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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).
"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."
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."
"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.
In this updated edition of his seminal work on the foundations of environmentalism, Mark Sagoff argues that "the most important reasons for protecting nature are moral and aesthetic, not economic and instrumental." One reviewer notes: "Sagoff's carefully reasoned and wide ranging arguments will infuriate economists, ecologists and elite environmentalists equally, but the book is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of environmentalism."
FALL 2007
SPRING 2007
Monday, October 27, 2008
Dr. Stanley Plumly, Professor, English
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
(W.W. Norton, 2008)
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)
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Dr. Robin Sawyer, Professor, Public and Community Health
Sexpertise: Real Answers to Real Questions About Sex
(Simon & Schuster, 2008)
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - Earth Day!
Dr. Mark Sagoff, Senior Research Scholar, School of Public Policy
The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law and the Environment(2nd edition, Cambridge, 2007)
Past Author Conversations
SPRING 2008
Dr. Barry Lee Pearson, Professor, English
Jook 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, History
A 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 Professor Lyons' book from
Amazon.com
FALL 2006
(Harvard University Press, 2006)
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
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, English
Interrupted 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 her book.
Find the book in the UM Libraries.
Purchase the book from Amazon.com.
Dr. Vincent Carretta, Professor, English
Equiano, 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.
