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About Latoya Johnson
Latoya Johnson is an editor, writer, and bibliophile with a master's in Humanities. Her research and writing interests include books and reading in popular culture, the public history of women's fiction, and women in Greco-Roman mythology.
NBN Episodes hosted by Latoya:
Music
September 5, 2023
Why Mariah Carey Matters
Andrew Chan
Hosted by
Latoya Johnson
Listen:
Why Mariah Carey Matters (University of Texas Press, 2023) examines the creative and complicated evolution of the musical artist. In the 1990s, Carey perfected blending pop, hip-hop, and R&B and …
Anthropology
May 31, 2023
Friendship
Michael Jackson
Hosted by
Latoya Johnson
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In Friendship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship—a relationship just as significant …
Popular Culture
May 19, 2023
Celebrity Nation
How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers
Landon Jones
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Latoya Johnson
Writer and editor Landon (Lanny) Jones, a former PEOPLE magazine editor, reveals how the cult of celebrity has shaped our politics, culture, and personal lives. In Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved …
Fantasy
May 4, 2023
Loki
A Novel
Melvin Burgess
Hosted by
Latoya Johnson
In his new novel Loki (Pegasus Books, 2023), Melvin Burgess follows the antics of Norse mythology’s trickster god as he takes the reader on a wild ride through legendary stories …
African American Studies
April 8, 2023
Feelin
Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought
Bettina Judd
Hosted by
Latoya Johnson
Feeling is not “feelin”. Feelin, in African American Vernacular English, is how Black women artists approach and produce knowledge as sensation: internal and complex, entangled with pleasure, pain, anger, and …
Medieval History
April 2, 2023
Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts
Elizabeth Marshall
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Latoya Johnson
Two perceptions about wolves are inherited from ancient and medieval European lupine motifs: the superstition that the wolf could steal a person's speech, and the perceived contiguous natures of wolves …
Film
March 31, 2023
Lost in Translation
Suzanne Ferriss
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Latoya Johnson
Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003) brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencing a personal crisis. In this close look at Coppola’s multi-award-winning film, Suzanne Ferriss’s book, Lost in …
Popular Culture
February 14, 2023
Nerd
Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse
Maya Phillips
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Latoya Johnson
When Maya Phillips first saw the opening of Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, she knew her life would change forever. She then spent her formative years loving …