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French Studies September 23, 2023

Queering the Enlightenment

Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature

Tracy Rutler

Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
Tracy Rutler's Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool UP, 2021) explores the imaginaries of novels and plays from the "liminal" period …

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Interviews with scholars of LGBTQ+ Studies about their new books.

Gender Studies September 20, 2023

Male Femininities

Dana Berkowitz, Elroi J. Windsor, and C. Winter Han

Hosted by Isabel Machado
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Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women.What counts as “male femininity”? Is it simply men behaving in effeminate ways or is it …
Chinese Studies September 18, 2023

Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance

Hongwei Bao

Hosted by Shu Wan
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In Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge, 2022), Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China. Boa documents various forms of queer performance - including music, film, theatre, and …
Library Science September 17, 2023

The Two Revolutions

A History of the Transgender Internet

Avery Dame-Griff

Hosted by Hallel Yadin
Avery Dame-Griff's The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) explores how the rise of the internet shaped transgender identity and activism from the 1980s to the present …
Library Science September 16, 2023

In Visible Archives

Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s

Margaret Galvan

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
In In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (U Minnesota Press, 2023), Margaret Galvan explores a number of feminist and cultural touchstones—the feminist sex wars, the …
Popular Culture September 15, 2023

Old Town Road

Chris Molanphy

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
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In Old Town Road (Duke University Press, 2023), Chris Molanphy considers Lil Nas X’s debut single as pop artifact, chart phenomenon, and cultural watershed. “Old Town Road” was more than a …
Literature September 12, 2023

American Scholar

A Novel

Patrick E. Horrigan

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
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Patrick Horrigan’s novel, American Scholar (Lethe Press 2023) centers on James (Jimmy) Fitzgerald, who teaches American Literature at a prestigious university, is in a happy (open) marriage that allows him …
Gender Studies September 12, 2023

Drag

A British History

Jacob Bloomfield

Hosted by Isabel Machado
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Drag: A British History (University of California Press, 2023) is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag performance in modern Britain. With this book, Jacob …
African American Studies September 10, 2023

Carnival in Alabama

Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile

Isabel Machado

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a period of …
Nordic Asia Podcast September 9, 2023

Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals

The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films

Tingting Hu

Hosted by Joanne Kuai
How are women represented in Chinese crime films? In what ways do the representation reflect traditional Chinese values and contemporary Chinese social-cultural norms? How did boys’ love culture emerge in …
Library Science September 2, 2023

A Queer Way of Feeling

Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood

Diana W. Anselmo

Hosted by Hallel Yadin
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In A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood (University of California Press, 2023), Diana W. Anselmo queers the earliest development of the "fangirl." Gathering an …
Law August 26, 2023

Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender

Chris Dietz

Hosted by Jane Richards
Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare with regard to legal gender. Based on empirical research …
Library Science August 20, 2023

Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries

Kalani Adolpho, Stephen G. Krueger, and Krista McCracken

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
In the library profession, and in the world as a whole, the experiences of trans and gender diverse people often go unnoticed, hidden, and ignored. Trans and Gender Diverse Voices …
Recall This Book August 17, 2023

Neveryon and Beyond (JP)

A Discussion with Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
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John Plotz talked with Samuel Delany, living legend of science fiction and fantasy back in 2019. You probably know him best for breakthrough novels like Dhalgren and Trouble on Triton …
Asian American Studies August 11, 2023

Possible Histories

Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling

Charlotte Karem Albrecht

Hosted by Najwa Mayer
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Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Men were able to transgress Syrian norms related to marriage …
Literature July 29, 2023

Faltas

Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist

Cecilia Gentili

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Cecilia Gentili about her new book, Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist (LittlePuss Press, 2022). In this poignant and powerful and sometimes …
Latino Studies July 28, 2023

Brown Neon

Raquel Gutiérrez

Hosted by Geraldo Cadava
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Writing Latinos, from Public Books, features interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad. In this …
Anthropology July 26, 2023

Sexual Self-Fashioning

Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging

Rahil Roodsaz

Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
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Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the position of Muslim immigrants in multicultural Western societies. While the acceptance of assumed local …
French Studies July 23, 2023

Reimagining the Family

Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature

Robert Payne

Hosted by Salvador Lopez Rivera
Robert Payne's Reimagining the Family: Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature (Peter Lang, 2021) is the first book-length study of representations of lesbian mothering in French literature. Focusing on female-authored …
Poetry July 15, 2023

The Naomi Letters

Rachel Mennies

Hosted by Anna Zumbahlen
Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) chronicles the relationship …