Jennifer Sierra takes the page 99 test
Half of page 99 in my dissertation is taken up by a photograph of a 500-feet-tall cell tower. I am struck by the recursivity of the tower; now,…
Half of page 99 in my dissertation is taken up by a photograph of a 500-feet-tall cell tower. I am struck by the recursivity of the tower; now,…
https://iupress.org/9780253075888/dancing-at-the-thresholds/ Interview by Jane Goodman Jane Goodman: The idea of the threshold figures in the title of your book and is prominent throughout …
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/being-understood/?SF1=work_id&ST1=CVIEW-67dd512c2ee28 Tsung-Lun Alan Wan: In your book, your discussion of signing songs really stood ou…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-avatar-faculty/paper Jie Wu: Your framework draws on anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, communication, and game studies. How do you navigate …
https://www.pennpress.org/9781512827569/selective-solidarity Ashley McDermott: Selective Solidarity looks at how children are socialized into economic moralities, or as you write, “norma…
Diasporic Bodies in Unification Time examines how state and religious discourse cast transnational migrants as emblems of a desired national future. It is also about how those national…
My dissertation, “Beyond the Plate: Culinary Violence and the Oaxacan Chef,” introduces the theoretical framework of culinary violence to examine how chefs navigate the limitations placed…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/making-value Kenzell Huggins: This book draws from an eclectic mix of data, building on ethnographic exploration of Irish music sessions, interviews with members …
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501784446/digital-initiation-rites/#bookTabs=1 Mikkel Kenni Bruun: Digital Initiation Rites invites the reader on an ethnographic tour de force in…
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-palimpsest-constitution-9780198956884 Amy Cohen: What is the central puzzle that your book addresses through the case study of Burma/Myanmar, and wh…
https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Food-TV-The-Cultural-Place-of-Food-in-a-Digital-Era/Phillipov/p/book/9781032200330 Ariana Gunderson: What is the top argument you hope readers take away from …
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/access-is-capture/paper Zhenzhou “Andy” Tan: Your ethnography of experiments with technology in public education in urban Los Angeles not only convincingly rebuts…
https://academic.oup.com/book/62559 We may not always be aware of it, but language practices have profound impacts on health outcomes. This is the central insight of our new edited volume,…
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/kurt-vonnegut-in-the-ussr-9798765132227/ Yana Skorobogatov: In this book, you follow Kurt Vonnegut’s literary career and resonance both in the Soviet Union and th…
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MasquelierIn When we first decided to edit a book, following the success of the workshop on “Waiting” held at Tulane University in 2018, we had in mind a…
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9781800413023/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOor53v9eMQDN9re1MILUy8hPJyJvYq9n7U15EyYlBPpCm-HAunkK Khoi Nguyen: As you state in your introduction, you…
https://nyupress.org/9781613322796/living-toward-justice/ Fanicy Sears: Can you just briefly describe what the Living Justice Project is and what the book seeks to do? Sonya E. Pritzker: Th…
By Erin Moriarty and Octavian Robinson When we think about The Crip Linguistics Reader, what strikes us most is not the theoretical architecture that it assembled. Rather, it…
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778810/politics-of-tranquility/#bookTabs=1 Isla: First, I would like to thank you for conducting this challenging fieldwork, writing stories of…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/atmospheric-knowledge/paper Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr on their book, Atmospheric Knowledge https://www.ucpress.edu/books/atmospheric-knowledge/paper …
https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/T/The-Evidence-Is-Life2 Timothy Loh: I love the framework of pilgrimage/peregrinación that you foreground in this book, drawing upon your interlocutors’ use…
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691273143/island-in-the-net?srsltid=AfmBOooW-5giq7V3PN0xLmnFIhC7onakRHbyvm1UQS2rcln2mBNs2G4U Bert Hoffmann: If the World Wide Web is the same ev…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/borderland-circuitry/paper Shulan Sun: How would you introduce the main arguments of Borderland Circuitry in 2026, especially in light of the U.S. gover…
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BluteauDressing Emerson Yuan-Jhen Lee: For many people, the men’s bespoke fashion industry is undoubtedly a mysterious and mesmerizing field. …