UC Irvine Big Ideas

04/18/2013

Finding Out: An Introduction to LBGT Studies

By: Michelle Gibson, Jonathan Alexander and Deborah Meem

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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 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

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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-fictio...