New Event Honors UT Austin Faculty Book Authors

In an effort to better celebrate the work of UT Austin faculty book authors and provide an opportunity to learn more about the breadth of scholarship taking place on campus, Provost Maurie McInnis hosted the inaugural Annual Faculty Authors Reception on Jan. 10, 2019. The event showcased the books written by faculty members published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2018.

“I want us to have an opportunity to celebrate what are remarkable and often multiyear accomplishments,” said McInnis, who also is the university’s executive vice president. “We don’t often slow down enough to say congratulations and to admire the accomplishments of what really are magisterial works.”

The Annual Faculty Authors Reception will take place every January to celebrate the books published during the previous calendar year. All faculty members will be notified during the fall semester when submissions are open for the January reception.

For more information, visit: https://provost.utexas.edu/annual-faculty-authors-reception

2018 Faculty Book Authors

College of Education

Nick Enge The Science of Speaking

Joan Hughes Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching: Transforming Learning Across Disciplines

Luis Urrieta Jr. Cultural Constructions Of Identity: Meta-Ethnography And Theory

College of Fine Arts James Buhler Theories of the Soundtrack

Kathryn Dawson Drama-Based Pedagogy: Activating Learning Across the Curriculum

Robert Hatten A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music

Jack Stamps Pixels Samples Lumens Illusion: Foundations of Art and Entertainment Technologies (2nd ed.)

College of Liberal Arts

Ari Adut Reign of Appearances: The Misery and Splendor of the Public Sphere

Chad Bennett Word of Mouth: Gossip and American Poetry

Douglas Biow Vasari’s Words: The “Lives of the Artists” as a History of Ideas in the Italian Renaissance

Hans Boas Constructional Approaches to Syntactic Structures in German

Jonathan Dancy Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning

Lina del Castillo Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia

Yoav Di-Capua No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization

Alan Friedman Surreal Beckett: Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and Surrealism

John Morán González The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature

Jennifer Graber The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West

Geraldine Heng The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

Naomi Lindstrom The Seven Madmen

William Louis Indispensable Reading: 1,001 Books from “The Arabian Nights” to Zola

Thomas Pangle The Socratic Way of Life: Xenophon’s “Memorabilia

Anthony Webster The Sounds of Navajo Poetry: A Humanities of Speaking

L. Michael White Jewish Fictional Letters from Hellenistic Egypt: The Epistle of Aristeas and Related Literature

Paul Woodruff

College of Natural Sciences

James Chelikowsky Introductory Quantum Mechanics with MatLab

C. Wendell Horton Jr. Turbulent Transport in Magnetized Plasmas

Michael J. Ryan A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction

J. Craig Wheeler Supernova Explosions

Dell Medical School

Dee Silverthorn Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach

LBJ School of Public Affairs

Alan Kuperman Plutonium for Energy? Explaining the Global Decline of MOX

McCombs School of Business

James Scott AIQ: How People and Machines are Smarter Together

Moody College of Communication

Tracy Arrington 101 Things I Learned in Advertising School

Katherine Dawson Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City

Roderick Hart Civic Hope: How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive

Sharon Jarvis Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t: How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It)

Maya Perez On Story—The Golden Ages of Television

Angeline Scheinbaum

JoAnn Sciarrino The Strategic Digital Media Entrepreneur

Suzanne Scott The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom

Keri Stephens Negotiating Control: Organizations and Mobile Communication

Jürgen Streeck

Anita Vangelisti The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships

Karin Wilkins Communicating National Image through Development and Diplomacy: The Politics of Foreign Aid

School of Architecture

Tamie Glass Prompt: Socially Engaging Objects and Environments

School of Information

Loriene Roy Information Literacy in the Workplace

School of Law

Richard Albert

Douglas Laycock

Charles Silver Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care

Steve Hicks School of Social Work

Marilyn Armour Violence, Restorative Justice & Forgiveness