ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (8 April 2024)

How and when will translation receive recognition for its crucial role in the academic ecosystem? 

Spanning the Hopkins Press blog & 9 articles in a new special issue of MLN, it's a lively and thoughtful 10-scholar forum, open access for a year thru March 2025
 

Congratulations to Sasha-Mae Eccleston and Dan-El Padilla Peralta on their Mellon Grant to support their transformative classics program, Racing the Classics

Read their account of founding the conference, free thru 12 April in American Journal of Philology
 

How do data & early 20th century literary culture interact, and can data aesthetics help us better understand writer Ronald Firbank?

In the new Cusp, read about Firbank’s camp and elusive style and how the information economy can help elucidate his work.

An interview with Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke highlights his newest book J’Accuse…! and its themes of social injustice, race relations in Canada, and misogyny through the lens of poetry, memoir, and narrative

Free thru 19 April in then new African American Review
 

The Schinasi Brothers rose into the highest echelons of New York City at the turn of the 20th century, building a global cigarette company

Read their fascinating history free thru 19 April in the new issue of American Jewish History
 

Zora Neale Huston’s 1937 novel “Their Eyes were Watching God” features Pheoby Watson, a character who invites queer discourse by unsettling cisheterosexual storylines

Benjamin Bagocius explores the portrayal in the new Mississippi Quarterly, free thru 19 April 

 

Anastassiya Andrianova discusses how vegan picturebooks should not only discuss veganism as a dietary practice, but also as a philosophy

Read more, free thru 19 April in the new issue of Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
 

Read about the life story of Zhang Luan, a merchant who stars in the archival records of the Gao Pu jade-smuggling case of the late Qianlong reign, and how his involvement revealed unknown details about the Shanxi firms’ operation.

Free thru 12 April in Late Imperial China.
 

Read about the life story of Zhang Luan, a merchant who stars in the archival records of the Gao Pu jade-smuggling case of the late Qianlong reign, and how his involvement revealed unknown details about the Shanxi firms’ operation.

Free thru 12 April in Late Imperial China.
 

During WW1, the Ottoman Empire lacked experience in cinema techniques, and the Germans responded, helping the Ottomans develop modern propaganda to mobilize the population for the war.

Read more, free in German Studies Review thru 12 April.
 

How does the influential Chinese Buddhist leader Taixu clarify the role played by Buddhism in secular life, and how can Buddhist perspectives help reduce tensions between a person’s search for autonomy and their commitment to social responsibilities? 

Free in Journal of Chinese Religions thru 12 April
 

Alex McPhee-Browne revisits the 1983 book “The Old Christian Right” to better understand the roots, significance, and impact of the far right in 20th and 21st century America

Free in Reviews in American History thru 12 April