A round-up of faculty books published in 2014

In 2014, a dozen Skidmore scholars published books on a wide range of topics.

Peg Boyers, lecturer in English and executive editor of Salmagundi, wrote a new collection of poetry titled To Forget Venice (University of Chicago Press). Read more

Victor Cahn, professor emeritus of English, wrote Walking Distance—Remembering Classic Episodes from Classic Television (Wipf and Stock). Read more

Roy H. Ginsberg, professor of government, released a new, second edition of his book, The European Union in Global Security—The Politics of Impact (Palgrave Macmillan), a revised analysis of the role of the EU in international security. Read more

Catherine Golden, professor of English, wrote her second children’s book, titled Victorian Cat Tales, Book Two:  Rose and Leopold Living Royally (Black Rose). Read more

Barry Goldensohn, professor emeritus of English, is the author of The Hundred Yard Dash Man, New and Selected Poems (Fomite Press), which features new and earlier works. Read more

Hédi Jaouad, professor of French, wrote Browningmania—American’s Love for Robert Browning (Cambria Press), about the “perfect storm” of Browningmania that took place in Rochester, N.Y., in the 1880s and 1890s. Read more

Beck Krefting, assistant professor of American studies, is the author of All Joking Aside—American Humor and Its Discontents (Johns Hopkins University Press), examining the culture and politics of stand-up comedy. Read more

Susannah Mintz, professor of English, wrote Hurt and Pain:  Literature and the Suffering Body (Bloomsbury Academic), an examination of the strategies authors have used to portray bodies in pain. Read more

Margaret Pearson, professor emerita of history, learned in 2014 that her book The Original I Ching (2011, Tuttle Publishing) was translated and published in a Spanish edition, I Ching Ancestral, by Albatros/Argentina in 2012. Read more

Greg Pfitzer, professor of American studies, published a fourth book, History Repeating Itself:  The Republication of Children’s Historical Literature and the Christian Right (University of Massachusetts Press), exploring how antiquated history books are finding a new life among home schoolers. Read more

Jay Rogoff, visiting professor of English, wrote Venera (Louisiana State University Press), a book of poetry that considers the varieties of love. Read more

Linda Simon, professor emerita of English, is the author of The Greatest Shows on Earth—A History of the Circus (University of Chicago Press). Read more