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When a poet dies
Guest post by Peter Filkins The 50th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s suicide on February 11, 1963, will no doubt cause many to pause and think what might have been if she had lived to write beyond the age of thirty. Many will reflect on the patriarchal forces...
Super Bowl XLVII and the legacy of Baltimore football
By Claire Tamberino It’s a good time to be in Baltimore. It’s an even better time to be in New Orleans, where the Baltimore Ravens will face the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl whatever (sorry, I never did get the hang of Roman numerals). I can imagine that...
Wild Thing: Human Teeth vs. Other Mammalian Teeth
Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast. Guest post by Peter S. Ungar Open your mouth and look in a mirror. Millions of us suffer...
On writing about the remarkable intersection of literature and science
guest post by Theresa M. Kelley Writing Clandestine Marriage was fascinating for me. It was challenging, too, but above all, working on this book sharpened my interest in how literature meets, or sidles up to, science. Here I want to talk about two examples...
A Feminist Examination of Global Conferences
Guest post by Jean Quataert and Benita Roth, special guest editors The Journal of Women’s History recently published a special issue (24, 4 Winter 2012) on “Human Rights, Global Conferences, and the Making of Postwar Transnational Feminisms.” The collection of...
January news and new books
News and Notes Johns Hopkins University hosts Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America: On January 14-15, the Johns Hopkins University convened more than 20 global leaders in gun policy and violence for the Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America. On...
Chapter and Verse: Fraught Occasions
Chapter and Verse is a series where JHU Press authors and editors discuss the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. guest post by Peter Filkins If there is one thankless job above all others, it...
Making a scene
By Janet Gilbert Journals Direct Response and Renewals Senior Coordinator Theatre majors—like philosophy and English majors—are frequent recipients of the question, “What on earth are you going to do with that when you graduate?” Yet the inexorable truth is...
In Other Words: Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Mark Lococo, Vice President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, talks about the 2012 annual conference in Washington D.C. and its importance to the association's mission.
Johns Hopkins University Hosts Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America
The staggering toll of gun violence—which claims 31,000 lives every year in the U.S.—is an urgent public health issue that demands effective policies informed by research and data that will prevent gun violence. On January 14th and 15th, 2013, the Johns...