Le Moyne faculty publish books on slavery, poetry and vampires

Nilo Hussain, Staff Writer
December 8, 2011
Filed under News & Features

In addition to teaching each year, many Le Moyne professors also work on research. If they’re lucky, all of their hard work pays off and they are published. The following instructors are just a few of those who have books that have either just been released or are expected to come out soon.

Jennifer Glancy
Book
Slavery as Moral Problem: In the Early Church and Today
Description
That some early Christians were slaves does not present a moral problem for Christians today; that some early Christians were slaveholders does. This concise volume is designed to make my research on early Christian slavery more accessible to a broad audience, including students and congregations.

Dr. David Lloyd
Book
Warriors
Description
A new poetry collection, which is due to come out from Salt Publishing in the U.K. in April 2012. Most of the poems are connected through the themes of war and struggle.

Ludger Viefhues-Bailey
Book
Between a Man and a Woman?
Description
That the arguments of conservative Christians against same-sex marriage involve more than literal readings of the Bible or nostalgia for simple gender roles.

Patrick Lawler
Book
Underground: Notes Toward an Autobiography
Description
A book that combines an interview and poetry.
Future Books:
Trade World Center  (Winter 2011), Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds (Fall 2012), The Meaning of If  (Winter 2014)

Delia Popescu
Book
Political Action in Vaclav Havel’s Thought: The Responsibility of Resistance
Description
An effort to respond to what Jeffrey Isaac called the “silence of political theory” regarding the contributions of Eastern European dissidents to the body of political thinking. Popescu adds to the emerging body of literature on this topic by engaging the idea of individual resistance from the perspective of Czech dissident and political theorist Vaclav Havel.

Book
Space and the Production of Cultural Differences Among the Akha Prior to Globalization: Channeling the Flow of Life
Description
Based on the author’s extensive fieldwork among the Akha people prior to full nation-state integration, this illuminating study critically reexamines assumptions about space, power, and the politics of identity. The book expands current debates about power relations in the region from a mostly political and economic framework into the domains of ritual, cosmology, and indigenous meaning and social systems. It is one of the few book-length anthropological studies of peoples of the Southwest, China and the Northern Southeast Asia borderlands.

Kate Costello-Sullivan
Books
Mother/Country: Politics and the Personal in the Fiction of Colm Tóibín (2012), Carmilla: A Critical Edition (2012)
Description
The Tóibín book is a study of the canon of an award-winning contemporary Irish author. The book argues that Tóibín presents the personal and the political as mutually constitutive in his canon.  The second is a student-oriented critical edition of an 1872 novella about a female vampire. 

Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt
Book
Practicing What We Teach: How Culturally Responsive Literacy Classrooms Make a Difference
Description
Extraordinary K–12 teachers show us what culturally responsive literacy teaching looks like in their classrooms and how it advances children’s academic  achievement. This collection covers home–school partnering, using culturally responsive literature and cultural connections, and teaching English language learners and children who speak African American language. Please note that, although the title of the book is under her name, other professors may have written a section for the book.

Douglas R. Egerton
Book
Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War
Description
This monograph discusses the crucial election of 1860 and its implications for the ongoing national debates regarding slavery and the Union.  It is the latest of Dr. Egerton’s several books on slavery and ante-bellum America.

Edward Judge and John Langdon
Book
Connections: A World History, 2nd edition. 
Description
This is a student-friendly world history textbook that focuses on connections among peoples and cultures. It is used at colleges and universities across the country.

Robert E. Scully, S.J.
Book
Into the Lion’s Den: The Jesuit Mission in Elizabethan England and Wales, 1580-1603. 
Description
This book explores the Catholic mission in general and the Jesuit mission in particular in the Elizabethan era in England and Wales.  Since Catholic activity was  illegal, this necessitated a new strategy for an essentially underground church, involving both danger and daring on the part of the Jesuits and their many colleagues.