Maverick Feminist

By Kemeshia Randle Swanson
Categories: Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies

Beginning with their forced introduction to American soil, Black women have relied on maverick-like characteristics to survive. And yet, these liberating qualities have been repeatedly disparaged by the ...

The Sinful Maternal

By Lauren Rocha
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series

Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery are challenging experiences that impact women’s physical, mental, and emotional health in ways that have been historically minimalized, dismissed, or neglected. ...

Alt Kid Lit

Edited by Kenneth B. Kidd & Derritt Mason
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Kristopher Alexander, Amanda K. Allen, Brianna Anderson, Catherine Burwell, Katharine Capshaw, Negin Dahya, Gabriel Duckels, Paige Gray, Gabrielle Atwood Halko, Natasha Hurley, Kenneth ...

Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels

By James J. Donahue
Categories: Comics Studies

In recent years, studios like Marvel and DC have seen enormous success transforming comics into major motion pictures. At the same time, bookstores such as Barnes & Noble in the US and Indigo in Canada ...

Paddleways of Mississippi

By Ernest Herndon & Patrick Parker
Categories: Natural History And Outdoors

Mississippi rivers and creeks have shaped every aspect of the state’s geology, ecology, economy, settlement, and politics. Mississippi's paddleways—its rivers, rills, creeks, and streams—are its ...

Same Old Song

By John Paul Meyers
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Popular music and its listeners are strongly associated with newness and youth. Young people can stay up late dancing to the latest hits and use cutting-edge technology for listening to and sharing fresh ...

Albert Brooks

Edited by Alexander Greenhough
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Albert Brooks: Interviews brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b. 1947), in which he contemplates, expounds upon, and hilariously jokes about the connections between his ...

Superheroes Beyond

Edited by Cormac McGarry, Liam Burke, Ian Gordon, and Angela Ndalianis
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C. Howard, Aaron Humphrey, ...

BOOM! SPLAT!

Edited by Jim Coby & Joanna Davis-McElligatt
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Diana Álvarez Amell, Partha Bhattacharjee, Natalja Chestopalova, Jim Coby, Rita Costello, Sam Cowling, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Elisabetta Di Minico, Kiera M. Gaswint, ...

Out of the Blue

By Brian Bisesi
Foreword by Bob Margolin
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician’s dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a ...