UT Faculty Authors Share Insight at Second Annual Book Party
The College of Arts and Sciences community gathered for the second annual Fall Book Party this month, celebrating 17 book-length works published in 2023 and 2024 by faculty members in the Division of Arts and Humanities and by colleagues in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Geography and Sustainability.
Faculty authors and others discussed their books with each other and guests on Wednesday, November 6, over refreshments at the Denbo Center for the Humanities and the Arts.
“I am enthusiastic that the second-annual book party has taken place, as it now represents a new tradition in the College of Arts and Sciences,” said Beauvais Lyons, divisional dean for arts and humanities. “I am also grateful that the Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts can serve as a setting for this event.”
The 17 books shared at the party show the wide range of research and creative approach of arts and sciences faculty, covering history, world languages and cultures, geography and sustainability, English, anthropology, art, and philosophy.
“While the event marks a moment in time, the project includes a beautiful, printed program with short descriptions about each of the monographs and edited volumes, and an exhibition catalogue,” said Lyons. “Our colleagues are committed to research, scholarship, and creative activity that enriches the world and advances our discovery mission, while also giving our students opportunities to study with faculty who are making meaningful contributions to their disciplines. Now that this is a tradition, I look forward to what our colleagues produce for our next book party in 2025.”
Participating Faculty Authors
- Robert Bast
Associate Professor, Department of History
Apocalyptic Cultures in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Politics and Prophecy (co-editor), Brepols, 2024
- Stephen H. Blackwell
Professor and Russian Language Chair, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Nabokov’s Secret Trees, University of Toronto Press, 2024
- Matthew Brauer
Assistant Professor, Normandy Scholars Director, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Translating Maria Zaki
A mon fils / To My Son, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2023
- LaToya Eaves
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Sustainability
Activist Feminist Geographies (co-editor)
Bristol University Press, 2023
Spatial Futures: Difference and the Post-Anthropocene (co-editor)
Palgrave, 2024
- Nicole Eggers
Associate Professor, Department of History
Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo
Ohio University Press, 2023
- Martin Griffin
Associate Professor, Department of English
Reading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment from World War I to the Contemporary Era
Edinburgh University Press, 2024
- Arsalan Khan
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan
Cornell University Press, 2024 - Tore C. Olsson
Associate Professor, Department of History
Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past
New York: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan, 2024 - Jeff Ringer
Associate Professor, Department of English
Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Pluralism in a Postsecular Age (co-editor)
Southern Illinois University Press, 2023 - Óscar Rivera-Rodas
Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Modernidad Estética Hispanoamericana. Cultura de la Incertidumbre
Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2023 - Sean Roberts
Senior Lecturer, School of Art
The Environment and Ecology in Islamic Art and Culture (co-editor)
Yale University Press, 2023 - Tanita Saenkhum
Associate Professor, Department of English
EFL Writing Teacher Education and Professional Development: Voices from Under-Represented Contexts (co-editor)
Multilingual Matters, 2024 - Madhuri Sharma
Professor, Department of Geography and Sustainability
Urban Health: A Global Perspective (1st Edition, Volume 15) (co-editor)
Part of the series, “Development in Environmental Science.”
Elsevier, 2024 - J. Clerk Shaw
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Plato’s Gorgias: A Critical Guide
Cambridge University Press, 2024
- Jered Sprecher
Professor, School of Art
Wonder & Dread: New Paintings by Jered Sprecher
With Dan Cameron
Whitespace Gallery, 2024 - Duygu Yıldırım
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds (co-editor)
London: Routledge, 2023
