just one of the hard questions Dean Gail Stearns, Associate Professor of Religious and Peace Studies in Wilkinson College tackles in her latest publication Liberating Mindfulness: from
In her latest publication, Dr. Lynn Horton (Sociology) examines a small group of highly visible billionaires in the financial and technology sectors—Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and others—who exercise enormous control over the global economy and our lives. Men of Money, explores the growing role of such billionaire networks in organizing advocacy campaigns to
Wilkinson College’s Federico Pacchioni (Sebastian P. and Marybelle Musco Endowed Chair and Director of Italian Studies) recently had his seventh book published, “The extraordinary life of foreign language learners. Harnessing the rewards of the multilingual experience.” Co-written with author Gian Marco Faresea, the book investigates the foreign language learning experience, its deeper rewards, and implications
Between 2009 and 2020, 1,363 people in the United States were killed and 947 more were wounded in 240 mass shootings, an average of 20 shootings each year. The number of terrorist attacks on the United States between 1995 and 2019 totals 856, killing 3,492 Americans. Despite these trends, most Americans just don’t know what
Recently, the Emerald series Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change (RSMCC) of which Dr. Lisa Leitz (Peace Studies and Sociology) is the editor in chief, released a new book titled Four Dead in Ohio: The Global Legacy of Youth Activism. Although the coronavirus pandemic canceled most of the 50th anniversary events commemorating the National
Susan F. Paterno, Professor of English and Director of the Journalism Program, unravels the hunger games of higher education’s opaque rules in her forthcoming book, Game On: Why College Admission is Rigged and How to Beat the System. How is it possible that Harvard is more affordable for most American families than the local state