Happy summer! Here’s what we’ve been working on in the MPublishing office during the month of June. The last issue of 2011 for Michigan Quarterly Review was made freely available. Volume 50, Issue 4 features poetry from Randy Blasing, Todd Boss, Martha Collins, Rick Hilles, Patricia Hooper, and Joe Wilkins and fiction by Peter Ho Davies, Massa Makan Diabaté, Janis Hubschman, Lia Silver, and Jonathan Strong. Issue 4 also features Elizabeth Alexander on black experimental poetry, Marian Crotty on the borderline lover,…
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Philosopher’s Imprint, the free online philosophy journal, released it’s 100th article last week! That article is “Inner and Outer Truth” by Iris Einheuser. The Imprint is one of the first serials published by MPublishing. It was founded in the spirit of the open access movement, which–broadly–seeks to make scholarship more widely available outside traditional publishing models, as well as promoting a future in which funds currently spent on journal subscriptions are redirected to the electronic dissemination of scholarship…
Three open-access books were published jointly by MPublishing and Open Humanities Press in May: Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 1, edited by Tom Cohen, is a collection of essays by notable critics and philosophers and is part of the Climate Change Series. Impasses of the Post-Global: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 2, edited by Henry Sussman, is a diverse collection of essays that use current ecological, demographic, socio-political, economic, and…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the release of Human Figurations, a new journal supported and sponsored by the Norbert Elias Foundation. Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century. He is most famous for his theory of ‘civilizing processes’, but his ambitious vision for the scope of the social sciences extended to the whole development of human society from its earliest origins, including the long-term growth of knowledge and the sciences. Elias…
The Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, the University of Michigan Press and MPublishing are pleased to announce the launch of the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC). The Collaborative has two dimensions: it is a book series that will publish born-digital and digitally enhanced texts focused on the intersections between technologies and communications (teaching, writing, reading) and the social, aesthetic, and political contexts where these occur; it is also a community web space by and…
April showers bring… lots of new publications! Here’s what was on tap for April: The cover of the special Great Lakes issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) released issue 17.2, the latest electronic back issue from Spring 2011. This issue includes seven new articles, which cover topics from university students’ views on a public service requirement for graduation to building community-university partnerships. MJCSL makes past issues available for free online. Current material (Volume…
Judith Pascoe, author of The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, dedicated a recent column in The Chronicle of Higher Education to the sometimes vexing subject of indexing, in particular the question of whether authors should index their own books or hire a professional.
We’ve got quite a list of new publications to share with you this month: Feminist Studies published a new issue. FS 37.3 features a variety of poetry, fiction, and scholarly articles that focus on the theme of feminist histories and institutional practices. Feminist Studies is available in its entirety to subscribers, but anyone can search or browse the journal and purchase PDFs of individual articles. Volume 2 of Fragments released its first seven articles and commentaries of the year….
Guest blogger Dennis Wild is the author of the newly published The Double-Crested Cormorant: Symbol of Ecological Conflict, which tells how, after cormorant populations rebounded from near-extinction driven by DDT contamination, these amazing birds were persecuted throughout their entire range because of their perceived threat to American fishing interests. Today’s double-crested cormorants face the challenge of being referred to as “overabundant.” Their numbers had been so low for so long that more than one human generation…
We’ve made the most of our extra leap year day here at MPublishing, with many new articles and issues, including a new issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review: A new issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review was published. Volume 50, Issue 2 features poetry from Thomas Lynch, Theodore Worozbyt, G. C. Waldrep, Janet Kauffman, and Georges Perros, essays on the life of American composer, author and translator Paul Bowles and his wife Jane Bowles, and…