Tag: Olivia Treynor

January 7, 2022

Leah DeVun in Conversation with Olivia Treynor on The Shape of Sex

Does gender exist in the Garden of Eden? To a modern reader familiar with Christian belief, Adam and Eve may represent the very origin of binary bodies. Leah DeVun’s The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance...

November 23, 2021

This Must Be the Place

by Olivia Treynor

After recently going to a concert for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, I’ve been thinking a lot about physical space. It’s what allows us to gather, but it’s also something with history, an opportunity for artistic...

October 15, 2021

Reflections On Adversity: An AUP RoundUP

By Olivia Treynor

As I began writing this post around the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the subject of conflict and recovery from tragedy felt like an urgent subject, especially given that New York and the rest of the world were observing the solemn...

September 3, 2021

What’s in a Word: An AUP RoundUP

By Olivia Treynor

With one month-long celebration of women in translation literature behind us and another month of commemorating world literature in progress, I’ve been thinking about language: how language shapes our perception of our reality, how language shifts, how we communicate as...

July 22, 2021

To Make The World Porous: An AUP RoundUP

By Olivia Treynor

This week, I read blog posts from other academic presses through the lens of “opening” and all the things that can mean. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS TO LOOSEN THE BOUNDS OF THINGS… I arrived at this post’s project after reading...

July 8, 2021

History Informs the Present: An AUP RoundUP

By Olivia Treynor

In my inaugural Columbia University Press Blog post, I thought it would be appropriate to think about the ways history informs the present. After all, I’m picking up where our previous bloggers left off, providing weekly thoughts on and highlights...