Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication

Designers can create stronger products by considering multiple users with varied perspectives and thus create balance, termed equilibriUX, in their designs.

Explores the critical role that classroom educators play in supporting student motivation throughout the transition from high school to college.

This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.

Explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives: the personal narrative, relating the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld, and the academic narrative examining how instructional communication informs students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice.

Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.

The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë’s oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.

Traces the controversial poet’s thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.

Demonstrates that slapstick film comedies display a canny and sometimes profound understanding of their medium.

Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory's implicit suggestion of protection in isolation.

Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

Part airport thriller, part family drama, part love story, In Security explores how those who strive to protect us are often unable to protect themselves.

Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.

An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels.

Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature.

Examines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German tradition.

Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship.

A collection of poems weaving together astrology, motherhood, music, and literary history.