University Press of Colorado: Recent submissions
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Night burial: poems
In Night Burial, Kate Bolton Bonnici mourns her mother's death from ovarian cancer by tracing the composition, decomposition, and recomposition of the maternal body. Opening with an epigraph from Julia Kristeva's "Stabat ... -
Dears, beloveds: poems
The prose poetry in Kevin Phan's first collection, Dears, Beloveds, offers a fine-grained meditation on grief-personal, familial, ecological, and political. Informed by the author's engagement with Buddhism & mindfulness, ... -
Pueblos, plains & province: New Mexico in the seventeenth century
Offers an in-depth examination of sociopolitical conflict in seventeenth-century New Mexico, detailing the effects of Spanish colonial policies on settlers', missionaries', and Indigenous peoples' struggle for economic and ... -
Poetics of processing: memory formation, identity, and the handling of the dead
Examines complex cultural meanings of manipulation of remains after death and combines social theory and bioarchaeology to examine how the living manipulate the bodies of the dead for social purposes. From prehistoric to ... -
Forced out: a Nikkei woman's search for a home in America
Voluntary evacuation,' a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II with roughly 120,000 people forced from their homes by Executive Order 9066. Around 5,000 escaped. Recounting her family's flight from ... -
Finding solace in the soil: an archaeology of gardens and gardeners at Amache
Tells the largely unknown story of the gardens of Amache, the War Relocation Authority incarceration camp in Colorado. Combining physical evidence with oral histories, archival data, personal photographs, and memories of ... -
Sorcery in Mesoamerica
Examines and reconstructs the original indigenous logic behind sorcery, analyzing manifestations from the early Olmec to the ethnographic present. While the topic of sorcery and witchcraft in anthropology is well developed ... -
Energy impacts: a multidisciplinary exploration of the social impacts of energy development
Bringing important new research on site-level social, economic, and behavioral impacts from large-scale energy development. Featuring conceptual and empirical research from leading social scientists and compares, synthesizes, ... -
Folklore and social media
New scholarship to study digital folklore. A unique virtual, hybridized platform for human communication, social media is more dynamic, ubiquitous, and nuanced than the internet ever was by itself. Taking both the "digital" ... -
Black or right: anti/racist campus rhetorics
Exploring notions of Blackness in white institutional-particularly educational-spaces. Theorizing how in the age of #BlackLivesMatter, Black identity operates with/against neoliberal ideas of difference. Centering Blackness ... -
Things we carry: strategies for recognizing and negotiating emotional labor in writing program administration, The
Emotional labor is not adequately discussed by writing program administrators. The Things we carry makes this often-invisible labor visible, demonstrates a strategy to navigate it reflectively, and opens a path for research. ... -
Beyond conversation: collaboration and the production of writing
Outlines an interactionist theory of collaboration to explain collaboration as the rhetorical capacity manifested in discursive engagements coauthors enter into with their writing objects. Interrogates institutional politics ... -
Style and the future of composition studies
Many college writing teachers operate under the belief that style refers to issues discussed in Strunk and White's outdated book, The Elements of Style. This view is challenged and offers theories and pedagogies from diverse ... -
On teacher neutrality: politics, praxis, and performativity
Explores the ramifications of overly-theoretical ideological arguments about teacher neutrality in higher education. Focuses on this contentious concept, emphasizing practical possibilities and impossibilities of neutrality ... -
Sixteen teachers teaching: two-year college perspectives
A personal tour of classrooms and teaching practices of sixteen distinguished two-year college English teachers and frames the teachers, students, and administrators work as a matter of social justice and brings together ... -
After Plato: rhetoric, ethics, and the teaching of writing
Redefines the relationships of rhetoric for scholars, teachers, and students in the twenty-first century. Essays by accomplished scholars exploring the diversity of ethical perspectives animating contemporary writing ... -
Learning from the lived experiences of graduate student writers
A resource for understanding and resolving issues graduate students face. Offering diverse approaches, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice through structured examination of graduate students' narratives ... -
Interrogating gendered pathologies
Transdisciplinary approach from technologies, rhetorics, philosophies, epistemologies, and biomedical data considering the effects of biomedicine's gendered norms on people. Using complementary and intersectional theoretical ...
