Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
Episode 244
The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents of male infants worry about whethe…
1 year, 7 months ago
Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
Episode 19
It’s the UConn Popcast, and in the second of our series on Thinking Machines we consider Karel Čapek’s “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (1920). Čapek’s pl…
1 year, 7 months ago
Georgia Henley, "Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 79
Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, Reimagining …
1 year, 7 months ago
Ghosts In Our Fields
Episode 144
High Theory returns with a series of haunting concepts, places, and figures from our former guests. We asked folks to call in with something spookwor…
1 year, 7 months ago
Angel Daniel Matos, "The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 320
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2024) is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the c…
1 year, 7 months ago
Alistaire Tallent, "Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
Episode 85
Alistaire Tallent joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France (University of Del…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bihani Sarkar, "Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Episode 246
It is often assumed that classical Sanskrit poetry and drama lack a concern with the tragic. However, as Bihani Sarkar makes clear in Classical Sansk…
1 year, 8 months ago
Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 192
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, 8 months ago
Sarah Dimick, "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 319
As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the …
1 year, 8 months ago
Dennis Wuerthner, "Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Episode 11
Dr. Dennis Wuerthner’s Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo (U Hawaii Press, 2024) is the first complete English transla…
1 year, 8 months ago