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Shonaleeka Kaul, “The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Shonaleeka Kaul
The Making of Early Kashmir
Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network April 11, 2019 Arpita Mitra

Dr. Shonaleeka Kaul is a cultural historian of early South Asia specializing in working with Sanskrit texts. She is Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has worked extensively on Sanskrit kavya, a genre of highly aesthetic poetry and prose. She is the author of... Read More
Leslie Hahner, “To Become an American: Immigrants and Americanization Campaigns of the Early 20th Century” (Michigan State UP, 2017)
Leslie Hahner
To Become an American
Immigrants and Americanization Campaigns of the Early 20th Century
Michigan State University Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network April 5, 2019 Lee Pierce

On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (she/they)–Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication at SUNY Geneseo–interviews Dr. Leslie Hahner–Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication at Baylor University–on a spectacular new work of rhetorical history: To Become an American: Immigrants and Americanization Campaigns of the Early Twentieth Century from the... Read More
Anne Cheng, “Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Anne Cheng
Second Skin
Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface
Oxford University Press, 2017

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in DanceNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 25, 2019 Lee Pierce

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)–Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo–interviews Dr. Anne Cheng (she/hers)–Professor of English and Director of the Program in American Studies at Princeton University–to discuss an inimitable work of critique: Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface (Oxford... Read More
Richard Salomon, “The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translation” (Wisdom Publications, 2018)
Richard Salomon
The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra
An Introduction with Selected Translation
Wisdom Publications, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network March 1, 2019 Alex Carroll

In this episode of New Books in Buddhist Studies, Dr. Richard Salomon speaks about his book The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translation (Wisdom Publications, 2018). One of the great archeological finds of the 20th century, the Gandhāran Buddhist Texts, dating from the 1st century CE, are the... Read More
Bradford Vivian, “Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Bradford Vivian
Commonplace Witnessing
Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture
Oxford University Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network February 27, 2019 Lee Pierce

On this episode of New Books in Communications, Lee Pierce (she/they) interviews Dr. Bradford Vivian (he/his) of Penn State University on his fabulous new book Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture (Oxford University Press, 2017). In this book, Dr. Vivian asks readers to reconsider our almost sacred... Read More