Desi Divas: Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances is the product of five years of field research with progressive activists associated with the School for Indian Languages and ...

Christine L. Garlough is assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, the Folklore Program, and the Center for South Asia.

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Research in Record Labels–Certificate of Merit (2012)

The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built is the first book entirely ...

Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests ...

In this collection of thirty interviews compiled by John Cheever's biographer Cheever moves from gentlemanly reticence in the early pieces to forthright commentary upon a variety of subjects in the later ...

Stories of Oprah is a collection of essays that explores Oprah Winfrey's broad reach as an industry and media brand. Contributors analyze a number of topics touching on the ways in which her cultural output ...

Scott Donaldson is the author of John Cheever: A Biography, Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald, and By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemmingway.

Conversations with William H. Gass captures the imagination and philosophical acumen of one of America's most important aestheticians, critical theorists, fiction writers, and essayists.

From his first ...

Theodore G. Ammon is chair of the Philosophy Department at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. His work has appeared in such publications as Romance Notes, Arachne, College Mathematics, and the ...

Carmen L. Phelps is assistant professor of African American literature at the University of Toledo. Her work has appeared in Living the Funk, Journal of Lesbian Studies, and the African American Review ...