Bryn Mawr Authors
Women, Performance and the Material of Memory
by Laura Engel BMC '90
This book proposes that the performance of archival research is related to the experience of tourism, where an individual immerses herself in a foreign environment, relating to and analyzing visual and sensory materials through embodiment and enactment. Each chapter highlights a particular set of tangible objects including: pocket diaries, portraits, drawings, magic lanterns, silhouettes, waxworks, and photographs in relation to actresses, authors, and artists such as: Elizabeth Inchbald, Sally Siddons, Marguerite Gardiner the Countess of Blessington, Isabella Beetham, Jane Read, Madame Tussaud, and Amelia M. Watson. Ultimately, operating as an archival tourist in my analyses, I offer strategies for thinking about the presence of women artists in the archives through methodologies that seek to connect materials from the past with our representations of them in the present.
Girl Who Was No Kin to the Marshalls and Other Stories
by Anne Freeman BMC '56
Knowing is a Branching Trail
by Alison Hicks BMC '82
Knowing Is a Branching Trail is a poetic investigation of the many ways in which we know and come to understanding. In this collection of poetry, selected winner of the 2021 Birdy Poetry Prize, by Meadowlark Press, the poems engage with the work of thinkers and artists, from Charles Darwin and Samuel Beckett to Margaret Atwood and the anonymous paints of the Lascaux caves.
Themes range from pandemic and illness, childhood and parenting, observing and engaging with the natural world, and creating art. Poems in the book have previously appeared in Poet Lore, Blood Orange Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, and Vox Poetica, and other journals.
In this book, we witness an artist's pause, an extraction of poetry from the ordinary beat of life.
Profound and Perfect Things
by Maribel Garcia BMC '95 |
Queer Budapest, 1873-1961
by Anita Kurimay
You Who Took the Boat Out
by Alison Hicks BMC '82
Postcolonial Satire: Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire
by Amy Friedman BMC '86
Screendance Practitioner's Workbook
by Britt Whitmoyer Fishel
The Screendance Practitioner’s Workbook: A Pre-Production Guide for Creativity and Organization takes artists through a step-by-step process of considerations before filming a screendance. From picking a project theme and location scouting, to creating production timelines and storyboards, it channels both creativity and organization for each project. Part journal, part guide, this book acts as a resource for artists to unleash their imagination and explore their personal aesthetics in dance filmmaking.
Two Sisters of Fayetteville
by Anolic, Tamar
Two Sisters of Fayetteville won Honorable Mention for Young Adult Fiction in the Firebird Book Awards for Fourth Quarter, 2022.
Seventeen-year-old Joanna Upshaw and her sister, sixteen-year-old Hannah, are two of twelve siblings in an insular, conservative, and evangelical Christian family- same as the Duggars, whose reality show they watch on TV. Joanna in particular is exhausted by the demands of helping her mother with the housework and childcare attendant in such a large family. She is also beginning to realize that she doesn't measure up to her parents' vision of a perfect Christian woman- or to any of their strict rules.
Hannah is the sister that Joanna is closest to, the one that shares her fatigue and anxiety. Both of them have spent their whole lives learning that their highest calling is to marry and have as many children as possible. However, as Joanna watches Hannah and two of their brothers court with the intention of marrying, she questions whether she is capable of doing the same, especially as her parents shoo her marriage prospects away one at a time. Afraid of becoming the old maid that never amounts to anything, Joanna finally makes plans to get away from her parents forever.
Fans of Jennifer Mathieu's Devoted and Julia Watts' Quiver will like this book.
House of Secrets
by Allison Levy BMC MA '97 PhD ’00
A look into the tantalizing secrets of Florence's Palazzo Rucellai.
House of Secrets tells the remarkable story of Palazzo Rucellai from behind its celebrated façade. The house, beginning with its piecemeal assemblage by one of the richest men in Florence in the fifteenth century, has witnessed endless drama, from the butchering of its interior to a courtyard suicide to champagne-fueled orgies on the eve of World War I to a recent murder on its third floor. When the author, an art historian, serendipitously discovers a room for let in the house, she lands in the vortex of history and is tested at every turn--inside the house and out. Her residency in Palazzo Rucellai is informed as much by the sense of desire giving way to disappointment as by a sense of denial that soon enough must succumb to truth. House of Secrets is about the sharing of space, the tracing of footsteps, the overlapping of lives. It is about the willingness to lose oneself behind the façade, to live between past and present, to slip between the cracks of history and the crevices of our own imagination.