Month: January 2012

January’s Scholarly BIN

By Brendan Coyne, exhibits and awards manager A small sampling of news and views important to scholarly publishing from around the web. Association of American University Presses turning 75 The 134-member Association of American University Presses turns 75 later this year. In celebration of this, the AAUP will, throughout the year, delve into its archives to highlight the…

Monthly contest: share your sounds

Do you hear that? In September 2011, the journal American Quarterly released its annual special issue. This edition "Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies" gave authors a chance to study the role sound plays in American culture. Articles focused not only on music, but on noise pollution, CB radios, and telephone training films. A special web…

Q&A with Tintinologist Benoît Peeters

With Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin in American theaters for over a month now, in this country there is a renewed interest in all things Tintin, including the life and work of the creator of the comic, Georges Remi, better known as Hergé. Recent reviews in The New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere of the English-language translation…

Shaping Tehran’s nuclear cost/benefit calculations

Guest post by Mark N. Katz Washington has not yet succeeded in getting Tehran to reassure the international community about its nuclear program. But the Obama Administration’s efforts to increase economic sanctions against Iran for not doing so now appear to be paying off. The EU’s willingness to cut back on buying Iranian oil, the dramatic …

Crazy Like a (Perfectly Normal) Bereaved Parent: In Defense of Rick and Karen Santorum

By Amy Kuebelbeck Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum and his wife, Karen, have been vilified in recent days for how they handled the death of their premature baby in 1996. Much of the criticism has been uninformed, some of it heartlessly cruel. According to this 1997 story in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Karen Santorum underwent fetal…

Do you have the right to tell your own story?

Guest post by James M. DuBois, DSc, PhD Publishing shares something in common with roller coasters: The rewards are strongly and positively correlated with the capacity to instill fright. A group of us recently started a new journal, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics: A Journal of Qualitative Research. While we publish some traditional types of articles, our …