Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFederico Alvarez Igarzábal, "Time and Space in Video Games: A Cognitive-Formalist Approach" (Transcript, 2020)
Episode 111
Video games are temporal artifacts: They change with time as players interact with them in accordance with rules. In Time and Space in Video Games: A…
2 years, 7 months ago
Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 199
How do affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities? And how are they used strategically to f…
2 years, 7 months ago
Phaedra C. Pezzullo, "Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 102
Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution a…
2 years, 7 months ago
Scott Selberg, "Mediating Alzheimer's: Cognition and Personhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 34
With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer's disease is a true medical mystery. In Mediating Alzheimer's: Cognition and Per…
2 years, 7 months ago
David Simpson, "Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 254
Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while …
2 years, 7 months ago
Takeo Rivera, "Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 68
There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the “model minority.” While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim…
2 years, 7 months ago
Avery Dame-Griff, "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 18
Avery Dame-Griff's The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) explores how the rise of the internet shaped transgen…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Other Side of the Desk: A Discussion with "The Conversation" Editor Emily Costello
Episode 175
How can writing for the general public help scholars to democratize education? Today, The Conversation editor Emily Costello takes us behind the scen…
2 years, 7 months ago
A Better Way to Buy Books
Episode 109
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alrea…
2 years, 7 months ago
Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 165
The Disney Princesses are a billion-dollar industry, known and loved by children across the globe.
In The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analy…
2 years, 8 months ago