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Quantifying Higher Education
Professor Chris Newfield is awarded an NEH grant to research the metrics of scholarship and...
Arrival of the Printing Press in the Maker Lab
Professor Paddy Fumerton and Kristy McCants, Assistant Director of EBBA, celebrate the arrival and...

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Faculty Bookshelf

The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information
Liu, Alan

“Knowledge work” is now the reigning business paradigm and affects even...
In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women
Carlson, Julie

English Romanticism has long been considered an 'undramatic' and...
Mapping Multiculturalism
Newfield, Christopher

What is multiculturalism? The word is used everywhere, often without being clearly defined. The first...
Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing
Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin

This anthology of American writers originally from...
Wordsworth: The Sense of History
Liu, Alan

The imaginative power of Wordsworth’s poetry stems from a denial of history so strong and precise that denial itself—the...
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
Abbott, H. Porter

Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 2008

Republication by the University of Peking...
Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry
Huang, Yunte

This book is not an attempt to grasp the "essence" of Chinese poetry, nor is it an endeavor to produce...

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