The genesis of “Beyond Empire” comes from a personal place. As a first-generation American of Trinidadian immigrants, who came to the US amidst Trinidad’s independence from the UK, Stephen Bailey finds that it is imperative to trace these stories. The central questions of the course ask, “What is it to move beyond empire? How do people understand themselves in a new context? How do you reacquire or reinvent yourself?” What underlies the curriculum is the belief that through investing in the literary worlds of other cultures, students can be world scholars and compassionate readers.
Stephen emphasizes reading a breadth of literary styles like poetry, fiction, non-fiction, etc. to think critically about how language is used. With challenging material from authors and playwrights like Tayeb Salih and Lynn Nottage, Stephen asks for courage from both his students and himself; the courage to ask hard questions and to listen to different voices and opinions. “That is where true inquiry begins!”
Night Vision
John Foy ’78 St. Augustine’s Press April 2017 In Night Vision, wars go on in the Middle East, violence is never far away, and the creatures of the field are “much the worse/for having been beneath the rotor blades.” Written in an uncluttered idiom, these poems,...
War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918
Michael Kazin ’66 Simon and Schuster February 2017 The untold story of the movement that came close to keeping the United States out of World War I. This book is about the Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting in one of history’s most destructive wars...
Namaste Mumbai
Kavita Shah Bafana ’96 and Rachana Chandaria-Mamania Little Ustaads Arts February 2017 The first children’s book on Mumbai that brings the bustling city alive through characters, colors and couplets. Children will relate to endearing characters as they travel from...
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court
Kathryn Stanchi ’83, Linda Berger and Bridget Crawford Cambridge University Press August 2016 What would United States Supreme Court opinions look like if key decisions on gender issues were written with a feminist perspective? Feminist Judgments brings together a...
The Empire’s Ghost: A Novel
Isabelle Steiger ’07 Thomas Dunne Books May 2017 Isabelle Steiger has crafted a powerful and masterful debut with The Empire’s Ghost, the first book in a haunting new epic fantasy series. The empire of Elesthene once spanned a continent, but its rise heralded the...
A Concise Guide to Mastering the Medical School Interview
Regina Bailey ’93 Create a Space, an Amazon Company May 2015 The medical school interview is a key part of the medical school admission process. This guide from Dr. Regina Bailey includes sample interview questions and helpful tips relating to interview etiquette,...
Appetites: A Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain ESB ’73 and Laurie Woolever Harper Collins Imprint Ecco Books October 2016 Anthony Bourdain is man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he...
JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity
Lawrence Kudlow ESB ’65 and Brian Domitrovic Penguin Random House September 2016 Distinguished Alumnus Lawrence Kudlow—the former Reagan Administration official and current CNBC senior contributor—and his co-author make the case that President John F. Kennedy was the...
Neuroradiology: The Requisites, 4th Edition
Rohini Nadgir ’91 and David M. Yousem Elsevier July 2016 This bestselling volume in the popular Requisites series, co-authored by Dr. Rohini Nadgir, who is currently an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Radiology and Radiological...
Class
Lucinda Rosenfeld ’87 Little, Brown January 2017 In this satirical novel, idealistic 40-something Karen Kipple works full-time in the nonprofit sector, aiding an organization that helps hungry children from disadvantaged homes. Determined to live her personal life in...
