Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)
Episode 333
What were two Irish sisters doing in Russia during the early years of the nineteenth century, editing the French-language memoirs of a princess who h…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sara Burdorff, "Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
Episode 1539
Sara Burdorff joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Maternity, Monstrosity and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare (Amsterdam Unive…
1 year, 4 months ago
Amanda Lagji, "Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Episode 26
Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) by Dr. Amanda Lagji reveals the fundamental, constitutive …
1 year, 4 months ago
About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Episode 330
Today I talked to Ben Baer and Smaran Dayal about About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.
Pioneering Indian Muslim …
1 year, 5 months ago
Tolkien, Philosopher of War: A Conversation with Graham McAleer
Episode 135
In this episode, we explore the profound philosophical and theological dimensions of J.R.R. Tolkien's work, particularly his views on war. In his boo…
1 year, 5 months ago
Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 331
For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dicke…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby
Episode 19
The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand i…
1 year, 5 months ago
Andrew Smith, "Class and the Uses of Poetry: Symbolic Enclosures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Episode 402
Sociologists have had surprisingly little to say about poetry as a topic while sometimes also making grandiose claims that sociology is/should be lik…
1 year, 5 months ago
"Kazuo Ishiguro is Not Writing World Literature"
Episode 330
How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature? In Kazuo Ishigu…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ryan Tan Wander, "Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West" (Texas Tech UP, 2024)
Episode 179
In today’s cultural and political climate of relative LGBTQ+ inclusion, Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West (Texas Tech U…
1 year, 5 months ago