Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHannah Weaver, "Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 80
In Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Hannah Weaver examines the mediaeval pra…
1 year, 6 months ago
Angel Daniel Matos, "The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 320
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2024) is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the c…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ben Yagoda, "Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 108
The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America--from French fries to Awesome, man!--are destroying the English language. B…
1 year, 6 months ago
Jamie Hakim, "Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 29
Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, sa…
1 year, 6 months ago
Greg Epstein, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 80
Technology has surpassed religion as the central focus of our lives, from our dependence on smartphones to the way that tech has infused almost every…
1 year, 6 months ago
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination
Episode 35
Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination (Ca…
1 year, 6 months ago
Jia Tan, "Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 69
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital…
1 year, 6 months ago
Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 139
Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something old…
1 year, 6 months ago
Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 217
During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and stud…
1 year, 6 months ago
Megan Steigerwald Ille, "Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Episode 254
Every year a relatively small number of canonic operas are produced around the world. Many companies shy away from new works, afraid of alienating a …
1 year, 6 months ago