Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchErin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
Episode 1498
Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexua…
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Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 564
The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, deat…
1 year, 7 months ago
Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 362
In If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi (Columbia UP, 2024), Tyler W. Williams puts questions of materiality, circulation, and …
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David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 122
What good is a good sense of humour especially when the humour may be ethically questionable? Although humour seems a valuable part of a good convers…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 219
The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to h…
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Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 141
From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. …
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Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 24
The Routledge Handbook of Esports (Routledge, 2024) offers the first fully comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of esports, one of the fastest grow…
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Texas Book Festival 2024: November 16-17
Episode 67
I spoke with Hannah Gabel, Literary Director of the Texas Book Festival. The Festival first began in 1995, and has since donated over $3.5 million to…
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Yaraslau Kot, "Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 23
Focusing on games that examine a range of national histories and heritages from across Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European Histo…
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Celebrating University Press Week with AUPresses President, Anthony Cond
Episode 211
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 b…
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