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Edited by: Luis CarranzaIntroduction by: Nasrine SerajiEssays by: Kristina Van Dyke, Eric Mumford and Luis Carranza The book “Axi:Ome” is a collection of projects and essays about the St. Louis-based architectural practice led by Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim, which engages the architectural profession within the bounds of academic endeavors. Woofter and Kim have […]

William Maxwell, professor in the English and African and African-American studies departments, draws on 14,000 pages of recently released FBI files to show how the FBI, under J. Edgar Hoover, monitored and shaped public perception of African-American literature from 1919 to 1972.

In the first literary/biographical study of ­Nathaniel ­Hawthorne’s career in almost 40 years, Robert Milder, professor of ­English, gives a transatlantic perspective on the ­American author.

Gaylyn Studlar, the ­David May Distinguished ­Professor in the ­Humanities and director of the Film and Media Studies program, takes representations of girlhood as the topic of her latest book.

The book “Spatial Practice” is a collection of projects and essays on Axi:Ome llc of St. Louis, a young architectural design studio. Like most young designers they employ digital tools as design process. The difference between their and other young digital practices is the final output of the design resolution. Axi:Ome llc fully develops their work within […]

Derived from the Latin words axiom and forme, the American based office of Axi:Ome engages in architecture as research: a mode of practice that directly interfaces with social, cultural economic and environmental influences. Over the course of eight chapters a total of eleven works from the office are examined, including the Media Arcade and Locust […]