This is the public website of Julie M. Still, librarian, researcher, historian, reader, writer, and speaker. Good, bad or in between, the opinions expressed here are solely my own.
I’m on twitter @juliemstill and you can find me on linkedin and Google scholar.
Recent Activity:
Pending: some things percolating
Presentation: “The Transgressive Women in Hallmark’s Signature Mysteries,” Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association, 11/12/2022 [virtual conference]
Blog Post: SWFA Author Kaffeeklatches, report on 3 online discussions with writers. I bid on and won the seats at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association auction earlier this year.
Ooohh la la! The Buffy to Batgirl book is annotated in The Year’s Work in English Studies!
Blog Post: The Bene Gesserit in To Boldly Go, providing some background information on the book chapter I co-authored
Presentation: “Nancy Drew and the Other ‘F’ Word: Feminism on the CW’s Nancy Drew Series,” Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association 11/11/2021 [virtual conference]
The book is out! I co-authored a chapter with Kelly Lelito on the Bene Gesserit (from Frank Herbert’s Dune) in the book To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond (edited by Jonathan Klug and Steven Leonard). Now available on Amazon.
Blog Post: On Being a Peer Reviewer
Presentation: “Marketing Kodak’s Bicycle Cameras,” Economic History and Business Society 5/18/2021 [virtual conference]
Blog Post: Some history on the chapter in Transfer Student Success
Co-authored Book Chapter: “Literature Review: Library Services to Transfer Students,” co-authored with Samantha Kannegiser, in Transfer Student Success: Academic Library Outreach and Engagement, edited by Nancy Fawley, Ann Marshall, and Mark Robison, published by the American Library Association.
Now available for pre-order!: “They Exist Only to Serve: The Bene Gesserit and Informal Power,” (co-authored with Kelly A. Lelito) to be published in To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond, edited by Jonathan Klug and Steven Leonard. Casemate Publishers, November, 2021.
New Blog Post: A holiday themed entry on an old recipe: Unusual Corn Casserole
Blog Post: “A Few Notes on Fantômette,” giving some background on the article.
Article: Mille Pompons! Fantômette, the Famous, Unknown, Schoolgirl Superhero of France, Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 12 #1 (2020): 168-183. https://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/519
Two short videos added to the Media page.
Blog Post: “Amazing Stories,” a brief history of the magazine
Presentation: “Bessie Agnes Dwyer, An American Pioneer,” Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association, Pittsburgh, 11/07/2019
Co-edited Book: Buffy to Batgirl: Essays on Female Power, Evolving Femininity and Gender Roles in Science Fiction and Fantasy, (monograph, co-edited with Zara Wilkinson) now available from McFarland. (See brief blog post for the cover).
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