University of Michigan Press Podcast

University of Michigan Press Podcast

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Conversations with University of Michigan Press authors.

Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe, "Supernatural Japan: Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

March 18, 2026

Supernatural Japan

Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe
Hosted by Amanda Kennell

Supernatural Japan: Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic (U Michigan Press, 2026)examines the role of Japanese writer Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939) in the …

Yanshuo Zhang, "Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

March 14, 2026

Creative Belonging

Yanshuo Zhang
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain un…

Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (Lever Press, 2026)

March 10, 2026

Screen Captures

Stephen Lee Naish
Hosted by Joel Tscherne

Movies open a window into our collective soul. In Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency (Lever Press, 2026), Stephen Lee Naish guides us throu…

Reginald Jackson, "Textures of Mourning: Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls" (U Michigan Press, 2018)

March 1, 2026

Textures of Mourning

Reginald Jackson
Hosted by Carla Nappi

Reginald Jackson’s inspiring new book takes a transdisciplinary approach to rethinking how we read, how we pay attention, and why that matters deeply …

Areum Jeong, "K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

February 10, 2026

K-Pop Fandom

Areum Jeong
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan

K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today (U Michigan Press, 2026) insists that K-pop fan practices and activities constitute a central …

Anita Gonzalez, "Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

January 9, 2026

Shipping Out

Anita Gonzalez
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea (University of Michigan Press, 2025) by Dr. Anita Gonzalez provides a rare perspective on performanc…

Theodore J. Karamanski, "Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

January 6, 2026

Great Lake

Theodore J. Karamanski
Hosted by Jana Byars

Theodore Karamanski joins fellow Lake Michigan enthusiast Jana Byars to talk about his new book, Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan. Lo…

Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora, "Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

January 2, 2026

Screening Precarity

Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora
Hosted by Priyam Sinha

Screening Precarity integrates a cultural analysis of film texts and history, industry transformations, and the violence and crises of political econo…

fSamuel Moore, "Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

December 12, 2025

Publishing Beyond the Market

Samuel A. Moore
Hosted by Stephen Pinfield

I talked to Dr. Samuel Moore about his recent book, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons, (U Michigan Press, 2025) Samuel…

Theresa Delgadillo, "Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas" (U Michigan Press, 2024)

December 2, 2025

Geographies of Relation

Theresa Delgadillo
Hosted by Shodona Kettle

Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (U Michigan Press, 2024) offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands t…

Amy Hughes, "An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

November 24, 2025

An Actor's Tale

Amy Hughes
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Harry Watkins was no one special. During a career that spanned four decades, this nineteenth-century actor yearned for fame but merely skirted the edg…

Yanqiu Zheng, "In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974" (U Michigan Press, 2024)

November 21, 2025

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Yanqiu Zheng

What does it mean for a country to seek admiration — and what kinds of institutions try to make that admiration possible? Yanqiu Zheng’s In Search of…

Julia Fawcett, "Movable Londons: Performance and the Modern City" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

October 25, 2025

Movable Londons

Julia H. Fawcett
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In September 1666, a fire sparked in a bakery on Pudding Lane grew until it had destroyed four-fifths of central London. The rebuilding efforts that f…

Nicholas Micinski, "Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

September 28, 2025

Delegating Responsibility

Nicholas Micinski
Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty

Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union (U Michigan Press, 2022) explores the politics of migration in…

Vanessa Warne, "By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

September 27, 2025

By Touch Alone

Vanessa Warne
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture (U Michigan Press, 2025) by Dr. Vanessa Warne demonstrates how reading by touch no…

Yu Zhang, "Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965"(U Michigan Press, 2020)

September 20, 2025

Going to the Countryside

Yu Zhang
Hosted by Jing Li

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, modern Chinese intellectuals, reformers, revolutionaries, leftist journalists, and idealistic youth ofte…

Matthew Benjamin Cole, "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (U of Michigan Press, 2025)

September 13, 2025

Fear the Future

Matthew Benjamin Cole
Hosted by Keith Krueger

Are we already living in some kind of fascist or technocratic dystopia? How do we avert the AI dystopia? These are the types of things that you'll see…

Jacob F. H. Smith, "Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

August 11, 2025

Waves of Discontent

Jacob F. H. Smith
Hosted by Stephen Pimpare

After a period of relative calm in congressional elections prior to 2006, America has experienced a series of highly competitive, volatile national el…

Andrew Herscher, "Under the Campus, the Land: Anishinaabe Futuring, Colonial Non-Memory, and the Origin of the University of Michigan" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

July 12, 2025

Under the Campus, the Land

Andrew Herscher
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In the 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs, Anishinaabe leaders granted land to a college where their children could be educated. At the time, the colonial sett…

Katarina Kušic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

June 1, 2025

Beyond International Intervention

Katarina Kusic
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Studies of statebuilding and peacebuilding have been criticized for their disregard of people living the consequences of intervention projects. Beyond…