ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (20 May 2024)

May 20, 2024

ICYMI: New & Notable Articles of the Week header. A collage of this week's featured journal covers

Each week, we collect the articles that we posted in the last week and put them all in one place, right here on the blog. So no worries if you missed an article we posted to Facebook, X/Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Instagram and/or LinkedIn.

Here they are, In Case You Missed It:

Promotional tile featuring the cover art from the September 2023 issue of Modernism/modernity and the text: "To Measure is All We Know" William Carlos Williams and the Science of Measurement Read free thru 31 May

"To Measure is All We Know": William Carlos Williams and the Science of Measurement

Christian R. Gelder

Modernism/modernity
Volume 30, Number 3, September 2023

In order to appreciate William Carlos Williams' much-critiqued definition of “measure,” one must first understand how the science of measurement appeared in works by contemporaneous critics.

Read free in Modernism/modernity thru 31 May

Promotional tile featuring the cover art from the Winter 2018 edition of African American Review and the text: Identifying White Mediocrity and Know-Your-Place Aggression A Form of Self-Care Read Dr, Koritha Mitchell’s primer on “know-your-place aggression” Free thru 14 June in African American Review

Identifying White Mediocrity and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Form of Self-Care

Koritha Mitchell

African American Review
Volume 51, Number 4, Winter 2018

Koritha Mitchell explores what she calls “know-your-place aggression” in African American Review, now available to read free thru 14 June

Explore further with a new interview with Dr. Mitchell in Public Books.

Promotional tile featuring an image of Walt Whitman from the first edition of Leaves of Grass, the cover of the January 2024 issue of Technology and Culture, and an image of the Brooklyn Waterworks from 1859, along with the text: "One of the Grand Works of the World" Walt Whitman's Advocacy for the Brooklyn Waterworks, 1856–59 Read free thru 31 May 2024

"One of the Grand Works of the World": Walt Whitman's Advocacy for the Brooklyn Waterworks, 1856–59

Stephanie M. Blalock, Kevin McMullen, Stefan Schöberlein, and Jason Stacy

Technology and Culture
Volume 65, Number 1, January 2024

Walt Whitman may be known as the “poet of America,” but fewer know about his contributions to bringing the Brooklyn Waterworks project out of obscurity through advocacy journalism.

Read more about his efforts in Technology and Culture, free thru 31 May.

From the Archives: An AAPI Heritage Month Reading List

We're celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month this May with a selection of recent journal articles spanning the Hopkins Press catalog.

Featuring articles from Children's Literature Association Quarterly , Journal of Asian American Studies, American Quarterly, Asian Perspective, Theatre Journal, Feminist Formations, Arizona Quarterly, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and Bookbird on topics including pedagogies in Asian American studies; Filipino penal colonies; Kurdish and Korean diasporas; a symposium on Mel Gurtov's Engaging China; Lee Isaac Chung's Minari; the Asian American outdoors; and much more.

Read free through 31 May

Excited Delirium: Why does this discredited term stick around?

In a new guest blog, Phoebe Friesen, PhD and Arjun Byju, MD examine the persistence of the discredited diagnosis "excited delirium" Their new article in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology and its responses are all free to read through 31 May.

Read “Making up Monsters, Redirecting Blame: An Examination of Excited Delirium” in the new issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, free through 31 May.

Read further with a pair of commentaries,"Excited Delirium: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Police Brutality" by Kathryn Petrozzo and "Excited Delirium: What’s Psychiatry Got to do With It?" by Paul B. Lieberman, MD, as well as the authors' response: "Excited Delirium: Falsifiability, Causality, and the Importance of Advocacy" — all freely available to all readers for the month of May.

We begin our third season of the Hopkins Press Podcast with an interview with speculative fiction author and children's literature scholar Gabriela Lee, whose recent article in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, “When the Shoe Doesn't Fit: Reading Cinderella as Colonial Children's Literature in the Philippines” became a viral hit on the Hopkins Press social media earlier this year.

Read her article, free through 31 May