About Sitara Thobani

NBN Episodes hosted by Sitara:

Dorinne Kondo, "Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity" (Duke UP, 2018)

June 24, 2019

Worldmaking

Dorinne Kondo
Hosted by Sitara Thobani

In Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity (Duke University Press 2018), Dorinne Kondo brings together critical race studies, affec…

Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)

May 22, 2019

Ornamentalism

Anne A. Cheng
Hosted by Sitara Thobani

In her original and thought-provoking book Ornamentalism (Oxford University Press, 2019), Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship betw…

Victoria Fortuna, "Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence and Memory in Buenos Aires" (Oxford UP, 2018)

December 28, 2018

Moving Otherwise

Victoria Fortuna
Hosted by Sitara Thobani

Victoria Fortuna's new book Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence and Memory in Buenos Aires (Oxford University Press, 2018) examines the different ways i…

Halifu Osumare, "Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir" (UP of Florida, 2018)

June 4, 2018

Dancing in Blackness

Halifu Osumare
Hosted by Sitara Thobani

Combining memoir with auto-ethnography, historical study and sociocultural analysis, Halifu Osumare draws on her decades of experience to explore the …

Marc Hertzman, "Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil" (Duke UP, 2013)

April 19, 2018

Making Samba

Marc Hertzman
Hosted by Sitara Thobani

In Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2013), Marc Hertzman revisits the history of Brazil's quintessentia…

Edward Ross Dickinson, "Dancing in the Blood" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

December 29, 2017

Dancing in the Blood

Edward Ross Dickinson
Hosted by Sitara Thobani

In his new book, Dancing in the Blood: Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Edward …

Julia Fawcett, "Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801" (U Michigan Press, 2016)

October 9, 2017

Spectacular Disapperances

Julia Fawcett
Hosted by Sitara Thobani

"How can the modern individual maintain control over his or her self-representation when the whole world seems to be watching?" This is the question t…