Deconstructing Post-Millennium Dylan
Nina Goss said she was just 50 pages into Chronicles: Volume One, Bob Dylan’s 2004…
Browsing: Faculty Reads
How a Generation of Leaders Shaped an Oil Revolution
When Americans think of the “energy crisis” of 1973, we tend to think of long…
New and Noteworthy from Fordham Faculty
Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition, by Lance Strate, Ph.D. (Peter Lang, 2017)…
When German Imperialism Looked Eastward
Where many studies of European empire in the 20th century focus on imperial projects in…
New Book Explores Complex Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1533 to 1556, is well known for his…
When Music and Words Collide
Until the mid-to-late 20th century, discussions about words and music in opera and art song—vocal…
England Was a Proving Ground for Early Jesuits
In the first century of the Society of Jesus, when Jesuits took their missionary work…
Emotions, From Personal and Private to Cultural and Public
Emotional Lives: Dramas of Identity in an Age of Mass Media (Cambridge, 2017), a new…
Preaching to the Choir, and Others
Some of us may have sat through a homily that goes on too long, a…
The “Pleasure of Literature” Principle
When you derive pleasure from reading literature, reciting poetry, and/or watching a play it must…