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Caitlin Vincent
An opera librettist and cultural labor scholar
Episode: Caitlin Vincent, "Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
Stuart Klawans
Author and film scholar
Columbia University Press
Episode: Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Lesley Nicole Braun
Research associate at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Basel and principal investigator on a Swiss National Foundation grant.
University of Basel
Episode: Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Jason Isralowitz
Author of Nothing to Fear, Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men
Fayetteville Mafia Press
Episode: Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)
Kelsey Klotz
Lecturer of Music and the Assistant Dean for Inclusive Excellence for the College of Arts and Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Episode: Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dr. Susan McCready
Professor of French at the University of South Alabama and co-director for the Center of the Study of War and Memory at South Alabama
University of South Alabama
Episode: Susan McCready, "Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Agata Fijalkowski
Reader in Law at Leeds Becket University
Leeds Becket University
Episode: Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
Eric G. Wilson
Professor of English at Wake Forest University, author of several books including 'Secret Cinema' and 'The Strange World of David Lynch'.
Wake Forest University
Episode: Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Honor Moore
Award-winning poet and memoirist, co-editor of Library of America volume on Women's Liberation.
Library of America
Episode: Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore

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Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Q: Could you tell us more about the significance of dancing in front of mirrors?
Braun explains the intertwining of dance and moral perceptions in relation to power dynamics within Kinshasa.
Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Q: What led you to Kinshasa?
Braun discusses her fascination with the history of Congolese rumba music and the impact of migration on its evolution.
Caitlin Vincent, "Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
Q: Why does diversity in opera matter?
Caitlin discussed how the traditional staging practices often alienate modern audiences and highlighted the need for representation in casting and storytelling to keep opera relevant.
Caitlin Vincent, "Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
Q: What motivated you to write the book?
Caitlin spoke about her love-hate relationship with opera, emphasizing the complexities of the industry and her experience as both a practitioner and researcher.
Susan McCready, "Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Q: How does interwar theatre mirror or contrast with contemporaneous monumental art?
McCready argues that both were integral to the memorial culture of the time, but have since become overlooked in the cultural landscape.

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