The current issue of The Gissing Journal (Volume LIV, No. 4, October 2020), an international scholarly periodical established in 1965 and devoted to studying the works and the world of… Read More
Stetz Publishes in The Gissing Journal
Category: Featured Publications
“Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History” by Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society… Read More
Wasserman Contributes to Oxford Bibliographies Online
Check out Dr. Sarah Wasserman’s recent contribution, “Thing Theory,” to Oxford Bibliographies Online. If you’ve been looking for a resource dedicated to material culture studies and thing theory, this publication is for you! Wasserman summarizes… Read More
B-Sides: Brecht Evens’s “The Making Of” by Dr. Sarah Wasserman
How could any Belgian graphic novel escape Tintin’s shadow? Enter Brecht Evens’s The Making Of. To find out more, check out Dr. Sarah Wasserman’s new article published in Public Books, an online… Read More
“Electric Light An Architectural History” by Dr. Sandy Isenstadt
How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture. In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a form of architecture—as… Read More
Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast, Julian Yates
Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression (Minnesota, 2017) In what senses do animals, plants, and minerals “write”? How does their “writing” mark our lives—our past, present, and future?… Read More
The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America, Jennifer Van Horn
Jennifer Van Horn The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America (UNC Press Culture, 2017) Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods.… Read More
Shopping: Material Culture Perspectives
Shopping: Material Culture Perspectives was published in Fall, 2014, by the University of Delaware Press. The volume was edited by Deborah Andrews, the former Director of the Center for Material… Read More