Media, Religion and Culture
An Introduction
James Thrall, Knight Distinguished Chair Emeritus for the Study of Religion and Culture
Routledge

Media, Religion and Culture offers a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary field of religion, media, and culture. The book explores the religious content of media texts and the reception of those texts by religious consumers who appropriate and reuse them in their own religious work, as well as how new forms of media provide fresh locations for new religious voices and identities to emerge.

Qaddafi
Beyond the Myth
Ronald Bruce St. John ’65
The University of Chicago Press

Qaddafi explores the life of Muammar al-Qaddafi, the enigmatic Libyan leader, from his birth to his assassination in a drainage ditch outside the city of Sirte in October 2011. Qaddafi: Beyond the Myth provides a comprehensive look at the forces that shaped Qaddafi and enabled him to become the world’s longest-ruling head of state. It also provides essential information for anyone attempting to understand the division, confusion, and chaos that have dominated post-Qaddafi Libya.

Broken Hallelujah
Cyn Kitchen ’00, Professor of English
Finishing Line Press

Broken Hallelujah is a prairie-rooted meditation on grief, faith, motherhood, and the stubborn persistence of wonder. Set amid wind-scoured fields, gravel roads, critters, storms, and the ordinary domestic rhythms of life, these poems bear witness to an existence shaped by loss without surrendering to despair. With language that is sensuous, precise, and unsentimental, the collection moves through solitude, loss, and memory while remaining fiercely alive to the small, luminous moments that insist on meaning.

Sanderling
Translated by Neil Blackadder, Professor Emeritus of Theatre
Indigo Press

Author Anne Weber embarks on a personal journey into the past to uncover the life of her great-grandfather Florens Christian Rang (1864-1924), whom she nicknames Sanderling after the darting shorebird. A Protestant pastor in Prussian-ruled Poland, Rang served a church whose mission to “Germanise” the local population would later be echoed in the murderous ambitions of the Third Reich. By deciphering his letters and diaries and traveling in his footsteps to Poland, Weber traces the contradictions and crises, the reckonings and departures of a complex legacy. 

Gender, Status, and Space in Athenian Oratory and Society
Edited by Hilary Lehmann, Associate Professor of Classics
Routledge

Readers of Gender, Status, and Space in Athenian Oratory and Society will encounter some of the most up-to-date directions of inquiry in the social-historical study of the Athenian orators. Case studies from across the corpus of the orators explore themes in gender, status, and space, as well as their intersections. The contributors to this volume, primarily early-career researchers representing a range of nationalities and academic positions, combine philological and social-historical methodologies with disciplinarily diverse contemporary theoretical frameworks, including spatial analysis, queer theory, and disability theory.

Last Chance for a Slow Dance
Mark D. Baumgartner ’99
JackLeg Press

Last Chance for a Slow Dance is a mesmerizing collection of 11 tales that explore the poignant ends of relationships, childhood, and dreams. Each story captures the pivotal choices we make at the edge of who we are and what we might become. These stories, set in the “Far Middle” of America, are dark yet strangely joyous, celebrating the weirdness of old America at the edge of whatever comes next.