A Celebration of Publications in the Humanities

Authors and editors celebrate books published in the humanities on Jan. 28, 2011

The University of Windsor provides a generative environment, says English professor Susan Holbrook, that encourages the interplay between scholarly and creative activity.

"The environment here has been completely supportive," she said Friday at a reception for faculty members who have published new books in the humanities. "Three of us in my department have published both scholarly and creative work. On most other campuses, you would be expected to specialize in one or the other."

The Humanities Research Group hosts the biannual event to acknowledge what director Antonio Rossini called "the important major contributions" of academic authors and editors.

Thomas Dilworth, who co-edited with Holbrook The Letters of Gertrude Stein & Virgil Thomson, said he appreciated the encouragement.

"Publishing a book involves a commitment of years, so it goes against the prevailing business model of the academy, which is quantitative rather than qualitiative," he said.

Roy Amore, whose World Religions: Eastern Traditions was published by Oxford University Press, said the reception gave authors a chance to compare notes on their experiences.

"It's so much work on your own, in your own study, that it's sort of fun to interact with someone else who has been through that process," he said.

Abdel Salam Sidahmed, Leslie Howsam and Walter Soderlund display their latest works at a reception to celebrate new books in the humanities by UWindsor faculty.

• Roy Amore, co-edited with Willard Oxtoby, World Religions: Eastern Traditions
• Louis Cabri, that can't; What Is Venice? edited The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah
• R. Cheran, Wilting Laughter:Three Tamil Poets—Cheran, Jayapalan and Puthuvai Ratnathurai; edited Pathways of Dissent: Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka
• Carol Davison, British Gothic Literature, 1764-1824
• John Deukmedjian, The Realignment of RCMP Conflict Management: Transformations in governance in Canada's national police
• Thomas Dilworth, co-edited with Susan Holbrook, The Letters of Gertrude Stein & Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation
• Karen Engle, Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination
• Susan Holbrook, Joy Is So Exhausting, and co-edited The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson
• Leslie Howsam, Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain 1850-1950
• Anna Lanoszka, The World Trade Organization: Changing Dynamics in the Global Political Economy
• Nicole Markotic, Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot; co-edited with Sally Chivers, The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film
• Antonio Rossini, Il Dante Sapienziale, Dionigi e La bellezza di Beatrice
• Judith Sinanga, Politique et poetique de l’exil. Oeuvres de quelques auteurs d’Afrique noire francophone: Calixthe Beyala, Henri Lopes, Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou, Hemenegilde Twagirumkiza
• Abdel Salam Sidahmed, Walter C Soderlund, E. Donald Briggs, The Responsibility to Protect in Darfur: The Role of Mass Media
• Christopher Tindale, Reason’s Dark Champions: Constructive Strategies of Sophistic Argument; Dialectics, Dialogue and Argumentation: An Examination of Douglas Walton’s Theories of Reasoning and Argument