Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEdward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 162
In The People of the Ruins (originally published in 1920), Edward Shanks imagines England in the not-so-distant future as a neo mediaeval society who…
1 year, 10 months ago
Goth Diss
Episode 15
With My Gothic Dissertation, University of Iowa PhD Anna M. Williams has transformed the dreary diss into a This American Life-style podcast. William…
1 year, 10 months ago
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 75
In his compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines (Cambridge UP, 2020), Gr…
1 year, 10 months ago
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 473
Is Orwell still relevant today?
In Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century (Norton, 2024), Laura Beers, a Professor of History at Am…
1 year, 10 months ago
Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)
Episode 258
Traces of Enayat (Transit Books, 2023) is a work of creative nonfiction tracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 208
Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies (Oxford Unive…
1 year, 10 months ago
Tisha Brooks, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Episode 470
What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously?
With Spir…
1 year, 10 months ago
Laura van den Berg, "State of Paradise" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 133
It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to n…
1 year, 10 months ago
Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Episode 237
In The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya (SUNY Press, 2024), Steven E. Lindquist investigates the intersections between historical context and literary pr…
1 year, 11 months ago
Aysegül Savas, "The Anthropologists" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 132
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structu…
1 year, 11 months ago