Have you ever wondered about the progress of feminism in British and American literature and television since 1830? The evolution of first-generation writing and literacy education? The intricate relationship between humans, design, and expression in the digital age?
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication's diverse faculty has you covered. With over 40 books exploring these topics and more, our faculty's extensive research and scholarship spans from the cultural impact of technology and the future of narrative in cyberspace to the evolving landscape of Asian American poetry and the moral dimensions of reading.
Join us on a journey of discovery through the captivating world of literature, media, and communication.
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Feminism’s Progress: Gender Politics in British and American Literature and Television Since 1830
By Carol Collatrella
SUNY Press, 2023
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Beyond Fitting In: Rethinking First-Generation Writing and Literacy Education
By Kelly Ritter
Modern Language Association, 2023
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Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage
By Dori Coblentz
Edinburgh University Press, 2023
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Vital Media: Making, Design, and Expression for Humans and Other Materials
By Michael Nitsche
MIT Press, 2022
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The Future is Female: Volume Two, the 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women
By Lisa Yaszek
Penguin Random House, 2022
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Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction
By Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan
Penguin Random House, 2022
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In Concert: Performing Musical Persona
By Phillip Auslander
University of Michigan Press, 2021
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Humanistic Perspectives in a Technological World
By Richard Utz and Karen Head
Published 2021
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Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
By Victoria Chang
Milkweed Editions, 2021
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Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures
By Andre Brock
New York University Press, 2020
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Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century
By Isiah Lavendar III and Lisa Yaszek
Ohio State University Press, 2020
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The Digital Plentitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media
By Jay David Bolter
MIT Press, 2019
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Landmark Essays in Writing Program Administration
By Kelly Ritter and Melissa Ianetta
Routledge, 2019
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All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society
By Yanni Loukissas
MIT Press, 2019
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A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English: Print and Electronic Sources
By Carol Senf
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018
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The Crunk Feminist Collection
By Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn
The Feminist Press, 2017
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Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature Engaging Difference and Identity
By Rachel Dean-Ruzicka
Routledge, 2016
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Exploring Composition Studies: Sites, Issues, Perspectives
By Kelly Ritter and Paul Matsuda
University Press of Colorado, 2016
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Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940
By Nihad M. Farooq
NYU Press, 2016
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Reframing the Subject: Postwar Instructional Film and Class-Conscious Literacies
By Kelly Ritter
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015
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The Oxford Guide for Writing Tutors: Practice and Research
By Lauren Fitzgerald and Melissa Ianetta
Oxford University Press, 2015
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Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema
By Qi Wang
Edinburgh University Press Books, 2014
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Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature
By Susana M. Morris
University of Virginia Press, 2014
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On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year
By Karen J. Head, Blake Leland, JC Reilly, and Robert Wood
Published 2014
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The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature
By Carol Senf
University of Wisconsin Press, 2013
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The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood
By David Rosen and Aaron Santesso
Yale University Press, 2013
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Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture
By Yanni Loukissas
Routledge, 2012
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To Know Her Own History: Writing at the Woman's College, 1943-1963
By Kelly Ritter
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012
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Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as Cultural Practice
By Janet Murray
MIT Press, 2011
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Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility
By Narin Hassan
Routledge, 2011
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Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology
By Carol Colatrella
Ohio State University Press, 2011
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Who Owns School? Authority, Students, and Online Discourse
By Kelly Ritter
Hampton Press Inc, 2010
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Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960
By Kelly Ritter
Southern Illinois University Press, 2009
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Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Narratives of Consumption 1700-1900
By Narin Hassan and Tamara S. Wagner
Lexington Books, 2007
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Careful Longing: The Poetics and Problems of Nostalgia
By Aaron Santesso
University of Delaware Press, 2006
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Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation
By Victoria Chang
University of Illinois Press, 2004
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Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading
By Carol Colatrella
University Press of Florida, 2002
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Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
By Janet Murray
MIT Press, 1997
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Modernism, Medicine, and William Carlos Williams
By Hugh Crawford
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993
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