Books published by The University of Michigan Press

Illuminates the relationship between performance and the American charity movement

Uncovers the lived experience of breast cancer through autobiographical and photographic narratives

20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture--from the inside

This volume was conceived as a first book in SLA for advanced undergraduate or introductory master's courses that include education majors, foreign language education majors, and English majors. Both the research and pedagogy in this book are based on the newest research in the field of second language acquisition.

However, the collegial tone established in previous Commentaries between Swales & Feak and instructors has been retained.This volume contains commentaries on each of the eight units plus the two appendixes.

Coverage includes understanding the intended audience, and academic genres; the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising; how to write summaries and critiques; and helping students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.

Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde

Stepping back to examine the relationship between James Baldwin and queer theory, Brim unveils new critical insights that their complicated pairing provides

A poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Saje's nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of poetry while also making an argument about poetic language and ideology.

Analyzes and synthesizes modern critical acting theories, their historical evolution, and their relationship to one another, enabling students, teachers, and professionals to comprehend the different aesthetic possibilities for actors. This work identifies six categories of twentieth-century acting.