Tamara Hundorova, "The Post-Chornobyl Library: ...
Hundorova has written a compelling study of the literary changes that mark Ukrainian literature at the end of the 20th century...
45 min
2027
Andrew Hobbs, "A Fleet Street In Every Town: Th...
The dominance of the London press in the British national media has long overshadowed the presence of local newspapers in Great Britain...
43 min
2028
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
2029
Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee, "Philology a...
The Hindu great epic, Mahābhārata, exists today in hundreds of variant manuscripts across India...
65 min
2030
Noah Cohan, "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: F...
In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”
64 min
2031
Yael Almog, "Secularism and Hermeneutics" (U Pe...
In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible...
57 min
2032
Lara Saguisag, "Incorrigibles and Innocents: Co...
Saguisag addresses a gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips...
103 min
2033
Lara Saguisag, "Incorrigibles and Innocents: Co...
Saguisag addresses a gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips...
103 min
2034
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, "Allegories of the Anthro...
DeLoughrey argues that the cosmopolitan position on Global Warming is in truth a provincial one limited to privileged circles in the Global North...
33 min
2035
Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African Amer...
Zafar discusses the earliest formally-published African-American-authored hospitality books from the 1820s to Edna Lewis’s Taste of Country Cooking from the 1970s...
60 min
2036
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Ra...
"The Dark Fantastic" is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction...
49 min
2037
Leah Price, "What We Talk About When We Talk Ab...
Price begins her book by debunking the assumption that ebooks are more popular than print books...
Milligan takes as its subject the woman warrior in early modern Italy as she was and as she was represented across varied types of texts,..
52 min
2039
Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Shakespear...
This book draws together Black’s expansive reading in Shakespeare’s contexts with extensive knowledge of the canon of his plays...
34 min
2040
Tim Frandy, "Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from ...
First published in 1918 only in the Aanaar Sámi language and in Finnish, this anthology is now available in a centennial English-language edition...
60 min
2041
Kfir Cohen Lustig, "Makers of Worlds, Readers o...
Cohen Lustig suggests a new theoretical and historical approach to Israeli and Palestinian literature...
29 min
2042
Jeffrey Saks, "Agnon Library of The Toby Press"
Considered one of the greatest Hebrew writers, in 1966, Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
38 min
2043
Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tas...
Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...
33 min
2044
Andrew Newman, "Allegories of Encounter: Coloni...
Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives...
94 min
2045
Graham Thompson, "Herman Melville: Among the Ma...
Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...
50 min
2046
John T. Lysaker, "Philosophy, Writing, and the ...
What is the relationship between the form of writing and what can be thought?
Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...
57 min
2048
Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Poli...
Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...
48 min
2049
Ithamar Theodor, "Exploring the Bhagavad Gītā: ...
The Bhagavad Gītā remains to this day a mainstay of Hinduism and Hindu Studies alike,..
52 min
2050
Lenora Warren, "Fire on the Water: Sailors, Sla...
Fire on the Water looks at the history of abolition and slave violence by looking at the representation of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late 18th and early 19th century literature...