May 13, 2020
This issue of Mande Studies focuses on political crises and growing insecurity in the Sahel. All articles are grounded on long-term engagement with the region, whether they are based on… READ MORE
May 1, 2020
Author Kevin McClure discusses the importance now, more than ever, for institutions to harness the power of fundraising to support the mission of their institutions as they ride out the storm of COVID-19.
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, including… READ MORE
September 14, 2018
Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! Barbara Estrin’s article, “The Secrets of Blood and Seed”: Primo Levi’s Poetic Emergence” from the Journal of Modern Literature’s newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, Barbara explores a poet who struggles to end the conflict between knowledge and feeling.
September 12, 2018
Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! Elaine Freedgood’s “Banishing Panic: Harriet Martineau and the Popularization of Political Economy,” from the Victorian Studies archives is available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, guest author Mary L. Mullen explores the essay with fresh eyes in anticipation of celebrating Freedgood’s extraordinary career.
September 5, 2018
Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! James Brunton’s article, “Whose (Meta)modernism?: Metamodernism, Race, and the Politics of Failure,” from the Journal of Modern Literature’s newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, James elaborates on poetry as an antidote to the noise of self-righteous social media posts and crisis-fueled cable news.
August 13, 2018
Guest editor Sujatha Fernandes recaps the launch party hosted by Sydney Ideas at the University of Sydney for the special issue of Transition magazine on Bla(c)kness in Australia. Edited by Fernandes and Jared Thomas brings together the voices and artwork of diverse Bla(c)k writers, artists, poets, and scholars in Australia.
July 2, 2018
Today marks the 54th anniversary of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 – the landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and prohibited unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.
In honor of this historic event and current trends, we invite you to explore Transition Magazine’s 1972 conversation with James Baldwin, and a discussion of more than five decades of black action in St. Louis, from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.
Today marks the 54th anniversary of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 – the landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and prohibited unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations. In honor of this historic event, we invite you to explore Indiana University’s Black Film Center and Archive, home of Black Camera, the international film journal.
April 19, 2018
Take a closer look at the scholarship behind IU Press Journals! James Arnett’s article, “What’s Left of Feelings? The Affective Labor of Politics in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook,” from the Journal of Modern Literature’s newest issue, is now available on JSTOR & Project MUSE. Below, James elaborates on why at this political moment it is important for readers to read Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.
