New Books in Literary Studies

Latest Episodes

Maha AbdelMegeed, "Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda" (Syracuse UP, 2024)

April 28, 2024

An interview with Maha AbdelMegeed

Hiromi Ito, "Tree Spirits Grass Spirits" (Nightboat Books, 2023)

April 28, 2024

An interview with Jon Pitt

Kristin M. Franseen, "Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson" (Clemson UP, 2023)

April 27, 2024

An interview with Kristin M. Franseen

Tabea Alexa Linhard, "Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2023)

April 26, 2024

An interview with Tabea Alexa Linhard

You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel (SW)

April 25, 2024

AlthoughKatie Kitamurafeels free when she writesfree from the soup of everyday life, from the political realities that weigh upon her, and even at times from the limits of her own thinkingshe is keenly aware of the unfreedoms her novels explore. Kat

Nora E. H. Parr, "Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah" (U California Press, 2023)

April 23, 2024

An interview with Nora E. H. Parr

Michael Scott and Michael Collins, "Christian Shakespeare?: A Collection of Essays on Shakespeare in His Christian Context" (Vernon Press, 2022)

April 23, 2024

An interview with Michael Scott and Michael Collins

Huda J. Fakhreddine, "The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

April 20, 2024

An interview with Huda J. Fakhreddine

Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, "The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: The Complete English Translation" (Princeton UP, 2022)

April 18, 2024

An interview with Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman

Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)

April 18, 2024

An interview with Robin Visser

Interviews with Scholars of Literature about their New Books