Category Archives: journals

July 30, 2019

Common Threads: Doing Things Differently So We Can Do Different Things

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This post originally appeared on The Scholarly Kitchen on July 10th, 2019. I was asked by Lisa Hinchliffe to submit a guest post to The Scholarly Kitchen about the Common Threads initiative at the University of Illinois Press. You can find … Continue reading →

July 23, 2019

Roxanne Panchasi on “No Hiroshima in Africa”

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Roxanne Panchasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France Between the Wars (2009), and the host of New Books in French Studies, a podcast … Continue reading →

July 9, 2019

Karen E. Whedbee on “Reverend Billy Goes to Main Street: Free Speech, Trespassing, and Activist Documentary Film”

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Karen E. Whedbee is an associate professor in the media studies program in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University. She has published widely on topics related to free speech, communication ethics, and the history of participatory democracy. Among … Continue reading →

July 3, 2019

Paul-Mikhail Catapang Podosky On “The Difference Between Killing Humanely and a Humane Killing”

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Paul-Mikhail Catapang Podosky is a doctoral student in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He recently shared his thoughts with us on his article, “A Linguistic Method of Deception: The Difference Between Killing Humanely and … Continue reading →

July 2, 2019

Paul-Mikhail Catapang Podosky Comments on Journal of Animal Ethics Article

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In this blog post we are featuring Paul-Mikhail Catapang Podosky’s summary of his article, “A Linguistic Method of Deception: The Difference Between Killing Humanely and a Humane Killing“, in the Journal of Animal Ethics 9.1.  Suppose you’re at a supermarket. Walking through … Continue reading →

May 22, 2019

Linda A. Morris on “What is Personal about Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc?”

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Linda A. Morris is a Professor of Emeritus at UC Davis. Her current research is on gender play in the works of Mark Twain. Her earlier published work focused primarily on women’s humor in nineteenth-century America. Her teaching and research … Continue reading →

May 15, 2019

Angelique Harris on “Emotions, Feelings, and Social Change”

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Dr. Angelique Harris is the founding director of the Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies and the Gender and Sexualities Studies Program and is an associate professor of sociology  in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. … Continue reading →

April 26, 2019

Scandinavian Studies at the U of I Press

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Since 2013, the U of I Press has been home to Scandinavian Studies, the official journal of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. This interdisciplinary journal features work in the humanities and social sciences on the languages, cultures, … Continue reading →

April 12, 2019

Donna J. Nicol and Jennifer A. Yee on “Reclaiming Our Time”

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Donna J. Nicol is an associate professor and the chair of Africana studies at California State University Dominguez Hills. Jennifer A. Yee is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Nicol and Yee recently answered … Continue reading →

April 3, 2019

Candis Bond on “Catcalling and the College Classroom”

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Candis E. Bond is an assistant professor of English and women’s and gender studies at Augusta University, where she also serves as director of the university writing center. Her areas of expertise include writing center studies, British modernism, and women’s … Continue reading →