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where great writing begins
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1 When You Learn the Alphabet … Kendra Allen

2 Dakota in Exile … Linda M. Clemmons
3 Stamford ’76 … JoeAnn Hart
4 The Year of the Femme … Cassie Donish
5 In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps … Rob Schlegel
6 Austentatious … Holly Luetkenhaus and Zoe Weinstein
7 Disney’s Star Wars … William Proctor and Richard McCulloch, eds.
8 Exploiting Fandom … Mel Stanfill
9 Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies … Jungmin Kwon
10 A Life on the Middle West’s Never-Ending Frontier … Willard L. Boyd

Stamford 11 Sky Dance of the Woodcock … Greg Hoch

’76 A TRUE STORY

OF MURDER,
12 Rehearsing Revolutions … Mary McAvoy
13 Women Adapting … Bethany Wood
CORRUPTION, 14 America in the Round … Donatella Galella
RACE, AND
FEMINISM
IN THE 1970S 15 Performing the Progressive Era … Max Shulman & J. Chris Westgate, eds.
16 Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War … Steven Belletto & Joseph Keith, eds.
JoeAnn Hart 17 Recently Published
18 General Interest Bestsellers
19 Regional Bestsellers
THE YEAR OF
20 Scholarly Bestsellers

THE FEMME 21 Recent Book Honors and Reviews

22–23 Indexes
23 Desk and Exam Copy Policies
24 Contact Information
CASSIE DONISH
25 Sales Representation

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 When You Learn the Alphabet
by Kendra Allen
2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction

“Kendra Allen’s When You Learn the Alphabet is a roaring medita-

tion on what black daughters in our nation do with what and
how they’ve been taught. The book brilliantly animates the
formal and informal education processes of becoming grown in
America. Allen somehow manages to make explorations of color-
ism, language, trauma, war, and love sit comfortably next to one
another. Allen’s book is an ambitious, dexterous collection that
really obliterates convenient understandings of the sentimental
in favor of dynamic, fleshy layers of soulful sincerity. It is a re-
markable artistic achievement.”—Kiese Laymon, judge, Iowa
Prize for Literary Nonfiction, author, Heavy: An American Memoir

Kendra Allen’s first collection of essays—at its core—is
a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go
of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this col-
lection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between
parent and daughter. These parental relationships expose the con-
ditioning that subconsciously informed her ideas on social issues
such as colorism, feminism, war-induced PTSD, homophobia,
marriage, and “the n-word,” among other things.
These dynamics strive for some semblance of accountability,
and the essays within this collection are used as displays of deep
unlearning and restoring—balancing trauma and humor, poetics
and reality, forgiveness and resentment.
When You Learn the Alphabet allots space for large moments of
tenderness and empathy for all black bodies—but especially all
black woman bodies—space for the underrepresented humanity
and uncared for pain of black girls, and space to have the oppor-
tunity to be listened to in order to evolve past it.
Kendra Allen was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, and is cur-
rently an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama. Her work
has been published in Brevity, December Magazine, and the Rumpus.
“Kendra Allen will not, as she writes, make
anyone feel good at her own expense. Nor
will she let herself be comforted at the
expense of others. Instead, she brilliantly
writes her tender origins into history, cre-
ating for future readers a complex sense
of self-recognition missing from her own
past.”—Hali Felt, University of Alabama
“Every generation has its seer, a writer of
radical, fierce talent who tells it true, who
writes the being and identity like a punch
in the gut. Kendra Allen is this genera-
tion’s sharpshooter. To think: this is her
first book. We are witnessing the birth
of this astonishing star.”—Jenny Boully,
author, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the
Writing Life

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 Dakota in Exile
The Untold Stories of Captives in the
Aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War
by Linda M. Clemmons
Iowa and the Midwest Experience
William Friedricks, series editor

Robert Hopkins was a man caught between two worlds.

As a member of the Dakota Nation, he was unfairly imprisoned,
accused of taking up arms against U.S. soldiers when war broke
out with the Dakota in 1862. However, as a Christian convert who
was also a preacher, Hopkins’s allegiance was often questioned
by many of his fellow Dakota as well. Without a doubt, being a
convert—and a favorite of the missionaries—had its privileges.
Hopkins learned to read and write in an anglicized form of Dakota,
and when facing legal allegations, he and several high-ranking
missionaries wrote impassioned letters in his defense. Ultimately,
he was among the 300-some Dakota spared from hanging by
President Lincoln, imprisoned instead at Camp Kearney in Dav-
enport, Iowa, for several years. His wife, Sarah, and their children,
meanwhile, were forced onto the barren Crow Creek reservation
in Dakota Territory with the rest of the Dakota women, children,
and elderly. In both places, the Dakota were treated as novelties,
displayed for curious residents like zoo animals.
Historian Linda Clemmons examines the surviving letters from
Robert and Sarah; other Dakota language sources; and letters from
missionaries, newspaper accounts, and federal documents. She
blends both the personal and the historical to complicate our un-
derstanding of the development of the Midwest, while also serving
as a testament to the resilience of the Dakota and other indigenous
peoples who have lived in this region from time immemorial.
Linda M. Clemmons is professor of history at Illinois State Uni-
versity in Normal, Illinois. She is the author of Conflicted Mission:
Faith, Disputes, and Deception on the Dakota Frontier.
“Dakota in Exile adds to our knowledge
about and understanding of the history of
the Dakota Nation in particular and of the
U.S. more broadly, as the history of colo-
nization and settler colonialism is integral
to the history of the United States.”
—Colette Hyman, author, Dakota Women’s
Work: Creativity, Culture, and Exile
“Linda Clemmons shines a light on the
frequently overlooked aftermath of the
Dakota War through the experiences
of prisoners of war and exiled survivors
united in a common goal: survival of post-
war persecution. She captures the varied
collective experiences and humanity of
the Dakota during a chaotic, genocidal
chapter in Indian-white relations.”
—Jacki Thompson Rand, University of
Iowa

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 Stamford ’76

Stamford
A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race,
and Feminism in the 1970s

’76
by JoeAnn Hart

“There is a deep, elusive connection between a memoir and a

crime scene, and in Stamford ’76, JoeAnn Hart tracks it doggedly,
bringing together scenes from her rich and troubled past and A TRUE STORY
the mystery of a decades-old crime. She transports us from our OF MURDER,
moment back into the waning days of the counterculture. A sus- CORRUPTION,
penseful narrative, pressurized on every page by the release of RACE, AND
material long held close.”—Sven Birkerts, author, The Art of Time FEMINISM
in Memoir: Then, Again IN THE 1970S

In July 1976, a twenty-four-year-old white woman, Margo Olson,

was found in a shallow grave in Stamford, Connecticut, with an
arrow piercing through her heart. A few weeks later, Howie Carter,
her black boyfriend, was killed by the police. Howie and Margo’s
interracial relationship held a distorted mirror to the author’s own,
with Howie’s best friend, Joe. Joe’s theory was that the police didn’t
have any evidence to arrest Howie; operating on the assumption
that the black man is always guilty, they killed him instead. Margo’s
murder was never solved.
Looking back at what might have happened in 1976, the author
discovers a Bicentennial year steeped in recession, racism, and
unrelenting violence. It was also a time of flourishing second-wave
feminism, when young women were encouraged to do anything, if
only they knew how. Stamford was in the midst of urban renewal,
destroying historically black neighborhoods to create space for
corporations escaping a bankrupt and dangerous New York City,
just forty miles away. Organized crime followed the money, infil-
trating Stamford at all levels. The author reveals how racism, mi-
sogyny, the economy, and corruption affected the young people’s
daily lives, and helped lead Margo and Howie to their deaths.
JoeAnn Hart
“JoeAnn Hart’s obsession with a thirty-
year-old cold case quickly became my
own in this spellbinding work about 1970s
biracial couples, drug kingpins, the mob,
and Connecticut’s dirty cops. A thoughtful
exploration of the memories that haunt
us and the ones that let us go that kept
me turning the pages, wondering if Hart’s
die-hard beliefs were going to be the next
victim.”—Elyssa East, author, Dogtown:
Death and Enchantment in a New England
Ghost Town

JoeAnn Hart is author of the novel Float, a dark comedy about plas-
tics in the ocean, and Addled, a social satire. She lives in Gloucester,
Massachusetts.

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 The Year of the Femme
by Cassie Donish
THE YEAR OF
2018 Iowa Poetry Prize

“At the edge of a field a thought waits,” writes Cassie Donish,

in her collection that explores the conflicting diplomacies of body
THE FEMME
and thought while stranding us in a field, in a hospital, on a shore-
line. These are poems that assess and dwell in a sensual, fantasti-
cally queer mode. Here is a voice slowed by an erotics suffused
with pain, quickened by discovery. In masterful long poems and
refracted lyrics, Donish flips the coin of subjectivity; different and
potentially dangerous faces are revealed in turn. With lyricism as
generous as it is exact, Donish tunes her writing as much to the
colors, textures, and rhythms of daily life as to what violates daily
CASSIE DONISH
life—what changes it from within and without.

From “Tendency”
“Donish’s voice is wreathed, garlanded,
One could live, therefore full of pollen and rain and clover and in-
digo—everything further broken, messy,
As if following a sparrow down a lovely, loving, wild, and utterly itself, and
road of light it’s in that state that this voice, lush yet
precise, is then thrown to us, the reader
Sturdy bluebells
sighing with pleasure and pathos. A
I paused the recording bold and redemptive truth is found here,
of the grass not reliant on answers for its power and
meaning.”—Brenda Shaughnessy, judge,
Grew hungry enough Iowa Poetry Prize
to eat what was offered
“Atmospherically rich, these are poems
Or would I still be holding the pear in which you can feel the weather, smell
fall coming, feel spring’s sky on your
And read all your books backwards
skin. Donish gives them all the time they
As if there is no need to fill from within with imagery and
direction intelligence. They’re also full of press-
ing questions, and she goes clearly and
In which one should live directly into some of the most pressing
of the contemporary moment—gender,
Cassie Donish is author of the poetry collection Beautyberry and the desire, loneliness, and how they might all
nonfiction chapbook On the Mezzanine. She teaches at the University condition each other. And though there is
of Missouri in Columbia. anguish here, there is also considerable
hope, a hope born of determination—
april ‘Your heart is beating, yes, despite your
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 In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps
by Rob Schlegel Rob
2018 Iowa Poetry Prize Schlegel In
the
Tree
“Rob Schlegel has a voice you’d follow into the dark woods,
knowing full well it’s hard, awful, daily, plain, living truth you’re
Where
running toward. The speaker in this book is a heartbreaker of the
a storyteller—a synesthesiac of mixed feelings, bad news, and Double
wordsmithery. I feel known, caught out, believed in, vulnerable,
when I read this book.”—Brenda Shaughnessy, judge, Iowa
Sex
Poetry Prize Sleeps
With calm abandon, Rob Schlegel stands among the genderless
trees to shake notions of masculinity and fatherhood. Schlegel
incorporates the visionary into everyday life, inhabiting patterns
of relation that do not rely on easy categories. Working from the
premise that poetry is indistinguishable from the life of the poet,
Schlegel considers how his relationship to the creative process is “Rob Schlegel’s In the Tree Where the Double
forever changed when he becomes something new to someone Sex Sleeps is dominated by three of the
else. “The meaning I’m trying to protect is,” Schlegel writes, “the most remarkable long poems I’ve read
heart is neither boy, nor girl.” In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps is in years, but it is especially ‘Novella’ that
a tender search for the mother in the father, the poet in the parent, has grabbed me and won’t let me go.
the forest in the human. Schlegel writes with the easy lyric mastery
he has demonstrated in each of his previ-
From “The Forested Sea” ous books. In the Tree Where the Double
Sex Sleeps quietly elicits a great clamor
Thin as the air carrying the arrow of feeling.”—Shane McCrae, author
to your favorite animal’s neck, woodswallows and National Book Award finalist, In the
nest in a tree adorned with drawings Language of My Captor
of trees, the lines of which
“Precise and nuanced, this lyric journey
are worn faint from the hands
is at once fable, field guide, confession,
of the dying. Grant them the blood of your
and thrilling meditative adventure. I know
attention. They’re ready to speak. of no poet quite so gifted as Rob Schlegel
at chronicling the way ‘impulse turns over
Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields and January Machine. [the] mind.’”—Mary Szybist, author and
He lives and teaches in Washington state. National Book Award winner, Incarnadine

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 Austentatious
The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans
by Holly Luetkenhaus and Zoe Weinstein
Fandom & Culture
Paul Booth and Katherine Larsen, series editors

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The amount of fan-generated content about Jane Austen and
her novels has long surpassed the author’s original canon. Adapta-
tions like Clueless, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen’s Fight
Club, and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries have given Austen fans priceless
opportunities to enjoy the classic texts anew, and continue to bring
new and younger fans into the fold. Now, through online culture,
the amount and type of fan-created works has exponentially mul-
tiplied in recent years. Fans write stories, create art, make videos,
and craft memes, all in homage to one of the most celebrated
authors of all time.
This book explores online fan spaces in search of “Janeites”
all over the world to discover what fans are making, how fans are
sharing their work, and why it matters that so many women and
nonbinary individuals find a haven not only in Jane Austen, but also
in Jane Austen fandom. In relatable chapters based on firsthand
experience, the authors explore how Austen fandom has and con-
tinues to build communities around women, people of color, and
the LGBTQ+ community. Whether Janeites are shrewdly picking
up on the latent sexual tension between women in Emma or cast-
ing people of color in leading roles, Luetkenhaus and Weinstein
argue that Austen fans are particularly adept at marrying fantasy
and feminism.
Holly Luetkenhaus is a librarian at Oklahoma State University
and resides in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Zoe Weinstein is a librarian
at Brandeis University and resides in Somerville, Massachusetts.
“Giving contemporary Austen-inspired fan
culture its due, in a style that feels as if
you’re having a conversation with smart
friends over a glass of wine, the authors
of Austentatious have given us a seriously
fun, information-filled, and thought-­
provoking read. Whether you already
know what today’s Austen ‘fanon’ is, or
don’t yet know that you need to know,
you’ll be grateful to Luetkenhaus and
Weinstein for simultaneously illuminat-
ing it and entertaining you—which is, of
course, in keeping with the mode of the
great author herself.”—Devoney Looser,
author, The Making of Jane Austen
“Written by two self-professed ‘Janeites’
for both scholars and fellow Austen
fans, Austentatious offers an accessible
overview of Jane Austen fandom from its
beginnings in the nineteenth century to
its digital and diverse iterations in the
twenty-first century, reminding us that
fandom, as we think we know it, began
long before Star Trek or Sherlock Holmes.”
—Katherine Larsen, coauthor, Fangasm:
Supernatural Fangirls (Iowa, 2013)

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 Disney’s Star Wars
Forces of Production, Promotion, and Reception
by William Proctor and Richard McCulloch, editors
Fandom & Culture
Paul Booth and Katherine Larsen, series editors

“An international mix of authors—many of whom grew up as part
of the Star Wars generation—turn their collective intelligence
onto Disney’s expansion of George Lucas’s epic adventure saga,
considering how Star Wars has engaged audiences across multi-
ple media platforms and inspired a range of fan responses. Each
essay makes a unique contribution to our understanding of one
of today’s most important media franchises.”—Henry Jenkins,
coauthor, Participatory Culture in a Networked Era
In 2012, Disney purchased Lucasfilm, which meant it also
inherited the beloved Star Wars franchise. This corporate marriage
sent media critics and fans into a frenzy of speculation about what
would happen next with the hugely popular series. Disney’s Star
Wars gathers twenty-one noted fan and media studies scholars
from around the world to examine Disney’s revival of the franchise.
Covering the period from Disney’s purchase through the release
of The Force Awakens, the book reveals how fans anticipated, inter-
preted, and responded to the steady stream of production stories,
gossip, marketing materials, merchandise, and other sources in
the build-up to the movie’s release. From fears that Princess Leia
would be turned into a “Disney princess” to collaborative brand
management, the authors explore the shifting relationship be-
tween fans, texts, and media industries in the context of a crucial
rebranding campaign. The result is a fascinating examination of
a critical moment in the iconic series’ history.
“Star Wars isn’t what it used to be. This
fascinating collection of essays captures 
a key moment in its ever-expanding uni-
verse, acknowledging the contradictions
of its history, the fluidity of its continu-
ity, and the diversity of its texts—from
toys to theme parks, from the Holiday
Special to The Force Awakens. Engaging and
entertaining.”—Will Brooker, author,
Using the Force: Creativity, Community, and
Star Wars Fans
“No other volume engages this topic so
thoroughly or in-depth. Thanks to four
new Star Wars films since Disney’s acquisi-
tion of the property, the subject is both
hot and relevant, and the contributors
provide insights and contextualization
for the larger Star Wars universe and the
academy. Plus, it’s fun to read!”
—Kevin Wetmore, Loyola Marymount
University

William Proctor is senior lecturer in transmedia, culture, and com-

munication at Bournemouth University. He is coeditor of Global
Convergence Cultures: Transmedia Earth and of The Scandinavian Inva-
sion: The Nordic Noir Phenomenon and Beyond. Richard McCulloch is
lecturer in film and cultural studies at the Centre for Participatory
Culture, University of Huddersfield. He is coeditor of The Scandi-
navian Invasion: The Nordic Noir Phenomenon and Beyond.

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 Exploiting Fandom
How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans
by Mel Stanfill

“Exploiting Fandom is a long overdue book that brings together “Stanfill writes with an impressively strong
media and sports fandom studies under the lens of fan labor. sense of theory, helping the reader to un-
It is mandatory for anyone working in the field, and its clear derstand how fans are incited to particu-
argument and extensive and interesting case studies make it lar identities and practices and what their
accessible to more general audiences as well.”—Kristina Busse, potential exploitation by industry might
author, Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan actually mean. In this focus on the man-
Fiction Communities (Iowa, 2017) agement of fandom, Stanfill both con-
tributes to critical media industry studies
As more and more fans rush online to share their thoughts and directs much needed attention to the
on their favorite shows or video games, they might feel like the politics of gender, sexuality, and race at
process of providing feedback is empowering. However, as fan these intersections.”—Derek Johnson,
studies scholar Mel Stanfill argues, these industry invitations for author, Media Franchising: Creative License
fan participation indicate not greater fan power but rather greater and Collaboration in the Culture Industries
fan usefulness. Stanfill’s argument, controversial to some in the
field, compares the “domestication of fandom” to the domestica-
tion of livestock, contending that, just as livestock are bred bigger
and more docile as they are domesticated, so, too, are fans as the
entertainment industry seeks to cultivate a fan base that is both
more useful and more controllable.
By bringing industry studies and fan studies into the conversa-
tion, Stanfill looks closely at just who exactly the industry consid-
ers “proper fans” in terms of race, gender, age, and sexuality, and
interrogates how digital media have influenced consumption,
ultimately finding that the invitation to participate is really an
incitement to consume in circumscribed, industry-useful ways.

Mel Stanfill is assistant professor with appointments in texts and

technology and games and interactive media at the University of
Central Florida.

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 Straight Korean Female Fans
and Their Gay Fantasies
by Jungmin Kwon
Fandom & Culture
Paul Booth and Katherine Larsen, series editors

“This is the first book-length treatment of Korean women’s “Straight Korean Female Fans and Their
engagement with transnational fandom. The author makes in- Gay Fantasies is a vital contribution to
novative arguments that help us understand women’s changing the fields of fan and audience studies.
roles in Korean society, the growing significance of female con- Jungmin Kwon writes with a clear and
sumers for the Korean culture industries, and women’s interest purposeful personal voice, demonstrat-
in and support for queer issues and identities that are trans- ing the value of the situated fan-scholar
forming Korean genderscapes.”—Mark McLelland, author, Male perspective. Thoughtful, engaging, and
Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realities thought-provoking, this book is a plea-
sure to read.”—Louisa Ellen Stein, author,
This book is about ardent Korean female fans of gay represen- Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences
tation in the media, their status in contemporary Korean society, in the Transmedia Age (Iowa, 2015)
their relationship with other groups such as the gay population,
and, above all, their contribution to reshaping the Korean media’s
portrayal of gay people. Jungmin Kwon names the Korean female
fandom for gay portrayals as “FANtasy” subculture, and argues
that it adds to the present visibility of the gay body in Korean main-
stream media, thus helping to change the public’s perspective
toward sexually marginalized groups.
The FANtasy subculture started forming around text-based me-
dia, such as yaoi, fan fiction, and U.S. gay-themed dramas (like
Will & Grace), and has been influenced by diverse social, political,
and economic conditions, such as the democratization of Korea,
an open policy toward foreign media products, the diffusion of
consumerism, government investment in the culture, the Holly­
woodization of the film industry, and the popularity of Korean
culture abroad. While much scholarly attention has been paid to
female fandom for homoerotic cultural texts in many countries,
this book seeks to explore a relatively neglected aspect of the sub-
culture: its location in and influence on Korean society at large.

Jungmin Kwon is assistant professor of digital culture and film

studies in the School of Film at Portland State University.

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 A Life on the Middle West’s
Never-Ending Frontier

University of Iowa College of Law

by Willard L. Boyd

University of Iowa legend Willard L. “Sandy” Boyd is a proud

middle westerner. His decades of service to the university began in
1954, when he arrived as a law professor. He later became presi-
dent of the University of Iowa from 1969 to 1981, and led the school
through times that were fraught not just for the university but for “This chronicle of Sandy’s experiences
the country. During the intense polarization of the late sixties throughout his life shows us the evolu-
and early seventies, Sandy’s compassion and steady leadership tion both of the University of Iowa and of
ensured that dissent on campus would be honored and would the nation writ large. More importantly, it
not stop the university’s educational mission. He quickly became gives us a lens through which to examine
admired, not simply for his professional achievements but also our present situation, whether debating
for his personal integrity. free speech on campus, the role of the
His memoir, interspersed with personal wisdom gleaned over arts and humanities in civil society, or the
more than six decades of service and leadership, encapsulates status of education funding.”—from the
Sandy’s shrewd yet optimistic view of the public university as an foreword by Dr. David J. Skorton, secre-
institution. At every stage in his life—in the U.S. Navy during tary, Smithsonian Institution, president
World War II, while practicing law or teaching, and in leadership emeritus, Cornell University, former
positions at Chicago’s Field Museum and the University of Iowa— president, University of Iowa
Sandy relied on his principles of open disclosure, inclusiveness,
and respect for differences to guide him on issues that matter.
This chronicle of Sandy’s experiences throughout his life shows
us the evolution both of the University of Iowa and of the nation
writ large. More importantly, this book gives us a lens through
which to examine our present situation, whether debating free
speech on campus, the role of the arts and humanities in civil
society, or the importance of funding for educational and cultural
institutions.

Willard L.“Sandy” Boyd first came to the University of Iowa as a law

professor, and eventually became the university’s fifteenth presi-
dent from 1969 to 1981, when he left to become president of the
Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He returned to UI as
a law professor in 1996 and served as interim president from 2002
to 2003. He is also founder of the university’s Nonprofit Resource
Center. Sandy lives in Iowa City.

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 Sky Dance of the Woodcock
The Habits and Habitats of a Strange Little Bird
by Greg Hoch
Bur Oak Books
Holly Carver, series editor
“The American woodcock is the rare animal that both ignites
the imagination and inspires rational study. ‘Without both, any
story about this little bird would only be partially told,’ writes
Greg Hoch. Seasoning the text with passion-fueled literary pas-
sages as well as scientific findings, Hoch masterfully delivers the
complete story.”—Tom Carney, author, Among the Aspens: Stolen
Moments in Secret Coverts
“Woodcocks are the masters of camouflage, but there is so much
more to this curious bird, as the readers of this book will learn.
Sky Dance of the Woodcock describes in fascinating detail the
natural history of this ‘woodland shorebird’ along with the chal-
lenges it faces in a world of diminishing wild places.”
—Mark Madsen, former president, Bur Oak Land Trust
Woodcock are one of the oddest birds in North America.
They are a shorebird that got lost and ended up in the scrubby
parts of the forest, and look like they were put together with the
leftover parts of other birds. Oddities aside, each spring they rise
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Greg Hoch combines natural history, land management, scien-
tific knowledge, and personal observation to examine this little
game bird. Woodcock have a complex life history and the man-
agement of their habitat is also complex. The health of this bird
can be considered a key indicator of what good forests look like.
Greg Hoch works for the Minnesota Department of Natural Re-
sources. He currently lives near Cambridge, Minnesota, where
he regularly sees woodcock, ruffed grouse, and golden-winged
warblers.
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 Rehearsing Revolutions
The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism
in the Early Twentieth Century

Courtesy of Highlander Center Archives

by Mary McAvoy
Studies in Theatre History and Culture
Heather S. Nathans, series editor

Between the world wars, several labor colleges

sprouted up across the U.S. These schools, funded by
unions, sought to provide members with adult education
while also indoctrinating them into the cause. As Mary
McAvoy reveals, a big part of that learning experience centered
on the schools’ drama programs. For the first time, Rehearsing
Revolutions shows how these left-leaning drama programs prepared
American workers for the “on-the-ground” activism emerging
across the country. In fact, McAvoy argues, these amateur stages
served as training grounds for radical social activism in early
twentieth-century America.
Using a wealth of previously unpublished material such as direc-
tor’s reports, course materials, playscripts, and reviews, McAvoy
traces the programs’ evolution from experimental teaching tool to
radically politicized training that inspired overt—even militant—
labor activism by the late 1930s. All the while, she keeps an eye
on larger trends in public life, connecting interwar labor drama
to post-war arts-based activism in response to McCarthyism, the
Cold War, and the Civil Rights movement. Ultimately, McAvoy
asks: What did labor drama do for the workers’ colleges and why
did they pursue it? She finds her answer through several differ-
ent case studies in places like the Portland Labor College and the
Highlander Folk School in Tennessee.
“In illuminating theatrical activity at work-
ers’ colleges, McAvoy offers an insightful
vision into the pervasiveness and power
of theatre in American culture.”
—Fonzie D. Geary II, Lyon College
“The book makes a significant contribu-
tion to twentieth-century leftist theatre
scholarship by introducing archival ma-
terials heretofore forgotten or ignored.
Additionally, in a time period when the
humanities continue to come under at-
tack for their ‘insignificance,’ the author
explicates how even failed attempts at
educational change are consequential.”
—Chrystyna Dail, author, Stage for Action:
U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s

Mary McAvoy is assistant professor in the School of Film, Dance,

and Theatre at Arizona State University. She is the coauthor
of Drama and Education: Performance Methodologies for Teaching and
Learning and coeditor of Youth and Performance: Perceptions of the Con-
temporary Child.

june
266 pages . 6 figures . 6 × 9 inches
$90.00s paper original, 978-1-60938-641-2
$90.00s e-book, 978-1-60938-642-9
Theatre / Education
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 Women Adapting
Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties
to Stage and Screen
by Bethany Wood
Studies in Theatre History and Culture
Heather S. Nathans, series editor

“This book investigates the powerful yet previously overlooked

Wisconsin Historical Society

connections between the rarely credited women who wrote,
cowrote, influenced, and profited from the adaptation industry
and popular culture depictions of femininity and whiteness. For
historians of the early twentieth century, especially those inter-
ested in the intersections among theatre, film, magazine/serial,
and book culture, it’s a crucial addition.”—Jane Barnette,
author, Adapturgy: The Dramaturg’s Art and Theatrical Adaptation
“Wood skillfully reveals the interplay of
When most of us hear the title Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, we gender and adaptation, illustrating the
think of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell’s iconic film perfor- various societal and industrial forces that
mance. Few, however, are aware that the movie was based on Anita have contained, controlled, or curtailed
Loos’s 1925 comic novel by the same name. What does it mean, the contributions of women. Nearly a
Women Adapting asks, to translate a Jazz Age blockbuster from century later, many of the thorny issues
book to film or stage? What adjustments are necessary and what, regarding constructions of femininity per-
if anything, is lost? sist. Her work offers a potential methodol-
Bethany Wood examines three well-known stories that debuted ogy for exploring the shifting constraints
as women’s magazine serials—Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Edith Whar- and opportunities for women artists in
ton’s The Age of Innocence, and Edna Ferber’s Show Boat—and traces other periods of history or in contempo-
how each of these beloved narratives traveled across publishing, rary culture.”—Christine Woodworth,
theatre, and film through adaptation. She documents the forma- coeditor, Working in the Wings: New
tion of adaptation systems and how they involved women’s voices Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor
and labor in modern entertainment in ways that have been previ-
ously underappreciated. What emerges is a picture of a unique
window of time in the early decades of the twentieth century, when
women in entertainment held influential positions in production
and management. These days, when filmic adaptations seem end-
less and perhaps even unoriginal, Women Adapting challenges us
to rethink the popular platitude, “The book is always better than
the movie.”

Bethany Wood is assistant professor of theatre at Southwest Bap-

tist University.

may
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 America in the Round
Capital, Race, and Nation at

Courtesy of Arena Stage and Special Collections Research Center,

Washington D.C.’s Arena Stage
by Donatella Galella
Studies in Theatre History and Culture
Heather S. Nathans, series editor

“America in the Round has little to no competition in terms of its

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historical, political, economic, racial, and cultural reach in
capturing the zeitgeist of Arena Stage from its beginnings in 1950
to its current mega status. This well documented research—told
from the perspective of a former employee of Arena—accords
this bustling, state-of-the-art regional theatre the serious and
sustained attention that its long and distinguished record com-
mands.”—Sandra G. Shannon, Howard University

Washington D.C.’s Arena Stage was the first professional

regional theatre in the nation’s capital to welcome a racially in-
tegrated audience; the first to perform behind the Iron Curtain;
and the first to win the Tony Award for best regional theatre. This
behind-the-scenes look at one of the leading theatres in the United
States shows how key financial and artistic decisions were made,
using a range of archival materials such as letters and photographs
as well as interviews with artists and administrators. Close-ups of
major productions from The Great White Hope to Oklahoma! illustrate
how Arena Stage navigated cultural trends.
More than a chronicle, America in the Round is a critical history
that reveals how far the theatre could go with its budget and ra-
cially liberal politics, and how Arena both disputed and duplicated
systems of power. With an innovative “in the round” approach,
the narrative simulates sitting in different parts of the arena space
to see the theatre through different lenses—economics, racial
dynamics, and American identity.
“Providing a close and nuanced reading of
both the developmental history and iden-
tity negotiations of one of our nation’s
most successful and celebrated theatres,
Galella deftly offers a ‘real-life’ (and still
current) case study from which theatre
practitioners, administrators, and schol-
ars can learn as we continue to define,
activate, and fortify the potential within
America’s regional theatres.”
—Faedra Chatard Carpenter, author,
Coloring Whiteness: Acts of Critique in Black
Performance

Donatella Galella is assistant professor of theatre, film, and digital

production at the University of California, Riverside.

march
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Theatre
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Performing the Progressive Era
Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage
by Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate, editors
Studies in Theatre History and Culture
Heather S. Nathans, series editor
The American Progressive Era, which spanned from the
1880s to the 1920s, is generally regarded as a dynamic period
of political reform and social activism. In Performing the Pro-
gressive Era, editors Max Shulman and Chris Westgate bring
together top scholars in nineteenth- and twentieth-century theatre
studies to examine the burst of diverse performance venues and
styles of the time, revealing how they shaped national narratives
surrounding immigration and urban life. Contributors analyze
performances in urban centers (New York, Chicago, Cleveland)
in comedy shows, melodramas, Broadway shows, operas, and
others. They pay special attention to performances by and for
those outside mainstream society: immigrants, the working-class,
and bohemians, to name a few. Showcasing both lesser-known
and famous productions, the essayists argue that the explosion
of performance helped bring the Progressive Era into being, and
defined its legacy in terms of gender, ethnicity, immigration, and
even medical ethics.
Contributors
Amy Arbogast, Gillian Arrighi, Rick DesRochers, Megan E.
Geigner, Les Hunter, Susan Kattwinkel, Hillary Miller, Ariel
Nereson, Michael Schwartz, Max Shulman, J. Chris Westgate
Max Shulman is assistant professor of theatre in the Department
of Visual and Performing Arts at University of Colorado, Colorado
Springs. J. Chris Westgate is professor of English at California
State University, Fullerton. He is the author of Urban Drama: The
Metropolis in Contemporary North American Plays and Staging the Slums,
Slumming the Stage: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American
Theatre, 1890–1916.
may
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Theatre
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of the Library of Congress
“The Progressive Era’s profound, unset-
tling, and contested change is treated
here with sharp insight. Shulman and
Westgate compellingly frame the com-
plex varieties of performance during the
period, and they further our understand-
ing of the ways in which performance
reflects and shapes culture and politics
both at local and national levels.”
—Christopher Herr, Missouri State
University
“The Progressive Era is a rich historical
period in which to investigate key cultural
issues like urbanism, social reforms,
reproductive rights, immigration, na-
tionalism, sexuality, gender norms, and
race relations. It is also a moment when
American theatre artists were cutting the
apron strings from Europe and fashioning
nativist dramas and popular entertain-
ments. This collection weaves these two
important strands together, shedding
light on U.S. culture during this vibrant
time.”—Katie N. Johnson, author, Sisters
in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900–1920
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 Neocolonial Fictions of
the Global Cold War
by Steven Belletto and Joseph Keith, editors
The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in
Contemporary Literature and Culture
Samuel Cohen, series editor
Bringing together noted scholars in the fields of literary,
cultural, gender, and race studies, this edited volume challenges
us to reconsider our understanding of the Cold War, revealing it
to be a global phenomenon rather than just a binary conflict be-
tween U.S. and Soviet forces. Shining a spotlight on writers from
the war’s numerous fronts and applying lenses of race, gender,
and decolonization, the essayists present several new angles from
which to view the tense global showdown that lasted roughly a
half-century. Ultimately, they reframe the Cold War not merely
as a divide between the Soviet Union and the United States, but
between nations rich and poor, and mostly white and mostly not.
By emphasizing the global dimensions of the Cold War, this in-
novative collection reveals emergent forms of post-WWII empire
that continue to shape our world today, thereby raising the ques-
tion of whether the Cold War has ever fully ended.
Contributors
Kate Baldwin, Steven Belletto, Michele Hardesty, Cheryl
Higashida, Andrew Hoberek, Crystal Parikh, Donald E. Pease,
Adam Piette, John Carlos Rowe, Adam V. Spanos, William V.
Spanos, Cedric Tolliver
Steven Belletto is professor of English at Lafayette College. He
is the author of No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War
American Narratives. Joseph Keith is associate professor and chair
of English at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is the author of
Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of
Citizenship: 1945–1960.
june
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Literary Criticism
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“Neocolonial Fictions distinguishes itself
in the field of new Cold War studies by
arguing that, at least in terms of culture
and literature, the Cold War was not sui ge-
neris, but rather was distinguished by rela-
tions and dynamics that came into being
long before 1946 and have, in many cases,
continued to the present. The contribu-
tors read Cold War–era literature with
an eye to decolonization, the civil rights
movement in the U.S., the struggle for
women’s liberation, and the metastasis of
the bureaucratic state.”—Greg Barnhisel,
author, Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature,
and American Cultural Diplomacy
“Neocolonial Fictions is a welcome, worth-
while collection that takes seriously the
centrality of world liberation movements
in the making of a mid-century U.S. literary
canon; as important, the anthology maps
the afterlives of such movements and Cold
War–engagements vis-à-vis the contempo-
rary ‘War on Terror’ imaginary. Neocolonial
Fictions is impressive and capacious.”
—Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, author, War,
Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American
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The Indians of Iowa Good Apples Invisible Hawkeyes

by Lance Foster by Susan Futrell edited by Lena M. Hill & Michael D. Hill
$16.95 978-1-58729-817-2 $20.00 978-1-60938-482-1 $20.00 978-1-60938-441-8

ECOLOGICAL

Heart Stays Country Meditations from the

Southern Flint Hills
gary lantz RESTORATION
IN THE
MIDWEST
Past, Present,
and Future

edited by christian lenhart and peter c. smiley jr .

Heart Stays Country Ecological Restoration Where the Sky Began

by Gary Lantz in the Midwest by John Madson
$25.00 978-1-60938-529-3 edited by Christian Lenhart & $19.95 978-0-87745-861-6
Peter C. Smiley Jr.
$45.00s 978-1-60938-573-6
Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa
P e t e r J. va n d e r L i n d e n a n d D o n a l d R. Fa r r a r

A Sugar Creek Chronicle

Observing Climate Change
from a Midwestern Woodland
cornelia f. mutel

Forest and Shade

Trees of Iowa Thir d
Edition
Pet e r J. va n de r L i n de n a n d Dona l d R. Fa r r a r
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Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa Prairie in Your Pocket A Sugar Creek Chronicle
by Peter van der Linden & by Mark Müller by Cornelia F. Mutel
Donald Farrar laminated fold-out guide $16.00 978-1-60938-395-4
$34.95 978-1-58729-994-0 $10.95 978-0-87745-683-4

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 iowa . . . Scholarly Bestsellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
THE
AMERICAN
NEGRO THEATRE
AND THE LONG
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ER A CITIES
OF
FARMERS
Urban Agricultural
Practices and Processes
e d i t e d b y j u l i e c . daw s o n
and alfonso morales

Jonathan Shandell

Sherlock’s World The American Negro Theatre Cities of Farmers

by Ann K. McClellan and the Long Civil Rights Era edited by Julie C. Dawson &
$40.00s 978-1-60938-616-0 by Jonathan Shandell Alfonso Morales
$70.00s 978-1-60938-594-1 $55.00s 978-1-60938-437-1

The Past, Present,

and Future of
Creative Writing
in the
University

After the SEE YOU IN

Program THE STREETS
Era
Art, Action, and
Remembering the
Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire

ruth sergel
Edited by Loren Glass

After the Program Era In Visible Movement See You in the Streets
edited by Loren Glass by Urayoán Noel by Ruth Sergel
$35.00s 978-1-60938-439-5 $49.95s 978-1-60938-244-5 $21.00 978-1-60938-417-3

M
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Science, Mourning,
a and Whitman’s Civil War
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Metamedia
American Book Fictions
and Literary Print Culture
after Digitization

Alexander Starre
LINDSAY TUGGLE
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Metamedia Millennial Fandom The Afterlives of Specimens

by Alexander Starre by Louisa Ellen Stein by Lindsay Tuggle
$55.00s 978-1-60938-359-6 $24.00 978-1-60938-355-8 $65.00s 978-1-60938-539-2

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iowa . . . Recent Book Honors and Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Good Apples Home Ice
by Susan Futrell by Kevin Cunningham
❉ Winner of the 2018 Readable Feast Best Socially ❉ Winner of the 2017 Midwest Book Awards in Sports
Conscious Food Book
❉ Finalist for the 2018 Readable Feast Book of the Year Tremulous Hinge
❉ Finalist for the 2018 Readable Feast People’s by Adam Giannelli
Choice Award ❉ Finalist for Utah’s 2018 15 Bytes Book Awards
in Poetry
London in a Box ❉ 2018 Honorable Mention for the New England
by Odai Johnson Poetry Club’s Sheila Margaret Motton Prize
❉ Finalist for the 2017 Theatre Library Association
George Freedley Memorial Award Harvest of Hazards
by Derek S. Oden
From Warm Center to Ragged Edge ❉ Honorable Mention for the 2017 Benjamin F.
by Jon K. Lauck Shambaugh Award
❉ Winner of the 2017 Midwest Book Awards in History

London in a Box FROM

WA R M C E N T E R
EnglishnEss and ThEaTrE in
rEvoluTionary amErica TO
odai Johnson RAGGED EDGE

GOOD
GOOD
APPLES
APPLES
Behind Every Bite THE EROSION OF
MIDWESTERN LITER ARY AND
susan futrell HISTORICAL REGIONALISM,
1920–1965

JON K. L AUCK
TREMULOUS HINGE

derek S. oden

Harvest
TREMULOUS HINGE of Hazards
adam giannelli Fa m i ly Fa r m i n g , a c c i d e n ts , a n d
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 . . . index by author . . . . . .
1 Allen, Kendra … When You Learn the Alphabet
Rob
Schlegel In 16 Belletto, Steven … Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War
the 10 Boyd, Willard L. … A Life on the Middle West’s Never-Ending Frontier
Tree
Where 2 Clemmons, Linda M. … Dakota in Exile
the
Double 4 Donish, Cassie … The Year of the Femme
Sex 14 Galella, Donatella … America in the Round
Sleeps
3 Hart, JoeAnn … Stamford ’76
11 Hoch, Greg … Sky Dance of the Woodcock
16 Keith, Joseph … Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War
9 Kwon, Jungmin … Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies
6 Luetkenhaus, Holly … Austentatious
12 McAvoy, Mary … Rehearsing Revolutions
7 McCulloch, Richard … Disney’s Star Wars
7 Proctor, William … Disney’s Star Wars
5 Schlegel, Rob … In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps
15 Shulman, Max … Performing the Progressive Era
8 Stanfill, Mel … Exploiting Fandom
6 Weinstein, Zoe … Austentatious
15 Westgate, J. Chris … Performing the Progressive Era
13 Wood, Bethany … Women Adapting

the habits
and habitats
of a strange
sky dance
of the woodcock
. . . index by title . . . . . .
little bird

14 America in the Round

6 Austentatious
GREG HOCH 2 Dakota in Exile
7 Disney’s Star Wars
8 Exploiting Fandom
5 In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps
10 A Life on the Middle West’s Never-Ending Frontier
16 Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War

Stamford 15 Performing the Progressive Era

’76
12 Rehearsing Revolutions
11 Sky Dance of the Woodcock
A TRUE STORY
OF MURDER, 3 Stamford ’76
CORRUPTION,
RACE, AND
FEMINISM
9 Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies
IN THE 1970S
1 When You Learn the Alphabet
13 Women Adapting
JoeAnn Hart 4 The Year of the Femme

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 . . . index by subject . . . . . .
1 African American Studies
2 American History
9 Asian Studies
12 Education
6–9 Fan Studies
13 Film
10 Higher Education
16 Literary Criticism
1, 10 Memoir
10 Midwest
2 Native American History
11 Nature
THE YEAR OF
4–5 Poetry
6–9 Popular Culture
THE FEMME 12–15 Theatre
3 True Crime
13 Women’s Studies

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