English Prof. Anne Jamison studies fan fiction, particularly "Mommy Porn" | By Ben Fulton | The Salt Lake Tribune
University of Utah English professor Anne Jamison has a doctorate from Princeton and a serious literary background, specializing in Victorian literature and the influence of Czech culture on writer Franz Kafka.

But it's her academic study of fan fiction, particularly the "mommy porn" of Fifty Shades of Grey, that has launched Jamison as a media commentator for sources ranging from National Public Radio to the Galleycat website.

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[read more] More information at Apr 19, 2012

Hidden Water: A Survey of Salt Lake Valley Surface Water is now online! | We turn on our taps and it's there. It's reliable, clean and seemingly abundant. Most Salt Lakers, though, don't know where it comes from. The source of our water and the course it follows to reach our faucets is hidden.

Prof. Craig Denton and the Marriott Library trace the sources of the water through a sophisticated and searchable web project that shows the flow from the tops of the mountains to your water glass.

Learn more at www.hiddenwaters.org

[read more] More information at Mar 20, 2012

The President as Snob - Op Ed piece by Dean Robert Newman | First published March 2,2012 in the Salt Lake Tribune

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum recently labeled President Obama a snob for encouraging all Americans to attend college.For those of us old enough to remember, such a charge carries echoes of four decades past when President Richard Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew, attempted to merge Democrats and academics into a single entity in the public consciousness, calling them "effete, intellectual snobs."

[read more] More information at Mar 3, 2012