Faculty Publications
2023 New Editions
Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy:
Wisdom from Aang to Zuko
Chapter by Justin White
This book brings to the fore the Eastern, Western, and Indigenous philosophies that are implicit in the show by using the tools from a wide range of philosophical traditions.
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Blossom as the Cliffrose:
Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild
Edited by Karin Anderson, Danielle Blazer Dubrasky (Editor)
This book features original poems and prose by writers who are faithful, non-faithful, believers, heretics, converts and de-converts, dragged in or forced out of the Mormon faith.
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Screening Europe in Australasia:
Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood
Julie K. Allen
Through a detailed study of the circulation of European silent film in Australasia in the early twentieth century, this book challenges the historical myopia that treats Hollywood films as having always dominated global film culture.
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Positive Psychology in the Classroom
Lesson Plans for English Language Teachers
Maryann Phillips, Dan P. Dewey, Carolee Rogers, Maria Summers, Ben McMurry, and Allison Wallace Baker
Positive Psychology in the Classroom is a book of 33 lesson plans made for teaching positive psychology interventions using language learning outcomes.
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Open Canon
Scriptures of the Latter day Saint Tradition
Edited by Christine E. Blythe, Jay Burton
Open Canon breaks new ground as the first volume to examine a variety of Latter Day Saint denominations' scriptural works as a single spiritual heritage.
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The Title of Totonicapán
Allen Christenson
This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K'iche' Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh.
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Utahisms:
Unique Expressions, Inventions, Place Names & More
David Ellington Eddington
Examining everything from phonetics to history, BYU Linguistics Professor David Eddington reveals the roots of colloquialisms uniquely from Utah.
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The Household of God
Families and Belonging in the Social World of the New Testament, 2022 Sperry Symposium
Lincoln H. Bluebell, Jason R. Combs, Mark D. Ellison, Cecilia M. Peek, and Frank F. Judd Jr.
An examination of the vast counsel on household conduct in the New Testament, including familial relationships, and belonging to "the household of God."
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Maynard Dixon
Searching for a Home: Painted and Poetic Imagination in the American West
Brian L. Price
A selection of Maynard Dixon's poetry, published for the first time alongside his most beloved paintings.
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Sublime Physick:
Essays
Patrick Madden
In twelve essays that straddle the classical and the contemporary, Madden transmutes the ruder world into a finer one, articulating with subtle humor and playfulness how science and experience about and intersect with spirituality and everyday life.
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The Writer's Hustle
A Professional Guide to the Creativity, Discipline, Humility, and Grit Every Writer Needs to Flourish
Joey Franklin
The Writer's Hustle is a comprehensive guide to all the things successful writers do when they're not sitting at the keyboard.
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What Works in Grammar Instruction
Narrativas del fracaso en la novela histórica mexicana
Deborah Dean
This book addresses the challenges of teaching grammar in the context of reading and writing, providing vignettes of classroom conversations that exemplify what that practice can look like in action.
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Using Young Adult Literature to Work through Wobble Moments in Teacher Education
Literary Response Groups to Enhance Reflection and Understanding
Dawan Coombs and Jon Ostenson
This volume offers a novel approach to exploring how literary response groups can be used as part of teacher education programs to help preserve teachers navigate "wobble", moments.
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Velocipedomania:
A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France
Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden
Velocipedomania is the first in-depth study of the velocipede fad and the popular culture it inspired.
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Lovecraft in the 21st Century
Dead, But Still Dreaming
Edited by Antonio Alcalá Gonzalez and Carl H. Sederholm
Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft's influence in contemporary times.
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Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition
Edited by Andrea D. Sims, Adam Ussishkin, Jeff Parker, and Samantha Wray
Bringing together a team of well-known scholars, this book examines the relationship between linguistic cognition and the morphological diversity found in the world's languages.
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Bringing together a team of well-known scholars, this book examines the relationship between linguistic cognition and the morphological diversity found in the world's languages.
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A History of Chinese Classical Scholarship vol. 1
David Brian Honey
This first volume offers a close study of Confucius, that tradition's photo-classicist. This opening volume examines Confucius traditions that largely formed the views of later classicists, who regarded him as their profession's patron saint.
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El culto a la derrota:
Narrativas del fracaso en la novela histórica mexicana
Brian L. Price
This book arguments that several Mexican intellectuals resort to the tragic moments of the 19th century through the use of a series of discursive strategies that emphasize, reinterpret, and even poeticize certain cultural, political, and social deficiencies that they can perceive in the present.
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Bazaar Literature
Charity, Advocacy, and Parody in Victorian Social Reform Fiction
Leslee Thorne-Murphy
Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generated for charity bazaars.
Borderwaters:
Amid the Archipelagic States of America
Brian Russell Roberts
In Borderwaters, Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental national mythologies to advance an alternative image of the United States as an archipelagic nation.
Clément Marot's Epistles
Clément Marot, translated by Robert J. Hudson
The first complete, versified English-language translation of the epistles of Renaissance poet Clément Marot.
The Alcaic Meter in the English Imagination
John Talbot
This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form - the alcaic meter - found its way into English poetry, and continues shaping the imagination of poets today.