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Join SIU Press authors David Bisaha, Edward S. Kraus, and Joshua Langman for a Zoom panel discussion and Q&A of their re...
10/21/2026

Join SIU Press authors David Bisaha, Edward S. Kraus, and Joshua Langman for a Zoom panel discussion and Q&A of their respective subject matters within the field of theatre. For more information and to find a free link to the event, check out our website: https://www.siupress.com/writing-theatre-author-panel/

Spooky season continues with Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation by Joshua David Bellin. The canon of p...
10/20/2026

Spooky season continues with Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation by Joshua David Bellin. The canon of popular cinema has long been rife with fantastic tales, yet critical studies have too often expediently mixed the fantasy genre with its kindred science fiction and horror films or dismissed it altogether as escapist fare. Bellin reconsiders the cultural significance of this storytelling mode by investigating how films seemingly divorced from reality and presented in a context of timelessness are, in fact, encoded with the social practices and beliefs of their era of production.

Written to enhance rather than undermine our understanding of fantastic cinema, Framing Monsters invites filmmakers, critics, and fans alike to reassess this tremendously popular and influential film type and the monsters that populate it.

https://www.siupress.com/9780809326242/framing-monsters/

In IT HAPPENED IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, author John W. Allen curates a collection of articles describing the people, places...
10/19/2026

In IT HAPPENED IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, author John W. Allen curates a collection of articles describing the people, places, and folkways of Southern Illinois, providing entertaining and informative glimpses into the region’s past. Included here are sketches of the early pioneering days when wolves were literally chased from the door, stories about the many Indian artifacts discovered among the rolling hills and valleys of the area, and articles pertaining to the strategic role the region played during the Civil War. Allen also describes the activities of such infamous outlaws as Samuel Mason and the Harpe brothers as well as the famous Illinois-born heroes “Bat” Masterson, “Wild Bill” Hickok, and Wyatt Earp.

In his warm and friendly style, Allen reminisces about the self-sufficient and satisfying rural life of a previous generation with its oxcarts, pie suppers, threshing machines, kerosene lamps, and blacksmith shops.

https://www.siupress.com/9780809329687/it-happened-in-southern-illinois/

October 3, 1981. SIU beat Illinois State 14-3 on Parents' Day. The Salukis battle the Redbirds today on Homecoming.
10/17/2026

October 3, 1981. SIU beat Illinois State 14-3 on Parents' Day. The Salukis battle the Redbirds today on Homecoming.

Phillip L. Simpson's Psycho Paths in our Spooky season provides an original and broad overview of the evolving serial ki...
10/17/2026

Phillip L. Simpson's Psycho Paths in our Spooky season provides an original and broad overview of the evolving serial killer genre in the two media most responsible for its popularity: literature and cinema of the 1980s and 1990s. The fictional serial killer, with a motiveless, highly individualized modus operandi, is the latest manifestation of the multiple murderers and homicidal maniacs that haunt American literature and, particularly, visual media such as cinema and television.

Citing numerous sources, Simpson argues that serial killers’ recent popularity as genre monsters owes much to their pliability to any number of authorial ideological agendas from both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. Serial killers in fiction are a kind of debased and traumatized visionary, whose murders privately and publicly re-empower them with a pseudo-divine aura in the contemporary political moment. The current fascination with serial killer narratives can thus be explained as the latest manifestation of the ongoing human fascination with tales of gruesome murders and mythic villains finding a receptive audience in a nation galvanized by the increasingly apocalyptic tension between the extremist philosophies of both the New Right and the anti-New Right.

https://www.siupress.com/9780809323296/psycho-paths/

More from Homecoming forty years ago, October 18, 1986. In front 14,200 at McAndrew Stadium the Salukis upset 16th-ranke...
10/16/2026

More from Homecoming forty years ago, October 18, 1986. In front 14,200 at McAndrew Stadium the Salukis upset 16th-ranked Northern Iowa 27-24, returning two interceptions for touchdowns and scoring two safeties. Photos by Roger Hart and Steve Buhman, with aerial photography by Phil Bankester. Scanned from 35mm negatives in the University Archives.

Happy World Food Day! 📚🍩Melissa A. Goldthwaite's FOOD, FEMINISIMS, RHETORICS collects eighteen essays that demonstrate t...
10/16/2026

Happy World Food Day! 📚🍩

Melissa A. Goldthwaite's FOOD, FEMINISIMS, RHETORICS collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives.

https://www.siupress.com/9780809335909/food-feminisms-rhetorics/

On Thursday, October 29th at 5 p.m. (CST), SIU Press will be holding a Zoom web panel in celebration of our 70th Anniver...
10/16/2026

On Thursday, October 29th at 5 p.m. (CST), SIU Press will be holding a Zoom web panel in celebration of our 70th Anniversary. The panel will feature three of our authors, Edward S. Kraus, David Bisaha, and Joshua Langman, all of whom have contributed valuable insights to the world of stagecraft, scenic design, and theatre education. Don't miss out! Find the Zoom link and more information about our panelists at our website here: https://www.siupress.com/writing-theatre-author-panel/

Homecoming 1986, photographed by Roger Hart and Steve Buhman. Part II tomorrow.
10/15/2026

Homecoming 1986, photographed by Roger Hart and Steve Buhman. Part II tomorrow.

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