Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHelena De Bres on Life-Writing (JP, EF)
Episode 127
How does the past live on within our experience of the present? And how does our decision to speak about or write down our recollections of how thing…
2 years, 2 months ago
Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 522
Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of noma…
2 years, 2 months ago
D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 207
An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state--our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Ninete…
2 years, 2 months ago
Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Episode 521
Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, paren…
2 years, 2 months ago
Astrid Møller-Olsen, "Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction" (Cambria, 2022)
Episode 294
Through an original framework of literary sensory studies, Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction (Cambria, 2022) provides…
2 years, 2 months ago
Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 149
Adam Kabat’s The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan (Columbia UP, 2023) is an in-depth introduction to the…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, "A Nose and Three Eyes" (Hoopoe, 2024)
Episode 254
Written by iconic Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, this classic of love, desire, and family breakdown smashed through taboos when first publis…
2 years, 2 months ago
Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Episode 12
This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics…
2 years, 2 months ago
Seamus O'Malley, "Irish Culture and 'The People': Populism and Its Discontents" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Seamus O’Malley is an associate professor at Yeshiva University. His first book was Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative (Oxford Un…
2 years, 2 months ago
"The American Scholar" Magazine: A Discussion with Stephanie Bastek
Episode 15
Stephanie Bastek has been with The American Scholar for 10 years, where she is now senior editor. She hosts and produces the magazine’s Smarty Pants …
2 years, 2 months ago