In this episode you’ll hear disaster stories, finishing a book project, poetry, and what resilience is and isn’t...
44 min
1827
Christina Meyer, "Producing Mass Entertainment:...
The Yellow Kid was a ubiquitous figure at the end of the nineteenth century...
78 min
1828
Helen Sword, "Stylish Academic Writing" (Harvar...
We talk about bad writing, but a lot more about how to make it good. There's even a dog....
82 min
1829
Pip Gordon, "Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosex...
Gordon explores the intimate friendships Faulkner maintained with gay men...
63 min
1830
Charles L. Leavitt IV, "Italian Neorealism: A C...
Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice....
Shneyder examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by Russia's industrial revolution....
37 min
1832
Frederick Luis Aldama, "Graphic Indigeneity: Co...
Almada presents a comprehensive collection examining Indigenous comic book artists and the history of representations of Indigenous peoples throughout comic book history....
48 min
1833
Jo Mackiewicz, "Writing Center Talk over Time: ...
We talk about talk, tutor talk, student talk, spoken written-language, and Wisconsin...
80 min
1834
Lucas A. Dietrich, "Writing Across the Color Li...
Dietrich investigates how ethnic literatures took shape in the U.S. context and how writers of color intervened in the “mainstream” writing...
55 min
1835
Michael M. Knight, "Muhammad's Body: Baraka Net...
Knight joins the emerging subfield of literature in Islamic Studies exploring embodiment and materiality as concepts for making sense of the spatial and temporal developments of Muslim subjectivities....
45 min
1836
V. Nesfield and P. Smith, "The Struggle for Und...
An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels. Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust...
47 min
1837
Matthew Hart, "Extraterritorial: A Political Ge...
Hart explores how texts—literary and visual—help us engage with the space that goes beyond the limits of visible geographical borders and legal regulations...
50 min
1838
Jeremy M. Glick, "The Black Radical Tragic: Per...
What if the Haitian Revolution, perhaps the only “successful” Black revolution in history, weren’t over?
85 min
1839
Julia S. Charles, "That Middle World: Race, Per...
Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world...
47 min
1840
Christine Hong, "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Mi...
Christine Hong attempts to debunk the idea of good war and warfare-welfare state that allowed women and racial minorities to participate in national politics by showing how the US government was able to launch total war that blurred the boundaries of home and abroad through the “principle of indistinction.”
56 min
1841
Megan Sandberg-Zakian, "There Must Be Happy End...
Sandberg-Zakian makes a powerful case for “militant optimism” in an age of chaos...
67 min
1842
Ian Foster, "Conscripts of Migration: Neolibera...
Foster analyzes increasingly urgent questions regarding crises of global immigration by redefining migration in terms of conscription and by studying contemporary literature...
62 min
1843
Koritha Mitchell, "From Slave Cabins to the Whi...
Mitchell offers a complex, interdisciplinary, and important analysis focusing on black women as the lens to explore the intersection of racism and sexism and the strategies that black women have used to persevere and succeed...
In a world where black(ened) flesh, particularly feminine flesh, is considered the ontological zero of humanness, what interventions and complications are available from art and speculative fiction of the African disapora?
53 min
1845
Erin A. McCarthy, "Doubtful Readers: Print, Poe...
McCarthy offers readings of work by Shakespeare, Lanyer, Donne and many other poets to show that early printings of their work organised their texts in order to make specific points about both poetry and poets...
29 min
1846
Scholarly Communication: Kit Nicholls on the Wr...
Listen to this interview of Kit Nicholls, Director of Cooper Union Center for Writing. We talk about writing, thinking, the university, and what everyone cares about...
Haque deconstructs liberal accounts of secularism through an examination of the work of authors and artists from ethnic and religious minorities...
56 min
1848
Rosanne Carlo, "Transforming Ethos: Place and t...
Carlo approaches writing studies from the rhetorical flank, the flank which, for many, is the only flank the discipline has,,,
79 min
1849
Coulter George, "How Dead Languages Work" (Oxfo...
The book takes readers through Greek, Latin, Old English and the Germanic Languages, Sanskrit, Old Irish and the Celtic Languages, and Hebrew, introducing their phonology, morphology, lexicons, grammar, and excerpting passages from texts such as the Illiad, Beowulf, and the Rig Veda...
62 min
1850
Judith G. Coffin, "Sex, Love, and Letters: Writ...
When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it inspired Coffin to explore the intimate bond between the famed author and her reading public...