Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)
Episode 1550
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
Curtis Marez, "Producing Precarity: The Costs of Making TV in Poor Places" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 235
In Producing Precarity (NYU Press, 2025) Curtis Marez examines the television industry’s practice of “offshoring” production to impoverished sites wi…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Michelle Anya Anjirbag, "Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
Episode 1548
In Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode (Wayne State UP, 2025), scholar Michelle Anya Anjirbag examines Disney's method of fairy-…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Jerry Moore, "Cat Tales: A History" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
Episode 1547
For as long as cats have coexisted with humans, they have been feared, revered and respected. They appear as dynamic hunters in Palaeolithic carvings…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Camesia O. Matthews, "The Dental Fitness Advantage: How a Healthy Mouth Enhances Total Body Health and Elevates Performance" (Playbook Scholars, 2025)
Episode 1546
Ready to move beyond routine dental checkups and unlock your body’s full potential? In The Dental Fitness Advantage: How a Healthy Mouth Enhances Tot…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife After Dark
Episode 1545
When the sun sets, things start to get interesting among wild animals. Wherever we live, whether in the city or suburbs or country, darkness conjures…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
YIVO Archives and Library, "100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research" (YIVO, 2025)
Episode 1544
Delve into Jewish history through 100 unique objects from the YIVO Archives and Library with 100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute …
11 months ago
Timothy Gitzen, "Unscripting the Present" (SUNY Press, 2025)
Episode 1543
Timothy Gitzen's Unscripting the Present (SUNY Press, 2025) interrogates contemporary sex panics in the United States, looking especially at popular …
11 months ago
Grace Kessler Overbeke, "First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 1541
Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it all.
First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll (N…
11 months ago
Pluribus Episodes 4&5 Analysis: We Need a Little Space
Episode 1542
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we analyze the fourth and fifth episodes of Vince Gilligan’s new series Pluribus.
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11 months ago