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2001
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gende...
Daddis explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam...
54 min
2002
Karen E. H. Skinazi, "Women of Valor: Orthodox ...
Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype to identify a powerful tradition of feminist literary portrayals of Orthodox women, often created by Orthodox women themselves...
58 min
2003
Filippo Menozzi, "World Literature, Non-Synchro...
Menozzi offers to look at literature and literary processes through the prism of non-synchronism...
44 min
2004
Ken M. Penner, "The Lexham English Septuagint" ...
What is the Septuagint, and why does it matter?
34 min
2005
Laura Westengard, "Gothic Queer Culture: Margin...
Westengard examines the intersection of queerness and the gothic...
60 min
2006
John Barton, "A History of the Bible: The Story...
How did the Bible become the Bible? It's a long story....
59 min
2007
Richard van Leeuwen, "The Thousand and One Nigh...
Leeuwen thoroughly examines an array of intricate ways in which the Thousand and One Nights shaped the developments of literatures across the world...
58 min
2008
Arti Dhand, "Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexu...
The Hindu tradition has held conflicting views on womanhood from its earliest texts—holding women aloft as goddesses to be worshipped on the one hand and remaining deeply suspicious about women’s sexuality on the other...
38 min
2009
Lauren F. Klein, "An Archive of Taste: Race and...
Klein considers eating and early American aesthetics together, reframing the philosophical work of food and its meaning for the people who prepare, serve, and consume it...
48 min
2010
Guy Raffa, "Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented ...
Dante’s Bones is an academic mystery story, the “graveyard history” of Dante Alighieri, the master poet of what has come to be called The Divine Comedy. This book is about Dante’s literal remains and the where and how they’ve been kept...
72 min
2011
Valerie Wayne, "Women’s Labour and the History ...
Wayne reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books...
47 min
2012
Allison L. Rowland, "Zoetropes and the Politics...
The way that we talk about living beings can raise or lower their perceived value...
57 min
2013
Xiaoqiao Ling, "Feeling the Past in Seventeenth...
Ling offers readers a richly revealing window into sensory worlds at a particularly cataclysmic time, showing how Chinese literati dealt with the traumatic transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasty...
61 min
2014
K. Keeling and S. Pollard, "Table Lands: Food i...
Table Lands contributes to a growing body of scholarship in the subfield of literary food studies...
67 min
2015
Naomi Appleton, "Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A St...
Appleton introduces a significant section of the important early Indian Buddhist text known as the Avadānaśataka, or “One Hundred Stories”...
44 min
2016
Barry Witham, "From Red-Baiting to Blacklisting...
Witham traces Fried’s long career as a labor organizer and Communist Party militant, as well as the obsessive lengths the FBI went to in order to suppress his activism...
46 min
2017
Kim Adrian, "Dear Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaa...
In 2009, a novel was released in Norway with a fairly simple premise; the author would simply write about himself, his life and his attempts to write...
65 min
2018
Gaurav Desai, "Commerce with the Universe: Afri...
Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...
76 min
2019
Vanita Reddy, "Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Fem...
Central to Reddy's project is upending the male-centric understanding of the relationship between the diaspora and the “nation”.
40 min
2020
Brett Dakin, "American Daredevil: Comics, Commu...
Gleason’s experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee and Dr. Frederic Wertham and other Anti-Comic activists give a glimpse into important political and social activism of the 1940s and 50s in American history...
45 min
2021
Bradley Lewis, "Narrative Psychiatry: How Stori...
Psychiatry has lagged behind many clinical specialties in recognizing the importance of narrative for understanding and effectively treating disease...
46 min
2022
Oludamini Ogunnaike, "Poetry in Praise of Proph...
Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...
54 min
2023
Greil Marcus, “Under the Red White and Blue" (Y...
Fitzgerald’s story has become a key to American culture and American life itself...
57 min
2024
Suri Hustvedt, "Memories of the Future" (Simon ...
How Do We Write Our Personal History at the Same Time That It’s Written for Us?
40 min
2025
Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the M...
Muslims have lived in the Caribbean for centuries...
42 min