Molecular and cellular biologist Roya Huang joins us to talk about studying another language by discussing its poetry, reading in different disciplines, the benefits of small-group study, and more!

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay

Episode artwork: A leaf from a Farsi manuscript of poetry (cropped). Public domain image courtesy San Diego Museum of Art and Wikimedia Commons.

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black

Anna Akhmatova

Refaat Alareer

Nick Bantock Griffin and Sabine

Italo Calvino Why Read the Classics?

Aimé Césaire

Suzanne Césaire

Jacques Derrida The Gift of Death

Jacques Derrida Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs

Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

William Empson Seven Types of Ambiguity

Forough Farroukhzad "The Wind-up Doll" (and others!)

Homer The Iliad

Homer The Odyssey

James Joyce Ulysses

Abbas Kiarostami

Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (transl. Reg Keeland)

Else Lasker-Schüler

Jasbir K. Puar The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability

Alexander Pushkin Eugene Onegin (transl. Vladimir Nabokov)

George Saunders

Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain

Peter-Klaus Schuster Franz Marc: Postcards to Prince Jussuf

Wallace Stevens

Helen Vendler Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire

Helen Vendler On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems