Forthcoming

Showing 1 to 25 of 73 results.
Clear all Filters
20th Century Literature (1) African Studies (2) American History (2) American Literature (2) American Politics (4) American Studies (9) Anthropology (4) Art (4) Art History (4) Art and Culture (1) Asian Literature (4) Asian Studies (13) Asian and Southeast Asian History (2) British and Irish Literatures (1) China (8) Chinese History (1) Cinema Studies (3) Class Studies (2) Classical Studies (3) Comparative Politics (1) Cultural Anthropology (4) Cultural Studies (14) Dance (5) Diaspora Studies (2) Digital Projects (3) Disability Studies (4) Education (2) Environmental Studies (1) Essay and Interview (5) Ethnomusicology (1) European History (1) European Literature (1) European Studies (1) Foreign Language (1) Gay and Lesbian Studies (1) Gender Studies (3) German Studies (4) Governance (4) Greek (1) Health & Medicine (1) Health Policy & Management (1) Higher Education (2) History (7) Human Rights (2) Intellectual Property (1) International Relations (3) Japan (2) Jazz (1) Jewish Studies (4) Journalism (1) Korea (3) Latin American Studies (3) Latinx Studies (1) Law (3) Law and Society (1) Literary Criticism and Theory (6) Literary Studies (20) Media Studies (13) Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2) Memoir (1) Michigan and the Great Lakes (1) Modern Hebrew (1) Modern Literature (1) Music (8) Music Composition (2) Music Theory (1) Musicology (5) Nature/Environment (1) New Media (8) Poetry and Poetry Criticism (6) Political Behavior and Public Opinion (5) Political Communication (4) Political Economy (1) Political History (2) Political Science (16) Political Theory (1) Popular Music (2) Psychology (1) Race and Ethnicity (1) Roman (3) Russian History (1) Sexuality Studies (5) Social Anthropology (1) South/Southeast Asia (2) Supreme Court and Constitutional Law (1) T.V. & Radio (2) Theater and Performance (12) U.K. Politics (1) Urban Studies (2) Women's Studies (1) Writing (5)

In Defense of Free Speech in Universities

A Study of Three Jurisdictions

By Amy T.Y. Lai
Subjects: Education, Higher Education, Political Science, Political Communication

Free expression is essential to the pursuit of truth

The Violence of the Letter

Toward a Theory of Writing

By Melanie McMahon
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing, Cultural Studies

The alphabet's devastating consequences for humanity

To Go Into the Words

By Norman Finkelstein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

A critical look at transcendence and a radical delight with language

Realisms in East Asian Performance

Edited by Jessica Nakamura & Katherine Saltzman-Li
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China, Japan, Korea

Essays by leading scholars expand understandings of theatrical realism through East Asian performances across premodern, modern, and contemporary periods

Seriously Mad

Mental Distress and the Broadway Musical

By Aleksei Grinenko
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Musicology, Disability Studies, Psychology

Explores the history of American musical theater’s engagement with notions of madness, from Man of La Mancha to A Strange Loop

The Dybbuk Century

The Jewish Play That Possessed the World

Edited by Debra Caplan & Rachel Merrill Moss
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

How a 100-year-old play about spiritual possession beyond the grave continues to engage and fascinate

Jamming the Classroom

Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

By Ajay Heble & Jesse Stewart
Subjects: Music, Musicology
Series: Music and Social Justice

Musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice

Tracks on the Trail

Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency

By Dana Gorzelany-Mostak
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, American Studies, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Tracking Pop

How music defines US presidential campaigns
 

Security. Cooperation. Governance.

The Canada-United States Open Border Paradox

Edited by Christian Leuprecht & Todd Hataley
By Christian Leuprecht
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, International Relations

Reveals Canada–US border and security policies vary drastically depending on regional needs

Millions of Suns

On Writing and Life

By M.C. Benner Dixon & Sharon McDermott
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing
Series: Writers on Writing

Invites all writers to share their own perspective

Poetry, History, Memory

Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times

By Zhiyi Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, History, Chinese History

The first comprehensive biography of  Wang Jingwei, a poet, politician, and the most controversial figure in modern Chinese history

Cosmopolitan Love

Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

By Sijia Yao
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies

Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries

Presidential Accountability in Wartime

President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War

By Stuart Streichler
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Political History

Examines how and why holding US presidents accountable for war crimes is an obligatory but impossible task in the American constitutional system

The Persistence of Dance

Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art

By Erin Brannigan
Subjects: Dance, Art, Art History

Exploring museum-based choreography as a contemporary art medium

Paris and the Art of Transposition

Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters

By Angie Chau
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Art, Art History
Series: China Understandings Today

How Chinese artists created a transnational imaginary

Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind

Tampering with Myths

By Caryl Flinn
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Out of the Archives

A critical analysis of Alan Rudolph’s dreamy neo-noir

Inhabiting the Impossible

Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico

Edited by Susan Homar & nibia pastrana santiago
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Artists and scholars celebrate the development, diversity, and ethics of Puerto Rican experimental dance

The Reputation of the Roman Merchant

By Jane Sancinito
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman

Defying a reputation for deceit and greed, Roman merchants strategized to present their good traits and successes

Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid

Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology

By Tedd Wimperis
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

A new take on the Aeneid, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil’s fictional world and its political context

Rape at the Opera

Staging Sexual Violence

By Margaret Cormier
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Music and Social Justice

How opera practitioners represent sexual violence on today’s opera stages

Biblical Judgments

New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible

By Daphne Barak-Erez
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Jewish Studies
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Analyzes the classical stories of the Hebrew Bible through the lens of modern law

Greasepaint Puritan

Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

By Maya Cantu
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies

Recovers the life and art of Bradford Ropes, author of 42nd Street and chronicler of gay lives in early show business

Greasepaint Puritan

Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

By Maya Cantu
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies

Recovers the life and art of Bradford Ropes, author of 42nd Street and chronicler of gay lives in early show business

Bad Chaucer

The Great Poet’s Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales

By Tison Pugh
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Explores how Geoffrey Chaucer’s blunders in the classic Canterbury Tales make it far from a perfect masterpiece

Instrument of Memory

Encounters with the Wandering Jew

By Lisa Lampert-Weissig
Subjects: Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Reimagining the Wandering Jew legend and the curse of immortality in centuries of Jewish and Christian art

© 2023, Regents of the University of MichiganBuilt with the U-M Library Design SystemLibrary Privacy StatementThis site is ReaderBound