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About Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz
Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Email: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu.
NBN Episodes hosted by Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz:
April 14, 2022
Why are You in Bed? Why are You Drinking?
Colm Tóibín, the new laureate for Irish fiction, talks to Joseph Rezek of Boston University, and guest host Tara K. Menon of Harvard. The conversation…
March 31, 2022
The Romance of Recovery
Shola von Reinhold is the author of LOTE, a novel about getting lost in the archives and finding what the archives have lost. LOTE won the 2021 James…
March 17, 2022
The Work of Inhabiting a Role
Charles Yu won the 2020 National Book Award for Interior Chinatown but some of us became fans a decade earlier, with How to Live Safely in a Science F…
March 3, 2022
In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
Ruth Ozeki, whose most recent novel is The Book of Form and Emptiness, speaks with critic Rebecca Evans and guest host Emily Hyde. This is a conversat…
February 3, 2022
On Being Unmoored
Season three of Novel Dialogue launches in partnership with Public Books and introduces some fresh new voices into the mix. John and Aarthi welcome Ch…
December 16, 2021
The Novel of Revolutionary Ideas
Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning The Sympathizer and its sequel The Committed, joins esteemed scholar Colleen Lye of UC-Berkel…
December 2, 2021
Dreaming or Thinking
ND stages a trialogue this week with MacArthur "Genius" Cristina Rivera Garza and Notre Dame critics Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas. Professor Ri…
November 11, 2021
Stitching the Past to the Present
Caryl Phillips, professor of English at Yale, world-renowned and prize-winning novelist (from The Final Passage to 2018’s A View of the Empire at Suns…
October 28, 2021
In Medias Res
Acclaimed novelist Kamila Shamsie joins esteemed Oxford scholar Ankhi Mukherjee for a wide-ranging discussion of literature and politics. Ankhi raises…
October 14, 2021
Because I Couldn’t Be a Dancer
The brilliant New York writer Sigrid Nunez‘s most recent novel is What Are You Going Through; her previous one, The Friend, (2018) won the National Bo…
September 30, 2021
Adaptation
Novelist, screenwriter, and HBO showrunner Tom Perrotta joins his old friend Mark Wollaeger (who also happens to be a top scholar of modernism) for a …
September 16, 2021
Fiction as Streaming, Genre as Portal
We are just delighted to welcome you back to the second season of Novel Dialogue, putting scholars and writers together to chew the fat, and spill sec…
April 29, 2021
Season Wrap
Our two hosts play guest, and dive into the season’s high and lowlights, starting with the role humor played on the show. We also talk through the aff…
April 22, 2021
The Novel is like a Stack of Yurts
Novel Dialogue sits down with Michael Johnston of Purdue University and George Saunders, master of the short story form and author of the Booker-prize…
April 15, 2021
Helen Garner is Hacking at the Adverbs
Helen Garner sits down with John and Elizabeth McMahon, a distinguished scholar of Australian literature. Helen’s novels range from the anti-patriarc…
April 8, 2021
Military Sci-Fi Minus the Misogyny
Gerry Canavan talks to geek feminist author Kameron Hurley about her Hugo-nominated novel The Light Brigade. A love-hate letter to military science fi…
April 1, 2021
Getting Into Other Worlds
James Robertson, brilliant author of The Testament of Gideon Mack, and University of Edinburgh’s top prof. Penny Fielding beam in from their respectiv…
March 25, 2021
Feral Fiction
Novel Dialogue sends Martin Puchner (polymathic author of The Written World and most recently The Language of Thieves) out to speak with Pew author Ca…
March 18, 2021
Oh, The Places You’ll Go
Ulka Anjaria and Madhuri Vijay sit down to talk about Madhuri’s prize-winning first novel The Far Field. They discuss what it’s like to write intimate…
March 11, 2021
Orhan Pamuk Reads and Glosses the End of Snow
Pamuk plays scholar and novelist both. He reads the cheekily postmodernist final page of his novel Snow, while also talmudically interspersing comment…
March 11, 2021
That Demonic Novelistic Impulse
In Episode Two of Novel Dialogue, critic and scholar Bruce Robbins sits down with Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk. They have taught classes on the politica…
March 4, 2021
Do Great Novels Set the Standard or Challenge it?
Novel Dialogue kicks off with the writer and photographer Teju Cole and literary critic Kelly Rich of Harvard University talking about “saying yes to …
March 3, 2021
Introducing a New Podcast
Novel Dialogue : where unlikely conversation partners come together to discuss the making of novels and what to make of them. Join Aarthi Vadde, a sch…