Bloomsbury Academic Podcast

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast

episodes

Interviews with authors of books published by Bloomsbury

Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey: Doctor, Humanitarian, Writer with Jonathan Cole (Bloomsbury, 2023)

October 27, 2026

Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey

Jonathan Cole
Hosted by Anya Daly

Chekhov liked to joke that he was a doctor by profession and merely did literary work in his spare time. Behind the joke lies an intriguing truth. We …

Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food in the American West with Madhushree Ghosh (Bloomsbury, 2026)

October 24, 2026

Safar

Madhushree Ghosh
Hosted by Hollay Ghadery

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Madhushree Ghosh about her memoir Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food …

Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe with Owen Grey (Bloomsbury, 2026)

October 20, 2026

Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe

Owen Grey
Hosted by Roland Clark

Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe (Bloomsbury, 2026) is the first in-depth, English-language study of Romania's role in the Litt…

Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early Twentieth-Century Britain with Lise Shapiro Sanders (Bloomsbury, 2026)

October 17, 2026

Reading for Pleasure

Lise Shapiro Sanders
Hosted by Jane Degenhardt

Lise Shapiro Sanders is the author of Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early 20c Britain, published in October 2026 by B…

God and Humanity: Herman Bavinck and Theological Anthropology with N Gray Sutanto (Bloomsbury, 2024)

October 14, 2026

God and Humanity

N Gray Sutanto
Hosted by Justin McGeary

God and Humanity: Herman Bavinck and Theological Anthropology (Bloomsbury, 2024) is the first book to apply Bavinck's theological anthropology to cont…

Tyrants and Traders: Tintagel, Arthur and the Lost Kings with Ken Dark (Bloomsbury, 2026)

October 9, 2026

Tyrants and Traders

Ken Dark
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

How Roman Britain ended is one of the most controversial questions in British history. Unique among former Roman citizens in Western Europe, the Brito…

To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian with Zahi Zalloua (Bloomsbury, 2026)

October 7, 2026

To Exist as a Problem

Zahi Zalloua

In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, "How does it feel to be a problem?" In this profound respon…

How Real Is Race?: Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture with Carol C. Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary Henze (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)

September 28, 2026

How Real Is Race?

Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Rosemary Henze, and Yolanda T. Moses

Tune in to this discussion about How Real Is Race?: Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture by Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Rosemary Henze, and Yolanda T. Mos…

Assemblage Theory and Affect with Ian Buchanan (Bloomsbury, 2026)

September 25, 2026

Assemblage Theory and Affect

Ian Buchanan
Hosted by Nathan Smith

From the inside flap: “ In this lucid and inventive work, Ian Buchanan argues that the pivotal concepts ‘assemblage’ and ‘affect,’ which were separate…

Aristotle Kallis, "Iconic Fascism: The Excess of Destruction and Creation in Interwar Radical Right-wing Politics" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

September 24, 2026

Iconic Fascism

Aristotle Kallis
Hosted by Joe Williams

In Iconic Fascism: The Excess of Destruction and Creation in Interwar Radical Right-wing Politics (Bloomsbury, 2026) Aristotle Kallis uncovers the par…

Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino, "Library Technical Services: Future Forward" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

September 21, 2026

Library Technical Services

Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino
Hosted by Michael LaMagna

Library Technical Services: Future Forward (Bloomsbury, 2025) edited by Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino looks at the future of technical services …

Damian White and Nicholas Pevzner, "Designing the Just Transition: Design-Politics, Labor, and the Battle for Post-Carbon Futures" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

September 20, 2026

Designing the Just Transition

Damian White and Nicholas Pevzner
Hosted by Stephen Pimpare

Environmental politics is clearly at an impasse, increasingly foreclosed by a fragmenting elite consensus on climate change, an escalating populist ba…

Joe Jackson, "Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic: Music, Modernity, Transmedia Art" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

September 20, 2026

Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic

Joe Jackson
Hosted by Gummo Clare

Kahlil Joseph has collaborated with musicians FKA twigs, Flying Lotus, Sampha and Shabazz Palaces among many others. He has directed numerous films, m…

Rosie Findlay, "Dressays: An Anthology" (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2026)

September 18, 2026

Dressays

Rosie Findlay
Hosted by Alix Beeston

The clothes we inherit, covet, purchase, borrow, wear, store, destroy, or give away are intricately woven into our ideas about who we are and how we r…

Jerome Sauvage, "Witness to North Korea: Three Years on the Ground in the DPRK" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

September 18, 2026

Witness to North Korea

Jerome Sauvage
Hosted by Anthony Kao

Jerome Sauvage served as the United Nations Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative in North Korea …

James D. Ryan, "The Upanisads as They Are: Brhadaranyaka, Chandogya, Aitareya, Taittiriya, Kausitaki" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

September 17, 2026

The Upanisads as They Are

James D. Ryan
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

These Upanisads (c. 800-300 BCE) are almost always read from the point of view of the later Vedantins, but they do not share in the neatly tailored ch…

Janos Fiala-Butora, "Implementing the Right to Decide Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Disabilities" (Hart, 2025)

September 13, 2026

Implementing the Right to Decide Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Janos Fiala-Butora
Hosted by Jane Richards

Implementing the Right to Decide Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Di…

Donald A. Barclay, "The Reinvention of the U.S. Academic Library: 1990 to 2025" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

September 13, 2026

The Reinvention of the U.S. Academic Library

Donald A. Barclay
Hosted by Michael LaMagna

Focusing on U.S. academic libraries, The Reinvention of the U.S. Academic Library: 1990 – 2025 (2025, Bloomsbury) provides a concise history of the tr…

Emeka Umejei, "China in African Media: Between Influence Operations and Decolonization" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

September 12, 2026

China in African Media

Emeka Umejei

At its core, China in African Media: Between Influence Operations and Decolonization (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a book about power, journalism, geopolitica…

Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life" Part 2 (Bloomsbury, 2026)

September 11, 2026

Seriality

Ryan Engley
Hosted by Helena Vissing

This material and theoretical history of seriality shows it to be the dominant form of culture since its inception within 19th-century print culture, …