New Books in Language and Translation
Episodes
Henning Trüper, "Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the turn of the nineteenth century, European philologists were engaged in the study of Semitic languages and Indology, breaking with the past in ma...
James Diggle, "Cambridge Greek Lexicon" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor James Diggle, editor in chief of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon (Cambridge UP, 2021), joins us to explain the background to this extraordinar...
Sarah Nannery and Larry Nannery, "What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love—with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Sarah Nannery got her first job at a small nonprofit, she thought she knew exactly what it would take to advance. But soon she realized that even...
Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021)
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match ...
Rachel Rojanski, "Yiddish in Israel: A History" (Indiana UP, 2020)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yiddish in Israel: A History (Indiana UP, 2020) challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli authorities f...
Martin Jay, “Pants on Fire: On Lying in Politics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pants on Fire: On Lying in Politics is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and renowned intellectual historian Martin Jay,...
Preserving Local Languages to Protect Cultural and Environmental Rights in Laos
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In September-October 2021, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advoc...
J. P. M. Drury and S. A. M. Drury, "Rhetoric, Politics, and Hamilton: an American Musical" (Peter Lang, 2021)
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hamilton: An American Musical made its record-breaking Broadway debut in 2015—but the musical has reached far beyond typical Broadway audiences to ...
Tom G. Hoogervorst, "Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 (Cornell UP, 2021) explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts – ...
Alex Poole, "Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Alex Poole, professor of English at W...
William Duffy, "Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing" (Utah State UP, 2021)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing (Utah State UP, 2021), William Duffy revives the topic and connects it to the gr...
Sarah Bunin Benor et al., "Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Each summer, tens of thousands of American Jews attend residential camps, where they may see Hebrew signs, sing and dance to Hebrew songs, and hear a ...
Nicholas Harkness, "Glossolalia and the Problem of Language" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, has long been a subject of curiosity as well as vigorous theological debate. A worldwide phenomenon th...
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, "Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names" (Pantheon, 2021)
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Geographer and writer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro has a sharp appreciation for place, history, and the stories we tell to give meaning to our lives. All of ...
Victor Ferreira, “Speaking and Thinking” (Open Agenda, 2021)
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Speaking and Thinking is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Victor Ferreira, Professor of Psychology and Principal Inv...
Maïa Ponsonnet, "Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole: The Expression of Emotions" (Routledge, 2019)
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt domi...
Helen Sword, "The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Sword, writing champion, brings us into the word gym. Or maybe kitchen. Either way, The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose (U Chicago Press,...
Susan Gal and Judith T. Irvine, "Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How are peoples' ideas about languages, ways of speaking and expressive styles shaped by their social positions and values? How is difference, in lang...
Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do newborns think-do they know that 'three' is greater than 'two'? Do they prefer 'right' to 'wrong'? What about emotions--do newborns recognize happi...
Andre E. Johnson, "No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (U Mississippi Press, 2020) is a history of the career of Bishop He...
Ellen Bialystok, “The Psychology of Bilingualism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Psychology of Bilingualism is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Ellen Bialystok, Professor of Psychology at York ...
Christina R. Foust et al., "What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Recent protests around the world (such as the Arab Spring uprisings and Occupy Wall Street movements) have drawn renewed interest to the study of soci...
Richard Scholar, "Émigrés: French Words That Turned English" (Princeton UP, 2020)
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases—such as à la mode, ennui, naï...
Yurou Zhong, "Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958" (Columbia UP, 2019)
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1928 linguist Yuen Ren Chao had reason to celebrate. The Nationalist government had just recognized his system for writing Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatzy...
David Bellos, “Babbling Barbarians: How Translators Keep Us Civilized” (Open Agenda, 2021)
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Babbling Barbarians: How Translators Keep Us Civilized is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Princeton University Prof...
Leonard Greenspoon, "Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his book Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress (Jewish Publication Society, 2020), Leonard Greenspoon is the fir...
Nathan R. Johnson, "Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are now living in the richest age of public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the pa...
Zoë Slatoff-Ponté, "Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga" (North Point Press, 2015)
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The traditional Indian method of learning Sanskrit is through oral transmission, by first memorizing texts and then learning their meaning. The Wester...
Susan E. Kirtley, "Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips (Ohio State Press, 2021) Susan Kirtley examines female-created comics that...
Eviatar Zerubavel, "Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable" (Princeton UP, 2018)
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working m...
Robert C. Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy" (U California Press, 2020)
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Robert Bartlett spoke with the New Books in Political Science podcast about two of his recent publications, which take on translati...
Mona Simion, "Shifty Speech and Independent Thought: Epistemic Normativity in Context" (Oxford UP, 2021)
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the intersection of epistemology and philosophy of language is a puzzle. First, it seems we don’t need less evidence for a claim that we know som...
Iain McGee, "Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing" (Equinox, 2018)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Iain McGee, a PhD student in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of Bristol (UK), where he also teac...
James Fredal, "The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric" (Penn State UP, 2020)
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
James Fredal is Associate Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. The recipient of multiple awards for his work in rhetor...
Ken Hyland, "Second Language Writing" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Ken Hyland, Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia, UK. We talked about his book ...
Climate Denialism and Propaganda with Catriona McKinnon
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Catriona McKinnon is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on climate ethics and environmental justice. Much...
Herbert Terrace, "Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can" (Columbia UP, 2019)
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Through discussion of his famous 1970s experiment alongside new research, in Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can (Columbia Un...
Ralph Keyes, "The Hidden History of Coined Words" (Oxford UP, 2021)
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Successful word-coinages--those that stay in currency for a good long time--tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely wh...
Joshua Gunn, "Political Perversion: Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering" (U of Chicago Press, 2020)
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, a perversion of the highest offi...
Political Rhetoric and Demagoguery with Jennifer Mercieca
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Mercieca is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Demagogue for President: The...
Ramsey McGlazer, "Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress" (Fordham UP, 2020)
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ramsey McGlazer's Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Fordham University Press, 2020), traces the ways in which a gr...
Christopher Joby, "The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan" (Brill, 2020)
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan (Brill,...
Joan Turner, "On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Joan Turner, author of On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing (Bloomsbury Academic 2018). We talk abo...
Karen Stollznow, "On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whether framed as complaints about cancel culture or as increased awareness of prejudice, stories about offensive language are common in our daily new...
Kamran Khan, "Becoming a Citizen: Linguistic Trials and Negotiations in the UK" (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2019)
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Citizenship is acquired and constructed through various mechanisms, including language tests, that require individuals to demonstrate a sufficient na...
Jeffrey Shandler, "Yiddish: Biography of a Language" (Oxford UP, 2020)
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The most widely spoken Jewish language on the eve of the Holocaust, Yiddish continues to play a significant role in Jewish life today, from Hasidim fo...
Gert-Jan van der Heiden, "The Voice of Misery: A Continental Philosophy of Testimony" (SUNY Press, 2020)
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I interview Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Professor of Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology at Radboud University in Amsterdam, abou...
Stephen Pihlaja, "Talk about Faith: How Debate and Conversation Shape Belief" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Religious people have a range of new media in which they can share their beliefs and reflect on what it means to believe, to act, and to be members of...
Shonna Trinch and Edward Snajdr, "What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn" (Vanderbilt UP, 2020)
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two stores sit side-by-side. One with signage overflowing with text: a full list of business services (income tax returns, notary public, a variety of...
Writing in Disciplines: A Discussion with Shyam Sharma
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Shyam Sharma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook ...
I. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild...
Leon S. Brenner, "The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leon Brenner's The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) makes a forceful case for the relevance of Lacanian psy...
Wesley C. Robertson, "Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese" (Routledge, 2020)
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content ...
Daniel Oberhaus, "Extraterrestrial Languages" (MIT Press, 2019)
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Extraterrestrial Languages (MIT Press 2020), Daniel Oberhaus tells the history of human efforts to talk to aliens, but in doing so, the book refl...
Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts, "Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging" (MIT Press, 2019)
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone ages, and just about everyone uses language, making Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging (MIT Press, 2...
Regina Rini, "The Ethics of Microaggression" (Routledge, 2020)
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Seemingly fleeting and barely legible insults, slights, and derogations might seem morally insignificant. They’re the byproducts of ordinary thought...
Catharine Abell, "Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis" (Oxford UP, 2020)
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2020), Catharine Abell draws our attention to the character of Emma Woodhouse. She ...
Leigh Thompson, "Negotiating the Sweet Spot: The Art of Leaving Nothing on the Table" (HarperCollins, 2020)
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leigh Thompson is a Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. An acclaimed rese...
Marco Ferrante, "Indian Perspectives on Consciousness, Language and Self" (Routledge, 2020)
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For many Indian philosophers, language is inextricably tied up with conceptualization. In Indian Perspectives on Consciousness, Language and Self (R...
J. S. Sutton and M. L. Mifsud, "A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric" (Lexington Books, 2015)
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Aristotle, the co-called father of rhetoric, supposedly conceptualized his theory of persuasion as a means of bringing meaning to rest. But what if th...
Rosanne Carlo, "Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing (Utah State UP, 2020) approaches writing studies from the rhetorical flank, the fla...
Coulter George, "How Dead Languages Work" (Oxford UP, 2020)
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After reading How Dead Languages Work (Oxford University Press 2020), Coulter George hopes you might decide to learn a bit of ancient Greek or Sanskri...
Gregory Forth, "A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019)
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gregory Forth, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has studied the Nage people ...
Chris Heffer, "All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness" (Oxford UP, 2020)
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The implied answer to the titular question of All Bullshit and Lies? (Oxford University Press 2020) is no, it’s not. In this book, subtitled Insince...
EQ Spotlight Special: Roundtable on the 2020 Presidential Race
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are we to make of the year’s first presidential debate? Listen in as John R. Hibbing, Jonathan Weiler and I discuss this question and others su...
Sarah Shulist, "Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (University of Toronto Press) examines the role that languag...
Katherine Kinzler, "How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do - And What It Says About You" (HMH, 2020)
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender shape our social identities, and thus who we perceive as "like us" or "...
B. Cope and M. Kalantzis, "Making Sense: Reference, Agency, and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do all these have in common: Disneyland and the Dreamtime, the shopping mall and the planned economy, Chomsky's Syntactic Structures and Halliday...
Marco Puleri, "Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics" (Peter Lang, 2020)
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marco Puleri’s Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics (Peter Lang, 2020) exami...
Alessandro Graheli, "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
he Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) spans over two thousand years of inquiry into language in...
Beata Stawarska, "Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: 'The Course in General Linguistics' after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Beata St...
Allison L. Rowland, "Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The way that we talk about living beings can raise or lower their perceived value. On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (s/t) inte...
Nate Marshall, "Finna: Poems" (One World, 2020)
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Finna: Poems (One World), his new collection of poetry, Nate Marshall examines the way that pop culture influences Black vernacular, the role of st...
David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America" (U Colorado Press, 2017)
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Tavárez’s edited volume, Words & Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America (Boulder: University of ...
Linda Goddard, "Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin" (Yale UP, 2019)
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin (Yale University Press, 2019), Linda Goddard investigates the role that Paul Gauguin’s writings played...
Pritipuspa Mishra, "Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803-1953" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The province of Odisha, previously “Orissa,” was the first linguistically organized province of India. In Language and the Making of Modern India:...
Johannes Bronkhorst, "A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought" (Columbia UP, 2019)
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought (Columbia University Press, 2019), Johannes Bronkhorst, emeritus professor at the University ...
Brian F. Harrison, "A Change is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The United States takes pride in its democratic model and the idea that citizens deliberate in a process to form political opinions. However, in recen...
Melissa K. Merry, "Warped Narratives: Distortion in the Framing of Gun Policy" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If gun violence kills so many Americans, why don’t we see more effective solutions? How much does the way we frame an issue impact how we feel about...
Gina Anne Tam, "Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The question of how a state decides what its official language is going to be, or indeed whether it even needs one, is never simple, and this may be p...
Ruth Leys, "The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique" (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they) interviews Dr. Ruth Leys (she/hers), Professor Emeritus of Johns Hopkins Universit...
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, "Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk" (Oxford UP, 2020)
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
College courses in Ethics tend to focus on theories of the moral rightness or wrongness of actions. This emphasis sometimes obscures the fact that mo...
D. Conley and J. Eckstein, "Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (s/t) interviews editors Donovan Conley and Justin Eckstein about their new book Cookery: Foo...
David R. Grimes, "The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk, and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are some of the prevalent ways in which we lie to ourselves and limit our flexibility? Today I discussed this and other questions with David R. ...
Luke Winslow, "American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee M Pierce (s/t) interviews Luke Winslow of Baylor University on the book Luke Winslow, American Catastrop...
Jay Timothy Dolmage, "Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race" (OSU Press, 2018)
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (s/t) interviews Jay Timothy Dolmage of the University of Waterloo on the new book Disabled Upon ...
Shiu-Yin Sharon Yam, "Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship" (Ohio State UP, 2019)
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (s/t interviews Shiu-Yin Sharon Yam of University of Kentucky on the new book, Inconvenient Stran...
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for S...
A. M. Ruppel, "Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, we interview Dr. Antonia Ruppel about Sanskrit Studies. Dr. Ruppel is the author the Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit (Cambridge Un...
Thomas A. Discenna, "Discourses of Denial: The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor" (Routledge, 2017)
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (they/she) interviews Thomas A. Discenna of Oakland University about the myriad ways that the lab...
Jennifer Mercieca, "Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump" (Texas A&M UP, 2020)
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Polarization, a disaffected and frustrated electorate, and widespread distrust of government, media, and traditional politicians set the stage in 2016...
Diana Senechal, "Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Diana Senechal examines words, co...
James M. Jasper, "Public Characters: The Politics of Reputation and Blame" (Oxford UP, 2020)
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Did Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency in 2016 because he was a master of character work – able to sum up opponents in pithy epithets that encoura...
E. Michele Ramsey, "Major Decisions: College, Career, and the Case for the Humanities" (U Penn Press, 2019)
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (she/they) interviews E. Michele Ramsey of PennState Berks on Major Decisions: College, Career, a...
John R. Gallagher, "Update Culture and the Afterlife of Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee Pierce (she/they interviews John R. Gallagher of University of Illinois about Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing...
J. Packer and E. Stoneman, "A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture" (Penn State UP, 2019)
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee Pierce (she/they) interviews Joe Packer of Central Michigan University about A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the ...
M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights" (Oxford UP, 2020)
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since the mid-1990s, there has been a seismic shift in attitudes toward gay and lesbian people, with a majority of Americans now supporting same-sex m...
Adam J. MacLeod, "The Age of Selfies: Reasoning About Rights When the Stakes Are Personal" (Rowland and Littlefield, 2020)
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Incivility in our public discourse is limiting our ability to get things done as a nation and preventing us from expressing ourselves in workplaces an...
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. B...
Chelsea McCracken, "A Grammar of Belep" (Walter de Gruyter, 2019)
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chelsea McCracken talks about her new book A Grammar of Belep (Walter de Gruyter, 2019). McCracken is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & ...