Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSurekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 1550
Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. Join award-winning historian of science in Humans: A Monstrous History (University of…
1 year, 3 months ago
"Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated" (U California Press, 2025)
Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt’s Incarcerated (U California Press, 2025), edited by Collective Antigone, is a groundbreaking collectio…
1 year, 3 months ago
Clive Bloom, "London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 163
From Kensington to the East End, under candlelight, gas lamp and then neon signs, London is both a bustling physical metropolis and a stirring psychi…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
Episode 52
Today we present the first episode of a miniseries on audiobooks by getting into the history and theory of the medium. Audiobooks are having a moment…
1 year, 3 months ago
Book Chat: "A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader" with Ian Rowen
In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited one of her co-editors, Dr Ian Rowen, to talk about their forthcoming book publication, A Taiwanese Eco-lit…
1 year, 3 months ago
Amanda M. Greenwell, "The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
Episode 340
The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature (UP of Mississippi, 2024) theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social cri…
1 year, 3 months ago
Writing Against the System
Episode 58
We kick off Season 9: TECH by talking with our very own Aarthi Vadde, the E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Hosts and…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ofra Amihay, "The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in the Hebrew Novel" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
Episode 620
In The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in the Hebrew Novel (Syracuse UP, 2022), Amihay offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus b…
1 year, 3 months ago
Colby Gordon, "Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 99
Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature (U Chicago Press, 2024) offers a prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theolo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Chance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 38
While scholars of ancient Mediterranean literature have focused their efforts heavily on explaining why authors would write pseudonymously or anonymo…
1 year, 3 months ago