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A Guide to Serial Bibliographies for Modern Literatures (2nd edition)
The first edition of A Guide to Serial Bibliographies for Modern Literatures was praised by The Year’s Work in English Studies as an “excellent [and] very useful work of reference.” The second edition, updated and expanded, includes information on electronic serial bibliographies.
The guide lists 777 serial bibliographies, including the major humanities and general periodical indexes; works that cover national literatures, literary periods, genres, themes and subjects, and literary authors; and other bibliographies in subjects related to literature, to literary study, and to the literary profession. It describes reference tools such as the Vertical File Index and Essay and General Literature Index, electronic databases and information services such as Lexis/Nexis and Ethnic Newswatch, and bibliographies that are published as part of journals and newsletters such as Hispania and the Keats-Shelley Journal.
The first two chapters summarize the scope of the guide and list comprehensive bibliographies. The following two chapters focus on bibliographies for English and foreign literatures. A chapter on subjects describes bibliographies on topics ranging from African American studies to women’s studies, and the final chapter covers authors from Hans Christian Andersen to Émile Zola. An appendix lists all the electronic bibliographies discussed in the guide.
A standard resource for any reference collection in the humanities, A Guide to Serial Bibliographies for Modern Literatures will be invaluable to graduate students and scholars of modern languages.
A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students
For nearly twenty-five years A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students has helped students avoid the pitfalls of conducting library research for term papers and theses. Updated and revised, the sixth edition shows undergraduates how to use their research time efficiently and how to locate and evaluate material available from electronic databases and the Internet.
Nancy L. Baker and Nancy Huling bring their experience as librarians to a concise tour of the typical college library and provide easy-to-understand summaries of the print and electronic research tools available to students. Along the way, they describe nearly fifty reference works and research aids, including:
- Literature Resource Center
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Literature Online (LION)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- MLA International Bibliography
- Oxford English Dictionary
- ProQuest Research Library
The Research Guide provides dozens of samples from these reference materials. It discusses how to navigate a library’s electronic catalog; how to search for articles and books; how to use primary sources; and how to locate biographical information, quotations, and miscellaneous facts. A new chapter deals with bibliographic citation managers, such as EndNote.
A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature
An informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to Asian American Literature offers background materials for the study of this expanding discipline and suggests strategies and ideas for teaching well-known Asian American works.
The volume focuses on fifteen novels and book-length prose narratives (among them Meena Alexander’s Nampally Road, Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea, Monica Sone’s Nisei Daughter, Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club) and six works of drama (including David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly). Each essay contains information about the work (e.g., its publication or production history), its popular and critical reception, a biographical sketch of the author, the historical context, major themes, critical issues, pedagogical topics, a list of comparative works, an assessment of resources, and a bibliography. The Resource Guide concludes with four essays that present themes and approaches for the study and teaching of short fiction, poetry, and panethnic anthologies.
This volume provides a fresh look at what “Asian American literature” means and serves as an introduction to the study and teaching of this flourishing field. It is an essential collection for students, teachers, and scholars of all American literatures.
Academic Collective Bargaining
Jointly published by the American Association of University Professors and the Modern Language Association
Collective representation has long been at the heart of academic governance. As an outgrowth of that tradition and in response to the profound changes in the academic labor market, many academic employees have turned to collective bargaining to enhance shared governance and to advocate for improvements in working conditions. Contributors to this volume aim to educate readers about the historical and practical contexts of collective bargaining. The essays collected here explore the perspectives, successes, failures, and approaches of those who have collectively bargained so that readers can assess the pros and cons of unionization.
Part 1 explores the history of academic collective bargaining, from the legislation enabling the practice to the impact bargaining has had on higher education institutions. Parts 2 and 3 explain the procedures followed and address the concerns not only of the wide range of constituents in academic bargaining units but also of the administrators engaged in bargaining. The experiences of full-time, part-time, and contingent professors and graduate student employees in actual bargaining situations are presented in part 4. Part 5 reflects the diversity of opinion about the tactics and objectives of bargaining and speculates on the future of academic unionism.
Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life
For better or for worse, the goal of securing tenure-track assistant professorships frames the graduate school experience for most students. Yet what the graduate experience boasts in scholarly training it lacks in institutional training—that is, in guiding future faculty members to see and experience positively the wide variety of prospective professional identities rooted in assorted academic cultures.
Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life gives voice to diversity in postsecondary education, a strength of the system rather than a problem to redress. Contributors, whether they work at a private high school or a public comprehensive university, an open-access institution or a religiously affiliated college, disclose to readers the details and outcomes of their cross-sector transitions. Their accounts show how faculty members from a range of institutions have built rewarding professional lives based on the traditional components of the professoriat—teaching, service, and scholarship.
Administering Writing Programs in the Twenty-First Century
This book is a comprehensive guide to administering writing programs at a moment when communication, and thus the teaching of writing, is always changing. A companion to Teaching Writing in the Twenty-First Century, which considers how writing instructors can successfully adapt to new challenges, this volume addresses the concerns of both novice and experienced writing program administrators. It includes guidance on building and assessing writing programs; on hiring, training, evaluating, and mentoring instructors; on eliminating cultural bias; on encouraging the well-being of administrators and instructors; on assignments and instructional tools; and on access, diversity, and inclusion. Aiming to help administrators develop thoughtful, effective approaches to using technology in writing programs, the book also provides information designed to support instructors in their teaching of rhetorical literacy strategies regardless of the environment or medium in which students compose and communicate.
Advocacy in the Classroom
In this collection of thirty-nine essays on classroom advocacy in theory and practice, educators from a range of disciplines and political persuasions explore the possibilities and limitations of the influence teachers have over students.
Afro-American Literature
This book is devoted exclusively to critical discussions of Afro-American literature and focuses specifically on critical issues that are especially pertinent to designing courses in Afro-American literature.
American Indian Literatures
American Indian Literatures is a thorough guide to the genres and major authors of both oral and written literatures and to scholarship in the field.
An introductory section describes types of oral literatures and life histories, provides a history of Native American literature from 1772 to the present, and reprints many excerpts from the texts under discussion. The second section of the volume evaluates bibliographies and research guides; anthologies, collections, and re-creations; and scholarship and criticism. An extensive selected bibliography, a list of important dates in American Indian history, and an index conclude the book.
