Podcast Episodes

Gabriel S. Estrada, "Queer Indigenous Cinemas: Sovereign Genders from Seven Directions" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

In Queer Indigenous Cinemas, scholar Gabriel S. Estrada offers an analysis of queer Indigenous media from the Americas, the Pacific, and the Caribbea…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

In this episode, Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Alex Rivera Cartagena discuss the looming social, cultural, and knowledge cata…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Flower Darby, "The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes" (U Oklahoma Press, 2026)

The happier the teacher, the better the learning experience--for instructor and student alike. With this equation at its core, The Joyful Online Teac…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

David M. Perry, "The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook" (JHU Press, 2026)

Public scholarship is one of those things that most academics are interested in, but unfortunately for them, they don't know how to actually get star…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Teaching English Pronunciation

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Lindsay McMahon, founder of the All Ears English Podcast, about pronuncia…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

Nick Juravich, "Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education" (U Illinois Press, 2024)

Today, we're speaking with Nicholas Juravich, author of Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education (U Illinois Press, 2024). In this …

2 months, 4 weeks ago

Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education. 

On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to add…

3 months ago

Sarah Jaffe, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone" (Bold Type Books, 2021)

In Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Bold Type Books, 2021), Sarah Jaffe argues that mode…

3 months ago

Gabrielle Oliveira, "Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Who gets to live a life with dignity? Each day, families around the world make the difficult decision to leave their homes in search of safety, stabi…

3 months, 1 week ago

Helmut Schuster and David Oxley, "Artificial Death of a Career: A Tale of Professional Obsolescence and How to Avoid It" (Practical Inspiration Publishing, 2025)

How do you advance your career when AI is rewriting the rules of success?

As AI and automation revolutionize the global workforce, professionals ever…

3 months, 1 week ago