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If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard that from one of my students, I’d be a rich man. Most people hearing that would be downright offended, and understandably so. To 99 out of 100 people it would be an insult. To me, however, it’s like music to my ears...

The final 2016 issue of Children's Literature Association Quarterly was a special issue on African American Children’s Literature and Genre. Sara Austin (SA), a PhD candidate in English at the University of Connecticut, and Karen Chandler (KC), an associate...

The following is an adapted excerpt from Ronald Formisano’s Plutocracy in America: How Increasing Inequality Destroys the Middle Class and Exploits the Poor as a part of our Black History Month blog series. Unequal access to health care is but one example of...

In the Fall 2016 issue of the journal Configurations, Josef Nguyen took a look at similarities between the computer world-building game Minecraft and pieces of fiction like Robinson Crusoe, which rely heavily on the creation of a new world. An assistant...

Each year the Association of American University Presses recognizes the best in cover design in their Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. We are proud to have three Johns Hopkins Press books featured in the 2017 list! You can view the complete list of showcased...

Years ago I was the dietetics department manager and proposed that we cease offering weight loss clinics. The dietitians were enraged and others viewed this as anarchic or frivolous but I was deadly serious. I haven’t recommended weight loss to a patient for...

The present massive political corruption in post-Soviet geopolitical space is rooted in cultural consumption of the Brezhnev era (1964-1982). During this period of late socialism in the USSR, millions of Soviet young people, loyal members of Komsomol, fell in...

Octavius McFarland was one of the millions of nameless, faceless slaves who toiled in Southern fields during antebellum times. His ceaseless labors made life comfortable for his white masters and fueled the booming Southern agrarian economy. His legal status...

Winter-weary reporters scurry on Groundhog Day, February 2, to answer the pressing question of whether spring will arrive early. Most cameras focus on a prognosticating groundhog emerging from its burrow in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, but they can also point...

A series of conversations at Johns Hopkins in the autumn of 1995 spawned the online journal Theory & Event, which was founded in 1997. Now one of the most widely disseminated and read journals in the field of contemporary theory, Theory & Event launched the...