Terrorism in Italy: Past and Present
June 15, 2021
The following is a guest blog post by Richard Drake, author of The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy.
Prior to 9/11,… READ MORE
History – Europe
Journal of Modern Literature Call for Papers
April 23, 2020
1922 and After: A Centenary of Modernism and World Literature
Drawing upon anthropological, psychological, and philosophical knowledge as well as personal experiences, the high modernists wrote their now-famous classics,… READ MORE
Political Oppression and Retribution Rape: A Closer Look at JML 39.4
September 23, 2016
Rapists are perpetrators, never victims. It is this psycho-cultural dogma that has led scholars of William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice to conclude that the Jewish character Nathan Landau, who brutally rapes the protagonist Sophie, is more like a Nazi than a Jew, more like an anti-Semitic perpetrator than an oppressed minority. But while teaching the novel in my Holocaust course, I noticed a strange parallel that made me question this seemingly infallible truth about rape and subsequent approaches to Nathan.
6 IUP books named Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
February 5, 2016
Every year, Choice magazine selects the most prestigious scholarly books for its Outstanding Academic Titles award. We are pleased to announce that six IU Press titles were chosen out of 7,000 that were reviewed in 2015 by the magazine's editors!… READ MORE
History & Memory author Eric Nelson awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize
November 5, 2015
We are delighted to announce that Eric Nelson has been awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize for his article, “Remembering the Martyrdom of Saint Francis of Paola: History,… READ MORE
Podcast: Peter Schrag discussess When Europe Was a Prison Camp
July 31, 2015
On this episode of the IU Press podcast, Peter Schrag discusses When Europe Was a Prison Camp. This book weaves together Peter’s and his father Otto’s memoirs about their experiences in Occupied Europe during World War II…. READ MORE
Guest post: Never again? Srebrenica 20 years later
July 11, 2015
By Selma Leydesdorff
While writing Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak, I was angry and appalled by the Dutch failure to deal with its responsibility for the genocide of 8,000 Muslim Bosnian men by Serbian troops in Bosnia in July 1995…. READ MORE
Three IUP books reviewed in The Jewish Eye
April 26, 2013
The following IUP books were reviewed in The Jewish Eye:
"Shatterzone of Empires is essential reading for students of European history and Imperial Studies,… READ MORE
Richard III’s remains discovered, but who is the man behind the bones?
February 7, 2013
Painted as an evil and ruthless tyrant, Richard III has been much maligned by Shakespeare and popular culture. In a somewhat anticlimatic end to the mystery of his grave's location,… READ MORE
Library Journal selects two IU Press books as “Spring Fling” picks
January 10, 2013
Senior editor Margaret Heilbrun featured two of our books in her "Spring Fling 2013" column for Library Journal. Anne Gillain's François Truffaut and Karen Auerbach's The House at Ujazdowskie 16 are on Heibrun's list of "exciting stuff"… READ MORE