Writing Professor Tahneer Oksman Recommends Books for NPR, Publishers Weekly
Summer is approaching and two news outlets are taking book recommendations from one of our most illustrious professors! Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Language and Communication and Media Arts Tahneer Oksman, Ph.D., is quoted in both NPR and Publishers Weekly with book recommendations for two thematic occasions: the summer publishing season and the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding.
Last week, Publishers Weekly shared a list of 15 vital American texts to commemorate the 250th anniversary of our country’s founding. Dr. Oksman contributed Maus by Art Spiegelman, writing the following:
With Maus, Spiegelman influenced generations of cartoonists and writers, exposing the complicated interconnections between memory and history and changing the cultural and literary landscape forever after.
You can read the other recommendations by clicking here!
This week, NPR published a list of 15 anticipated releases for this summer. Dr. Oksman submitted the following:
Tillie Walden’s long-anticipated Charity & Sylvia is a graphic biography in five parts, tracking the love story of two women who openly lived together for 44 years in Weybridge, Vt., in the 1800s. Walden builds on an archive of letters, journal entries and various biographical material to offer this moving portrait told in vignettes, most captured as delicately drawn, copper-tinted, nine-panel comics. Family affairs, religious musings and intimate scenes between the two women are set against the backdrop of a young country, and state, moving through constant, and colossal, transformation. The effect is a slow, dense, contemplative read — a rare gem of a book.
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Congratulations, Dr. Oksman!
Published: May 20, 2026
Writing Professor Tahneer Oksman Edits “Chronic,” a WSQ Special Issue
On May 26, Women’s Studies Quarterly (WSQ) will release “Chronic,” a special issue of the twice-annual journal published by the Feminist Press at CUNY. Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Language and Communication and Media Arts Tahneer Oksman, Ph.D., co-edited this issue with Nancy K. Miller. She will speak at the online launch party on May 26 at 6 PM.
