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by Becky Brasington Clark, Director of Marketing and Online Book Publishing Not long ago, I did a quick assessment of the tools I use to stay in touch with the office, with my students, and with my family and friends. The inventory looked something like this: Personal laptop Personal iPad Work laptop Work desktop Work…
by Becky Brasington Clark, Director of Marketing and Online Book Publishing Not long ago, I did a quick assessment of the tools I use to stay in touch with the office, with my students, and with my family and friends. … Continue reading →
by Becky Brasington Clark, Director of Marketing and Online Book Publishing Not long ago, I did a quick assessment of the tools I use to stay in touch with the office, with my students, and with my family and friends. The inventory looked something like this: Personal laptop Personal iPad Work laptop Work desktop Work…
If you have shopped at any large retailer lately, you probably realize school is almost back in session. Not only can you easily find parents buying lunchboxes and backpacks for the younger set, but shopping carts filled with new dorm decor for the Class of 2016 also dot the aisles. While we understand the importance…
Better know an editor is an occasional series where JHU Press journal editors provide a look inside the scholarly publishing process. We work with many fascinating and talented people who serve on the editorial staffs of the journals we publish. Erin Durban-Albrecht, managing editor for Feminist Formations, has agreed to serve as the first subject in…
Since our building renovation was completed in 2010, JHU Press staff have been given a chance to show off unknown talents. Staff and visitors have enjoyed seeing changing exhibits of art by brave members of the JHU Press staff. Who knew? The IT department’s Jim Fragomeni has shown his photography several times, most recently displaying…
By John Eric Goff Ponder for a moment how differently we all view the world. All the lovely vibrations that tickle our eyes and ears are processed by a brain unique to each of us, a brain forged from genetic and environmental influences. The following story, which I tell in the first chapter of my book, …
Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast. By Matt Cameron Scientists have long known that parrots possess individually distinct contact calls, the loudest and most commonly uttered vocalization. These are akin to parrots having…
Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast. By Matt Cameron Scientists have long known that parrots possess individually distinct contact calls, the loudest and most commonly uttered vocalization. These are akin to parrots having…
By Peter Filkins Randall Jarrell famously said that writing poetry was like walking across an open field waiting to be struck by lightning. In reverse fashion, Robert Frost’s dictum, “No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader,” makes the same point about the need for the poet to be surprised by his own…