Author: Friederike Sundaram

Just Released: Transmedia Stories: Narrative Methods for Public Health and Social Justice

We are proud to announce the publication of Patrick Jagoda, Ireashia Bennett, and Ashlyn Sparrow’s Transmedia Stories: Narrative Methods for Public Health and Social Justice. Transmedia Stories is an experiment in multimedia publication and collaboration that explores storytelling-based research methods. With the growth of digital media, narrative is now conveyed through a range of new

Just Released: America’s Public Bible: A Commentary

Please join us in celebrating the release of Lincoln A. Mullen’s America’s Public Bible: A Commentary. Throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, newspapers in the United States—even newspapers which were not published by a religious denomination or organization—made frequent recourse to the Bible. Newspapers printed sermons and Sunday school lessons. They featured

Just Released: Taylor Arnold, Courtney Rivard and Lauren Tilton’s Layered Lives: Rhetoric and Representation in the Southern Life Histories Project

We are thrilled to announce the release of our newest publication: Taylor Arnold, Courtney Rivard and Lauren Tilton’s Layered Lives: Rhetoric and Representation in the Southern Life Histories Project. The Southern Life History Project, a Federal Writers’ Project initiative, put unemployed writers to work during the Great Depression by capturing the stories of everyday people

Just Released: Massimo Riva’s Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World

We are delighted to announce the publication of Massimo Riva’s Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World. Shadow Plays explores popular forms of entertainment used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to transport viewers to a new world, foreshadowing present-day virtual, augmented, and extended reality experiences (VR, AR, and XR). Typically studied as part

Public Humanities and Digital Publishing Are Meant For Each Other

The public humanities present unique opportunities to researchers and publishers seeking greater engagement with non-academic audiences and local communities. Research in the publicly engaged humanities is produced in collaboration with the public and meant to be read by the public. This turn towards the public changes the game a little for researchers and publishers typically

Just Released: Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene

Stanford University Press is proud to announce the publication of Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene, edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou. Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and

Thomas S. Mullaney’s The Chinese Deathscape Published

We are pleased to announce the publication of our fourth interactive scholarly work, Thomas S. Mullaney’s The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China. Edited by a Stanford faculty member and built by Stanford Libraries, this publication is truly homegrown. In it, three historians of China, Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke, Christian Henriot, and Thomas S. Mullaney, chart

Announcing Filming Revolution

We’re excited to announce the latest publication from our Mellon-supported digital publishing initiative. Alisa Lebow’s Filming Revolution investigates documentary and independent filmmaking in Egypt since the Egyptian Revolution began in 2011. It brings together the collective wisdom and creative strategies of thirty filmmakers, artists, activists, and archivists who share their thoughts and experiences of filmmaking in those