Category: Books & Publications

Two recent PhD graduates from UT Dallas’ School of Arts and Humanities recently published separate short story collections. Brian DiNuzzo, PhD’19, a writer and educator based in Allentown, New Jersey, recently published a collection of short stories, called “Hoaxes and Other Stories.” The characters populating DiNuzzo’s debut short story collection may be eccentrics, but at […]

Dr. Anne Gray Fischer, assistant professor of history, recently launched her book, The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification.  Fischer’s book explores “how sexual policing fueled a dramatic expansion of police power.”  She recently held a launch event that featured a discussion with Treva B. Lindsey, associate professor of women’s, […]

Please join us in congratulating our colleague Sean Cotter on the extraordinary critical reception his translation of Magda Cârneci’s FEM has received. If you would like to buy a copy of the book, visit this link. In the meantime, here are some highlights from the many recent reviews of the book: The English publication of FEM—Romanian […]

The story of African Americans in shaping Texas history has not been fully told, according to Dr. Kimberly Hill, assistant professor of history in the School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas. But she is working toward filling in the gaps of the missing aspects of Texas history lessons through her work as […]

A new book by Dr. Ming Dong Gu, professor of literature and associate director for the UT Dallas Center for Asian Studies, provides a comprehensive investigation of Chinese and Western studies. Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics covers a broad spectrum of critical discourses and uncovers connections among a wide range of thinkers, theorists, […]

The story of African Americans in shaping Texas history has not been fully told, according to Dr. Kimberly Hill, assistant professor of history in the School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas. But she is working toward filling in the gaps of the missing aspects of Texas history lessons through […]

Professor Gu‘s latest monograph begins with a reflection on dichotomies in comparative studies of Chinese and Western literature and aesthetics. Critiquing an oppositional paradigm, Ming Dong Gu argues that despite linguistic and cultural differences, the two traditions share much common ground in critical theory, aesthetic thought, metaphysical conception, and reasoning. Focusing on issues of language, […]

Charissa N. Terranova, professor of visual and performing arts, has published a new book — an anthology titled D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms. The book was coedited by Terranova and Ellen K. Levy. Essays in the book focus on Scottish zoologist D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s 1917 book […]

A new book by Dr. David Channell, professor of Arts and Humanities, will be part of a series from Routledge publishing, called Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. The book, about George Wilson, a Scottish chemist, should be finished by this summer and published next year. According to Channell’s research, Wilson’s textbook […]

A new book by Dr. David Channell, Professor of Arts and Humanities, will be part of a series from Routledge publishing, called Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. The book, about George Wilson, a Scottish chemist, should be finished by this summer and published next year. According to Channell’s research, Wilson’s textbook […]