Faculty and Staff Books

We are proud to share books written by our University of Southern Maine Faculty and Staff.

Click on descriptions to learn where you can find a copy of each book.

Don't see your work? Please fill out the Repository Release and Service Agreement form and we will get it posted!

Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing.

Switch View to Grid View Slideshow

A Spy in the House of the Thought Police

Kenneth Rosen

Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education Lecture 1994-1996

Cover and inside art by Richard Wilson, Running Man.
Maria Irene Fornes and Her Critics

Assunta B. Kent

This first book dedicated to US-Cuban playwright/director Maria Irene Fornes is a lucid theoretical, historical, and production-oriented study of her published works and their critical legacy.
The Translations of Foy: Bodies, Texts and Places

Kathleen M. Ashley PhD, René Tixier, and Pamela Sheingorn

Chapter in The Medieval Translator.

Avec ses concepts et sa terminologie, la traduction fournit aux auteurs médiévaux tout un registre de métaphores leur permettant de passer d'un environnement culturel à un autre. Le culte de Sainte Foy en est un exemple: à travers la dévotion qu'elle suscite sont mises en relation la traduction des textes relatant son histoire, la translatio de ses reliques d'Agena Conques, ainsi que la dissémination de son culte à travers l'Europe médiévale. A l'occasion de chacune de ces "translations" s'opère une "reformulation culture He" du culte voué à la jeune martyre. Ceci illustre l'analyse de Rita Copeland, pour qui la traduction est "la production active d'un texte nouveau, qui a conservé sa charge affective originelle et s'est adapté aux conditions historiques particulières de sa réception" (voir note 11 ).
The Greeks and Us: Essays in Honor of Arthur W. H. Adkins

Robert B. Louden PhD and Paul Schollmeier

Arthur W. H. Adkins’s writings have sparked debates among a wide range of scholars over the nature of ancient Greek ethics and its relevance to modern times. Demonstrating the breadth of his influence, the essays in this volume reveal how leading classicists, philosophers, legal theorists, and scholars of religion have incorporated Adkins’s thought into their own diverse research.

The timely subjects addressed by the contributors include the relation between literature and moral understanding, moral and nonmoral values, and the contemporary meaning of ancient Greek ethics. The volume also includes an essay from the late Adkins himself illustrating his methodology in an analysis of the “Speech of Lysias” in Plato’s Phaedrus. The Greeks and Us will interest all those concerned with how ancient moral values do or do not differ from our own.

Contributors include Arthur W. H. Adkins, Stephanie Nelson, Martha C. Nussbaum, Paul Schollmeier, James Boyd White, Bernard Williams, and Lee Yearley. Commentaries by Wendy Doniger, Charles M. Gray, David Grene, Robert B. Louden, Richard Posner, and Candace Vogler.
End Results and Starting Points: Expanding the Field of Disability Studies

Elaine Makas PhD and Lynn Schlesinger PhD

The chapters in this book are extended abstracts of some of the presentations given during the June 23-25, 1994, annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies held in Rockville, MD.
The Condition of K-12 public education in Maine 1996

Terry McCabe, Jeffrey Beaudry PhD, and David L. Silvernail
Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition and American Culture

Joseph A. Conforti

As the charismatic leader of the wave of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is one of the most important figures in American religious history. However, by the end of the eighteenth century, his writings were generally dismissed as remnants of a moribund Puritan tradition. Focusing on the publishing history and appropriation of Edwards's works by succeeding generations, Joseph Conforti explores the construction and manipulation of the Edwards legacy and demonstrates its central place in American cultural and religious history. Most of Edwards's writings were not regularly republished or widely read until the early nineteenth century, when he emerged as a prominent thinker both in academic circles and in the new popular religious culture of the Second Great Awakening. Even after the Civil War, Edwards remained a popular figure from the Puritan past for colonial revivalists. But by the early twentieth century, scholars had again reinvented Edwards, this time deemphasizing his influence. These contrasting constructions of the one man, Conforti says, reveal the dynamic process of cultural change.
Dissolving Boundaries Toward an Integrative Curriculum

Jody Capellluti and Edward N. Brazee
The Gift of Stories

Robert Atkinson

The stories we tell about ourselves are guided by cultural patterns and enduring elements. The current interest in mythology has made evident how the classic hero's journey represents a theme not only common to all the world's myths, but also our own lives today. The Gift of Stories offers a clear concise basis for understanding the nature and potential of sharing our stories. It provides specific, practical, instructional details for telling our own stories and gives the necessary guidelines for assisting others in telling their life stories. Its basic framework enables individuals with little experience to begin writing about the really important aspects of their lives and understanding how and why the universal elements of the stories we tell contribute to our continuing growt
Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Ardis Cameron

Focusing on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912, Ardis Cameron examines class and gender formation as drawn from the experiences of working-class women in the textile manufacturing town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. She explores the role of women in worker militancy from the perspective of the neighborhood and argues for the importance of female networks and associational life in working-class culture and politics. Radicals of the Worst Sort is a study of domination and power, constructed not only at the level of economics and politics but also at the level of social perception and conceptualization. It thus provides the basis for a new set of generalizations about the lives of nineteenth-century factory women in their jobs and communities. This exciting history illuminates ongoing debates about the dynamic role of gender and challenges shifting perceptions and definitions of what a "woman" should be. Cameron shows that unionized women who fought for equality were "radicals of the worst sort" (as one mill officer tagged them) because they rebelled against traditional economic and sexual hierarchies, providing alternative models for turn-of-the-century women. Radicals of the Worst Sort includes oral histories of former strikers in the famous Bread and Roses strike of 1912. Four full-color maps show Cameron's meticulous documentation of the nationalities of every Lawrence family living in the multicultural neighborhoods featured in her book.
Inside the Mouse : Work and Play at Disney World

Jane Kuenz PhD, Shelton Waldrep PhD, Susan Willis, and Karen Klugman

This entertaining and playful book views Disney World as much more than the site of an ideal family vacation. Blending personal meditations, interviews, photographs, and cultural analysis, Inside the Mouse looks at Disney World’s architecture and design, its consumer practices, and its use of Disney characters and themes. This book takes the reader on an alternative ride through "the happiest place on earth" while asking "What makes this forty-three-square-mile theme park the quintessential embodiment of American leisure?"

Turning away from the programmed entertainment that Disney presents, the authors take a peek behind the scenes of everyday experience at Disney World. In their consideration of the park as both private corporate enterprise and public urban environment, the authors focus on questions concerning the production and consumption of leisure. Featuring over fifty photographs and interviews with workers that strip "cast members" of their cartoon costumes, this captivating work illustrates the high-pressure dynamics of the typical family vacation as well as a tour of Disney World that looks beyond the controlled facade of themed attractions.

As projects like EuroDisney and the proposed Disney America test the strength of the Disney cultural monolith, Inside the Mouse provides a timely assessment of the serious business of supplying pleasure in contemporary U.S. culture. Written for the general reader interested in the many worlds of Disney, this engrossing volume will also find fans among students and scholars of cultural studies.
Execution Driven Simulation of Shared Memory Multiprocessors [Book Chapter]

Bob Boothe PhD

Chapter from Fast Simulation of Computer Architectures, eds. Thomas M. Conte and Charles E. Gimarc.

More about this chapter:

Execution driven simulation [7] is a technique for building fast instruction level computer simulators. It is applicable when the instruction set of the simulation host machine is the same as, or very similar to, that of the machine being simulated. In this chapter we examine three execution driven simulators designed to study shared memory multiprocessors using a uniprocessor as the simulation host machine.

[7] R. C. Covington et al. The Rice Parallel Processing Testbed. In Proc. 1988 ACM SIGMETRICS, pages 4–11, 1988.
Exercise Programming: Muscular Strength and Endurance

C X. Bryant, J A. Peterson, and James Graves PhD

Chapter in American College of Sports Medicine Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (3rd Edition).
Marianne Moore

Lorrayne Carroll PhD

Chapter in American Poetry: The Modernist Ideal.
Levertov in the Eighties

Nancy Gish PhD

Chapter in American Poetry: The Modernist Ideal.
Health and Fitness Assessment: Muscular Strength and Endurance

James Graves PhD, M L. Pollock, and C X. Bryant

Chapter in American College of Sports Medicine Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (3rd Edition).
Early-Christian Epitaphs from Anatolia

Gary J. Johnson PhD
Improving Student Learning

Walter Kimball PhD, Susan Swap, Patricia A. LaRosa, and Thomas Howick

Chapter 2 in Partner Schools: Centers for Educational Renewal, edited by Russell T. Osguthorpe, R. Carl Harris, Melanie Fox Harris, Sharon Black.

Book description:

Diverse contributors offer an inside look at promising school-university partnerships across the country and discuss the principles and benefits of such programs in promoting educational innovation.
Simone de Beauvoir and the Algerian War: Toward a Post-Colonial Ethics [Book Chapter]

Julien Murphy PhD

Chapter from Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Julien S. Murphy.

More about this title:

While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre, philosophers reassess the merits of Sartre's radical philosophy of freedom for feminist theory.
The Constructed Body: AIDS, Reproductive Technology and Ethics

Julien Murphy PhD

This book contributes to new directions in medical ethics by using recent philosophical theories, such as phenomenological, deconstruction, and post-structuralism, and extends philosophical analysis to allow for the influences of politics, cultural difference, and history on ethics. The author views AIDS from several different perspectives over a period of years and addresses questions often given little attention: what are the ethical issues for women with AIDS? How has AIDS phobia become a public health issue? What ought to be society's responsibility toward children with AIDS? New ground is broken in reproductive technology by examining unusual issues in ways that illuminate current debates on women's reproductive rights, such as should brain-dead pregnant women be sustained on life-support, and should pregnancy require women's bodies or would artificial uteri be acceptable?
The Philosophy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman [Book Chapter]

Julien Murphy PhD

Chapter from Contemporary women philosophers : 1900-today, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe.

More about this title:

Like their predecessors, and like their male counterparts, most women philosophers of the 20th century have significant expertise in several specialities. Moreover, their work represents the gamut of 20th century philosophy's interests in moral pragmatism, logical positivism, philosophy of mathematics, of psychology, and of mind. Their writings include feminist philosophy, classical moral theory reevaluated in light of Kant, Mill, and the 19th century feminist and abolitionist movements, and issues in logic and perception. Included in the fourth volume of the series are discussions of L. Susan Stebbing, Edith Stein, Hedwig Conrad Martius, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Mary Whiton Calkins, Gerda Walther, and others. While pre-20th century women philosophers were usually self-educated, those of the 20th century had greater access to academic preparation in philosophy. Yet, for all the advances made by women philosophers over two and a half millennia, the philosophers discussed in this volume were sometimes excluded from full participation in academic life, and sometimes denied full professional academic status.
The Constructed Body: AIDS, Reproductive Technology, and Ethics

Julien S. Murphy Ph.D.

This book takes a phenomenological approach to feminist issues in medical ethics: AIDS and reproductive technology.

This book contributes to new directions in medical ethics by using recent philosophical theories, such as phenomenological, deconstruction, and post-structuralism, and extends philosophical analysis to allow for the influences of politics, cultural difference, and history on ethics. The author views AIDS from several different perspectives over a period of years and addresses questions often given little attention: what are the ethical issues for women with AIDS? How has AIDS phobia become a public health issue? What ought to be society's responsibility toward children with AIDS? New ground is broken in reproductive technology by examining unusual issues in ways that illuminate current debates on women's reproductive rights, such as should brain-dead pregnant women be sustained on life-support, and should pregnancy require women's bodies or would artificial uteri be acceptable?
Assessment of Body Composition

Michael L. Pollock, James Graves PhD, and L Garzarella

Chapter in Physiological Assessment of Human Fitness.
Exercise Prescription for Rehabilitation of the Cardiac Patient

Michael L. Pollock, M A. Welsch, and James Graves PhD

Chapter in Heart Disease and Rehabilitation.