When I first taught Shahzad Bashir’s interactive book, A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures, my students found it disorienting. Even though the book is organized in seven chapters and follows…
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An invitation to imagine Islam anew
July 10, 2024
It begins with coffee cups. The cover of Shahzad Bashir’s A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures features Lara Baladi’s The Rose, a digital collage of photographs of coffee cups with…
July 10, 2024
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A new vision for scholarly publishing: Access, agency, impact
July 10, 2024
Let me begin with an overview of Brown University Digital Publications (BUDP), which originated from conversations with the Mellon Foundation in 2014 about advancing the production and recognition of long-form born-digital scholarly…
July 10, 2024
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The future of us
July 3, 2024
Audio from the last in-person meeting of A Knausgaard Reading and Writing Collective
July 3, 2024
Experimental books
Us being changed
July 3, 2024
“I am committed to the idea that the value of this collective’s work has not been dependent on our choice of text,” Joshua Dubler asserts at the end of his chapter in…
July 3, 2024
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Refusing the choice: Neither academic nor novelist, an experiment in writing
July 3, 2024
More than anything, the young Karl Ove Knausgaard wanted to write novels. But he couldn’t. “I couldn’t write, so I gave up,” he confesses in Inadvertent, his contribution to the Yale University…
July 3, 2024
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