04/18/2013
Finding Out: An Introduction to LBGT Studies
By: Michelle Gibson, Jonathan Alexander and Deborah Meem
UC Irvine Big Ideas
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This page will feature new titles edited and written by UCI School of Humanities faculty, affiliated faculty, and lecturers.
It showcases and promotes the wide range of scholarly and creative work that is done in the School. Original research, cutting edge journalism, creative fiction and non-fiction are represented in these diverse offerings. We hope that in these publications readers will discover ideas both big and small that will provoke and inspire them to think about their worlds more deeply, more critically, more
04/18/2013
03/20/2013
Jane O. Newman, Professor of Comparative Literature at UCI receives MLA Honorable Mention for her publication, BENJAMINS LIBRARY Modernity, Nation and the Baroque.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Uo-vEZdUA&feature=youtu.be)
02/25/2013
01/15/2013
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti
Book Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/books/amy-wilentzs-farewell-fred-voodoo-a-letter-from-haiti.html?pagewanted=all
By Amy Wilentz
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5348
01/15/2013
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti
Book Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/books/amy-wilentzs-farewell-fred-voodoo-a-letter-from-haiti.html?pagewanted=all
By Amy Wilentz
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5348
Amy Wilentz’s ‘Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti’ The “Fred Voodoo” referred to in the title of Amy Wilentz’s new book represents to her all the stereotypes outsiders have come to attach to Haitians.
11/26/2012
The Last Bohemia: Scenes from the LIfe of Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Book Reviews:
http://www.tnr.com/book/review/last-bohemia-scenes-life-williamsburg-brooklyn-robert-anasi #
http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=826&fulltext=1
http://www.bookforum.com/review/9986
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2012/08/the-hipsters-are-coming-robert-anasis-the-last-bohemia-pines-for-the-williamsburg-
By Robert Edward Aneyci
http://www.robertanasi.com/
Boho Blues: What To Do When Your Brooklyn Neighborhood Loses Its Edge ROBERT ANASI LEFT Williamsburg in 2008, which makes his new memoi
11/26/2012
Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party
Book Review:
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/019_02/9500
By Michael F. Szalay
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4570
the left-facing page While abstract ideas of “power” and “politics” are catnip to contemporary literary figures, the actual exercise of political power in the American electoral process tends to be their analytic kryptonite. But things were not ever thus. Michael Szalay’s fascinating new book, Hip Figures, remi…
11/26/2012
American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique
Book Review:
http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=interview&id=509
By Catherine Liu
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5274
Los Angeles Review of Books - Tom Lutz interviews Catherine Liu One of the most intriguing and valuable books I read in 2011 was Catherine Liu's American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique (University of Iowa Press). We have billionaire antielitists, tenured antielitists, rightwing nutjob antielitists, leftwing wacko antielitists, famous artist ant...
11/26/2012
Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum
Book Reviews:
http://neworldreview.com/vol_5No_28/exhibitingblackness.html
http://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/index.php/reviews/review/192/441
By Bridget R. Cooks
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5353
Neworld Review On line book review site: Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American A articles that review current books
11/26/2012
Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era
Book Review:
http://www.screeningthepast.com/2012/07/virtual-hallyu-korean-cinema-of-the-global-era
By Kyung Hyun Kim
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=3315
Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era Kyung Hyun Kim seems well placed to write an interesting study of contemporary Korean cinema. The UC Irvine professor has already written one book on the subject, The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (Duke University Press, 2004), produced a number of films (including Im Sang-soo’s recent high pro...
11/15/2012
Dialogues between Faith and Reason: The Death and Return of God in Modern German Thought
Book Reviews:
http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Dialogues-between-faith-and-reason.php
http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/31886-dialogues-between-faith-and-reason-the-death-and-return-of-god-in-modern-german-thought/
By John H. Smith
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2510
Dialogues between Faith and Reason | John H. Smith Dialogues tells a story about how we got to where we are and hopes that the very telling of that story will help create a way for readers themselves to engage in reasonable dialogues about matters of faith...
08/15/2011
Follow our online list of titles and edited volumes by UCI Humanities faculty at http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/bigideasUCI/lists/779393, or see http://www.humanities.uci.edu/collective/titles/index.php for information. Happy summer reading!
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