Arts & Letters

Architecture

Architecture

episodes

Interviews with architects and scholars of architecture about their new books.

Vishaan Chakrabarti, "The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy" (Princeton UP, 2024)

November 15, 2024

The Architecture of Urbanity

Vishaan Chakrabarti
Hosted by Amal Hashim
Subhashini Kaligotla, "Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India" (Yale UP, 2022)

October 31, 2024

Shiva's Waterfront Temples

Subhashini Kaligotla
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Art

Art

episodes

Interviews with artists and scholars of art about their new books.

Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene

Deborah Parker
Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Risk

November 15, 2024

Risk

Faye Raquel Gleisser
Children's Literature

Children's Literature

episodes

Interviews with authors of children's literature about their new books

Sarah Aronson, "Abzuglutely!:Battling, Bellowing Bella Abzug" (Calkins Creek Books, 2024)

November 3, 2024

Abzuglutely!

Sarah Aronson
Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Childrens' Books in Public Libraries: A Discussion with Pat (Patrick) Gracey

October 27, 2024

Childrens' Books in Public Libraries

Patrick Gracey
Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Comics and Graphic Novels

Comics and Graphic Novels

episodes
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)

October 8, 2024

Comics and Pop Culture

Scott Henderson and Barry Keith Grant
Hosted by Joel Tscherne
Jamie Michaels and Doug Fedrau, "Christie Pits" (Dirty Water Comics, 2019)

October 7, 2024

Christie Pits

Jamie Michaels and Doug Fedrau
Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities

episodes

Interviews with digital humanists and scholars of digital humanities about their new work.

Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)

November 14, 2024

If All the World Were Paper

Tyler W. Williams
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)

October 31, 2024

Atlas of Finance

Dariusz Wojcik et al.
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Fantasy

Fantasy

episodes

Interviews with fantasy writers about their new books.

P. Djèlí Clark on Why He Writes

October 14, 2024

P. Djèlí Clark on Why He Writes

P. Djèlí Clark
Hosted by UConn PopCast
Cami D. Agan, "Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium" (Mythopoeic Press, 2024)

October 12, 2024

Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth

Cami D. Agan
Film

Film

episodes

Interviews with film makers and scholars of film about their new books.

Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Changed Men

Erin Lee Mock
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Historical Turns

Nicholas Baer
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Folklore

Folklore

episodes

Interviews with folklorists and scholars of folklore about their new books.

Vaughn Scribner, "Merpeople: A Human History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)

November 13, 2024

Merpeople

Vaughn Scribner
Hosted by Jana Byars
Sharonah Esther Fredrick, "An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

November 10, 2024

An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods

Sharonah Esther Fredrick
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Food

Food

episodes
Naomi S. S. Jacobs, "Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink: A Commentary" (Brill, 2018)

November 8, 2024

Delicious Prose

Naomi S. S. Jacobs
Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre, "Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience" (U South Carolina Press, 2024)

October 31, 2024

Hungry Roots

Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Hosted by Kelly Spivey
Game Studies

Game Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of games and gaming about their new books. For more information about the Game Studies special series, please contact Rudolf Thomas Inderst at rudolf.inderst@googlemail.com.

Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024)

November 9, 2024

Routledge Handbook of Esports

Seth E. Jenny
Yaraslau Kot, "Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games" (Routledge, 2024)

November 7, 2024

Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games

Michal Mochocki, Pawel Schreiber, Jakub Majewski, and Yaraslau Kot
Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction

episodes

Interviews with writers of historical fiction about their new books.

Tim Ecott, "Sigmundur and the Golden Ring" (Sprotin, 2024)

November 3, 2024

Sigmundur and the Golden Ring

Tim Ecott
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Nat Reeve, "Earlyfate" (Cipher Press, 2024)

October 24, 2024

Earlyfate

Nat Reeve
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Library Science

Library Science

episodes

Interviews with authors about new books in library science.

Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene

Deborah Parker
Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Ian Milligan, "Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

October 26, 2024

Averting the Digital Dark Age

Ian Milligan
Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Literary Studies

Literary Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of literature about their new books.

Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene

Deborah Parker
Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

November 15, 2024

Occupied Words

Hannah Pollin-Galay
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Literature

Literature

episodes

Interviews with writer of creative fiction and non-fiction about their new books.

Ruth Vanita, "A Slight Angle" (India Viking, 2024)

November 14, 2024

Ruth Vanita

Ruth Vanita
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Benjamin Resnick, "Next Stop" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)

November 12, 2024

Next Stop

Benjamin Resnick
Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Museum Studies

Museum Studies

episodes

Interviews with authors and scholars about new books in museum studies.

Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene

Deborah Parker
Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Eunsong Kim, "The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property" (Duke UP, 2024)

October 12, 2024

The Politics of Collecting

Eunsong Kim
Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Music

Music

episodes

Interviews with musicians and scholars of music about their new books.

Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)

November 14, 2024

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

Richard Schoch
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Performing Arts

Performing Arts

episodes

Interviews with performing artists and scholars of the performing arts about their new books.

Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Historical Turns

Nicholas Baer
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Risk

November 15, 2024

Risk

Faye Raquel Gleisser
Photography

Photography

episodes

Interviews with photographers and scholars of photography about their new books.

Yolonda Youngs, "Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

October 9, 2024

Framing Nature

Yolonda Youngs
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, "The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places" (MIT Press, 2024)

October 2, 2024

The Cities We Need

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Poetry

Poetry

episodes

Interviews with poets and scholars of poetry about their new books.

Dennis Wuerthner, "Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

October 28, 2024

Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness

Dennis Wuerthner, trans.
Hosted by Leslie Hickman
Tikva Hecht, "Tashlikh" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024)

October 10, 2024

Tashlikh

Tikva Hecht
Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Popular Culture

Popular Culture

episodes

Interviews with scholars of popular culture about their new books.

Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Changed Men

Erin Lee Mock
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)

November 14, 2024

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

Richard Schoch
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Science Fiction

Science Fiction

episodes

Interviews with writers of science fiction and scholars of science fiction about their new books.

Benjamin Resnick, "Next Stop" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)

November 12, 2024

Next Stop

Benjamin Resnick
Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
CK Westbrook, "The Aftermath" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2024)

October 20, 2024

The Aftermath

CK Westbrook
Hosted by Karyne Messina