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Arts
1901
Robin Mitchell, "Vénus Noire: Black Women and C...
An interview with Robin Mitchell
60 min
1902
Trevor C. Pederson, "Psychoanalysis and Hidden ...
An interview with Trevor C. Pederson
69 min
1903
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretc...
An interview with J. Daniel Elam
104 min
1904
Jenn Shapland, "My Autobiography of Carson Mccu...
An interview Jenn Shapland
44 min
1905
The Other Side of the Desk with a UP Editor: A ...
Our guest is: Kimberly Guinta, Editorial Director at Rutgers University Press....
45 min
1906
Miriam Kalman Friedman, "Rivers of Light: The L...
An interview with Miriam Kalman Friedman.
56 min
1907
Johanna Drucker, "Visualization and Interpretat...
An interview with Johanna Drucker
48 min
1908
C. Burnett, "Studying the New Testament Through...
An interview with C. Burnett
32 min
1909
Leah E. Comeau, "Material Devotion in a South I...
An interview with Leah Comeau
41 min
1910
Stanley J. Rabinowitz, "And Then Came Dance: Th...
An interview with Stanley Rabinowitz
79 min
1911
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Ch...
An interview with Stuart Elden
40 min
1912
Richard Ovenden, "Burning the Books: A History ...
An interview with Richard Ovenden
38 min
1913
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
1914
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
1915
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
1916
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
1917
Brian Black, "In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata"...
This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the Mahābhārata.,,
75 min
1918
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
1919
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
1920
Catharine Abell, "Fiction: A Philosophical Anal...
For Abell, fictional entities exist in the same way that marriages and corporations do...
60 min
1921
A. Achilli and S. Yekelchyk, "Cossacks in Jamai...
The volume is compiled to honor the contribution of Marko Pavlyshyn to the development and establishment of Ukrainian studies in Australia, as well as across the globe..,
57 min
1922
Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Mo...
This book the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture...
53 min
1923
Keith A. Livers, "Conspiracy Culture: Post-Sovi...
Livers offers a solid background that helps historicize the conspiracy preoccupations in Russia...
54 min
1924
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: T...
By 1935 William Faulkner was well established as an author of critically praised novels, yet the low volume of his sales forced him to seek work in Hollywood....
50 min
1925
Ithamar Theodor, "The Bhagavad-Gītā: A Critical...
Theodor offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia....
51 min