Category: Author Interviews

Islamic leadership and the state in Eurasia: a historical perspective

28 November 2024 Author Interviews

This is an interview by Galina M. Yemelianova, author of Islamic Leadership and the State in Eurasia Q1: Why did you write this book now? Answer: Since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, Islam and Islamism have been at the centre of media, political and academic...

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Setting the record straight

24 October 2024 Author Interviews

Dubai-based Art Historian Maie El-Hage speaks to Sophie Kazan Makhlouf about her forthcoming book, The Development of An Art History in the UAE: An Art Not Made To Be Understood. ME-H: Though I know you have been writing articles and papers for a while, this is your first book, which...

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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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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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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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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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Reflections on Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature by way of an imagined interview by Vijay Mishra

6 November 2023 Author Interviews

1.Why this book? Only 400,000 people worldwide speak Fiji Hindi. Of that number, less than half read the Devanagari (Sanskrit) script in which this language is written. There was then a challenge: How to expose this language to a wider readership? I chose to engage with the question of exposure...

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African memoirs and cultural representations: narrating traditions by Toyin Falola

7 March 2023 Author Interviews

1. What is your main interest or what aroused your curiosity about contemporary memoirs, particularly in West Africa? I became interested in delving into the study of this area when I completed a part of my research for one of my books on auto-ethnography a few years ago. I found...

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Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

15 October 2022 Author Interviews

1 . What inspired you to write this book at this point in your research, which has covered a lot of ground from Thomas More and William Shakespeare to Jane Campion and the film adaptations of Māori writers such as Witi Ihimaera––passing through French cinema? Most of my published work...

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