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Episode 41
If you walk into David Cecchetto‘s classroom, you might find people wearing audio devices that simulate hearing with a thousand-foot wide head. Or ga…
1 year, 5 months ago
Lily E. Hirsch, "Taking Funny Music Seriously" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Episode 264
Take funny music seriously! Though often dismissed as silly or derivative, funny music, Lily E. Hirsch argues, is incredibly creative and dynamic, se…
1 year, 5 months ago
Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 1533
What do you do when you feel an itchy throat coming on? You probably head online, first to search for your symptoms and then to evaluate the informat…
1 year, 5 months ago
Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 259
Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency (Bloomsbury, 2024) offers the first major study of English-speaking romance fandom in So…
1 year, 5 months ago
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Episode 145
In Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture (Rutgers UP, 2024), Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black s…
1 year, 5 months ago
Eleanor Baker, "Book Curses" (Bodleian Library, 2024)
Episode 5
Have you ever wanted to protect your books from forgetful borrowers, merciless page-folders or outright thieves? Perhaps you have even wished harm on…
1 year, 5 months ago
(Re)Making Radio with the Shortwave Collective
Episode 40
The Shortwave Collective describe themselves as “an international feminist group using the radio spectrum as artistic material.” I was first intrigue…
1 year, 5 months ago
Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
For McDonald’s, the Chicken McNugget, the flagship product of further processed chicken, represented a once-in-a-generation innovation, a snack item …
1 year, 5 months ago
Sandy Ng, "Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Episode 549
The early twentieth century was a particularly tumultuous time in Chinese history, complete with new conflicts, new technologies, and — as Portrayals…
1 year, 5 months ago
Marina Hassapopoulou, "Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 226
Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) engages with a multitude of unconventional appr…
1 year, 5 months ago