Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025)
Episode 98
Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Renaissance Italy (University of Delaware Press, 2025) investigates the ever-evolving role of the widow…
1 year, 1 month ago
Mike Miley, "David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
How are David Lynch's films as much in dialogue with literary and musical traditions as they are cinematic ones?
By interrogating this question, Davi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
Episode 504
Join me for a conversation with Dr. Seulghee Lee (Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English, University of South Carolina) about hi…
1 year, 1 month ago
“That In Between Time,” Fernanda Trías and Heather Cleary (MAT)
Episode 62
Fernanda Trías’s Pink Slime (Scribner, 2024) was first published in Spanish in October 2020, several months into a global pandemic that had bent our …
1 year, 1 month ago
Samuel Jay Keyser, "Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 281
Leonard Bernstein, in his famous Norton Lectures, extolled repetition, saying that it gave poetry its musical qualities and that music theorists' ref…
1 year, 1 month ago
Nothingism
Episode 158
In this episode of High Theory, Jason Schneiderman talks about Nothingism. A term of his own coinage, a tongue-in-cheek manifesto, nothingism is an i…
1 year, 1 month ago
Robin Miles: Talking Books
Episode 58
Today we bring you a masterclass in audiobook narration and acting with acclaimed actor, casting director, audiobook narrator and audiobook director,…
1 year, 1 month ago
Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)
Episode 114
For nearly five decades after the Second World War, the Iron Curtain divided Europe, forming the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. No…
1 year, 1 month ago
Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)
Episode 47
Both humorous and shocking, Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome (Reaktion, 2025) by Paul Crystal is filled with astonish…
1 year, 1 month ago
Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 49
The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture (Cambridge UP, 2023) argues that the Talmud must be read and understood in the broader context of…
1 year, 2 months ago