Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMarilynne Robinson, "Reading Genesis" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 127
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional inter…
1 year, 9 months ago
Morgane Cadieu, "On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 133
An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes.
Social clim…
1 year, 9 months ago
Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 315
Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research r…
1 year, 9 months ago
Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 223
If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-…
1 year, 9 months ago
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018)
Episode 475
The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.”…
1 year, 9 months ago
Beri Marusic on Grief and other Expiring Emotions (Katie Elliott, JP)
Episode 133
Why is that when a loved one dies, grief seems inescapable--and then diminishes? The brilliant Edinburgh philosopher Berislav Marusic's "Do Reasons E…
1 year, 9 months ago
Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)
Episode 17
Scholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being “poetic,” yet what that means or why it matters is rarely discussed. In Game Poe…
1 year, 9 months ago
Julia Kindt, "The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 70
What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these …
1 year, 9 months ago
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 65
In Batman and The Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2020), Chris Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender, …
1 year, 9 months ago
Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
Episode 10
In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso (University of Delaware Press, 2019), Andrea Moudarres examines inf…
1 year, 9 months ago