Q&A with Seth Peabody: Exploring German Film History
April 17, 2024
Q&A with Seth Peabody, author of the book Film History for the Anthropocene. Could you briefly describe what your book is about and how you came to write it? Film… READ MORE
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How Whites Have Adjusted to Democracy in South Africa
April 10, 2024
Guest post written by Roger Southall, author of Whites and Democracy in South Africa. Apartheid symbolized the determination of a white minority to hang on to power in defiance of… READ MORE
Naming a Massacre
April 8, 2024
Guest post written by Julian Brown, author of the Marikana. On 16 August 2012, members of the South African Police killed 34 striking miners and injured several hundred more at… READ MORE
The haunting of a missing letter: César Vallejo and José Carlos Mariátegui
April 6, 2024
Guest post written by Valentino Gianuzzi and Carlos Fernández, editors of the book César Vallejo. Correspondencia 1910-1938 [2-volume set] As the task of collecting and editing the “complete” correspondence of the poet… READ MORE
Contextualizing Franz Schubert and the Gothic
April 4, 2024
Guest post written by Joe Davies, author of The Gothic Imagination in the Music of Franz Schubert. What drew you to the topic of Schubert and the gothic? Why such… READ MORE
Books to look out for in April 2024
April 1, 2024
New month = new releases! This April, we are excited to share with you our latest books: Rewriting the First Crusade explores the letters from the First Crusade; The Medieval… READ MORE
Women in Pierre Boulez’s formative years
March 25, 2024
Guest post written by Caroline Potter, author of Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium. Pierre Boulez’s extraordinary formative years are the focus of my new book. Most of the story concentrates on… READ MORE
Frugal Housewife or Fashionable Spendthrift?: Why the way we describe women’s clothing matters
March 23, 2024
Guest post written by Elizabeth Spencer, author of Describing Women’s Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England. In March 1765, the gentlewoman Catherine Ettrick began proceedings in the Durham Consistory Court to obtain… READ MORE
The Work of Women – A Threat to Patriarchal Society
March 19, 2024
Guest post written by Beatrice Moring, author of Women in the Factory, 1880-1930. All workers agree that the introduction of women into industry has been bad for the working class… READ MORE
6 Books to Read on Contemporary Music
March 18, 2024
Guest post written by Eastman Studies in Music series editor, Ralph Locke. The field of musical composition since around 1950—whether for the concert hall or the opera house—has been astonishingly… READ MORE
Q&A with Seth Peabody: Exploring German Film History