Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKin Cheung, "Teaching Asia during a Resurgence of Anti-Asian Racism" (ASS, 2025)
An open access Asia Shorts edited volume from AAS.
The spring of 2020 will remain etched in collective memory as a moment of profound upheaval. The C…
1 year, 1 month ago
Gina Seymour, "Youth Social Action in the Library: Cultivating Change Makers" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 90
Learn how to take an apolitical, unbiased stance to support students as they pursue research, literature connections, maker activities, and civic eng…
1 year, 1 month ago
Stacy Brown, "Revolutionize Youth Book Clubs: Strategies for Meaningful and Fun Reading Experiences" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 89
Learn to facilitate modern book clubs devoted to elevating the reading experience through active engagement, resulting in long-term commitment to boo…
1 year, 1 month ago
Nolan L. Cabrera and Robert S. Chang, "Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 251
In Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts (Cambridge UP, 2025), readers are taken on a journey through the i…
1 year, 1 month ago
Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 388
We often think of reason as a fixed entity, as a definitive body of facts that do not change over time. But during the Enlightenment, reason also was…
1 year, 1 month ago
How to Found A College: A Conversation with University of Austin President Pano Kanelos
Episode 82
Today I’m speaking with Pano Kanelos, founding president of the University of Austin. A scholar and professor of Shakespeare studies, Panos’ advocacy…
1 year, 2 months ago
Adam Kissel et al., "Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation" (Encounter Books, 2025)
Episode 147
What does a general education from an Ivy League mean? What structures produce the course catalogues that students can choose to customize their educ…
1 year, 2 months ago
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 231
Video (television, film, the moving image generally) is today’s most popular information medium. Two-thirds of the world’s internet traffic is video.…
1 year, 2 months ago
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 387
What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands re-reading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? Drawing on …
1 year, 2 months ago
Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
Episode 213
In Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell (Dey Street Books, 2025), Gabe Henry presents a brief and humorous 500-year h…
1 year, 2 months ago