BooksCongratulations to Wake Forest faculty from the Reynolda Campus whose books were recently published.

Andrea Echeverria (Spanish). Yeyipun en la ciudad: Representación ritual y memoria en la poesía mapuche. Yeipun in the city: Ritual representation and memory in Mapuche poetry. The Mapuche people, as well as many other native peoples, face a strong migration to the cities and a high level of displacement of their language and their ways of life. For its members, one way to resist this change is through writing. Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara. 2021.

Jefferson Holdridge (English). Stepping through Origins: Nature, Home, and Landscape in Irish Literature. Explores the aesthetics of nature, landscape and family, demonstrating how nature is associated with a complex web of Original Sin, colonial conquest and Oedipal guilt. Syracuse University Press. 2022.

Adam Kadlac (Philosophy). The Ethics of Sports Fandom. This book pushes back against a fully escapist account of sports fandom and argues that we should understand the value of fandom in terms of the ability of sports to prompt fans to reflect meaningfully on the notion of a good life. Routledge. 2022.

Eric G. Wilson (English). Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb. Captures Lamb’s strange charm in this meticulously researched and engagingly written biography demonstrating how Lamb’s humor helped him cope with a life‑defining tragedy. Yale University Press. 2022.

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