How could any Belgian graphic novel escape Tintin’s shadow? Enter Brecht Evens’s The Making Of. To find out more, check out Dr. Sarah Wasserman’s new article published in Public Books, an online… Read More
How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture. In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a form of architecture—as… Read More
Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression (Minnesota, 2017) In what senses do animals, plants, and minerals “write”? How does their “writing” mark our lives—our past, present, and future?… Read More
Jennifer Van Horn The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America (UNC Press Culture, 2017) Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods.… Read More
Shopping: Material Culture Perspectives was published in Fall, 2014, by the University of Delaware Press. The volume was edited by Deborah Andrews, the former Director of the Center for Material… Read More
