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Literary Studies
Gender Studies July 23, 2021

Beauvoir in Time

Meryl Altman

Hosted by Lilian Calles Barger
Meryl Altman's new book Beauvoir in Time, published by Brill Rodopi Press (2020), situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) in its historical context and responds to criticism that …

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Literary Studies July 15, 2021

Dweller in Shadows

A Life of Ivor Gurney

Kate Kennedy

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
The First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) spent the last fifteen years of his life confined in a Kent mental hospital before dying prematurely of tuberculosis. How good was Gurney's war poetry …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast July 15, 2021

Babbling Barbarians

How Translators Keep Us Civilized

David Bellos

Hosted by Howard Burton
Babbling Barbarians: How Translators Keep Us Civilized is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Princeton University Professor David Bellos, author of the bestselling book, Is That …
East Asian Studies July 15, 2021

Chinese Grammatology

Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958

Yurou Zhong

Hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos
In 1928 linguist Yuen Ren Chao had reason to celebrate. The Nationalist government had just recognized his system for writing Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatzyh, so he gleefully wrote (using the system) in …
Literary Studies July 14, 2021

Wonderworks

The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

Angus Fletcher

Hosted by Colin Miller
Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere--from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others--each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative …
Latin American Studies July 14, 2021

Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs

Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández's book Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) explores the current human rights crisis created by the War on Drugs in Mexico. It …
Folklore July 13, 2021

Sacred Disobedience

A Jungian Analysis of the Saga of Pan and the Devil

Sharon L. Coggan

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
Pan plays a central role in European mythology, originating as a figure who represented all that was impossible to tame in the world, something anyone who has ever worked with …
Jewish Studies July 9, 2021

Jewish Bible Translations

Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress

Leonard Greenspoon

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In his book Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress (Jewish Publication Society, 2020), Leonard Greenspoon is the first to examine thoroughly Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to …
General History July 6, 2021

From Internationalism to Postcolonialism

Literature and Cinema Between the Second and the Third Worlds

Rossen Djagalov

Hosted by Jessica Bachman
Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. Although most histories of these geopolitical blocs and their constituent societies and …
Scholarly Communication July 5, 2021

The Teaching Archive

A New History for Literary Study

Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Rachel Sagner Buurma (associate professor of English literature at Swarthmore College) and Laura Heffernan (associate professor of English at the University of North Florida). We …
Literary Studies July 2, 2021

The Classics in South America

Five Case Studies

Germán Campos Muñoz

Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
Germán Campos Muñoz, The Classics in South America: Five Case Studies (Bloomsbury, 2021) examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics …
Literary Studies July 2, 2021

At Penpoint

African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War

Monica Popescu

Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
In At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (Duke UP, 2020), Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century …
General History July 2, 2021

Thou Art the Man

The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages

Ruth Mazo Karras

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on the podcast, Ruth Mazo Karras, the Lecky Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin talks about her new book, Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in …
Academic Life July 1, 2021

Open Access Publishing Explained

A Discussion with Ros Pyne

Ros Pyne

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast July 1, 2021

What Do the Ancients Have to Teach Us?

A Discussion to with Rob Tempio

Rob Tempio

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Today I talked to Rob Tempio, the editor of a wonderful collection of books from Princeton University Press called "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers." The series presents the timeless and timely ideas …
African American Studies June 30, 2021

Black Aliveness, Or a Poetics of Being

Kevin Quashie

Hosted by Lee Pierce
In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Duke University Press, 2012), Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as …
Secularism June 28, 2021

Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century

A Literary History of Atheism

James Reeves

Hosted by Carrie Lynn Evans
Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, and William Cowper worried extensively about atheism's dystopian possibilities and …
Popular Culture June 25, 2021

Typical Girls

The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips

Susan E. Kirtley

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In her new book Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips (Ohio State Press, 2021) Susan Kirtley examines female-created comics that were nationally syndicated starting in the late 1970s-2010. Kirtley uncovers …
Indian Religions June 24, 2021

The Skandapurāṇa Project

The Varáha Cycle and the Andhaka Cycle Continued. Vol. V. Adhyáyas 96 - 112

Peter Christiaan Bisschop and Yuko Yokochi

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
This interview features Drs. Peter Bisschop (Leiden University) and Yuko Yokochi (Kyoto University) and their work on the monumental Skandapurāṇa project. Started in the 1990's, the project is aimed at creating a critical edition of …
African American Studies June 23, 2021

Afro-Nostalgia

Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture

Badia Ahad-Legardy

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Nostalgia has received increasing attention for its role in shaping contemporary social and political life in the United States. Dr. Badia Ahad-Legardy distinguishes Afro-Nostalgia as a framework to think about …