This is a guest post by Sarah Robertson, author of Gothic Appalachian Literature ‘Backwards’. ‘Hillbillies’. ‘Trash’. You’ve heard them all before: the derogatory labels commonly bandied about when discussing Appalachia. In 2016, Appalachia became the nation’s boogey monster once again, an othering spearheaded by two figures on the political right. Significantly, Donald Trump’s 2016 successful […]

This is a guest post by Ameer Chasib Furaih, author of Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s–1980s When I arrived in Australia in late 2014, my original intention was to research African American poetry. However, I soon broadened the scope of my project to consider the impact of […]

This is a guest post by Christian Robitaille, editor of The Anthem Companion to Raymond Boudon It is often argued by contemporary sociologists that the quest for a value-free, scientific study of society is vain. Indeed, sociology is currently heavily influenced by critical theorists, poststructuralists and other normatively oriented theorists. To them, the very idea […]

This is a guest post by Jamey M. Long & Joseph A. Pisani, author of The Value of Voice in Shared Leadership and Organizational Behavior Emotions impact stakeholders throughout an organization. How we can understand and manage emotions becomes an important skill for success in our current workplace landscape. There has been a greater focus […]

This is a guest post by Melvyn New, author of Apphia Peach, George Lord Lyttelton, and ‘The Correspondents’: An Annotated Edition of a Forgotten Gem (1775) I first became interested in The Correspondents as the result of an essay in The Shandean, by Peter de Voogd, outlining the work’s several mentions of Laurence Sterne’s Sentimental […]

This is a guest post by Waqas M Awan, author of Power of Sage: An Antithesis to Machiavellian Prince Since the cognitive revolution in humanity about 70,000 years ago, humans have mastered the art of cooperation on a massive scale. No species on Earth has the tendency to form as big cooperative societies as humans […]

This is a guest post by Amy D. Propen, author of An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors: Conservation, Compassion and Connectivity Between March and June 2024, areas across the United States will experience the highest aerial bird density of the year. In other words, the period from late spring to […]

This is a guest post by Kemal Silay, author of Origins of the Ottoman Dynasty: A Philological Exploration of Its Earliest Account Whether wholeheartedly embraced by the modern Turkish generation (or even by Turkish historiography itself) or not, Turkey’s Ottoman past is an indispensable part of its history and identity. Rising around 1300 in Northwestern […]

This is a guest post by Meghan P. Nolan & Rebecca Martin, author of The Crossroads of Crime Writing: Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces There is no doubt that crime writing is now one of the most widely read genres of writing; there is something for everyone in sheer variety alone. And, although in academic […]