Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Episode 25
The Roman singer, courtesan, and writer Margherita Costa won prominence and fame across the courts of Italy and France during the mid-seventeenth cen…
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Hwisang Cho, "The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Episode 511
The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an "epistolary revolution" in the following century as letter…
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Kyle Gervais et al., "Lucan and Flavian Epic" (Brill, 2023)
Episode 273
Roman imperial epic is enjoying a moment in the sun in the twenty-first century, as Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, and Silius Italicus have all be…
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Julius Taranto, "How I Won a Nobel Prize" (Little, Brown, 2023)
Episode 118
Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity (which could save the …
2 years, 5 months ago
Leanne Trapedo Sims, "Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai'i Women's Prison Writing" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 20
In Reckoning with Restorative Justice Hawaii Women's Prison Writing (Duke University Press, 2023), Dr. Leanne Trapedo Sims explores the experiences o…
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Raul Palma, "A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens" (Dutton, 2023)
Episode 117
A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens (Dutton, 2023) explores the weight of the devil's bargain, follo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Episode 272
In his new book Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery (University of Virginia Press, 2023), Miles P. Grier argues that …
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Michael Quinn Dudley, "The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy" (Cambridge Scholars, 2023)
Episode 36
For nearly 200 years, people have questioned the identity of Shakespeare; however, this debate is often dismissed by most scholars as “just a conspir…
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Courtney Denelle, "It's Not Nothing" (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2022)
Episode 116
Rosemary Candwell's past has exploded into her present. Down-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts from anonymous beds and bars in Providence, to a h…
2 years, 5 months ago
Patrick R. O'Malley, "The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Episode 55
Patrick R. O'Malley's book The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century (U Virginia Press, 20…
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