A&S Books & Roses

Thursday, April 23, 2026, 4:30-6 p.m. | Humanities Commons

The A&S Dean’s Office is planning our fourth annual Books & Roses Celebration for this spring.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with our tradition, which began in April 2023, Books & Roses is inspired by two annual international celebrations: 1) Saint George’s Day (“Sant Jordi”) in Catalonia, where literature and love are distinctly intertwined in a massive display and exchange of books and roses, and 2) UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day. Both are typically celebrated on April 23, which also happens to be the birthdate of Cervantes and Shakespeare.

The festivities will include cupcakes, refreshments, music, and roses. This year, we would like to feature and display all A&S faculty and staff books published between April 2025 and April 2026.

Please use this Google form to provide relevant information regarding your book publications (i.e., monographs, creative writing in book form, and edited volumes) by January 16, 2026. This will help us tremendously in planning the event.
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  • 2025 Honorees
    Author Name Book
    Kurt Beals All Quiet on the Western Front

    The Steppenwolf: A Norton Critical Edition
    Mary Finley-Brook Climate Crisis, Energy Violence: Mapping Fossil Energy’s Enduring Grasp on Our Precarious Future
    Rhiannon Graybill Narrating Rape: Shifting Perspectives in Biblical Literature and Popular Culture
    Michelle Kahn Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History
    Michael Marsh-Soloway The Mathematical Mind of F. M. Dostoevsky: Imaginary Numbers, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Infinity
    Sara Pappas Naturalism’s Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century
    Miriam Schleifer McCormick Belief as Emotion
  • 2024 Honorees
    Author Name Book
    Taylor Arnold Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images
    Edward L. Ayers American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860
    Rachel Beanland The House is on Fire
    Kurt Beals German Literature as a Transnational Field of Production, 1848-1919

    The Steppenwolf
    Rhiannon Graybill Jonah: A New Translation with Commentary

    Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion

    What Are They Saying About the Book of Jonah?
    Shahan Mufti American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC
    Cheryl Pallant Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing

     Light at the End of the Word
    Nathan Snaza Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man
    Lauren Tilton Distant Viewing
    Eric Yellin Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader
  • 2023 Honorees
    Author Name Book
    Catherine Adoyo Rain - A Song For All and None
    Taylor Arnold Layered Lives
    Elizabeth Baughan Etruria and Anatolia: Material Connections and Artistic Exchange
    Richard Becker On Sunday Afternoons
    Thomas Bonfiglio Linguistics and Psychoanalysis A New Perspective on Language Processing and Evolution
    Dan Chen Convenient Criticism: Local Media and Governance in Urban China
    Stephanie Cobb The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Late Antiquity
    Ryan Coppage The Anatomy of a Good Pot: Secrets to Successful Pottery
    Ronald Crutcher I Had No Idea You Were Black: Navigating Race on the Road to Leadership
    Olivier Delers Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter
    Margaret Dorsey Fencing in Democracy
    Joanna Drell Rethinking Norman Italy Studies in Honor of Graham A. Loud
    Della Dumbaugh Count Me In: Community and Belonging in Mathematics

    A History of Mathematics in the United States and Canada, Volume 2: 1900-1940
    Dana El Kurd Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine
    Jessie Fillerup Magician of Sound: Ravel and the Aesthetics of Illusion
    Sonic Identity at the Margins
    Jane Geaney The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China: Normative Models for Words
    Jeffrey Hass Economic Sociology: An Introduction. Revised Edition

    Wartime Suffering and Survival: The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944
    Brian Henry The Book of Bodies by Aleš Šteger

    Burning Tongues: New and Selected Poems by Aleš Šteger

    Permanent State

    Things Are Completely Simple: Poetry and Translation

    Written on Site: Costa da Morte and Santiago de Compostela, Spain by Aleš Šteger
    Patricia Herrera Nuyorican Feminist Performance: From the Cafe to Hip Hop Theatre 
    Yvonne Howell Moments of Happiness
    Kathryn Jacobsen Introduction to Global Health (4th Edition)
    Sandra Joireman Peace, Preference and Property: Return Migration after Violent Conflict
    Thomas Kapsidelis After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings
    Will Kelly How Prophecy Works: A Study of the Semantic Field of נביא and a Close Reading of Jeremiah 1:4–19, 23:9–40 and 27:1–28:17
    Laura Knouse When Leaders Face Personal Crisis: The Human Side of Leadership
    Joanne Kong Vegan Voices: Essays by Inspiring Changemakers
    David Lefkowitz Philosophy and International Law: A Critical Introduction
    Joanna Love Sonic Identity at the Margins
    Thomas Manganaro Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century
    Andy McGraw Music as Ethics
    Mariela Mendez El Affair Moreno

    El Arte de Pensar Sin Riesgos: Cien Años de Clarice Lispector
    Will O’Neal Exercises Exercises for the General, Organic, & Biochemistry Laboratory, (2nd Edition)
    Elizabeth Outka Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature 
    Carol Parish Physical Chemistry Research at Undergraduate Institutions Innovative and Impactful Approaches, Volume 1

    Physical Chemistry Research at Undergraduate Institutions Innovative and Impactful Approaches, Volume 2
    Jeppe von Platz Theories of Distributive Justice: Who Gets What and Why
    Jennifer Pribble The Political Economy of Segmented Expansion: Latin American Social Policy in the 2000s
    Bill Ross Operator Theory by Example
    Samantha Seeley Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States
    Julietta Singh The Breaks
    Nathan Snaza Educational Undergrowth
    Walt Stevenson  The Origins of Roman Christian Diplomacy
    Rania Sweis Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt 
    Lauren Tilton Layered Lives
    Karina Vazquez Irreverente y Desmesurada: Aurora Venturini Frente a la Crítica. 
    Erika Zimmermann Damer In the Flesh: Embodied Identities in Roman Elegy

    Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry