Language Learning through Poetry: Roya Huang

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. Want to learn more about the books—and films!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!   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