Shiamin Kwa's guest appearances

Shiamin Kwa

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Pop Culture: Comics, TV, Film

Chris Claremont

Alison Bechdel

David Higgins

Carolyn Cocca

Jeffrey Brown

Matthew Smith

Rachel Miller

IAN GORDON

Tim Clarke

Jean Lee

Nick Sousanis

Chris Nolan

Ilan Stavans

Chris Gonzalez

Yuval Taylor

OwlTail

Visit QueenofPeaches.com for show notes! Welcome to the perfume episode! Today I’m in conversation with my dear and brilliant friend Shiamin Kwa. Shiamin is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures  and Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of  three books, the most recent being Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-first Century,  which was just released by RIT Press in February of this year. Her  written work explores relationships between form and content, text and  image, self and self-presentation, surface and depth, and the conflicts  between what we say and what we mean. Her research interests include  theater and fiction, food studies, graphic narratives, literary studies,  cultural studies, comparative and world literature, and literary and  narrative theory. She also contributed an amazingly funny and tender essay about the band Wham! to my most recent zine The Last Band of My Youth. In today’s deep dive on perfume, we talk about how smells can seem so  much richer in our memories when we don’t have access to them anymore,  the quiet spaciousness of perfume as object, how we’re meant to interact  with perfume on a time scale, how wearing Frederic Malle’s “Portrait of  a Lady” is like having to do self-promotion as the author of a new  book, and the difficulty of imposing order on things you love.

<a href="https://queenofpeaches.com/2020/03/29/a-chat-about-perfume-with-shiamin-kwa/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Visit QueenofPeaches.com for show notes!</a> Welcome to the perfume episode! Today I’m in conversation with my dear and brilliant friend <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shiamin_kwa/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Shiamin Kwa</a>. Shiamin is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures  and Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of  three books, the most recent being <a href="https://www.rit.edu/press/regarding-frames" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-first Century</a>,  which was just released by RIT Press in February of this year. Her  written work explores relationships between form and content, text and  image, self and self-presentation, surface and depth, and the conflicts  between what we say and what we mean. Her research interests include  theater and fiction, food studies, graphic narratives, literary studies,  cultural studies, comparative and world literature, and literary and  narrative theory. She also contributed an amazingly funny and tender essay about the band Wham! to my most recent zine <a href="https://allisonfelus.bigcartel.com/product/the-last-band-of-my-youth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Last Band of My Youth</a>. In today’s deep dive on perfume, we talk about how smells can seem so  much richer in our memories when we don’t have access to them anymore,  the quiet spaciousness of perfume as object, how we’re meant to interact  with perfume on a time scale, how wearing Frederic Malle’s “Portrait of  a Lady” is like having to do self-promotion as the author of a new  book, and the difficulty of imposing order on things you love.

013 “A Nice Way to Think About One’s Relationship with Time and Objects”–A Chat About Perfume with Shiamin Kwa