Behind the Book with Phil Ryan
Phil Ryan is the author of After the New Atheist Debate.
December 23, 2014
Tag: Behind the Book
Behind the Book with Jennifer S. Simpson
Jennifer S. Simpson is the author of Longing for Justice: Higher Education and Democracy’s Agenda. A timely and persuasive argument for Higher Education’s obligations to our democratic society, Longing for Justice combines personal narrative with critical analysis to make the case for educational practices that connect to questions of democracy, justice, and the common good.
December 19, 2014
Behind the Book with Jennifer L. Bonnell
Jennifer L. Bonnell is the author of Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley. With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s.
December 11, 2014
Behind the Book with Michael Scham
Michael Scham is the author of ‘Lector Ludens’: The Representation of Games & Play in Cervantes.
December 9, 2014
Behind the Book with Kathleen Gallagher
Kathleen Gallagher is the author of Why Theatre Matters: Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real. In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow.
November 6, 2014
Behind the Book with Ummni Khan
Ummni Khan is the author of Vicarious Kinks: S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary. The first monograph by a new scholar working at the juncture of law and sexuality, Vicarious Kinks challenges the myth of law as an objective adjudicator of sexual truth.
September 18, 2014
Behind the Book with Parin Dossa
In Afghanistan Remembers, Dossa examines Afghan women’s recall of violence through memories and food practices in their homeland and its diaspora. Her work reveals how the suffering and trauma of violence has been rendered socially invisible following decades of life in a war-zone.
August 27, 2014
Behind the Book with Katharine Mitchell
Katharine Mitchell is the author of Italian Women Writers: Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism, 1870-1910. This study looks at the work of three of the most significant women writers of the period: La Marchesa Colombi, Neera, and Matilde Serao.
July 24, 2014
Behind the Book with Amy Ransom
Amy J. Ransom is the author of Hockey, PQ: Canada’s Game in Quebec’s Popular Culture. A wide-ranging study that examines everything from the blockbuster movie franchise Les Boys to the sovereigntist hip hop group Loco Locass, Hockey, PQ explores how Canada’s national sport has been used to signify a specific Québécois identity.
July 3, 2014
Behind the Book with Jennifer Drouin
Jennifer Drouin is the author of Shakespeare in Quebec: Nation, Gender, and Adaptation. In Shakespeare in Québec, Jennifer Drouin analyses representations of nation and gender in Shakespearean adaptations written in Québec since the Quiet Revolution.
June 17, 2014