Mountain Scholar

Mountain Scholar is an open access repository service that collects, preserves, and provides access to digitized library collections and other scholarly and creative works from Colorado State University and the University Press of Colorado. It also serves as a dark archive for the Open Textbook Library.

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Colorado State University, Fort Collins 29194
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Open Textbook Library Archive 1866
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University Press of Colorado 1122
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Recent Submissions

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Rural queer joy: using social practice art to increase rural LGBTQ+ visibility
(2026) Tabler, Jennifer, author; Russel, Bailey, photographer; University of Wyoming Press, publisher
Blending social science, fine arts, and the humanities, Rural Queer Joy explores how the telling of rural LGBTQ+ stories affects young rural queer people today. The stories of well-known Wyoming LGBTQ+ people like Matthew Shepard, Sissy Goodwin, and Artemis Langford often center experiences of trauma and hardship, leaving little space for experiences of triumph or joy. Author Jennifer Tabler and photographer Bailey Russel provided rural LGBTQ+ community members with an opportunity to represent their own experiences through participation in a social practice art project, asking what about being LGBTQ+ brings them joy. They then took the participants' portraits and invited them to annotate these portraits with paint, markers, paper, or other media. This kind of social practice art provides an opportunity to engage in epistemic activism through the self-empowerment of marginalized voices and perspectives, while also centering visuals of rural queer people that counter existing stereotypes and add nuance to our understanding of rural LGBTQ+ people. The dynamic artwork and quotes from young rural LGBTQ+ people displayed in this book highlight how their identities are sources of joy and opportunity rather than constraint and hardship. Rural and/or LGBTQ+ people, researchers, and teachers in the fields of community-engaged arts, gender studies, sociology of sexualities, and public humanities will find inspiration in Rural Queer Joy --inspiration to rethink what it means to be rural and LGBTQ+ as well as to use social practice art to increase the visibility of other underserved communities.
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Centering student activism: feminist rhetorical interruptions of sexual assault culture
(2026) Stenberg, Shari J., author; Utah State University Press, publisher
Featuring a multi-method study of in-depth interviews with student activists and analyses of artifacts & media coverage, this book offers a rhetorical treatment of student activism regarding sexual assault prevention and survivor advocacy on college campuses.--Provided by publisher.
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Writing opportunities: writing, learning, and rightful presence in college transitions
(2026) Jacobson, Brad, author; Utah State University Press, publisher
Through three individual case studies, Jacobson analyzes how writing informs the interior indignity work students do in general education courses outside of the first-year writing classroom, exploring the interrelationships or writing, identity, power, and belonging.--Provided by publisher.
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Folklore in the public square: how the study of traditional culture can solve contemporary social problems
(2026) Mould, Tom, editor; Kitta, Andrea, editor; Utah State University Press, publisher
Folklore in the Public Square applies folkloristics to address critical issues of contemporary relevance and social justice, such mass media, social media, public discourse, conspiracy theories, fake news, disease and pandemic, climate change, and more from diverse contributors.--Provided by publisher.
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The reluctant supervisor: recognizing and rethinking power in writing center supervisory practices
(2026) Azima, Rachel, editor; Levin, Katie, editor; Steck, Meredith, editor; Tang, Jasmine Kar, editor; Utah State University Press, publisher
The Reluctant Supervisor addresses the too often ignored power dynamics within writing centers, the frequent reluctance of writing center directors to acknowledge their position of power, & how marginalized identities affect and complicate those power dynamics.--Provided by publisher.