Standing Still Moving: Arts of Gesture in Lateral Time by Rebecca Schneider, Professor of Modern Culture and Media Standing Still Moving: Arts of Gesture in Lateral Time offers a theory of gesture, antiphony and interval in the arts. As time-based arts are essentially arts of the interval, the book explores betweenness, besideness, and amongness in cross-temporal … Standing Still Moving

The Sensory Monastery by Sheila Bonde, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, and Clark Maines, Professor of Art History Emeritus at Wesleyan University Focusing on the abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in northern France, founded in the eleventh century, The Sensory Monastery offers a single site as a case study to consider the phenomenology of architecture. The … The Sensory Monastery

Poet Sagawa Chika: Late Gathering by Sawako Nakayasu, Assistant Professor of Literary Arts Poet Sagawa Chika: Late Gathering brings together American and Japanese scholars and artists to reexamine the legacy of one of Japan’s most influential poets, Sagawa Chika (1911–1936), largely ignored by critics and known within the Japanese poetry community as “everyone’s favorite unknown poet.” The … Poet Sagawa Chika: Late Gathering

Imperial Unsettling: Indigenous and Immigrant Activism towards Collective Liberation by Kevin Escudero, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies Imperial Unsettling: Indigenous and Immigrant Activism towards Collective Liberation examines the relationship between Indigenous CHamoru activists and Asian immigrant community members in Guåhan (Guam). Contending that kinship ties within and among Indigenous CHamoru and Asian settler … Imperial Unsettling

Art, Secrecy, and Invisibility in Ancient Egypt by Laurel Bestock, Associate Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World & Egyptology and Assyriology Art, Secrecy, and Invisibility in Ancient Egypt argues that partial, periodic, or total invisibility of art was precisely that quality that allowed images to be personal and to engage in social relationships, not just … Art, Secrecy, and Invisibility in Ancient Egypt