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Amrita Dhar

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Claire Carter

John Milton

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David Roberts

Tommy Caldwell

Mark Twight

Jimmy Chin

Conrad Anker

Jim Herrington

David Stevenson

Madaleine Sorkin

Barry Blanchard

Brette Harrington

Chris Kalous

Kathy Karlo

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In this episode, Marissa talks with Dr. Amrita Dhar (The Ohio State University) about disability and empire in book 2 of Paradise Lost. Here are some resources to support your listening: References: · Tobin Siebers. Disability Theory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. · The phrase "fit audience ... though few" comes up a few times in the podcast; it appears in book 7 of Paradise Lost. · The Readie and Easie Way is a political tract published in 1660 in which Milton, despite England's restoration of the monarchy, makes the case for "re-settling a republican commonwealth" -- a proposal that (according to Thomas Luxon, editor of The John Milton Room) "[Milton] ironically refers to as 'readie' and 'easie.'" · Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation (London, 1598-1600). A transcription is available on the open-access database Perseus: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections(here’s a page with extensive references to Bengala: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0070%3Anarrative%3D450); to view an early modern printed edition of Hakluty’s text, check out Stanford’s Renaissance Exploration Map Collection: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/renaissance-exploration/catalog/wp151rz1920. Selection of Dr. Dhar’s scholarship: ·  "Toward Blind Language: John Milton Writing, 1648–1656." Milton Studies 60, no. 1 (2018): 75-107. · “Seeing Feelingly: Sight and Service in King Lear.” Disability, Health and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body, edited by Sujata Iyengar. Routledge, 2015, pp. 76-92. · “Madhusudan’s Miltonic Epic: The Meghnad-Badh Kabya.” Milton Across Borders and Media, ed. Angelica Duran and Islam Issa (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). · “When They Consider How Their Light Is Spent: On Intersectional Race and Disability Theories in the Classroom.” Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide, ed. Anna Wainwright and Matthieu Chapman (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, forthcoming). Want to listen to more of Dr. Dhar talking about disability studies? Check out her interview with BritGrad, the British Graduate Shakespeare Conference: https://www.britgrad.com/post/plenary-interview-amrita-dhar. [Episode music courtesy of www.bensound.com]

In this episode, Marissa talks with <a href="https://english.osu.edu/people/dhar.24" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Amrita Dhar</a> (The Ohio State University) about disability and empire in book 2 of Paradise Lost. Here are some resources to support your listening: References: · Tobin Siebers. Disability Theory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. · The phrase "fit audience ... though few" comes up a few times in the podcast; it appears in <a href="https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_7/text.shtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">book 7 of Paradise Lost.</a> · The Readie and Easie Way is a political tract published in 1660 in which Milton, despite England's restoration of the monarchy, makes the case for <a href="https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/readie_and_easie_way/intro.shtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"re-settling a republican commonwealth" -- a proposal that (according to Thomas Luxon, editor of The John Milton Room) "[Milton] ironically refers to as 'readie' and 'easie.'"</a> · Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation (London, 1598-1600). A transcription is available on the open-access database Perseus: <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections</a>(here’s a page with extensive references to Bengala: <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0070%3Anarrative%3D450" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0070%3Anarrative%3D450</a>); to view an early modern printed edition of Hakluty’s text, check out Stanford’s Renaissance Exploration Map Collection: <a href="https://exhibits.stanford.edu/renaissance-exploration/catalog/wp151rz1920" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://exhibits.stanford.edu/renaissance-exploration/catalog/wp151rz1920</a>. Selection of Dr. Dhar’s scholarship: ·  "Toward Blind Language: John Milton Writing, 1648–1656." Milton Studies 60, no. 1 (2018): 75-107. · “Seeing Feelingly: Sight and Service in King Lear.” Disability, Health and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body, edited by Sujata Iyengar. Routledge, 2015, pp. 76-92. · “Madhusudan’s Miltonic Epic: The Meghnad-Badh Kabya.” Milton Across Borders and Media, ed. Angelica Duran and Islam Issa (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). · “When They Consider How Their Light Is Spent: On Intersectional Race and Disability Theories in the Classroom.” Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide, ed. Anna Wainwright and Matthieu Chapman (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, forthcoming). Want to listen to more of Dr. Dhar talking about disability studies? Check out her interview with <a href="https://www.britgrad.com/what-is-britgrad" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BritGrad</a>, the British Graduate Shakespeare Conference: <a href="https://www.britgrad.com/post/plenary-interview-amrita-dhar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.britgrad.com/post/plenary-interview-amrita-dhar</a>. [Episode music courtesy of <a href="http://www.bensound.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.bensound.com</a>]

Promiscuous Listening: A John Milton Podcast - Episode 2, Book 2 of Paradise Lost with Dr. Amrita Dhar

“We need to acknowledge mountaineering as a profoundly social pursuit…. I strongly resist the idea that there is a kind of objective kind of excellence in mountaineering. The road to mountaineering achievement is not level. We need to understand where someone is starting from if we really want to understand what the road to the summit for them is like.” Literature professor and mountaineering scholar Amrita Dhar grew up in West Bengal. As a child, she vacationed in the Himalayan mountains with her family, and she has since spent a lot of time traveling through and thinking about mountains and the narratives that emerge from them. In this episode, Dhar talks with managing editor Paula Wright about how addressing some of the gaps in mountaineering history might also lead to reconceptualizing the pursuit of mountaineering itself.

“We need to acknowledge mountaineering as a profoundly social pursuit…. I strongly resist the idea that there is a kind of objective kind of excellence in mountaineering. The road to mountaineering achievement is not level. We need to understand where someone is starting from if we really want to understand what the road to the summit for them is like.” Literature professor and mountaineering scholar Amrita Dhar grew up in West Bengal. As a child, she vacationed in the Himalayan mountains with her family, and she has since spent a lot of time traveling through and thinking about mountains and the narratives that emerge from them. In this episode, Dhar talks with managing editor Paula Wright about how addressing some of the gaps in mountaineering history might also lead to reconceptualizing the pursuit of mountaineering itself.

Rethinking Mountaineering Histories: Amrita Dhar