Frank Cody on his book, The News Event
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo190464205.html Shikhar Goel: Describe for us some intellectual motivations behind writing this book. What were some significant moments th…
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Eléonore Rimbault takes the p. 99 test
No matter the size of shows, and the actual count of the public, the Indian circus works hard to appear larger-than-life. The image of the circus, in other…
Summerson Carr on her new book, Working the Difference
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo201564143.html Ilana Gershon In what sense do you see the focus of your book, a therapeutic intervention called motivational interview…
Michael Silverstein’s last book, Language in Culture
Ilana Gershon interviews Summerson Carr, Susan Gal, and Constantine Nakassis https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/language-in-culture/3D4F3FF1DE52DC7CDC5A5B34D21B8AF1#overview Il…
Kailey Rocker takes the page 99 test
When I reflect on Ford Madox Ford’s statement, I immediately think of branching trees and river bends. Each branch is self-similar to its predecessor, demonstrating both infinite relationship…
April Reber take the page 99 test
Page 99 falls in chapter two of my dissertation. This chapter, “Moments of Disruption,” describes how members of the radical right group, Alternative for Germany (AfD), message a…
Antti Lindfors contemplates page 99 of his dissertation
Page 99 of my dissertation, titled “Intimately Allegorical: The Poetics of Self-Mediation in Stand-Up Comedy”, consists of the thesis’ reference literature. More precisely, this page showcases some o…
Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas on her book, Genres of Listening
Interview by Sarah Muir https://www.dukeupress.edu/genres-of-listening Sarah Muir: In the book, you describe the extraordinary history and contemporary status of psychoanalysis in Buenos Ai…
Scott MacLochlainn on his book The Copy Generic: How the Nonspecific Makes Our Social Worlds
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo182881918.html Interview by Lynda Chubak Lynda Chubak: Scott, thank you for writing this wonderful book! Central to The Copy Generic is…
Reighan Gillam on her book, Visualizing Black Lives
Interview by Karina Beras https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=36yhr7ew9780252044410 Karina Beras: What motivated you to pursue this ethnographic participatory research with Afro-Brazi…
Sonia Livingstone on her co-authored book, Parenting for a Digital Future
https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/parenting-for-a-digital-future-9780190874704?cc=us&lang=en& Interview by Ashley McDermott Ashley McDermott: Your work looks at how techn…
Marlene Schäfers on her book, Voices that Matter
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo183627808.html Andrew Bush: The book makes crucial interventions that connect the study of liberal governance in Turkey to the comparative…
Diana Espirito Santo on her book, Spirited Histories
Interview by Diego Maria Malara https://www.routledge.com/Spirited-Histories-Technologies-Media-and-Trauma-in-Paranormal-Chile/Santo/p/book/9781003140818 Diego Maria Malara (DMM): You are k…
Shaila Seshia Galvin discusses her book, Becoming Organic
Interview by Ziya Kaya https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300215014/becoming-organic Ziya Kaya: In your book, Becoming Organic, you take us to various sites of pre- and post-agricultural p…
Katrina Daly Thompson on their book, Muslims on the Margins
Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim https://nyupress.org/9781479814350/muslims-on-the-margins/ Ben Ale-Ebrahim: Muslims on the Margins is an ethnography of “nonconformist” Muslims living primarily…
Alessandra Ciucci on her book, The Voice of the Rural
Interview by Nicco La Mattina https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo141940160.html Nicco La Mattina: In The Voice of the Rural, by attending to competing aesthetic disco…
Amanda Cullen takes the page 99 test
Frankly, I was hoping that page 99 of my dissertation would capture the voices of one or more of my participants. Unfortunately, what I arrived at was the…
Jennifer Petersen on her book, How Machines Came to Speak
Interview by Joseph Wilson https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-machines-came-to-speak Joseph Wilson: The combination of legal discourse analysis and technology studies in this book is a fascinat…
Bonnie Urciuoli on her book, Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/UrciuoliNeoliberalizing#:~:text=Bonnie%20Urciuoli%20is%20Professor%20Emerita,diversity%20in%20U.S.%20higher%20education. Ilana…
Anat Rosenberg on her book, The Rise of Mass Advertising
Interview by Astrid Van den Bossche, Kings College London Oxford University Press Astrid Van den Bossche: One striking focus of your book is the presence and treatment—legally, culturally,…
Shannon Mattern on her book, A City is not a Computer
Interview by Elliott Montpellier https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208053/a-city-is-not-a-computer Elliot Montpellier: You write that you questioned how to write about “the…
Emily Aguiló-Pérez on her book, An American Icon in Puerto Rico
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Aguilo-PerezAmerican Interview by Julia Perillo Julia Perillo: How did you get the idea for this book? Emily Aguiló-Pérez: This was based on my doctor…
Mathias Levi Toft Kristiansen takes the page 99 test
My dissertation is about how middle-class people in the United States economize their everyday life to get economic security. Ethnographically, I focus on two groups of Americans who…
Richard Bauman on his book, A Most Valuable Medium
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://iupress.org/9780253065186/a-most-valuable-medium Ilana Gershon: What inspired you to study early commercial sound recordings? And what problems did these …