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NBN Episodes hosted by Lee:
December 26, 2023
The Mark of Criminality
On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Communication at SUNY Geneseo--interviews Bryan McCann (he/his)--Associate Professor of Com…
November 5, 2021
Editorial Bodies
Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts to perfect, publish, and preserve…
November 3, 2021
White Tears/Brown Scars
Called “powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, Ruby Hamad's White Tears/Br…
October 22, 2021
Politics for the Love of Fandom
Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World (Louisiana State Press, 2019) examines what Ashley Hinck calls “fan-based ci…
September 17, 2021
Sensuous Knowledge
Minna Salami's book Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2021) is a collection of thought provoking essa…
August 20, 2021
The Second
Throughout American history to the twenty-first century, regardless of the laws, court decisions, and changing political environment, the Second Amend…
July 26, 2021
No Future in This Country
No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (U Mississippi Press, 2020) is a history of the career of Bishop Henr…
July 19, 2021
Militarized Maternity
The rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy debate in the United St…
July 6, 2021
Architects of Memory
We are now living in the richest age of public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the pa…
June 30, 2021
Debating Women
Spanning a historical period that begins with women’s exclusion from university debates and continues through their participation in coeducational int…
June 30, 2021
Black Aliveness, Or a Poetics of Being
In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Duke University Press, 2012), Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as i…
June 23, 2021
Usual Cruelty
From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the lega…
June 17, 2021
Rebirthing a Nation
In Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet (U Mississippi Press, 2021), author Wendy K. Z. Anderson details how white na…
June 2, 2021
Photographic Presidents
Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks. In this episode, Dr. Lee M. Pierce (they & she) interviews Dr. Cara A. Finnegan about…
May 17, 2021
The Monopolists
The inside story of the world's most famous board game-a buried piece of American history with an epic scandal that continues today. The Monopolists:…
May 17, 2021
Misogynoir Transformed
Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogyny. When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways an…
May 4, 2021
How Non-Being Haunts Being
How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to “what is.” Human life is an open expanse of “what was” and “what will be,” …
April 30, 2021
Reimagining the Middle Passage
From ships and novels to Mardi Gras, water, and television, how does the legacy of the Middle Passage, the leg of the Atlantic through which African p…
April 29, 2021
The African Lookbook
What does it mean to tie your cloth to that of another person, as in the Ghanaian tradition, or to be in full dress? How is fashion photography in a c…
April 28, 2021
Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy
Jack Black, Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy (Routledge 2021). In what ways is comedy subversive? This vital new book critically consi…
April 14, 2021
Political Perversion
When Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, a perversion of the highest offi…
March 31, 2021
Hidden Hitchcock
After decades of criticism about perhaps the most famous director in history, it seems that nothing is left to be said. But maybe critics just haven’t…
December 1, 2020
Heirlooms
“It turns out there are things that cannot be left. The very nature of secrets, for instance, insists that they be kept.” On this episode of the New …
November 27, 2020
Irony and Outrage
On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (s/t) Dr. Dannagal Goldthwaite Young (s/h) about why liberals love satire and conservative lo…