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Speaking of Books...
Conversations with Campus Authors
Welcome to the homepage for Speaking of Books... Conversations with Campus Authors. This series of author talks and signings was begun in 2005 by the University of Maryland Libraries' Humanities Librarians to highlight new and interesting research by faculty members from the College of Arts and Humanities. In 2007-2008, the series was expanded to include faculty members from all schools and colleges at the University of Maryland.
These free events are open to all members of the campus community and the general public. Each author will answer questions following his or her talk and sign books, which will be available for purchase. Refreshments will be served.
If you would like more information about this series or individual events, please contact Tim Hackman at thackman@umd.edu or 301-314-8521.
Upcoming Author Conversations
Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 4:30pmDr. Carla Peterson, Professor, English.
Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City. (Yale UP, 2011)
"Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbors, and business associates, she illuminates the greater history of African-American elites in New York City. Black Gotham challenges many of the accepted "truths" about African-American history, including the assumption that the phrase "nineteenth-century black Americans" means enslaved people, that "New York state before the Civil War" refers to a place of freedom, and that a black elite did not exist until the twentieth century."
This free event will be held in McKeldin Library's Special Events Room. Light refreshments will be served.
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 4:30pmDr. Heather S. Nathans, Professor and Associate Director, Theatre.
Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861: Lifting the Veil of Black. (Cambridge UP, 2009)
"For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment questions how the text, images, and performances presented to American audiences during the antebellum period engaged with the debate over black participation in American society. Heather Nathans blends American history, theatre history, and literary history to question how theatre and performance lifted the 'veil of black' on American racism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."
This free event will be held in McKeldin Library's Special Events Room. Light refreshments will be served.
Past Author Conversations
FALL 2011
Dr. Jonathan Auerbach, Professor, English. Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship (Duke UP, 2011)
Read a review of the book from the website, Screening the Past Read a review of the book from Choice. Find the book in the UM Libraries Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. James Gimpel, Professor, Government & Politics. Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the Real America (Gotham, 2010)
Read Dr. Gimpel's posts from the Patchwork Nation Blog Read discussions with Dr. Gimpel in the Politico.com Arena. Read essays and watch videos by Dr. Gimpel from the Center for Immigration Studies Find the book in the UM Libraries Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Frances Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Politics. Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U. S. Senate (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Dr. Lee's book won the APSA's Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for the best book in legislative studies in 2010. See the list of past Fenno Prize winners. Read discussions with Dr. Lee in the Politico.com Arena. Read the coverage of Dr. Lee's talk in the Diamondback (UM student newspaper). Find the book in the UM Libraries Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Lucinda Fleeson, Director, Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, Phillip Merrill College of Journalism. Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island (Algonquin Books, 2009)
Read excerpts of reviews. Hear Lucinda Fleeson read an excerpt from The Outermost House, by Henry Beston, as part of the NPR series, You Must Read This. Find the book in the UM Libraries Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor, Department of History.
The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations (Penguin, 2010)
Read a review of the book from Slate.com Read a review of the book from The New York Times Read the transcript of an interview with Dr. Berlin from the PBS program Race: The Power of an Illusion, or listen to an interview with Dr. Berlin conducted by the UM News Desk Find the book in the UM Libraries Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Hugo Keesing, former Professor, American Studies. Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961-2008 (Bear Family Records, 2010)
Listen to a story about the box set, including an interview with Dr. Keesing, from National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Read an extended interview with Dr. Keesing in Performance!, the newsletter of the Society of American Archivists' Performing Arts Roundtable.
Read an article about Dr. Keesing's talk in The Diamondback (UM student newspaper) Visit the Facebook page for Next Stop Is Vietnam, where you will find links to other reviews and news stories about the box set. Find the box set in the UM Libraries Purchase the box set from Amazon.com
Dr. Sahar Mohamed Khamis, Assistant Professor, Communication, Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Read a review of the book from The Ambassadors Online Magazine Read a summary of the book written by Dr. Khamis and Dr. el-Nawawy, from Islamopedia Online, "Your guide to Islamic law and politics. Find the book in the UM Libraries Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Laura Rosenthal, Professor, English, Nightwalkers: Prostitute Narratives from the Eighteenth Century. (Broadview Press, 2008)
Read a review of several books about prostitution in the 18th century, including Professor Rosenthal's last book, Infamous Commerce: Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Cornell University Press, 2006). Download a copy of John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill, or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) from Project Gutenberg Find the book in the UM Libraries Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Robert L. Park, Research Professor, PhysicsSuperstition: Belief in the Age of Science. (Princeton UP, 2009)
Read the latest issue or browse the archives of Professor Parks' online newsletter, What's New by Bob Park. Listen to a conversation with Professor Park from the Guardian's Science Weekly podcast Read a review of the book from Nature Physics. Find the book in the UM Libraries Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Deborah Nelson, Director, Carnegie Seminar, Philip Merrill College of JournalismThe War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth About U.S. War Crimes. (Basic Books, 2008)
Read Deborah Nelson's answers to Six Questions on Vietnam War Crimes, and Why They Matter Now (Harper's Magazine) Listen to a radio interview with Deborah Nelson Read a review of the book from The New York Times Find the book in the UM Libraries Purchase the book from Amazon.com
John W. Frece, former Associate Director, National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education
Sprawl and Politics: The Inside Story of Smart Growth in Maryland. (SUNY Press, 2008)
Read a recent article by researchers from the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education Read a response from former Governor Parris Glendening to a Washington Post article about smart growth in Maryland Get more information about Smart Growth from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Find the book in the UM Libraries Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Anil K. Gupta, Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Strategy and Organization, R.H. Smith School of Business
Getting China and India Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World's Fastest Growing Economies for Global Advantage. (Jossey-Bass, 2009)
Read more on the author's Blog. View articles written by Professor Gupta for Business Week Online. Find the book in the UM Libraries. Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Mark Sagoff, Senior Research Scholar, School of Public PolicyThe Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law and the Environment (2nd ed., Cambridge, 2007)
Read about other Earth Day activities at the University of Maryland
See a list of other books and articles written by Dr. Sagoff
Find the book in the UM Libraries
Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Robin Sawyer, Professor, Public and Community Health
Sexpertise: Real Answers to Real Questions About Sex
(Simon & Schuster, 2008)
Read about Dr. Sawyer's talk in The Diamondback (UMCP campus newspaper)
Read a write-up from The Healthy Turtle, the blog for the School of Public Health
Read a profile of Dr. Sawyer in the Washington Post.
Find the book in the UM Libraries
Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Howard D. Leathers, Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource EconomicsThe World Food Problem: Tackling the Causes of Undernutrition in the Third World (3rd edition, Lynne Reinner, 2004)
Visit Dr. Leathers' personal Web page to read news items and blog posts on the topic of world hunger.
Read articles by Dr. Leathers at the repository, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
Find the book in the UM Libraries
Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Stanley Plumly, Professor, English
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W.W. Norton, 2008)
Posthumous Keats has been named a finalist for the prestigious PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, for a distinguished biography published in the United States in 2009. Read Dr. Plumly's profile from the Academy of American Poets site, Poets.org. You can read or listen to poems, and read interviews with the poet.
Read the New York Times' review of Posthumous Keats.
Read the first chapter of Posthumous Keats, courtesy of the New York Times. Find the book in the UM Libraries
Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Barry Lee Pearson, Professor, EnglishJook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers (University of Tennessee Press, 2005).
Read Dr. Pearson's profile at AllMusic.com and find out what recordings made his "desert island" list.
Learn more about the blues in Maryland and DC! Visit the DC Blues Society and the Baltimore Blues Society
Find the book in the UM Libraries
Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Paul Herrnson, Professor, Government and Politics and Director, Center for American Politics and Citizenship
Voting Technology: The Not So Simple Act of Casting a Ballot. (Brookings, 2007).
Read more about the Center for American Politics and Citizenship
Read a summary of the book from the UM Newsdesk
Find the book in the UM Libraries.
Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Gene Roberts , Professor, College of Journalism
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).
Read a notice about Professor Roberts' Pulitzer Prize. Read the transcript of an interview with Professor Roberts from National Public Radio's On the Media (Dec. 22, 2006). Read a review of the book from The New York Times (Jan. 21, 2007). Find the book in the UM Libraries. Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Robert Friedel, Professor, HistoryA Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium (MIT Press, 2007).
Read a review from the New York Times. Find the book in the UM Libraries. Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson, Assistant Professor, American Studies
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
Professor Williams-Forson's book was awarded the 2006 Elli Kongas-Maranda Prize by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society. Read excerpts from
reviews. Find the book in the UM Libraries. Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Clare Lyons, Associate Professor, History
Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (University of North Carolina Press, 2006.)
Find the book in the UM Libraries. Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Shawn Parry-Giles, Associate Professor, Communication and
Dr. Trevor Parry-Giles, Associate Professor, Communication
The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism (University of Illinois Press, 2006)
Read more about the book.
Read an article from the
Diamondback (UMCP campus newspaper) about the work Shawn and Trevor Parry-Giles are doing with the Political Advertising Resource Center. Find the book in the UM Libraries. Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Jeffrey Herf, Professor, History
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, 2006)
Read more about Dr. Herf's book or read a review from
The Jewish Daily Forward.
Find the book in the UM Libraries. Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Verlyn Flieger, Professor, EnglishInterrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology (Kent State University Press, 2005)
Read more about Professor Flieger's talk in the
Diamondback (UMCP campus newspaper).
Read more about the book on Dr. Flieger's personal website. Find the book in the UM Libraries. Purchase the book from Amazon.com
Dr. Vincent Carretta, Professor, EnglishEquiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (University of Georgia Press, 2005)
Read the transcript of an online chat with Professor Carretta from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Read a
review of his book from The Guardian. Find the book in the UM Libraries. Purchase the book from Amazon.com
