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1901
On Writing Well for Trade: A Conversation with ...
In this episode you’ll hear: differences between trade books and monographs, how to translate academic scholarship for wider audiences, risks and rewards of writing for trade, and trade books as a means to address justice issues related to access to knowledge and audience hierarchies...
47 min
1902
Jennifer Burek Pierce, "Narratives, Nerdfighter...
An interview with Jennifer Burek Pierce
43 min
1903
Anthony Valerio, "Before the Sidewalk Ended: A ...
An interview with Anthony Valerio
26 min
1904
Myroslav Shkandrij, "Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine...
An interview with Myroslav Shkandrij
45 min
1905
Mark Nowak, "Social Poetics" (Coffee House Pres...
An interview with Mark Nowak
50 min
1906
Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaiss...
An interview with Andrea Moudarres
56 min
1907
Robin Mitchell, "Vénus Noire: Black Women and C...
An interview with Robin Mitchell
60 min
1908
Jenn Shapland, "My Autobiography of Carson Mccu...
An interview Jenn Shapland
44 min
1909
Trevor C. Pederson, "Psychoanalysis and Hidden ...
An interview with Trevor C. Pederson
69 min
1910
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretc...
An interview with J. Daniel Elam
104 min
1911
The Other Side of the Desk with a UP Editor: A ...
Our guest is: Kimberly Guinta, Editorial Director at Rutgers University Press....
45 min
1912
Miriam Kalman Friedman, "Rivers of Light: The L...
An interview with Miriam Kalman Friedman.
56 min
1913
Johanna Drucker, "Visualization and Interpretat...
An interview with Johanna Drucker
48 min
1914
C. Burnett, "Studying the New Testament Through...
An interview with C. Burnett
32 min
1915
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Ch...
An interview with Stuart Elden
40 min
1916
Richard Ovenden, "Burning the Books: A History ...
An interview with Richard Ovenden
38 min
1917
Leah E. Comeau, "Material Devotion in a South I...
An interview with Leah Comeau
41 min
1918
Stanley J. Rabinowitz, "And Then Came Dance: Th...
An interview with Stanley Rabinowitz
79 min
1919
Jack Zipes on Life as a Folklorist, Folklore St...
Today I talked with Jack Zipes about a life in Folklore Studies, about some of his many publications, and about publishing fairy tales....
41 min
1920
Edward Wilson-Lee, "The Catalogue of Shipwrecke...
After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library to collect everything ever printed...
46 min
1921
Krista Brune, "Creative Transformations: Travel...
Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, journalism, essays, and correspondence from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries...
89 min
1922
Leela Prasad, "The Audacious Raconteur: Soverei...
Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire?
30 min
1923
Lia Paradis, "Imperial Culture and the Sudan: A...
Paradis explores the myriad ways in which the Sudan, whose internal politics were influenced and shaped by Britain...
30 min
1924
Brian Black, "In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata"...
This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the Mahābhārata.,,
75 min
1925
Caroline H. Yang, "The Peculiar Afterlife of Sl...
Yang explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation...
48 min