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Isabel Molina-Guzmán
Co-editor of Rebooting Inequality
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Episode: Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina-Guzmán, "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes" (NYU Press, 2026)
Angharad N. Valdivia
Co-editor of Rebooting Inequality
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Episode: Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina-Guzmán, "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes" (NYU Press, 2026)
Kate Brown
Distinguished professor in the history of science at MIT and author
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Episode: Kate Brown, "Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
Drew M. Dalton
Professor of English, author of The Matter of Evil
Indiana University
Episode: Drew M. Dalton, "The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Dr. Tara Mulder
Author, Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Episode: Tara Mulder, "A Womb of One's Own: Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome" (U California Press, 2026)
Silvia Danielak
Author of Peace Infrastructures, Assistant Professor
George Mason University, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Episode: Silvia Danielak, "Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2026)
Caroline Bicks
Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine
University of Maine
Episode: Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" (Hogarth, 2026)
Dr. Kira Kieffer
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Wesleyan University; author
Wesleyan University
Episode: Kira Ganga Kieffer, "Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Benjamin Siegel
Author and historian, associate professor of history at Boston University
Boston University
Episode: Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026)

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Miranda Melcher
Host of The New Books Network

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Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina-Guzmán, "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes" (NYU Press, 2026)
Q: How do you define reboot in your collection, and why is it important to distinguish between reboots, remakes, and revivals?
They outline an umbrella concept of reboot as a recycling of texts across platforms, with remakes, revivals, and reboots each having distinct characteristics but all tied to continuity and audience expectations.
Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina-Guzmán, "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes" (NYU Press, 2026)
Q: Before we dive in, can you tell listeners a bit about your backgrounds and training?
Isabel and Angharad discuss their pathways into studying popular culture, including shifts in academia, conferences, and collaborations that led to the book project.
Tara Mulder, "A Womb of One's Own: Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome" (U California Press, 2026)
Q: What were some of the risks in the postpartum period, and how were they mitigated?
Postpartum risks included ensuring the placenta was expelled and managing the umbilical cord; practices included delaying cord cutting and using techniques like placing the baby on a bladder to apply gentle traction, while midwives faced distrust from male physicians who worried about mishandling the cord.
Tara Mulder, "A Womb of One's Own: Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome" (U California Press, 2026)
Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?
I'm an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who combines personal experience with scholarly study, blending childbirth observations from my life with rigorous work in the ancient world to tell the story of childbirth in Ancient Rome.
Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Q: Why study intoxicating substances historically in this context?
Because they illuminate networks of imperial influence, the development of capitalism and consumer culture, diplomacy, and medicine, and because they reveal how substances moved people and policies across the globe.

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