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A groundbreaking reassessment of the relationship between Federico García Lorca and American poet Philip Cummings and its impact on the poems in Lorca's landmark collection, Poet in New York.

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Recent Guests

Xiaofan Amy Li
Associate Professor in Comparative Cultural Studies at University College London; author of The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures
University College London; Cambridge University Press (publisher)
Episode: Xiaofan Amy Li, "The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Aarthi Vadde
Professor and author of We the Platform
Duke University / Columbia University Press (We the Platform)
Episode: Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature (Columbia UP, 2026)
Lauren Delapenha
Poet and English teacher; reader of her poems from The Common's Spring Issue
The Common Magazine / The Common Online
Episode: Lauren Delapenha, "Supermarketing" (Spring, 2026)
Jarvis C. McInnis
Author of After Lives of the Plantation, Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South
Columbia University
Episode: Jarvis C. McInnis, "Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Bridget Hourican
Wife of Frank Callanan; editor and collaborator on the book
Editor/Editorial collaborator for James Joyce: A Political Life
Episode: Bridget Hourican on Frank Callanan's "James Joyce: A Political Life" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Michael R. Griffiths
Author of Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought
University of Wollongong
Episode: Michael R. Griffiths, "The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Naomi Kanakia
Author of What's So Great about the Great Books and author of Woman of Letters (Substack)
Princeton University Press
Episode: Naomi Kanakia, "What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) (Princeton UP, 2026)
Caro Pirri
Associate Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
Episode: Caro Pirri, "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Edlie Wong
Author of Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific
Cambridge University Press
Episode: Edlie Wong, "Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

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  • who gets a voice?

    so some of the podcast episodes present right-wing "scholarship" of dubious merit. that's fine. people can listen and make their own judgments.

    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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Leah Pope Parker, "Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Q: Next question, could you discuss chapter four and the concept of the bodily traces of healing in post-mortem narratives?
Chapter 4 investigates the varied depictions of St. Athelthreth's post-mortem scar or lack thereof, illustrating how debates about scars reflect broader questions about the nature of the resurrected body and how disability informs eschatological expectations.
Leah Pope Parker, "Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Q: First, second question is about chapter 3.
Chapter 3 analyzes Ælfric's Life of St. Swithin, showing how disability and healing miracles function as a vehicle for promising resurrection and salvation, with a focus on visual signs (like crutches and prosthetics) and their theological implications.
Lauren Delapenha, "Supermarketing" (Spring, 2026)
Q: Do you feel like you learned something while you were writing Supermarketing, or what did playing with the words feel like?
Delapenha describes how early drafts and word prompts from a workshop with Maya Popa guided the poem, and how revision clarified the poem's focus, with an emphasis on anchoring words like articulation and how they carry multiple meanings.
Matthew Ritger, "Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
Q: What first drew you to prisons and incarceration as a research topic?
Ritger describes a long-standing interest that grew from archival curiosity and the realization that prison records could illuminate social history in powerful ways, guiding him back to the 16th–17th centuries to examine similar archives and the broader archive's potential to inform literary and cultural history.
Mikhail Pelevin, "Love, Honour and God: Pashto Writings of Early Modern Times" (Brill, 2025)
Q: Why does vernacularization not fully capture the Pashto experience, and what does a Pashto-centric approach reveal differently?
Pelevin contends that vernacularization is one-sided and argues for an emic, Pashto-centered perspective that foregrounds Pashto authors and logics rather than imposing Sanskrit/Persian-centric frameworks.

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A scholarly interview show that surfaces recent research across literature, history, translation, and related humanities, often through authors discussing their newly published books with another expert. Episodes cover colonialism, life writing, collaboration in authorship, visual culture, and editorial practices, frequently blending theoretical frames with concrete case studies and archival work. Noteworthy strengths include a strong emphasis on primary sources, cross-disciplinary connections, and detailed discussion of the research process, making it valuable for listeners who value rigorous academic interrogation, deep bibliography, and practical publishing insights. A distinctive angle is the sustained focus on collaboration, translatio... more

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