Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBen Davies et al., "Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 206
Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Ox…
3 years, 3 months ago
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, "Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Episode 105
Jeffrey joins the podcast to discuss the prevalence of English in the academic ecosystem and in research publishing. Jeffrey critiques the lackadaisi…
3 years, 3 months ago
Profitability and University Press Publishing: A Discussion with Stanford UP's Alan Harvey
Episode 104
Alan Harvey, Director of Stanford University Press, sits with Avi to discuss why it is so challenging for scholars to write and publish books and to …
3 years, 3 months ago
Isabel Huacuja Alonso, "Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 176
From news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for …
3 years, 3 months ago
Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 276
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance (U California Press, 2021) is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism,…
3 years, 3 months ago
Thomas Kelly, "Bias: A Philosophical Study" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 309
The concept of bias is familiar enough, partly because it is deployed frequently and in different contexts. For example, we talk about biased jurors,…
3 years, 3 months ago
The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media
Episode 3
In this episode, author Ryan Milner talks to Chris Gondak about the rise of the internet meme, and the five logics that factor into the foundation, g…
3 years, 3 months ago
Dave Colangelo, "The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)
Episode 81
The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media (Amsterdam UP, 2019) describes, historicizes, theorizes, and creatively depl…
3 years, 4 months ago
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough
Episode 163
Why are people judged on whether or not they are compelling? Why isn’t telling the truth enough? What are people really listening for when others sha…
3 years, 4 months ago
Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy
Episode 1
In the United States, elements of the religious right fuel fears of an existential Islamic threat, spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric into mainstream pol…
3 years, 4 months ago