Author: Guest Author

The urge to illustrate Shakespeare

25 August 2024 Author Interviews

This is an interview by Jean-Louis CLARET, author of Picturing Shakespeare Q1. What urges you to illustrate Shakespeare? It is difficult to determine this precisely, but I feel that I need to show, with shapes and colours, parts of my personal experience with Shakespeare’s dramatic world. It results from an...

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Tackling the challenges of emotional intelligence in the workplace

4 August 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Jamey M. Long & Joseph A. Pisani, author of The Value of Voice in Shared Leadership and Organizational Behavior Emotions impact stakeholders throughout an organization. How we can understand and manage emotions becomes an important skill for success in our current workplace landscape. There...

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On Robinson Jeffers: the poetry and philosophy of inhumanism

27 July 2024 Author Interviews

This is an interview by Matthew Calarco, author of How Not to Be Human: The Inhumanist Philosophy of Robinson Jeffers 1.Who is Robinson Jeffers, and how did you first become interested in his poetry? Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) is a poet who lived and wrote for most of his adult life...

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Key issues in translation theory for practicing translators

22 July 2024 Author Interviews

This is an interview by B.J. Woodstein, author of Translation Theory for Literary Translators Q: B.J., why did you choose to write this book? A: As a teacher, I found that my students were scared of theory or thought it was irrelevant. I wanted to show that it wasn’t as...

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Recovering an eighteenth-century gem

14 July 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Melvyn New, author of Apphia Peach, George Lord Lyttelton, and ‘The Correspondents’: An Annotated Edition of a Forgotten Gem (1775) I first became interested in The Correspondents as the result of an essay in The Shandean, by Peter de Voogd, outlining the work’s several...

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The U.S. Military in discourse: media and messaging in the American Empire

5 July 2024 Author Interviews

This is an interview by Dr. Luke Peterson, author of The U.S. Military in the Print News Media: Service and Sacrifice in Contemporary Discourse Q1. Describe the scope and content of The U.S. Military in the Print News Media: Service and Sacrifice in Discourse. Answer: My most recent book, The...

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The fourth school on power

30 June 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Waqas M Awan, author of Power of Sage: An Antithesis to Machiavellian Prince Since the cognitive revolution in humanity about 70,000 years ago, humans have mastered the art of cooperation on a massive scale. No species on Earth has the tendency to form as...

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Light pollution and migratory birds: understanding the impacts of urban environments on aerial migration corridors

19 June 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Amy D. Propen, author of An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors: Conservation, Compassion and Connectivity Between March and June 2024, areas across the United States will experience the highest aerial bird density of the year. In other words, the...

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Islamist transformations of Ottoman history, culture and literature: between scholarship and politics

9 June 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Kemal Silay, author of Origins of the Ottoman Dynasty: A Philological Exploration of Its Earliest Account Whether wholeheartedly embraced by the modern Turkish generation (or even by Turkish historiography itself) or not, Turkey’s Ottoman past is an indispensable part of its history and identity....

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Entering an immersive world of news

2 June 2024 Author Interviews

This is an interview by John V. Pavlik, author of Journalism and the Metaverse Q1. What exactly is the Metaverse? Answer: There is no single, agreed-upon definition of the Metaverse. Nor is there agreement about how it will be designed and built (Takahashi, 2022; Green & Works, 2022). However, one...

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