Category: Academic Life

Bruce “Monty” Montgomery

06/25/2008

The staff of Penn Press was saddened by news of the passing of Bruce Montgomery, composer, educator, director, and author of Brothers, Sing On!: My Half-Century Around the World with… READ MORE

Stir It Up–Now Available

06/19/2008

Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture Megan J. Elias 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4079-5 | $45.00 | £29.50 Stir… READ MORE

Richard Helgerson

04/29/2008

Staff at the University of Pennsylvania Press were saddened by the news of the death of Richard Helgerson, Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara,… READ MORE

Blum Lecture Available Online

04/09/2008

In a post titled "Du Bois in the Lone Star State 2.0", The Bald Blogger has made a recent lecture by Edward J. Blum, author of  W. E. B. Du… READ MORE

Medieval Academy Prize Goes to Sara Poor

04/08/2008

Sara S. Poor’s Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority has received another award. The Medieval Academy selected this study of a thirteenth-century mystic… READ MORE

Death of Reading Greatly Exaggerated?

01/16/2008

Reading, Not So Dead After All, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, gives a snapshot of the blog battles surrounding the NEA’s "To Read or Not to Read" report.