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Stanley Plumly: Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
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Robin Sawyer: Sexpertise: Real Answers to Real Questions About Sex
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Barry Lee Pearson: Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers
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Paul Herrnson: Voting Technology: The Not So Simple Act of Casting a Ballot
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Gene Roberts: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
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Robert Friedel: A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium
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Psyche Williams-Forson--Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food and Power
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Clare Lyons--Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830
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Shawn J. Parry-Giles and Trevor Parry-Giles--The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism
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Jeffrey Herf--The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust
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Verlyn Flieger--Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology
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Vincent Carretta--Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man

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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 Team to highlight new and interesting research by faculty members from the College of Arts and Humanities. In 2007-2008, the series will be expanded to include faculty members from the colleges of Journalism and Behavioral and Social Sciences.

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, Humanities Team, at thackman@umd.edu or 301-314-8521.

2008-2009 Author Conversations

The UM Libraries are pleased to announce the 2008-2009 lineup for "Speaking of Books... Conversations with Campus Authors." All events will begin at 4:30 p.m. and will be held in the McKeldin Library Special Events Room (Room 6137).

 Monday, October 27, 2008

    Dr. Stanley Plumly, Professor, English
    Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
    (W.W. Norton, 2008)

    "Posthumous Keats is the result of Stanley Plumly's twenty years of reflection on the enduring afterlife of one of England's greatest Romanticists. John Keats's famous epitaph -- "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water" -- helped cement his reputation as the archetype of the genius cut off before his time. Keats, dead of tuberculosis at twenty-five, saw his mortality as fatal to his poetry, and therein, Plumly argues, lies his tragedy: Keats thought he had failed in his mission "to be among the English poets." Ted Genoways of the Washington Post calls Posthumous Keats "a book worthy of Keats -- full of feeling and drama and those fleeting moments we call genius."

 Wednesday, November 19, 2008

    Dr. Howard D. Leathers, Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
    The World Food Problem: Tackling the Causes of Undernutrition in the Third World
    (3rd edition, Lynne Reinner, 2004)

    Recognizing that millions of people in the less-developed countries continue to go hungry while there is more than enough food in the world to feed them, the authors of The World Food Problem tackle the question of why--and what can be done about it. The book covers topics such as the history of famine, the concept of food security, economics of supply and demand, and various policy-based solutions to world food problems. One reviewer praises the book's "boldly multidisciplinary approach that captures all the complexity of the causes of, and solutions to, hunger ... in an engaging and often witty manner that is simple but never simplistic."

 Thursday, February 12, 2009

    Dr. Robin Sawyer, Professor, Public and Community Health
    Sexpertise: Real Answers to Real Questions About Sex
    (Simon & Schuster, 2008)

    "Ever since Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, people have been curious about sex... In Sexpertise, Dr. Robin Sawyer, who teaches human sexuality at the University of Maryland, takes the most-asked questions about sex from his enormously popular course and provides scientifically accurate yet honest, entertaining, and most of all, useful answers. From flirting and fetishes to staying power and STDs -- no topic is too embarrassing or off-limits to explore. Whether read cover to cover or as a go-to guide when particular questions arise, Sexpertise delivers all the knowledge you need to separate the truth about sex from its myths and urban legends, and in turn become a true sexpert.

 Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - Earth Day!

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