Tag: Books
How well do you know the Sopranos?
This week we’re doing a Sopranos trivia challenge for a chance to win a copy of Franco Ricci’s The Sopranos: Born Under a Bad Sign.
August 6, 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
April and May 2014 at UTP
It’s been a busy spring season at UTP. Here’s a round-up of some UTP highlights for the months of April and May.
June 6, 2014
Remembering D-Day, Seventy Years On
This year, historians and veterans around the world commemorate the seventieth anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy and one of the climactic battles of the Second World War.
June 3, 2014
Behind the Book with Carla Rice
Becoming Women started as a 500-page award-winning PhD thesis and is now one of the most comprehensive qualitative research studies to date on body image and the embodied self, with close to 90 interviews of “women’s body histories.” The research from this work has already reached the public through the many talks Carla Rice has given in her quest to transform image culture and ease women’s body concerns. She’s made over 100 TV and media appearances and edited a groundbreaking feminist reader last year with important essays from influential writers like Bell Hooks, Jessica Valenti, and Gloria Steinem.
April 16, 2014