In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqué‚ and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Child ...
Murray Shoolbraid (1931-2020) was a professor of linguistics and Russian. He is author of The Oral Epic of Siberia and Central Asia, and his work has been published in several folklore journals.
André Soares currently operates a translation business, working for numerous major American corporations. He is author of several screenplays and is chief editor of Alternative Film Guide.
With contributions by David M. Ball, Georgiana Banita, Margaret Fink Berman, Jacob Brogan, Isaac Cates, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Shawn Gilmore, Matt Godbey, Jeet Heer, Martha B. Kuhlman, Katherine Roeder, ...
While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie ...
David M. Ball is editor of the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series and coeditor (with Martha B. Kuhlman) of The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking, both published by University ...
Martha B. Kuhlman is associate professor of comparative literature at Bryant University. She has published in the Journal of Popular Culture, European Journal of Comic Art, and the International Journal ...
Charles M. Schulz created the popular comic strip Peanuts, which appeared in over 2,600 newspapers and in over seventy-five countries.
From abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the battle ...