ARHU Bookends
Dean Stephanie Shonekan launched #ARHUBookends on social media as a way to highlight some of the amazing research and creative work of ARHU faculty authors by sharing the first and last lines from their books. Read along with her and share your thoughts about the books on social media.
![Book cover design of "On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement" by William Robin and Kerry O'Brien.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-05/Book_0.png?itok=pO0RkPHl)
"On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement"
by UMD Associate Professor of Musicology William Robin (editor) and Cornish College Instructor of Musicology Kerry O'Brien (editor)
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![Italian Political Cinema: Figures of the Long ’68 book cover](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-05/Book.jpg?itok=wKjLjf8U)
"Italian Political Cinema: Figures of the Long ’68"
by Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and Italian Mauro Resmini
Thanks to a grant awarded by the College of Arts and Humanities and the UMD Libraries, the book is available Open Access here: manifold.umn.
Listen to a podcast about the book: newbooksnetwork.com/italian-political-cinema
![Book cover design of "Techno-Magism: Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism" by UMD Professor of English and Comparative Literature Orrin Wang](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-05/Book.png?itok=AIPvbbe_)
"Techno-Magism: Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism"
by Professor of English and Comparative Literature Orrin Wang
![Book cover of "Structure"](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-04/Book_0.png?itok=0XUEdfLT)
“Structure: Concepts, Consequences, Interactions”
by Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics Howard Lasnik and Professor of Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese Juan Uriagereka
![Book cover of "The Last Samurai Reread" by Lee Konstantinou.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-04/Book_1.png?itok=wsyowdU6)
by Associate Professor of English Lee Konstantinou
![Book by Elisa Gironzetti](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-04/Book.jpg?itok=d0KVdUnV)
"The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor"
by Assistant Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics Elisa Gironzetti
Learn more about the upcoming book conversation on 4/28 at Planet Word Museum: sllc.umd.edu/events/book-presentation-multimodal-performance-conversational-humor
![Book cover design of Green Light Ethics by UMD Associate Professor of Philosophy Hallie Liberto](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-04/Book.png?itok=e9HZz20O)
“Green Light Ethics: A Theory of Permissive Consent and its Moral Metaphysics”
by Associate Professor of Philosophy Hallie Liberto
![Book cover of Rape in Period Drama Television](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-03/Book_0.png?itok=6x-FpR9d)
“Rape in Period Drama Television: Consent, Myth, and Fantasy”
by UMD Research Professor of History Julie Anne Taddeo and Ulster University (UK) Lecturer of English Katherine Byrne
![Are We Ever Our Own cover](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-03/%20Fuentes%20Book.jpg?itok=_8lCbpnJ)
"Are We Ever Our Own: Stories"
by Assistant Professor of English Gabrielle Fuentes
Read more about the collection.
![Book Cover of "Black Patience" by Julius Fleming](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-02/Book_2.png?itok=5gv7hwAN)
“Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation”
by Associate Professor of English Julius Fleming
![Book cover of "Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England" by Professor Kimberly Anne Coles](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-02/Book_0.png?itok=2NnYquGB)
“Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England”
by Professor of English Kimberly Anne Coles
![Book cover of "Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries"](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-02/Book_1.png?itok=Yy1xmBy3)
“Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries”
by Professor of History Paul Landau
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Attend the Race, Equity & Justice Colloquium via Zoom on Friday, February 24, 2023, at 9:00 a.m.
![Cover of Battle of the Classics](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-01/Book.jpg?itok=IsTFihgO)
“The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today”
by Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics Eric Adler
![Book cover featuring a Black ballerina with text that reads "Dance and Belonging Implicit Bias and Inclusion in Dance Education by Crystal U. Davis"](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-02/Book.png?itok=_my6QPhB)
“Dance and Belonging: Implicit Bias and Inclusion in Dance Education”
by Assistant Professor of Dance Crystal U. Davis
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![Book cover of “Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America” by Psyche Williams-Forson](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-12/Book.png?itok=RmpGqbpE)
“Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America”
by Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies Psyche Williams-Forson
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"No Appetite for Racist Stereotypes"
"Help Black Farmers, Who Know Hyperlocal Doesn’t Mean Fancy"
![Book cover of "In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement"](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-12/Book_0.png?itok=a7bgpjhQ)
“In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement”
by Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature and Director of Honors Humanities Randy Ontiveros
![Book cover of Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-11/Book.png?itok=49kEx_AG)
by Associate Professor of Communication Catherine Knight Steele
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"Catherine Knight Steele is Helping Students Find a Place in Black Digital Studies"
Watch the Arts and Humanities REJ Colloquium Archived Recording
![Book cover of "Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire" by GerShun Avilez](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-11/Book_0.png?itok=gZ-YdiAb)
“Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire”
by Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Professor of English GerShun Avilez
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"GerShun Avilez Appointed Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
Watch the Arts and Humanities REJ Colloquium Archived Recording
![book cover](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-11/ARHU%20Bookends_IG_2-Book.png?itok=xEwrXhLv)
“How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity”
by Associate Professor of American Studies La Marr Jurelle Bruce
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"In Black Radical Artists, Professor Finds Methods to the ‘Madness’"
"La Marr Jurelle Bruce Wins 2022 Caribbean Philosophical Association Book Award"
![Book Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-11/Book%20Insta_Warfield.png?itok=Zr934INs)
“Making the March King: John Philip Sousa's Washington Years, 1854-1893”
by Associate Dean and Professor of Musicology Patrick Warfield