Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJonathan Greenaway, "Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 198
When one thinks of your typical horror movie and it’s usual imagery, a number of tropes may come forward. Graveyards behind old cathedrals, crucifixe…
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Dalia Kandiyoti, "The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Episode 451
Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hid…
2 years, 7 months ago
Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 2
Season 1 Episode 46
Part 2 focuses closely on the two major “characters” to whom the sonnets are addressed: a beautiful young man, and a woman described as black. You’ll…
2 years, 7 months ago
Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)
Episode 116
In Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language (Luath, 2023), Dr. Clive Young sets out to uncover the secret life of Scots – the centuries…
2 years, 7 months ago
Alison Halsall, "Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Episode 5
Dr. Halsall’s Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis (Ohio State UP, 2023) has four primary objectives.
One, it explores this visual an…
2 years, 7 months ago
Barry Reay and Nina Attwood, "Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-garde in Mid-century Paris and New York" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 262
From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature. The books were wr…
2 years, 7 months ago
Caroline Levine, "The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 261
W. H. Auden once said, “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Auden’s quote has been used for so many purposes, it might be worth remembering what he meant. …
2 years, 7 months ago
Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Episode 295
In The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya (SUNY Press, 2023), Steven E. Lindquist investigates the intersections between historical context and literary pr…
2 years, 7 months ago
Seamus Heaney’s Afterlives
Episode 263
In 1995, Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. During his speech, he explained that the adequacy of lyric poetry spoke to the “‘te…
2 years, 7 months ago
Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 1
Season 1 Episode 45
The sonnet — a 14-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme, conventionally associated with love — was one of the most popular poetic forms in late Elizab…
2 years, 7 months ago