University Of Iowa Press imprint: 216 books
From Androboros to the First Amendment
A History of America's First Play
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The story of America’s earliest extant play begins with a petty crime—a crime that would have passed largely unnoticed had it not been for one fact: it prompted a beleaguered royal governor of one of Britain’s colonies to lash out at his enemies by writing a biting satire. Androboros, A Bographical...
by Sarah V. Schweig
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
There are worlds we can imagine, but we live in this one: contingent and absurd. In her first full-length collection, Sarah V. Schweig aims to capture something essential and universal about this faulted inheritance.
These poems operate on the notion that the lyric can be discovered in scattered...
Knowing Where It Comes From
Labeling Traditional Foods to Compete in a Global Market
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Offering the first broadly comparative analysis of place-based labeling and marketing systems, Knowing Where It Comes From examines the way claims about the origins and meanings of traditional foods get made around the world, from Italy and France to Costa Rica and Thailand. It also highlights the...
Home Ice
Confessions of a Blackhawks Fan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Unable to skate and surrounded by sports fans who cared more about Evel Knievel than hockey, Kevin Cunningham became obsessed with the Chicago Blackhawks as a confused eight year old. He has no idea why. Yet from that moment on he embarked on a fan’s journey that absorbed his childhood, destroyed...
Tales from an Uncertain World
What Other Assorted Disasters Can Teach Us About Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
So far, humanity hasn’t done very well in addressing the ongoing climate catastrophe. Veteran science educator L. S. Gardiner believes we can learn to do better by understanding how we’ve dealt with other types of environmental risks in the past and why we are dragging our feet in addressing this...
Fandom as Classroom Practice
A Teaching Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Providing ways to engage students through their popular culture interests, this collection brings together several essays, across disciplines, to show how fan practices such as writing fan fiction, creating vids, communicating via Tumblr, and participating in film tourism can invite students to invest...
by Nick Twemlow
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Attributed to the Harrow Painter reckons with fatherhood, the violence of nostalgia, poetry, and the commodity world of visual art as the poems here frantically cycle through responses to the speaker’s son’s remark on a painting by Julian Schnabel that it “looks like garbage.” What does it...
Performing the Progressive Era
Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
The American Progressive Era, which spanned from the 1880s to the 1920s, is generally regarded as a dynamic period of political reform and social activism. In Performing the Progressive Era, editors Max Shulman and Chris Westgate bring together top scholars in nineteenth- and twentieth-century theatre...
by Rob Schlegel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
With calm abandon, Rob Schlegel stands among the genderless trees to shake notions of masculinity and fatherhood. Schlegel incorporates the visionary into everyday life, inhabiting patterns of relation that do not rely on easy categories. Working from the premise that poetry is indistinguishable from...
by Robert Root
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Reflecting on how a student’s parents met because of a fly ball to center field in a summer softball game, author Robert Root wondered how the lives of that student’s parents and of the student himself would have changed had the batter bunted or struck out. Haunted by this pure example of happenstance,...
On the Origin of Superheroes
From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Most readers think that superheroes began with Superman’s appearance in Action Comics No. 1, but that Kryptonian rocket didn’t just drop out of the sky. By the time Superman’s creators were born, the superhero’s most defining elements—secret identities, aliases, disguises, signature symbols,...
by Deemer Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Esther's Town could be "Any Town, U.S.A.," for the equals of its cast of characters can be found in any small town. And here, as usual, was the town newspaper editor, the observing eye of all the foibles and peccadillos that form any town's history. Remembering all the years with love and...
The Promise of Failure
One Writer's Perspective on Not Succeeding
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The Promise of Failure is part memoir of the writing life, part advice book, and part craft book; sometimes funny, sometimes wrenching, but always honest. McNally uses his own life as a blueprint for the writer’s daily struggles as well as the existential ones, tackling subjects such as when to...
It's Just the Normal Noises
Marcus, Guralnick, No Depression, and the Mystery of Americana Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Roots rock, Americana, alt country: what are they and why do they matter? Americans have been trying to answer these questions for as long as the music bearing these labels has existed. Music can function as an escape from the outside world or as an explanation of that world. Listeners who identify...