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Back to SearchRobert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)
Episode 144
It’s amazing that art historians like Robert Hillenbrand got to study the “Great Mongol Shahnama” at all.
500 pages of Firahdosi’s epic poem, with 300…
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Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Episode 160
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 2022) by Miranda Corcoran is a study in teenage witc…
2 years, 11 months ago
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 3: The Language
Season 1 Episode 29
Part 3 features close-readings of some of the play’s most significant speeches, with Professor Stephen Foley. Through Henry’s private soliloquy, we t…
2 years, 11 months ago
Kelly Ross, "Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 234
Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature (Oxford UP, 2022) argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, intercon…
2 years, 11 months ago
Vivian Nun Halloran, "Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Episode 103
In Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging (Ohio State University Press, 2023), Vivian Nun Halloran analyzes memoirs, picture books, comic books, …
2 years, 11 months ago
Wayne Deakin, "Modern Language, Philosophy and Criticism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Episode 233
Today’s guest is Wayne Deakin, whose new book, Modern Language, Philosophy, and Criticism, has just published by Palgrave Macmillan in summer 2023. M…
2 years, 11 months ago
Hannah Pittard, "We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of]" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Episode 162
What happens when you come of age in mid-life? Why is so challenging to figure out your own past? Can you find the permission to be weird? (And can y…
2 years, 11 months ago
Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 231
I am excited to welcome Eliot Borenstein to the podcast today to discuss his new monograph, Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World Inside Your Head, p…
2 years, 11 months ago
Emily Katz Anhalt, "Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny" (Redwood Press, 2021)
Episode 232
As tyrannical passions increasingly plague twenty-first-century politics, tales told in ancient Greek epics and tragedies provide a vital antidote. D…
2 years, 11 months ago
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Season 1 Episode 28
Part 2 opens with a discussion of the history play genre and of how history shapes and constrains the plays’ protagonists. With Professor Stephen Fol…
2 years, 11 months ago