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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ge... more

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Wednesday, February 18—Called “the greatest American diary of the nineteenth century,” the journal of the patrician New York City lawyer George Templeton Strong stands as a remarkable documentary record of the Civil War and a captivating literary acc... more

In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 – known colloquially as the 'Birthplace' – remains the chief shrine. It's not as romantic as Anne Hathaway's thatched cottage, it's ... more

In this RTB and Novel Dialogue episode from 2021, Helen Garner sits down with John and Elizabeth McMahon, a distinguished scholar of Australian literature. Helen’s novels range from the anti-patriarchy exuberance of Monkey Grip (1977) to the heartbre... more

Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction: Queering Girlhood (Routledge, 2025) is the first sustained critical analysis of the representation of sapphic adolescent protagonists in contemporary Irish Young Adult (YA) literature. Ten YA no... more

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Recent Guests

Elizabeth McMahon
Distinguished scholar of Australian literature at the University of New South Wales
Episode: Helen Garner Hacking Away at the Adverbs: A Novel Dialogue Crossover Conversation
Helen Garner
Australian author known for her novels and non-fiction work
Episode: Helen Garner Hacking Away at the Adverbs: A Novel Dialogue Crossover Conversation
Iria Seijas-Pérez
Author and researcher focusing on YA literature and queer studies, with a PhD from the University of Vigo.
University of Extremadura
Episode: Iria Seijas-Pérez, "Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction: Queering Girlhood"(Routledge, 2025)
Professor Sourit Bhattacharya
Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures at the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
Episode: Sourit Bhattacharya, "Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising" (Orient BlackSwan, 2024)
Ann Komaromi
Acting director of the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, and recently promoted to full professor.
University of Toronto
Episode: Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Ian Smith
Professor of English at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
Episode: Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dr. Polina Dimova
Professor of Russian at the University of Denver and comparative literature scholar.
University of Denver
Episode: Polina Dimova, "At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Anny-Dominique Curtius
Professor of Francophone Studies at the University of Iowa with published works on Caribbean literature and feminist narratives.
University of Iowa
Episode: Jacqueline Couti and Anny Dominique Curtius, "Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
Jacqueline Couti
Laurence H. Favrot Professor of French at Rice University and author of several notable works on French-Caribbean literature.
Rice University
Episode: Jacqueline Couti and Anny Dominique Curtius, "Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

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    for all authors, interviewers should allow time for them to present their perspectives, but there should also be thorough and respectful challenging, including sources, methodology, potential gaps, and questioning about contrary perspectives. this is not always done, to the detriment of the audience and the authors.

    where the podcast fails is where so... more

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Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Q: How do you see the relationship between Samizdat and conceptual art?
Conceptual artists used Samizdat to document their works and theorize about art in alternative spaces away from official institutions.
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Q: Can you tell us a bit about the role of Samizdat in that process of destabilization?
Samizdat responded to and participated in the changes after Stalin died, facilitating discussions around previously taboo topics.
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Q: How do you define Samizdat for the purpose of your study?
Samizdat is essentially a form of self-publishing that emerged as a grassroots method of distributing uncensored literature in the Soviet Union.
Iria Seijas-Pérez, "Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction: Queering Girlhood"(Routledge, 2025)
Q: Can you talk us through this a little bit?
I wanted my corpus of study to be diverse to provide various perspectives about sapphic identity in Ireland.
Helen Garner Hacking Away at the Adverbs: A Novel Dialogue Crossover Conversation
Q: What is your favorite treat while writing?
While writing, Garner enjoys going for a facial, as it offers a quiet moment where someone is caring for her, which feels rejuvenating.

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