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Episode 303
Long before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for “slow fashion,” a husband-and-wife design duo were …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Thomas Manuel Ortiz, "Why We Struggle to Go Green: Hard Truths about the Clean Energy Transition" (Texas A&M Press, 2025)
Episode 1559
Clean energy won’t save us from the effects of climate change.
Amid corporate Net Zero campaigns, the politics of the Green New Deal, and the calls to…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Pluribus Episodes 6 & 7 Analysis: I Feel Fine!
Episode 1558
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we continue our analysis of Pluribus, with our thoughts on episode 6, “HDP” an episode 7, “The Gap.”
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10 months, 2 weeks ago
Patrick C. Fleming, "Animating the Victorians: Disney's Literary History" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
Episode 1557
Many Disney films adapt works from the Victorian period, which is often called the Golden Age of children’s literature. Animating the Victorians: Dis…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Hilary Davidson, "A Guide to Regency Dress: from Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins" (Yale UP, 2025)
Episode 1556
In A Guide to Regency Dress: from Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins (Yale UP 2025), celebrated dress historian Dr. Hilary Davidson brings t…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Jane Eisner, "Carole King: She Made the Earth Move" (Yale UP, 2025)
Episode 1555
Jane Eisner is a widely published journalist who held leadership positions at the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Forward. She is the author of Taking …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Max Brzezinski, "Under Pressure: A Song by David Bowie and Queen" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 307
In 1981, David Bowie and Queen both happened to be in Switzerland: They met and made "Under Pressure." Recorded on a lark, the song broke the path fo…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Jeffrey Kroessler, "Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens" (Rutgers UP, 2025) This
Episode 1554
The borough of Queens is the largest of New York City’s five boroughs. It holds more people than Chicago or Los Angeles. And thanks to immigration, …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi, "Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production" (CEU Press, 2025)
Episode 1552
In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sat down with Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi to talk about their edited volume, Replaying Communism: T…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)
Episode 1551
The landscape of comedy has undergone a seismic shift in recent years with an increasing number of female comedians breaking through to mainstream a…
10 months, 3 weeks ago