Utah State University Press: 175 books
Inventing the World Grant University
Chinese International Students’ Mobilities, Literacies, and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Through an exploration of the literacy practices of undergraduate Chinese international students in the United States and China, Inventing the World Grant University demonstrates the ways in which literacies, mobilities, and transnational identities are constructed and enacted across institutional...
Exploring Desert Stone
John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, now in Canyonlands National Park, near popular tourist destination Moab, still cannot be reached or viewed easily. Much of the surrounding region remained remote and rarely visited for decades after settlement of other parts of the West. The first U.S....
by Patricia Colleen Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Volume 19 of the May Swenson Poetry Award Series, 2016
Throughout this haunting first collection, Patricia Colleen Murphy shows how familial mental illness, addiction, and grief can render even the most courageous person helpless. With depth of feeling, clarity of voice, and artful conflation...
by Luisa A. Igloria
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
“When Luisa Igloria cites Epictetus—‘as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place’—she introduces the crowded and contradictory world her poems portray: a realm of transience, yes, where the vulnerable come to harm and everything disappears, but also...
by M. B. McLatchey
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Winner of 2013 May Swenson Poetry Award
In The Lame God, author M. B. McLatchey reminds us of the inevitable bond between art and empathy. With a controlled language that finds its echo chamber in the immortal themes and characters of classical literature, this courageous work accompanies the author...
Bear River
Last Chance to Change Course
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Craig Denton notes, “Water will be the primary political, social, and economic issue in the Intermountain West in the twenty-first century.” Urban Utah thirsts for the Great Salt Lake principal source, the Bear River. Plans abound to divert it for a rapidly growing Wasatch Front, as the last...
by Richard Negri
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Richard Negri interviews cattlemen and women about ranching in the rugged canyonlands region of southeastern Utah. Personal stories and anecdotes from the colorful characters who ground out a hard living on ranches of the are in the early twentieth century.
by Richard M. Anderson, Jay Dee Gunnell, Jerry L. Goodspeed
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Many recreational hikers have stopped along the trail to admire a wildflower only to wonder what, exactly, they are looking at. Wildflowers of the Mountain West is a useful field guide that makes flower identification easy for the general outdoor enthusiast.
Many available plant guides are...
The Montana Vigilantes 1863–1870
Gold,Guns and Gallows
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Historians and novelists alike have described the vigilantism that took root in the gold-mining communities of Montana in the mid-1860s, but Mark C. Dillon is the first to examine the subject through the prism of American legal history, considering the state of criminal justice and law enforcement...
Writing-Intensive
Becoming W-Faculty in a New Writing Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In one of the few book-length studies of a major post-secondary writing-across-the-curriculum initiative from concept to implementation, Writing-Intensive traces the process of preparation for new writing requirements across the undergraduate curriculum at Simon Fraser University, a mid-sized Canadian...
College Writing and Beyond
A New Framework for University Writing Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Composition research consistently demonstrates that the social context of writing determines the majority of conventions any writer must observe. Still, most universities organize the required first-year composition course as if there were an intuitive set of general writing "skills" usable...
Generation Vet
Composition, Student Veterans, and the Post-9/11 University
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Institutions of higher education are experiencing the largest influx of enrolled veterans since World War II, and these student veterans are transforming post-secondary classroom dynamics. While many campus divisions like admissions and student services are actively moving to accommodate the rise...
The Politics of Writing Studies
Reinventing Our Universities from Below
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
A friendly critique of the field, The Politics of Writing Studies examines a set of recent pivotal texts in composition to show how writing scholarship, in an effort to improve disciplinary prestige and garner institutional resources, inadvertently reproduces structures of inequality within American...
by Claudia Gould
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Drawing on ethnographic field work she conducted among Christians in her home state of North Carolina, Claudia Gould crafts stories that lay open the human heart and social complications of fundamentalist belief. These stories and the compelling characters who inhabit them draw us into the complex essence of religious experience among southern American Christians.