Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBénédicte Meillon, "Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth (Bloomsbury, 2022) tackles the reenchantment process at work in a part o…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Flannery Burke, "Back East: How Westerners Invented a Region" (U Washington Press, 2025)
Just as easterners imagined the American West, westerners imagined the American East, reshaping American culture. Back East: How Westerners Invented …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Leon J. Hilton, "Counter-Cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
What if we embraced neurodivergent ways of being not as deviations to be corrected but as vital ways of inhabiting the world? What new realities migh…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Episode 59
Muslims have lived in the Caribbean for centuries. Far From Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean (Rutgers University Press, 2020) examines the arc…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Susana M. Morris, "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" (Amistad Press, 2025)
A magnificent cultural biography, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler (Amistad, 2025) charts the life of one of our greatest …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Ḥannā Diyāb, "The Book of Travels" (NYU Press, 2022): A Conversation with Johannes Stephan
Episode 358
The Book of Travels Ḥannā Diyāb: A Conversation with Johannes Stephan
The Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb’s remarkable first-person account of his trav…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
Episode 165
Diana Souhami talks about her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians, out 2020 with Head of Zeus books.
A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020. This is …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Victoria Young, "Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference" (Routledge, 2024)
Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference (Routledge, 2024) examines contemporary debates on such concepts…
10 months ago
Anders M. Greene-Crow, "Austerity Measures: The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
My guest today is Anders M. Greene-Crow. Anders teaches at the Woods College of Advancing Studies and is a former Professor of English at Boston Coll…
10 months ago
Aaron Hammes, "TransGenre" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
TransGenre (Cambridge UP, 2025) is a reconsideration of genre theory in long-form fiction through transgender minor literature in the US and Canada. …
10 months ago