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High Theory April 1, 2022

Welcome to High Theory!

Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …

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Interviews with scholars of literature about their new books.

Burned by Books May 26, 2023

The Society of Shame

Jane Roper

Hosted by Chris Holmes
In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's "feminine hygiene malfunction" catapults her to …
Japanese Studies May 26, 2023

This Overflowing Light

Selected Poems. Translated by Janine Beichman.

Rin Ishigaki

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
Born in central Tokyo in 1920, Rin Ishigaki was one of the most daring and gifted poets of Japan’s postwar cultural renaissance. She knew Japan before the war, during it …
Early Modern History May 26, 2023

In Fortune's Theater

Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy

Nicholas Scott Baker

Hosted by Michael Martoccio
In this episode, I was joined by Nicholas Scott Baker to discuss his book, In Fortune’s Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Professor …
Asian Review of Books May 25, 2023

Yamuna's Journey

Translated by Deepra Dandekar

Baba Padmanji

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
In 1856, the East India Company imposed the Hindu Widow Remarriage Act, allowing widows to remarry after their husband’s death. The Act was controversial at the time: Hindu traditionalists, particularly …
Literary Studies May 25, 2023

Fighting Over There

U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature

Alaina Kaus

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
U.S. foreign policy has long been built on a dichotomy of an irreplaceable "here" and an expendable "there." In his 2003 announcement of the military campaign in Iraq, George W …
High Theory May 23, 2023

Party

A Discussion with Sheila Liming

Sheila Liming

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Sheila Liming talks about the party, social gatherings that occasion joy and dread and various emotions in between. The party is both a pause and an acceleration in the life-work …
Global Media & Communication May 22, 2023

Made in Censorship

The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film

Thomas Chen

Hosted by Aswin Punathambekar and Jing Wang
Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our host Ignatius Suglo discusses the book Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature …
Shakespeare For All May 22, 2023

Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 1: The Story

A Discussion with Michael Dobson

Michael Dobson

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, telling the story of one of history’s most famous events. In this tense political thriller, the Roman senator Brutus must decide …
Indian Ocean World May 20, 2023

Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought

Dilip M Menon and Nishat Zaidi

Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought (Routledge, 2023) imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature, and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category …
Think About It May 20, 2023

Cleo McNelly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"

Book Talk 60

Cleo McNelly Kearns

Hosted by Uli Baer
Celebrated, censored, canceled: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn cannot be avoided. William Faulkner called Twain “the father of American literature.” Toni Morrison explained that “the brilliance of Adventures of …
Burned by Books May 19, 2023

The Disappeared

Stories

Andrew Porter

Hosted by Chris Holmes
A husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into …
MIT Press Podcast May 18, 2023

Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory

Complete Interview

Lauren Fournier

Hosted by MIT Press
An extended conversation between Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism and writer, educator and philosopher McKenzie Wark (A …
Literary Studies May 18, 2023

Before Modernism

Inventing American Lyric

Virginia Jackson

Hosted by Hal Coase
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric (Princeton UP, 2023) examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the …
Recall This Book May 18, 2023

David Plotz: Books in Dark Times (JP)

David Plotz

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Aside from being John’s (younger, suaver and beardier) brother, what has the inimitable David Plotz done lately? Only hosted “The Slate Political Gabfest“, written two books (“The Genius Factory” and …
Novel Dialogue May 18, 2023

The Meat and Bones of Life

A Discussion with Erika T. Wurth, Leif Sorensen, and Rebecca Evans

Erika T. Wurth, Leif Sorensen, and Rebecca Evans

Hosted by Novel Dialogue
With the publication of her most recent novel, White Horse (Flatiron Books, 2022), Erika T. Wurth breaks from the realism that characterized her earlier fiction and ventures into horror. White …
MIT Press Podcast May 17, 2023

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

Lauren Fournier

Hosted by MIT Press
Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism discusses her forthcoming book with writer, educator and philosopher McKenzie Wark (A …
Library Science May 16, 2023

Holy Digital Grail

A Medieval Book on the Internet

Michelle R. Warren

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation …
East Asian Studies May 16, 2023

Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century

A Critical Reader

Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader (Springer, 2023) is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi …
Shakespeare For All May 15, 2023

Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 3: The Language

A Discussion with Farah Karim-Cooper

Farah Karim-Cooper

Hosted by Zachary Davis
In Part 3, Professor Farah Karim-Cooper offers close-readings of some of the play’s most significant scenes. You’ll also hear a special commentary on Othello by actor Keith Hamilton Cobb, author …