Behind the Book with Margaret E. Boyle
Margaret E. Boyle is the author of Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain.
May 9, 2014
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Behind the Book with Michael Sinding
Michael Sinding is the author of Body of Vision: Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Mind.
March 25, 2014
Behind the Book with Donald B. Smith
Donald B. Smith’s Mississauga Portraits recreates the lives of eight Ojibwe who lived during this period – all of whom are historically important and interesting figures, and seven of whom have never before received full biographical treatment. Each portrait is based on research drawn from an extensive collection of writings and recorded speeches by southern Ontario Ojibwe themselves, along with secondary sources.
February 7, 2014
Behind the Book with Myra Giberovitch
Recovering from Genocidal Trauma is a comprehensive guide to understanding Holocaust survivors and responding to their needs. In it, Myra Giberovitch documents her twenty-five years of working with Holocaust survivors as a professional social worker, researcher, educator, community leader, and daughter of Auschwitz survivors.
January 30, 2014
Behind the Book with Steven High
Steven High is one of the editors of Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media, and Performance. Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works.
January 20, 2014
Behind the Book with William Lowell Randall
William Lowell Randall is the author of The Stories We Are: An Essay on Self-Creation, Second Edition. In The Stories We Are, William Lowell Randall explores the links between literature and life and speculates on the range of storytelling styles through which people compose their lives.
January 16, 2014
Behind the Book with David Zussman
David Zussman is the author of Off and Running. Off and Running sets the stage for successful transitions by describing the best practices from Canadian federal government transitions from 1984 to the present day. Zussman goes step-by-step through the transition process from the pre-election stage to transition planning all the way to implementation and consolidation of the new government.
December 20, 2013
Behind the Book with Peter Ennals
Peter Ennals is the author of Opening a Window to the West. The first book-length study of Kōbe’s Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kōbe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century.
December 13, 2013
Behind the Book with Barbara Alfano
Barbara Alfano is the author of The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film. In this study, Barbara Alfano looks at the ways in which the individuals portrayed in these works – and the intellectuals who created them – confront the cultural construct of the American myth.
October 18, 2013
Behind the Book with Vin Nardizzi
Vin Nardizzi is the author of Wooden Os. Wooden Os is a study of the presence of trees and wood in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries – in plays set within forests, in character dialogue, and in props and theatre constructions.
September 26, 2013