03558nam a2200505 i 450010.3998/mpub.12629166MiU20260317095049.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260317t20262026miu ob 000 0 eng d9780472999101open access ebook0472999109open access ebook10.3998/mpub.12629166doiEYMengrdapnEYMPS326811.609Grimmer, C.R.,authorhttps://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjFGxptqMKTvDx8DdvRcpqhttps://orcid.org/0009-0001-8977-6512Poets as public scholars :contemporary poetics in the age of social media /C. R. Grimmer.Poets as public scholars : contemporary poetics in an age of social mediaAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resource (172 pages)texttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierDigital Culture BooksIncludes bibliographical references (pages 146-172).Open accessPoets as Public Scholars is a multimedia project that interrogates how poet-scholars use digital platforms to expand access and visibility for underrepresented voices, but also to critique the commodification, extraction, and erasure practices embedded in neoliberal literary circulation. Framed by two core questions--how poets teach public scholarship through networked media, and how to support underrepresented poets without reinforcing market-driven erasure--the collection offers videos for student and public engagement, essays for scholarly audiences, and discussion questions for classroom use. Structured around seven video dialogues and seven critical essays, the book features contributions from poet-scholars including Camea Davis, A.D. Carson, Tyrone Williams, Patrick Milian, Stevi Costa, Cameron Awkward-Rich, and Woogee Bae. Each chapter examines the material and affective economies that shape poetic production and reception, while proposing alternative, community-rooted infrastructures for literary and cultural labor. Designed for layered audiences, the video interviews model public-facing discourse, while the companion essays situate the work within critical conversations in literature, cultural theory, and media studies. With included discussion questions and open access availability, Poets as Public Scholars functions as both a teaching tool and a theoretical intervention for scholars and educators seeking to integrate anti-racist, anti-capitalist approaches to literary and digital humanities pedagogy.Sponsored by The Eugene B. Power FundThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0Description based on information from the publisher.Poets, AmericanInterviews.Digital mediaSocial aspects.Digital humanities.Learning and scholarshipSocial aspects.American poetryHistory and criticism.Electronic books.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.Digital culture books.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.126291660No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 03703nam a2200601 i 450010.3998/mpub.12877800MiU20260116081043.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260115t20262026miua ob 001 0 eng d9780472905911open access ebook0472905910open access ebook9780472078127hardcover9780472058129paperback10.3998/mpub.12877800doiEYMengrdapnEYMengchia-cc-hkHQ73.3.C6H77Cheang, Kai Hang,author,https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-5970https://ror.org/00yn2fy02.Sideways developments :queer and trans cultural politics of global Hong Kong /Kai Hang Cheang.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resource (235 pages) :illustrations (some color)texttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierGlobal Queer AsiasIn English, with some text in Chinese scripts.Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index.Open accessSideways Developments examines Hong Kong Anglophone and Cantophone literature and visual culture to trace the forms of queer and trans survival and flourishing in the Asian century. Contesting the cisgender, heterosexual, linear tropes that constitute developmentalist narratives deployed by superpowers--from colonial Britain to 20th-century America to a rising China--Cheang argues that sideways aesthetics define the narratives through which the LGBTQ+ community navigates personal and socioeconomic transitions. Through formalist analyses of a range of genres, Cheang reveals the affordances of queer and trans cultures for addressing the question of Hong Kong during its period of promised transition until 2047. In this moment of multiple crises, Sideways Developments offers a timely hermeneutic and theory of solidarity and sustainability. The book tracks how sideways aesthetics have evolved from a feature of LGBTQ+ plots, performance, and nonlinear approaches to space-time to a form of togetherness that links postcolonial Hong Kong with struggles worldwide. Using what Cheang terms intersectional formalism as an analytical tool, the book provides a multilayered examination of the alternative pathways exemplified by queer and trans resilience and regeneration.This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Description based on information from the publisher.Sexual minoritiesChinaHong KongSocial conditions.Transgender peopleChinaHong KongSocial conditions.LGBT activismChinaHong Kong.Sexual minorities in literature.Transgender people in literature.Formalism (Literature)Transgender people in motion pictures.Sexual minorities in motion pictures.Autobiographical memory in motion pictures.Hong Kong (China)Literatures.Hong Kong (China)Social conditions.Electronic books.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.Global queer Asias.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.128778000No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 02789nam a2200445 i 450010.3998/mpub.13053672MiU20260210090127.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260210t20262026miu ob 000 0 eng d9780472222636ebook0472222635ebook9780472040247paperback10.3998/mpub.13053672doiEYMengrdapnEYMPS3561.E554811.54What clever friends :the selected letters of Jane Kenyon and Alice Mattison /edited by Chad Wriglesworth.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,[2026]©20261 online resourcetexttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierIncludes bibliographical references and index.Open accessWhat Clever Friends, edited by Chad Wriglesworth, is a selection of engaging, frank letters between poet Jane Kenyon and fiction writer Alice Mattison. Ranging from their first meeting in 1979 to Kenyon's death in 1995, this fifteen-year conversation between close friends reveals their experiences pursuing writing while living out the responsibilities of ordinary life. Writing to each other often, they help each other, confide in each other, and argue through the strains of rejection and acceptance, good reviews and bad, periods in which writing comes easily or when it does not. Over time, both writers emerged from obscurity to gain award-winning recognition as prominent voices in their respective genres. Witty, tender, and aware; tempestuous and lyrical, these letters trace the evolution of a deep and largely unknown friendship that situates Kenyon's work within a collaborative environment of other poets and novelists who were committed to the flourishing of contemporary women's writing. With more than 500 edited and annotated letters, a retrospective foreword written by Alice Mattison, and a scholarly introduction written by Chad Wriglesworth, What Clever Friends conveys a compelling story that will interest readers and writers.Description based on information from the publisher.Kenyon, JaneCorrespondence.Mattison, AliceCorrespondence.Women authors.Women poets.Electronic books.Wriglesworth, Chad,editor.https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5420-8652https://ror.org/05fwyj602Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.130536720No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 03469nam a2200481 i 450010.3998/mpub.13067197MiU20251104113030.0m o d cr#unu||||||||251104t20262026miuab ob 001 0 eng d9780472222612ebook0472222619ebook9780472133710hardcover10.3998/mpub.13067197doiEYMengrdapnEYMBX4654Craig, Leigh Ann,author,https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjKjPKYbfKGqH76863pGjKhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9088-449X,https://ror.org/02nkdxk79Deprived of sense and intellect :insanity, possession, and diagnosis in Medieval Europe /Leigh Ann Craig.Insanity, possession, and diagnosis in Medieval EuropeAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resource (273 pages) ;illustrations, mapstexttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-272) and index.Medieval saints were thought to be able to provide miraculous cures for a wide variety of illnesses, and about one tenth of their miracles involved the restoration of sanity to those who had lost their minds. Deprived of Sense and Intellect explores 460 of these stories written across Latin Christendom between 1240 and 1500. The study uses the lens of critical disability studies to bridge the gap between discussions of demonic possession and naturally arising somatic conditions, treating all these narratives about disability and miraculous healing not as documentation of changes to the function of an individual person, but instead as evidence of substantial and intrusive interpersonal tensions in medieval communities. While medieval communities assigned these tensions to a malfunction of consciousness in a single person, medieval miracle texts also reveal how the function and malfunction of consciousness was named and classified. In studying these texts, Leigh Ann Craig explores the terminology and rhetoric used to diagnose a loss of mind as either from natural causes or as an effect of demonic predation, tracing the use of Latin vocabulary in medical compendia, law, and theology. Deprived of Sense and Intellect finds that since diagnoses were difficult and frequently subject to doubt, they varied based on regional cultures of disability in northern and southern Europe, the influences on the development of community consensus in Latin Europe in the Middle Ages, and assumptions based on gender, material evidence, and self-diagnosis.Description based on information from the publisher.Christian saintsHistoryTo 1500.MiraclesHistoryTo 1500.MiraclesHistoryCase studies.Disability studiesReligious aspects.Mental illnessDiagnosisHistoryTo 1500.Mental illnessHistoryTo 1500.Demoniac possessionHistoryTo 1500.Medicine, Medieval.Electronic books.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.13067197No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 03993nam a2200469 i 450010.3998/mpub.13084565MiU20260121151526.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260121t20262026miu ob 001 0 eng d9780472222605(ebook)0472222600(ebook)9780472133703(hardcover)10.3998/mpub.13084565doiEYMengrdapnEYMe------ff-----aw-----PA6705.H7Tacitus and the incomplete /edited by Panayiotis Christoforou & Bram L.H. ten Berge.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resource (360 pages)texttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierIncludes bibliographical references and index.About the Contributors - Introduction -- Part 1. Fragmentary or Missing Portions: Reconstructing Tacitus -- Completing Tacitus with Fragments: The Destruction of the Jewish Temple / Kelly Shannon-Henderson -- Tacitus' Titus / Salvador Bartera -- Tacitus' Domitian and Imperial (Mis)Representation / Bram ten Berge -- Britannia in the Historiae and the Annales / David Potter -- Quem ad finem memorabimus? The End of the Neronian Annals / Ellen O'Gorman -- Part 2. Narrative Incompleteness: Purposeful and Suggestive Omission -- The Tragic Incomplete: Historical Thought in Tacitus' Style / Holly Haynes -- Tacitus and Pliny on Vesuvius / Christopher Whitton -- Augustus in the Annals / Victoria Pagán -- Relating at the Appropriate Time: Tacitus' Caligula / Panayiotis Christoforou -- Coda. Early Modern Attempts at Filling the Gap -- Mind the Gap: Savile's Bridge Between the End of Tacitus' Annals and the Start of the Histories / Rhiannon Ash - Epilogue - Bibliography -- Index Locorum.Widely regarded as ancient Rome's greatest historian, Tacitus has shaped much of early modern and modern thought on Rome and its emperors. Substantial portions of his major historical works Histories and Annals, however, have not survived, depriving us of his account of crucial episodes and developments in Rome's early imperial history. This first-of-its-kind volume seeks to fill those gaps, using a range of historical and linguistic approaches to reconstruct the missing portions of Tacitus' work. The volume offers reconstructions of the fragmentary Tacitean emperors (Augustus, Caligula, Nero, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian) and of important lost episodes such as the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem and the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. By utilizing the concept of incompleteness as a narrative tool, Tacitus and the Incomplete provides novel insights into what Tacitus' oeuvre might have been like if the lost books had survived, and also expands on recent work on counterfactual historiography, the influence of hindsight on historical writing, the use of prolepsis and other narrative techniques, and on the limitations of historiography in the imperial period.Description based on information from the publisher.Tacitus, Cornelius.Historiae.Tacitus, Cornelius.Annales.Tacitus, CorneliusCriticism and interpretation.Electronic books.Christoforou, Panayiotis,1987-editor.https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjFYc8XFbTrG8PJG6j4hh3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3861-2710https://ror.org/052gg0110Berge, Bram L. H. ten,editor.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9652-337https://ror.org/03chnr738XTacitus, Cornelius.Historiae.Tacitus, Cornelius.Annales.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.13084565No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 03876nam a2200517 i 450010.3998/mpub.14485683MiU20260129120258.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260129t20262026miua ob 000 0 eng d9780472905935(open access ebook)0472905937(open access ebook)9780472078141(hardcover)9780472058143(paperback)10.3998/mpub.14485683doiEYMengrdapnEYMPN1990.9.H64Copeland, Stacey,authorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1509-296Xhttps://ror.org/012p63287Lavender sounds :from lesbian radio to queer feminist soundwork /Stacey CopelandLesbian radio to queer feminist sound workAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resource (216 pages) :illustrationstexttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierIncludes bibliographical references.Introduction: Tuning the Temporal Static -- Chapter 1: Feminism and Queer Culture in Stereo: Queer Feminism and the Production of Soundwork -- Chapter 2: Being a Public Queer: On Sonic Community and Audibility Activism -- Chapter 3: Kisses through the Static: Producing a Queer Politics of Sonic Intimacy and Play -- Chapter 4: Finding Queer Soundwork: On Feminist Network Labor and Discoverability -- Epilogue: Sound Politics Across Forms and Futures -- BibliographyOpen accessAn exploration of queer feminist soundwork, connecting historical lesbian radio with modern podcasting. Stacey Copeland's Lavender Sounds delves into lesbian radio history and its evolution into queer feminist podcasting today, exploring the politics, aesthetics, and cultural activism embedded in queer feminist soundwork. Through deeply personal and archival explorations, Stacey Copeland traces the emergence of queer feminist soundwork--a unique blend of community-led storytelling, political resistance, and creative expression rooted in feminist and LGBTQ+ activism. At the heart of the book lies a powerful idea: sound is not just heard but felt, connecting generations through shared voices and struggles. In conversation with award-winning and cutting-edge queer and feminist podcast producers from across Canada and the U.S., Lavender Sounds invites us to turn a feminist embodied ear to the past to uncover the ways gender, race, and sexual orientations are embedded in our everyday media listening practices. From pioneering Canadian radio shows like Vancouver's The Lesbian Show and Montreal's Dykes on Mykes to today's queer chumcasts and audio documentary, Lavender Sounds is a journey through auditory landscapes where joy, protest, intimacy, and identity intersect. This book opens a vibrant conversation about how radio and podcasting are vital tools for marginalized communities to connect, create, and claim space in the media world.Sponsored by The Eugene B. Power FundThis work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0Description based on information from the publisher.Gay broadcasters.Homosexuality on radio.Radio programs for gay people.Women in radio broadcasting.Lesbians in mass media.Podcasting.Electronic books.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.144856830No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging