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Spacecraft / The Stuff of Life by Timothy Morton

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - November 03, 2023 20:43 - 1 hour
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, USA. They are the author of 16 books, including Being Ecological (2018) and Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (2017), and 200 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food.  ...

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The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood by Alisa Perren and Gregory Steirer, part two

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - July 21, 2023 13:00 - 26 minutes
Alisa Perren is Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film and Co-Director of the Center for Entertainment and Media Industries at The University of Texas at Austin and editorial collective member of the journal Media Industries.   Gregory Steirer is Associate Professor of English ...

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The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood by Alisa Perren and Gregory Steirer, part one

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - July 17, 2023 14:41 - 43 minutes
Alisa Perren is Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film and Co-Director of the Center for Entertainment and Media Industries at The University of Texas at Austin and editorial collective member of the journal Media Industries.   Gregory Steirer is Associate Professor of English ...

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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. Green, part two

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - May 05, 2023 13:00 - 17 minutes
Tara T. Green is CLASS Distinguished Professor and Chair of African American Studies at the University of Houston, USA. She is the author of several books including See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure during the Interwar Era (2022) and editor of two books, including From the Plantation t...

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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. Green, part one

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - April 28, 2023 13:00 - 21 minutes
Tara T. Green is CLASS Distinguished Professor and Chair of African American Studies at the University of Houston, USA. She is the author of several books including See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure during the Interwar Era (2022) and editor of two books, including From the Plantation ...

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A Guide to the Psychology of Eating by Leighann R. Chaffee and Stephanie P. da Silva, part 2

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - March 17, 2023 13:00 - 22 minutes
Leighann Chaffee is Associate Teaching Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and Stephanie P. da Silva is a psychology professor at Columbus State University, USA. Together, they are the co-authors of The Guide to the Psychology of Eating. In part two of our episode,...

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A Guide to the Psychology of Eating by Leighann R. Chaffee and Stephanie P. da Silva, part 1

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - March 14, 2023 16:12 - 27 minutes
Leighann Chaffee is Associate Teaching Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, USA, and Stephanie P. da Silva is a psychology professor at Columbus State University, USA. Together, they are the co-authors of The Guide to the Psychology of Eating. In this episode, we will be ta...

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Indigenous Women's Voices: 20 Years on from Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies edited by Emma Lee and Jennifer Evans, part two

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - February 03, 2023 22:47 - 28 minutes
Emma Lee is a trawlwulwuy woman of tebrakunna country, north-east Tasmania, Australia. Her research fields over the last 25 years have focused on Indigenous affairs, land and sea management, natural and cultural resources, regional development, policy and governance of Australian regulatory envi...

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Indigenous Women's Voices: 20 Years on from Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies edited by Emma Lee and Jennifer Evans, part one

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - January 26, 2023 16:45 - 30 minutes
Emma Lee is a trawlwulwuy woman of tebrakunna country, north-east Tasmania, Australia. Her research fields over the last 25 years have focused on Indigenous affairs, land and sea management, natural and cultural resources, regional development, policy and governance of Australian regulatory envi...

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Britney Spears' Blackout by Natasha Lasky, part two

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - January 20, 2023 14:00 - 28 minutes
If you would like to buy your own copy of Britney Spears’s Blackout, go to the Bloomsbury website and use code pod35 followed your respective country code, US, UK, CA, AU, depending on where you are located.   Natasha Lasky is a writer and filmmaker living in Chicago and author of our 33 1/3...

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Britney Spears' Blackout by Natasha Lasky, part one

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - January 13, 2023 14:00 - 28 minutes
If you would like to buy your own copy of Britney Spears’s Blackout, go to the Bloomsbury website and use code pod35 followed your respective country code, US, UK, CA, AU, depending on where you are located.   Natasha Lasky is a writer and filmmaker living in Chicago and author of our 33 1/3...

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Nuclear Russia by Paul Josephson, part 2

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - December 30, 2022 14:00 - 29 minutes
This is part two of our episode on Nuclear Russia, and we are continuing our conversation with Paul Josephson, Professor of History at Colby College, USA. We’ll be discussing the groups that have suffered as a result of Russia’s pursuit of nuclear power, a nuclear themed beauty contest, and the ...

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Nuclear Russia by Paul Josephson, part 1

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - December 16, 2022 14:27 - 24 minutes
Paul Josephson is Professor of History at Colby College, USA, and he is the author of twelve books, including Nuclear Russia: The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture. We start off with an overview of the history of nuclear physics and how its emergence in Russia compares with other parts of the...

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Queer Data by Kevin Guyan

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - November 18, 2022 14:00 - 36 minutes
If you would like to buy your own copy of Queer Data, go to the Bloomsbury website and use code pod35 followed your respective country code, US, UK, CA, AU, depending on where you are located.  How do we decide who counts? Kevin Guyan, queer author, activist and scholar, joins us to discuss hi...

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Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners, part two

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - October 28, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes
Mojisola Adebayo is a playwright, performer, director, producer, workshop facilitator and lecturer, and Lynette Goddard is Professor of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Together, they are the anthology editors of Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners. In par...

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Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners, part one

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - October 24, 2022 18:44 - 34 minutes
If you would like to buy your own copy of Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners, go to the Bloomsbury website and use code pod35 followed your respective country code, US, UK, CA, AU, depending on where you are located. Mojisola Adebayo is a playwright, performer, director, producer, wor...

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The Godfather, part two

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - October 18, 2022 13:00 - 33 minutes
If you would like to buy your own copy of The Godfather, go to the Bloomsbury website and use code pod35 followed your respective country code, US, UK, CA, AU, depending on where you are located. Jon Lewis is the University Distinguished Professor of Film Studies and University Honors College ...

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The Godfather, part one

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - October 14, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes
If you would like to buy your own copy of The Godfather, go to the Bloomsbury website and use code pod35 followed your respective country code, US, UK, CA, AU, depending on where you are located. Jon Lewis is the University Distinguished Professor of Film Studies and University Honors College ...

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The Empire Strikes Back, part two

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - September 23, 2022 14:53 - 30 minutes
If you would like to buy your own copy of The Empire Strikes Back, go to the Bloomsbury website and use code pod35 followed your respective country code, US, UK, CA, AU, depending on where you are located. Rebecca Harrison is a Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Glasgow, UK a...

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The Empire Strikes Back, part one

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - September 16, 2022 15:50 - 34 minutes
If you would like to buy your own copy of The Empire Strikes Back, go to the Bloomsbury website and use code pod35 followed your respective country code, US, UK, CA, AU, depending on where you are located. Rebecca Harrison is a Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Glasgow, UK a...

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Your Boss is an Algorithm, part two

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - September 02, 2022 13:24 - 26 minutes
If you would like to buy your own copy of Your Boss is an Algorithm, go to the Bloomsbury website and use code pod35 followed your respective country code, US, UK, CA, AU, depending on where you are located. Antonio Aloisi is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow and Assistant Professor of European an...

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Your Boss Is an Algorithm, Part One

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - August 26, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes
If you would like to buy your own copy of Your Boss is an Algorithm, go to the Bloomsbury website and use code pod35 followed by your respective country code, US, UK, CA, AU, depending on where you are located.   Antonio Aloisi is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow and Assistant Professor of Euro...

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Thinking Through Loneliness, Part Two

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - August 05, 2022 14:57 - 31 minutes
This is part two of our episode on Thinking Through Loneliness. We are continuing our conversation with Diane Enns, Professor of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. In part of two this episode, we discuss the ambiguity of loneliness, social media, the ways we can re-focus on t...

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Thinking Through Loneliness, Part One

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - July 29, 2022 15:32 - 31 minutes
Diane Enns is Professor of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada as well as the author of Thinking Through Loneliness, a lyrical and compassionate philosophy of loneliness. Throughout the book, Enns explores the ambiguities of being alone and argues that loneliness needs to be re...

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Queer Euripides, Part Two

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - July 22, 2022 13:53 - 26 minutes
Sarah Olsen is Assistant Professor of Classics at Williams College, USA, and Mario Telò is Professor of Classics and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Together, they are the editors of Queer Euripides, the first volume to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient c...

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Queer Euripides, Part One

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - July 15, 2022 14:55 - 30 minutes
Sarah Olsen is Assistant Professor of Classics at Williams College, USA, and Mario Telò is Professor of Classics and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Together, they are the editors of Queer Euripides, the first volume to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient c...

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Kaveh Askari

Prerequisites - April 18, 2022 13:40 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
A conversation with Dr. Kaveh Askari (MSU Film Studies Program) about his new book, Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit, published by the University of California Press in 2022. Topics include media historiography in Iran, thinking through media objects, pira...

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Lamar Johnson

Prerequisites - April 15, 2022 15:15 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
A conversation with Dr. Lamar Johnson (MSU English) about his new book, Critical Race English Education: New Visions, New Possibilities, published with Routledge (National Council of Teachers of English) series in 2021. Topics include the motivation for writing this visionary book, the s...

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Juliet Guzzetta

Prerequisites - April 15, 2022 15:11 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
A conversation with Dr. Juliet Guzzetta (MSU English) about her new book, The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of History, published with Northwestern University Press in 2021. The conversation discusses the history of this fascinating genre, the I...

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The Future is Feminine with Ciara Cremin, Part Two

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast - December 16, 2021 10:30 - 26 minutes
We are continuing our conversation with Ciara Cremin about capitalism and what she refers to as the masculine disorder. We explore the relationship between far-right authoritarianism and masculinity, as well as the ways in which masculinity dominates leftist spaces.  Upon that reflection we disc...

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