Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPhilip Nel, "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Episode 356
Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A signifi…
3 years, 2 months ago
A Primer for Teaching Digital History
Episode 144
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital hi…
3 years, 2 months ago
Kathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 100
While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a print…
3 years, 2 months ago
Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 57
Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that tradi…
3 years, 2 months ago
James Raven, "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 1299
In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book (Oxford UP, 2022) reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the…
3 years, 2 months ago
Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant, "Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Episode 204
Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics (Ohio State UP, 2022) brings together emerging and established voices at the nexus o…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Future of the News: A Discussion with Roger Mosey
Episode 50
What is the future of news? In the twentieth century Western-educated journalists championed impartial, unbiased news – which always seemed rather od…
3 years, 2 months ago
Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Episode 223
It’s the early 1990s, and the USSR is no more. An intrepid young American TV producer has been given a seemingly foolhardy task: bringing the beloved…
3 years, 3 months ago
Star Wars: Andor’s Aldhani and its Real-World Parallels
Episode 20
In this episode, Dr. Kenny Linden, an environmental and animal historian of Mongolia and Inner Asia, joins me to discuss the Disney+ Star Wars preque…
3 years, 3 months ago
Timothy Cleveland, "Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Episode 307
It seems undeniable that language has limits in what it can express – among other philosophers, Wittgenstein famously drew a line of this sort in his…
3 years, 3 months ago