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NBN Episodes hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu:

High Theory August 9, 2022

Environmental Catastrophe

A Conversation with John Yargo

John Yargo

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode John Yargo speaks with Kim about Environmental Catastrophe. In the episode John quotes Hannah Arendt and N.K. Jemisin, discusses a Shakespeare play and a 17th century Peruvian …
High Theory August 1, 2022

Birthdays

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
We return after our four-month relaunch with an episode on Birthdays, variously interpreted. The reason? It’s the second birthday of High Theory Podcast! (And it’s also the shared birthday of …
High Theory July 26, 2022

Presentism

A Conversation with Anna Kornbluh

Anna Kornbluh

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Anna Kornbluh talks about presentism, the anachronistic historical practice of studying the past with contemporary frames of understanding. While some orthodoxies might consider it to be tantamount to historical heresy …
High Theory July 25, 2022

University Press

A Discussion with Rebecca Colesworthy

Rebecca Colesworthy

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Rebecca Colesworthy talks about the university press and how its workings should be demystified, what authors should keep in mind when they pitch their books, and what university presses do …
High Theory July 22, 2022

Social Psychoanalysis

A Discussion with Ankhi Mukherjee

Ankhi Mukherjee

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Ankhi Mukherjee talks about that looks at the subject of psychoanalysis as a product of social and cultural processes, and thereby reorients concepts of parental and familial bonds, trauma, coping …
High Theory July 21, 2022

World Literature

A Conversation with Roanne Kantor

Roanne Kantor

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Roanne Kantor tells us about World Literature, in the ideas and practices of readers, writers, and scholars. Spatial metaphors like libraries, closets, and airport bookshops, help her imagine the “world” …
High Theory July 20, 2022

Epic

A Discussion with Sohini Sarah Pillai

Sohini Sarah Pillai

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Sohini Sarah Pillai talks about epics, long narrative poems about heroic events – whether all such poems can be called epics, and how they continue to generate cultural and political …
High Theory July 19, 2022

Black Trans Feminism

A Discussion with Marquis Bey

Marquis Bey

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Marquis Bey talks about the radical and abolitionist project of Black Trans Feminism. Rather than an identity formation, it is a politics and modality of being that vitiates the limits …
High Theory July 18, 2022

Aunties

A Discussion with Kareem Khubchandani

Kareem Khubchandani

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kareem Khubchandani talks about aunties, figure across culture that stand for inquiry and succor, at limits of, or outside of traditional family structures. The conversation spans across genres and contexts …
High Theory July 15, 2022

Monuments

A Discussion with Erin L. Thompson

Erin L. Thompson

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Erin L. Thompson talks about monuments, and their role in American public life. Public art intervenes in directly in politics, shaping social behavior in the present. Monuments, in her account …
High Theory July 14, 2022

Flatness

A Discussion with Noreen Masud

Noreen Masud

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Noreen Masud talks about the unnamed feelings and ambiguous modes of relationship occasioned by flat landscapes, and the act of looking at them, in twentieth century fiction, especially the novels …
High Theory July 13, 2022

Disintermediation

A Discussion with Mark McGurl

Mark McGurl

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Mark McGurl talks about disintermediation, a key term for internet commerce, and his new book about fiction in the age of digital self-publication. The fantasy of disintermediation lies at the …
High Theory July 13, 2022

Disintermediation

A Discussion with Mark McGurl

Mark McGurl

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Mark McGurl talks about disintermediation, a key term for internet commerce, and his new book about fiction in the age of digital self-publication. The fantasy of disintermediation lies at the …
High Theory July 12, 2022

Autofictionalization

A Discussion with Claus Elholm Andersen

Claus Elholm Andersen

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Claus Elholm Andersen talks about autofictionalization, a mode of narration that characterizes autotfiction, where the narrative consciousness or voice is placed with the experiencing character and not the narrator. Of …
High Theory July 11, 2022

Negro Literature

A Discussion with Elizabeth McHenry

Elizabeth McHenry

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Elizabeth McHenry talks about the moment in the history of African American literature in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation, the subject of her new book To Make …
High Theory July 8, 2022

Apabhraṃśa

A Discussion with Abhishek Avtans

Abhishek Avtans

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Abhishek Avtans talks about the apabhraṃśa, a word that refers to the middle stage of the Indo-Aryan languages, crucial links between ancient languages like Sanskrit, and modern South Asian languages …
High Theory July 7, 2022

Book Proposal

A Discussion with Laura Portwood-Stacer

Laura Portwood-Stacer

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Laura Portwood-Stacer talks with Kim about book proposals. Laura is a consultant for academic authors. Her book, titled, appropriately, The Book Proposal Book (Princeton UP, 2021), is a how-to-guide for …
High Theory July 6, 2022

Squid Game

A Discussion with Kyung Hyun Kim

Kyung Hyun Kim

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kyung Hyun Kim talks about the Netflix series Squid Game, its economic and political contexts, and its cultural potential. He also talks about his new book, Hegemonic Mimicry, out from …
High Theory July 5, 2022

Legal Regulation of Drugs

A Discussion with Carl Hart

Carl Hart

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Carl Hart speaks with Kim about America’s punitive drug laws, and how we might change them for the better. He argues that we should legalize and regulate the sale of …
High Theory July 4, 2022

Biscuit Art

A Discussion with Ella Hawkins

Ella Hawkins

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Ella Hawkins talks about the biscuits she makes, inspired by her research on Elizabethan dress, and on everything from William Morris wallpapers to TV shows like Outlander and Game of …
High Theory July 1, 2022

Trace

A Discussion with Farah Bakaari

Farah Bakaari

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Farah Bakaari talks about Trace, a core concept in deconstruction, that denotes an absent presence, a mark of something that is no longer there. She talks about how in her …
High Theory June 30, 2022

Teletherapy

A Discussion with Hannah Zeavin

Hannah Zeavin

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Hannah Zeavin talks about teletherapy, from Freud’s letters to suicide hotlines to therapy apps. If therapy is always mediated, teletherapy is any form of therapy in which that mediation is …
High Theory June 29, 2022

Sextuality

A Discussion with Stephen Guy-Bray

Stephen Guy-Bray

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Stephen Guy-Bray talks about sexuality, a concept that brings together the the use of sexual metaphors in the description of textual production and the erotics that inhere in reading praxes …
High Theory June 28, 2022

Cognitive Cultural Studies

A Discussion with Torsa Ghosal

Torsa Ghosal

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Torsa Ghosal talks about Cognitive Cultural Studies, a field that entails methodologies that situate the human mind in historical and cultural contexts, sometimes working against models of the mind proceeding …