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About Carl Nellis
NBN Episodes hosted by Carl:
February 26, 2019
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press 2018), Geraldine Heng collects a remarkable array of medieval approac…
November 7, 2018
The World Come of Age
A searching and richly textured history of the affinities and common origins of Latin American and North American liberation theologies, The World Com…
August 3, 2018
The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature
A sharply observed study of the representations of education found in Anglo-Saxon texts, Irina Dumitrescu’s The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon…
March 15, 2018
Strangers in Their Own Land
Since it was published in 2016, Arlie Russell Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (The New Press, 2016)…
January 9, 2018
List Cultures
The list is the origin of culture. At least, that's according to Umberto Eco, whose words open Liam Cole Young's new book, List Cultures: Knowledge…
October 19, 2017
Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System
A deft and searching exploration of genre theory through science fiction, and science fiction through genre theory, John Rieder's Science Fiction and …
July 6, 2017
Medievalism
A revealing exploration of representative modes of medievalism, Medievalism: A Critical History (Boydell & Brewer; hardcover 2015, paperback 2017)…
May 26, 2017
The Bittersweet Science
"Boxing has always attracted writers because it issues a standing challenge to their powers of description and imagination, and also a warning--really…
May 4, 2017
The Age of Charisma
In the age of the railroad, social movements, revivals, and campaigns for political office spread like wildfire across the United States. Leaders and …
March 14, 2017
Apostles of Reason
Beginning with a network of reformed figures that orbited around Billy Graham, from J. Howard Pew's money to Carl Henry's passion for cultural esteem,…
February 9, 2017
The Watchman in Pieces
"Surveillance and literature, as kindred practices, have light to shed on each other." When David Rosen and Aaron Santesso considered the disciplin…
December 18, 2016
Human Programming
In Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), Scott Selisker offers readers a fascinat…
December 14, 2016
Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture
Dilapidated thirteenth-century walls as a playscape for today's children, medieval relics made as fetish objects for twenty-first century enthusiasts,…
December 2, 2016
Brothers at Arms
Was the War for American Independence really about American independence? It depends on who you ask. In his new book, Brothers at Arms: American In…
October 27, 2016
The Birth of Theory
Was Hegel a medieval thinker? In The Birth of Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2014), Andrew Cole puts forward a reexamination of Hegelian dial…
September 30, 2016
Empire and Revolution
Richard Bourke, Professor in the History of Political Thought in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London, began developing his histor…
September 21, 2016
Medieval Robots
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Clarke's third law, coined in 1973, expresses the difficulty that people of a…