Faculty Authors Celebrated at Book Party
Annual Book Party gathering honors faculty members’ published works for the year.
The College of Arts and Sciences community gathered for the third annual fall Book Party this month, celebrating 29 book-length works published in the last year by 27 faculty members in the Division of Arts and Humanities and the Division of Social Sciences.
Faculty authors and others discussed their books with each other and guests on Tuesday, November 11, over refreshments at the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts.
“These books represent career milestones for our faculty members, and it is exciting to celebrate with them and see connections made across disciplines during the gathering,” said Beauvais Lyons, divisional dean for arts and humanities. “I am also grateful to the Denbo Center for again hosting this growing tradition in the college.”
The 29 books shared at the party show the wide range of research and creative approaches of arts and sciences faculty, covering topics in anthropology, classics, English, history, sociology, philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, religious studies, and world languages and cultures.
“All of these publications seek to advance the meaning and understanding of the past, the present, and our humanity,” said Lyons. “Having colleagues who are committed to research, scholarship, and creative activity enriches the world, advancing our discovery mission, while also giving our students opportunities to study with faculty who are making meaningful contributions to learning. I look forward to the works our colleagues will have to share at our next book party in 2026.”
Participating Faculty Authors
- Margaret Andersen, Associate Professor, Department of History
Fertile Expectations: The Politics of Involuntary Childlessness in Twentieth-Century France, Manchester University Press, 2025
- Salvador Bartera, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics
The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus (co-editor with Kelly Shannon-Henderson), Oxford University Press, 2025
- Stephen Blackwell, Professor, Russian Chair, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Silhouettes of Russian Writers: Literary and Philosophical Essays by Yuli Aikhenvald (translator and co-editor with Tatyana Gershkovich), Academic Studies Press, 2025
- Michelle Christian, Associate Professor and Executive Associate Head, Department of Sociology
The Global Journey of Racism, Stanford University Press, 2025
- Adam Cureton, Lindsay Young Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Philosophy
Sovereign Reason: Autonomy and our Interests of Reason, Oxford University Press, 2025
- Harry Dahms, Director of the Center for Social Theory, Professor,Department of Sociology
The Future of Agency: Between Autonomy and Heteronomy (editor), Emerald, 2025
- Amy J. Elias, Chancellor’s Professor and Distinguished Professor of English; Director, Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts
Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin (editor), Duke University Press, 2025
- Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, Associate Professor, German Chair, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Composite Selves: Subjecthood in the German Novel, 1700-1785, Oxford University Press, 2025
- Stanton B. Garner Jr., James Douglas Bruce Professor of English and Affiliated Professor of Theatre, Department of English
Norton Anthology of Drama, 4th edition (co-editor with J. Ellen Gainor and Martin Puchner, W.W. Norton, 2025
- William Hardwig, Associate Professor, Department of English
How Cormac Works: McCarthy, Language, and Style, Louisiana State University, 2025
- Asafa Jalata, Professor, Department of Sociology
Baro Tumsa: The Principal Architect of the Oromo Liberation Front, Palgrave, 2024
The Quest for Democracy, Self-Determination, and Just Peace in Oromia and Ethiopia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025
- Gregory Kaplan, Professor of Spanish and Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Department of World Languages and Cultures
San Martín de Elines: eje cultural de los caminos jacobeos del norte de España (San Martín de Elines: Cultural Axis of the Northern Spanish Routes of St. James), Fundación Agro y Cultura, 2025
- David Kline, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Words Made Flesh: Sylvia Wynter and Religion (co-edited with Justine Bakker), Fordham University Press, 2025
- Lisa King, Associate Professor, Director of Composition, Department of English
Decolonial Possibilities: Indigenously Rooted Practices in Rhetoric and Writing (co-edited with Andrea Riley Mukavetz), Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2025
- Anthony J. Knowles, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany, Brill, 2025
- Charles Kuper, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics
The Menologion of Basil II, Harvard University Press, 2025
- Roy M. Liuzza, Professor Emeritus, Department of English
Ælfric, The Old English Catholic Homilies, the First Series, Harvard University Press, 2024
- Harrison Meadows, Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Wild Theater: Staging the Margins of Baroque Ideology in the Spanish Comedia, Vanderbilt University Press, 2025
- Anne-Helene Miller, Riggsby Director of the Marco Institute; Associate Professor of French, Department of World Languages and Cultures
MLA Approaches to Teaching the Romance of the Rose (co-edited with Daisy Delogu), Modern Language Association, 2023
- Ryan Mokhtari, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, Great River Learning, 2025
- Tatiana Sánchez Parra, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Born of War in Colombia: Reproductive Violence and Memories of Absence, Rutgers University Press, 2024
- R.D. Perry, Associate Professor, Department of English
Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition: From Chaucer to Spenser, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024
Literatures of the Hundred Years War (co-edited with Daniel Davies, University of Houston), University of Manchester Press, 2024
- Lois Presser, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology (with Jennifer Fleetwood and Sveinung Sandberg)
Narrating Justice and Hope: How Good Stories Counter Crime and Harm, NYU Press, 2025
- Urmila Seshagiri, Distinguished Professor in Humanities, Department of English
The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories By Virginia Woolf (editor), Princeton University Press, 2025
- Christine Shepardson, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Department of Religious Studies
A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity, University of California Press, 2025
- Raja Swamy, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Capitalism and Catastrophe: A Critical Disaster Studies Manifesto, Berghahn Books, 2025
- Anthony Welch, Associate Professor, Department of English
The Epic: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2024
By Randall Brown