Dr. Peter Lurie – A&S Sabbatical Fellow

Dr. Peter Lurie, Associate Professor of English, participated in the new School of Arts and Sciences 2019-2020 Sabbatical Fellowship Program, a cohort of three faculty members who offer each other support and the opportunity for cross-disciplinary conversations. Upon the completion of their sabbatical year, the fellows are expected to present their work publicly. This podcast interview offers a venue for the fellows to share their sabbatical projects with the university community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Lurie discusses his current book project, “Black Evanescence.”

Dr. Tracy Roof – A&S Sabbatical Fellow

Dr. Tracy Roof, Associate Professor of Political Science, participated in the new School of Arts and Sciences 2019-2020 Sabbatical Fellowship Program, a cohort of three faculty members who offer each other support and the opportunity for cross-disciplinary conversations. Upon the completion of their sabbatical year, the fellows are expected to present their work publicly. This podcast interview offers a venue for the fellows to share their sabbatical projects with the university community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Roof discusses her current book project, “The Politics of Hunger from Food Stamps to SNAP.”

Dr. Mimi Hanaoka: A&S Sabbatical Fellow

Dr. Mimi Hanaoka, Associate Professor of Religious Studies in Islam, participated in the new School of Arts and Sciences 2019-2020 Sabbatical Fellowship Program, a cohort of three faculty members who offer each other support and the opportunity for cross-disciplinary conversations. Upon the completion of their sabbatical year, the fellows are expected to present their work publicly. This podcast interview offers a venue for the fellows to share their sabbatical projects with the university community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Hanaoka discusses her current book project, “Views of the Asian Other: Educational Reform and Models of Modernity for Japan and Muslim Reformers, 1851-1925.”

Dr. Nicole Maurantonio: Faculty Author Podcast

Dr. Nicole Maurantonio, Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Communication Studies and American Studies, discusses her book, Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century, published recently by the University Press of Kansas. In a time of contentious debates and protests surrounding the removal of Confederate monuments, this book considers how so-called “neo-Confederates” can distance themselves from the actions of white supremacists while also clinging to the very symbols and narratives that tether the Confederacy to histories of racism and oppression in the United States. 

Dr. Elizabeth Outka – Faculty Author Podcast

Dr. Elizabeth Outka, Professor of English, discusses her book, Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature, published recently by Columbia University Press. The book investigates how one of the deadliest plagues in history—the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic—silently reshaped the modernist era, infusing everything from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, to the emergence of viral zombies, to the popularity of séances.