Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSvetlana Kochkina, "Frances Burney’s 'Evelina': The Book, its History, and its Paratext" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Episode 9
Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history th…
3 years ago
Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 106
Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book (Oxford UP, 2022) is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damage…
3 years ago
Thomas W. Lippman, "Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
Episode 71
In the decades between the Great Depression and the advent of cable television, when daily newspapers set the conversational agenda in the United Sta…
3 years ago
Metadata
Episode 106
When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered…
3 years ago
Academic Chat: "Detention" and Other Horror Videogames: Avatars, Memory and Trauma
Episode 14
The host of this episode, Adina Zemanek, interviewed Chee-Hann Wu, who obtained her PhD in Drama and Theatre from the University of California, Irvin…
3 years ago
The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital
Episode 114
The fiftieth anniversary of Helvetica, the most famous of all sans serif typefaces, was celebrated with an excitement unusual in the staid world of t…
3 years ago
Lars de Wildt, "The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Episode 202
Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wil…
3 years ago
Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Episode 111
Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some c…
3 years ago
This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
Episode 113
Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the …
3 years ago
Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art
Episode 112
Games and art have intersected at least since the early twentieth century, as can be seen in the Surrealists' use of Exquisite Corpse and other games…
3 years ago