Carla Nappi

Carla Nappi is a writer and historian based at the University of British Columbia. Currently working and playing in Manchu studies, the history of science and medicine, translation studies, and early modern China, she also hosts the New Books in East Asian Studies and New Books in Science, Technology, & Society podcast channels and writes very short fiction.

no. 3, Roundtables, vol. 1July 7, 2016<January 17, 2017

Small-Gauge Cities

Carla Nappi

In this contribution to our small-gauge roundtable, Carla Nappi turns her attention to the city itself: what does it mean to practice small-gauge scholarship when "thinking of and thinking with" cities?

no. 3, Roundtables, vol. 1June 20, 2016<January 17, 2017

Small-Gauge Storytelling

Carla Nappi

In this entry to our small-gauge roundtable, Carla Nappi ponders the role of the scholar as an "explorer-stumbler," and the importance of storytelling as an act of worldmaking.