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Higher Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Supporting Teaching and Learning through Turbulent Times
Edited by Jessica Ostrow Michel
Rutgers University Press
Higher Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic documents first-hand experiences from faculty and students in order to help navigate the path to supporting teaching and learning in the wake of the pandemic, and beyond. With essays from a diverse range of experts, this volume will serve as a comprehensive guide to many affected higher education communities.
Notes from Home
Edited by Jonna McKone
Rutgers University Press
This beautifully illustrated volume weaves together personal stories, photographs, drawings, poems of students who have experienced insecurity during childhood into a tapestry of memories about the meaning of home.
Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers
Radio and Film Noir
Rutgers University Press
Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers is the first book to explore in detail noir storytelling in cinema and on radio. Arguing that radio’s noir dramas were a counterpart to, influence on, or a spin-off from the noir films, this scrupulously researched yet accessible study challenges conventional understandings of noir as well as shedding new light on a medium that was cinema’s major rival.
Imagining the Tropics
Women, Romance, and the Making of Modern Tourism
Rutgers University Press
Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean across the twentieth century that focuses on the ways women’s labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the industry and its ubiquitous imagery of tropical island relaxation, escape, and romance.
Citizen Bird
Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners, A Critical Edition
By Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliot Coues; Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes; Edited by Elizabeth Cherry and Meghan Freeman
Rutgers University Press
Likely the first birding guide for children, Citizen Bird (1897) was a tremendously influential text in Progressive-era America. With a contextualizing introduction, explanatory footnotes, and supplementary historical material, this teaching edition of Citizen Bird aims to celebrate its place in the history of birding and in nineteenth-century American culture and literature.
Back to Black
Jules Feiffer’s Noir Trilogy
Rutgers University Press
This book examines Jules Feiffer’s Kill My Mother trilogy of graphic novels as a body of work that pays homage to the iconography and themes of film noir. It reflects on Feiffer’s singular depiction of the central political issues of America from the Great Depression to the 1950s and on his unique storytelling voice, between drama and satire.
Always an Academic Immigrant
A Collective Memoir
By Dafna Lemish
Rutgers University Press
Always an Academic Immigrant: A Collective Memoir shares the voices of academic immigrants who moved from their home country to a host country for a position in a higher education institution. Dafna Lemish elevates the voices of academic immigrants through analyses of 81 in-depth interviews with academic immigrants from 37 countries around the world, who moved to 11 countries, highlighting the unique benefits they bring to the academic world in their scholarship, teaching, and leadership roles.
We Can Do Better
Feminist Manifestos for Media and Communication
Edited by Linda Steiner and Stine Eckert
Rutgers University Press
This book brings together evidence-based, feminist manifestos for media and communication. It offers real, actionable, practical solutions to media problems and deficiencies, and shows how feminist thinking can be usefully and effectively applied to a wide range of journalism, media, and communication practices. The book offers specific, feasible blueprints for restructuring media in ways that make them more equitable and more democratic.
We Can Do Better
Feminist Manifestos for Media and Communication
Edited by Linda Steiner and Stine Eckert
Rutgers University Press
This book brings together evidence-based, feminist manifestos for media and communication. It offers real, actionable, practical solutions to media problems and deficiencies, and shows how feminist thinking can be usefully and effectively applied to a wide range of journalism, media, and communication practices. The book offers specific, feasible blueprints for restructuring media in ways that make them more equitable and more democratic.
She's the Boss
The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II
Rutgers University Press
Producing Children
Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity
Edited by Peter C. Kunze and Victoria Ford Smith
Rutgers University Press
Children’s culture is not only culture for children; it’s culture by children — yet scholars of children’s culture overwhelmingly center work by adults for children. Producing Children acknowledges and theorizes children as cultural producers, underscoring how such creativity empowers children as active participants in their own culture, and helps us to reconceive our understandings of children themselves.
Producing Children
Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity
Edited by Peter C. Kunze and Victoria Ford Smith
Rutgers University Press
Children’s culture is not only culture for children; it’s culture by children — yet scholars of children’s culture overwhelmingly center work by adults for children. Producing Children acknowledges and theorizes children as cultural producers, underscoring how such creativity empowers children as active participants in their own culture, and helps us to reconceive our understandings of children themselves.
Organizing "Professionals"
Academic Employees Negotiating a New Academy
By Gary Rhoades
Rutgers University Press
Academic employees are organizing and negotiating for respect for workers, their work, and the public value of higher education. Scholar and labor activist Gary Rhoades analyzes how academic employees are shifting the imbalance of power between labor and management, reducing the internal professional stratification between segments of the academic workforce, and intersecting workplace issues with broader issues of equality, public value, and social justice, and in the process organizing and negotiating for a new, more progressive academy.
Leon Bibel
Forgotten Artist of the New Deal
By Richard Haw
Rutgers University Press
In Leon Bibel, historian Richard Haw recounts the life of the artist Leon Bibel from his birth in 1913, in Szczebrzeszyn, Poland to his death in New Jersey in 1995. The book situates Bibel in the context of his times and within his artist milieu, exploring themes such as American immigration, anti-fascism, social, economic, and racial injustice, public art, Jewish identity, New Deal policies and practices, and their influence on American culture.