Podcast Episodes

Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

Episode 239

The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia (Northwestern UP, 2022) explores the fraught relationship between writers…

3 years ago

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Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 2: Context and Questions

Season 1 Episode 25

Part 2 addresses the play's central questions about comedy, tragedy, and passion by examining its language and plot motifs. Professor Tiffany Stern w…

3 years ago

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The End of Books: A Lecture by Robert Cooper

Episode 58

Robert Coover spoke at the Institute in the spring of 2006. Coover is the author of over a dozen postmodern novels, including The Public Burning and …

3 years ago

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Mary M. McGlynn, "Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2022)

Episode 45

In this interview Mary M. McGlynn, Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, discusses her new book Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash …

3 years ago

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Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Episode 7

Despite initiatives to 'diversify' the publishing sector, there has been almost no transformation to the historic racial inequality that defines the …

3 years ago

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