Peter Bondanella, distinguished professor emeritus of Comparative Literature, Film Studies and Italian, is the editor of New Essays on Umberto Eco, published in July by Cambridge University Press.  Essays by four former students of Italian at IU - Norma Bouchard, Manuela Gieri, Guy Raffa and Torunn Haaland - are included in the book.

Stephen Watt, professor of English and associate dean for Strategic Planning, published Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing (Cambridge University Press).

Michael Trosset, professor of Statistics, wrote Introduction to Statistical Inference and its Applications with R, published in June by Taylor & Francis.

Out in the Country (NYU Press) by Mary L. Gray, Communication and Culture, offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of today’s rural queer youth. Mary L. Gray maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders, providing a fascinating and often surprising look at the contours of gay life beyond the big city.

Steve Russell (Cherokee) of Bloomington, Indiana, is the winner of the 2008 First Book Awards competition in poetry from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas for his book-length manuscript, "Wicked Dew,” a collection of poems which draw strongly from his observations of contemporary Native American issues and politics.  Russell is associate professor of Criminal Justice.  He holds a doctorate in jurisprudence from the University of Texas. A long-time member of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, he is widely known throughout Indian Country for his op-ed columns in Indian Country Today.  His collection of essays, “Sequoyah Rising,” on contemporary tribal policy, is currently under contract with Carolina Academic Press.  His research has appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, American Indian Quarterly, and Wicazo Sa Review.  His poems have been published in South Dakota Review, The En’owkin Journal of First North American Peoples, and the Messenger Journal of Cherokee Literature.

Mark Hooker, Visiting Scholar in the Russian and East European Institute and a specialist on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, recently published "The Hobbitonian Anthology," the second volume in a series of essays (Llyfrawr). The first volume, also from Llyfrawr (2006), is entitled "A Tolkienian Mathomium." Hooker also wrote "Tolkien Through Russian Eyes," which was published by Walking Tree Publishers (2003).  One of Hooker’s essays is included in the "J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings'" volume of the "Bloom's Literary Criticism" series, billed as "the most comprehensive collection of literary reference in the world."

Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature Eileen Julien's new book, Travels with Mae: Scenes of a New Orleans Girlhood has appeared this summer (IU Press).  Julien also attended a workshop in Hong Kong in May as a member of an international project on “Literature: A World History".  She is also FRIT and AAADS and affiliated with African Studies

English Professor Alyce Miller’s essay “All My Children” selected by memoirist Kathryn Harrison for special creative nonfiction issue of PLOUGHSHARES, August 2009.  Her book of short stories Water: Nine Stories was, in addition to winning the Mary McCarthy Prize, a finalist in the Paterson Prize.

In the spring of 2009, the third edition of Ronald Wainscott’s book, Theatre: Collaborative Acts, written with Kathy Fletcher was published by Allyn & Bacon.  He was an invited visiting scholar at the Honors Conference at DePauw University, where he also presented a paper, "A Modest History of Immodesty on the Stage," April 2009.

Judith Allen’s book The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism was published on July 31 by the University of Chicago Press as part of the Women in Culture and Society Series. Allen is professor of History.

Marissa Moorman’s book Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola from 1945 to Recent Times was published late in 2008 with Ohio University Press' New African Histories series.

Professor Stephen Katz’s book, Red, Black and Jew:  New Horizons in Hebrew Literature (University of Texas Press) has been published.  His article, "The Unpassover," on the Holocaust poetry of the Hebrew poet M. Ben-Meir, is due out in the forthcoming issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review.  Katz is on a research-related trip to Israel examining early literary  responses to the Holocaust by Hebrew writers.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics Roger Newton’s latest book is How Physics Confronts Reality: Einstein was Correct, but Bohr Won the Game, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2009

Kari Gade, Germanic Studies, published Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. 2 Parts. Vol. 2 of Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages.

Shaul Magid’s book From Metaphysics to Midrash (IU Press, 2008) was awarded the 2009 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in Religion in the Textual Studies category.   Magid is Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies and professor of Religious Studies The AAR is the leading professional society of scholars of religion, and its awards honor works of distinctive originality, intelligence, creativity, and importance, books that affect decisively how religion is examined, understood, and interpreted.  The award will be made at the AAR's annual meeting in Montreal in November 2009.

Asma Afsaruddin, incoming professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Afsaruddin recently published the book The First Muslims: History and Memory (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2008), as well as the article “The Hermeneutics of Inter-Faith Relations: Retrieving Moderation and Pluralism as Universal Principles in Qur’anic Exegeses,” in the Journal of Religious Ethics (summer, 2009) and the chapter “Lessons from the Past: Piety, Leadership, and Good Governance in the Risalat al-‘Uthmaniyya,” in the volume Al-Jahiz: a Muslim Humanist for Our Time, edited by Arnim Heinemann, John Meloy, Tarif Khalidi and Manfred Kropp, published in the Beiruter Texte und Studien series (Beirut: Orient Institut, 2009).

Dennis Conway, Professor emeritus, Department of Geography, published Return Migration of the Next Generations : 21st Century Transnational Mobility with Robert B. Potter, University of Reading, UK: Ashgate, July, 2009.

English Professor Jesse Molesworth’s book Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic has been accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press and will appear in 2010.  His article "Syllepsis, Mimesis, Simulacrum: The Monk and the Grammar of Authenticity" has been accepted for publication with Criticism and will appear later in 2009.

Up the Devil’s Back: An Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry, translated and edited by Bronislava Volková and Clarice Cloutier, Introduction by Bronislava Volková and Clarice Cloutier. Slavica Publishers, 2008, 470+xiv pp.

Along with Historian Frank Trentmann (University of London) and Sociologist Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University), Anthropology Professor Richard Wilk edited a multidisciplinary collection of essays entitled "Time, consumption and everyday life:  practice, materiality and culture" published by  Berg in the UK and  Palgrave Macmillan in the USA.  He also published a chapter in the first book by anthropologists on the causes and consequences of global climate change, based on his research on consumer culture, entitled "Consuming Ourselves to Death.” In Anthropology and Climate Change: from Encounters to Actions, edited by Susan Crate, published by Duke University Press.

Jonathan Elmer, chair and professor of English, published On Lingering and Being Last:  Race and Sovereignty in the New World (Fordham University Press, 2008).

Jane Goodman, Communication and Culture, published Bourdieu in Algeria: Colonial Politics, Ethnographic Practices, Theoretical Developments, an edited collection of works on Pierre Bourdieu’s research in Algeria (University of Nebraska Press, 2009, with Paul Silverstein).

Cynthia Bannon, associate professor of Classical Studies, published Gardens and Neighbors: Private Water Rights in Roman Italy.  University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Andrei Molotiu, History of Art, is editor of Abstract Comics:  The Anthology (Seattle, Fantagraphics  Books, 2009), the first publication to trace the history and survey  the contemporary landscape of abstract sequential art. 

Giles Knox, associate professor of Southern Renaissance and Baroque Art,  published The Late paintings of Velázques: Theorizing Painterly Performance (Ashgate 2009).  Giles, who made a dramatic scholarly move as a Renaissance expert researching Spanish art; his book has been so well received it is already being translated into Spanish.

Shane Vogel’s book The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance was published by the University of Chicago Press in April.  His essay, "Lena Horne's Impersona," was awarded the 2009 Outstanding Essay in Theatre/Performance Studies by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and the 2009 Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize, Honorable Mention (for the best essay written and published in English in a refereed scholarly journal), American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). ATHE and ASTR are the two leading national theatre studies associations.

Sara Pryor, professor and Chair of Atmospheric Science Program, is the editor of Understanding climate change: Climate variability, predictability and change in the Midwestern USA, published by Indian University Press.  It is a comprehensive assessment of change over last 100 years & projections for C21st with a focus on four 'parameters'; (i) Thermal regimes, (ii) Hydrologic regimes, (iii) Flow regimes (winds and synoptic scale phenomena) (iv) Severe weather. The volume is a product of the MAGIC consortium (Midwest Assessment Group for Investigations of Climate) and comprises 24 chapters with 33 contributing authors from 13 Midwestern institutions.  She is also a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. The chapter I will be contributing to is focused on Wind Energy, and my focus will be on understanding how climate change has or may influence the wind energy resource.

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