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Review of Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists by Emily Ruth Rutter
(Sport Literature Association, 2022-03-31) -
An Introduction to Plautus Through Scenes: Selected and Translated by Richard F. Hardin
(Poetry in Translation, 2021-08-01)This collection celebrates a comic artist who left twenty plays written during the decades on either side of 200 B.C. He spun his work from Greek comedies, “New Comedies” bearing his own unique stamp. In Rome the forerunners ... -
Review of Wenger: My Life and Lessons in Red and White by Arsene Wenger
(Sport Literature Association, 2021-04-04) -
The Made Man and the “Minor” Novel: Erewhon, ANT, and Empire
(Indiana University Press, 2017-10-01)Bruno Latour has identified the “great novel” as a site for revealing the complex nature of agency in the Anthropocene. As it traces cause and effect through numerous, interrelated events, the “great novel” reveals a vast ... -
Review of David Block, Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball
(Sport Literature Association, 2019-09-15) -
Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States
(University of Michigan Press, 2019)In the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery’s defenders often used brute force to suppress opponents, and even those abolitionists dedicated to pacifism drew upon visions of ... -
Review of Will Bishop, Pinstripe Nation: The New York Yankees in American Culture
(Sport Literature Association, 2019-03) -
Native American Presence
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-11)In this contribution to the Hawthorne in Context volume, Laura Mielke considers the appearance of Native American characters and cultures across Hawthorne’s tales and novels. In particular, she traces how his use of ... -
Fall Ball at Lyons Park
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Interview with Elizabeth Schultz Focused on Her Teaching and Experiences at the University of Kansas (1967-2001) and Beyond
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2018-12)Dr. Elizabeth Schultz talks about her academic work, post-academic writings, and experiences both abroad and at the University of Kansas. Her stories of life studying and teaching topics like Melville, English, and history ... -
Epigenetic emergence: reading for growth in Jane Eyre
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-21)The potential for an intervention by epigenetics into cultural theory and literary analysis has been a topic of recent inquiry from several directions. However, these approaches sometimes too easily align epigenetics with ... -
The Made Man and the "Minor" Novel: Erewhon, ANT, and Empire
(University of Indiana Press, 2017)Bruno Latour has identified the “great novel” as a site for revealing the complex nature of agency in the Anthropocene. As it traces cause and effect through numerous, interrelated events, the “great novel” reveals a vast ... -
Ben Jonson’s Dead Body: Henry, Prince of Wales, and the 1616 Folio
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)This essay examines the 1616 Ben Jonson Folio in the context of the social, poetic, and bibliographical aftermath of the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1612. Those involved in the stated and implied social ... -
The Role of Séméiotique in François Delsarte's Aesthetics
(De Gruyter, 2017)This article introduces the aesthetic theory of François Delsarte (1811–1870) and his conception of semiotics. Delsarte created his “applied aesthetics” as a modern scientific method for artists, particularly performers, ... -
Iris Smith Fischer reviews Expecting the Earth
(University of Chicago Press, 2017) -
Theatre at the Birth of Semiotics: Charles Sanders Peirce, François Delsarte, and Steele Mackaye
(Indiana University Press, 2013)This paper explores the role theatre played in the life of Charles Peirce and his second wife, Juliette, from 1884–1888. Peirce became acquainted with playwright and director Steele Mackaye, who trained Juliette in the ... -
Zip-Line, Fernie Alpine Resort
(Sport Literature Association, 2017) -
Review of Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Lecture Tour by Amanda Adams
(Oxford University Press, 2016) -
Review of "The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman." By Les Harrison.
(Mid-america American Studies Association, 2009) -
Review of "Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760–1850." by Jenna M. Gibbs.
(Mid-america American Studies Association, 2015)