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Arts
1926
William C. Hedberg, "The Japanese Discovery of ...
An interview with William C. Hedberg
44 min
1927
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
1928
Jennifer Burek Pierce, "Narratives, Nerdfighter...
An interview with Jennifer Burek Pierce
43 min
1929
Anthony Valerio, "Before the Sidewalk Ended: A ...
An interview with Anthony Valerio
26 min
1930
Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaiss...
An interview with Andrea Moudarres
56 min
1931
Myroslav Shkandrij, "Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine...
An interview with Myroslav Shkandrij
45 min
1932
Mark Nowak, "Social Poetics" (Coffee House Pres...
An interview with Mark Nowak
50 min
1933
Robin Mitchell, "Vénus Noire: Black Women and C...
An interview with Robin Mitchell
60 min
1934
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretc...
An interview with J. Daniel Elam
104 min
1935
Jenn Shapland, "My Autobiography of Carson Mccu...
An interview Jenn Shapland
44 min
1936
Trevor C. Pederson, "Psychoanalysis and Hidden ...
An interview with Trevor C. Pederson
69 min
1937
The Other Side of the Desk with a UP Editor: A ...
Our guest is: Kimberly Guinta, Editorial Director at Rutgers University Press....
45 min
1938
Miriam Kalman Friedman, "Rivers of Light: The L...
An interview with Miriam Kalman Friedman.
56 min
1939
Johanna Drucker, "Visualization and Interpretat...
An interview with Johanna Drucker
48 min
1940
C. Burnett, "Studying the New Testament Through...
An interview with C. Burnett
32 min
1941
Leah E. Comeau, "Material Devotion in a South I...
An interview with Leah Comeau
41 min
1942
Stanley J. Rabinowitz, "And Then Came Dance: Th...
An interview with Stanley Rabinowitz
79 min
1943
Richard Ovenden, "Burning the Books: A History ...
An interview with Richard Ovenden
38 min
1944
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Ch...
An interview with Stuart Elden
40 min
1945
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
1946
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
1947
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
1948
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
1949
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
1950
Brian Black, "In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata"...
This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the Mahābhārata.,,
75 min