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, are open access, available to all to read for free via Project MUSE's Subscribe to Open initiative. Special issue guest editor Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei introduces Edward Snow this very special episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast.
Creative Writing graduate program. Among her many achievements, Muske-Dukes is the author of sixteen books, including poetry, novels, and essay collections. Her most recent book of poetry, Blue Rose, was a 2019 Pulitzer Prize short-list finalist. Carol Muske-Dukes’ new article, Fifth Season: Editing Larry Levis, appears in the most recent issue of Literary Imagination, and we’ve made her article available free to all to read via Project MUSE through the end of August.
The most recent issue of our journal Social Research focuses on the concept of “Gaslighting,” a term that has gained a great deal of popularity in recent years that has its roots in classic cinema and theatre, most famously in the 1944 film Gaslight, for which Ingrid Bergman was awarded a best actress Oscar. The articles in this special issue look at gaslighting in myriad contexts, from film and domestic violence to international politics and the judiciary. For this episode, we speak with two authors from the issue: sociologist Paige Sweet, who is looking at Gaslighting in Intimate Relationships, and Nora Gilbert, who co-specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and twentieth-century American film — an ideal platform from which she investigates an underexplored subgenre of films that arose in Gaslight’s immediate wake which she calls gaslight noir.Of course, fans of the Hopkins Press Journals may recognize Nora Gilbert’s name as the long-time editor of another one of our titles, Studies in the Novel. Both of the interviewees articles will be free to read in Social Research on Project MUSE through 31 August 2026.
Her article, which is available open access through Project MUSE, takes a look at how academic libraries are challenged in justifying their value in the current business-oriented higher education environment, particularly as non-revenue generating units with increasing costs, and how academic libraries can develop metrics to translate library service into key institutional performance indicators.This article, along with rest of this issue of portal: Libraries and the Academy is open access, available to read for free, thanks to the Project MUSE Subscribe to Open initiative.Elizabeth Szkirpan is a library and information studies professional with a research focus on the history of library technical services and business-adjacent practices for academic libraries. She currently works at Harvard Business School's Baker Library, where she assists with collection development and electronic resources licensing.
produces projection, suspicion, and moral crisis.In pre-press, the article has already garnered a great deal of attention, with over 8000 downloads. In 2024, Gabri and his students traveled to the American Literature Association conference in Chicago, where they presented their findings — becoming perhaps the first high school students to present at ALA. Last year, as The Great Gatsby celebrated its 100th anniversary, the research received mainstream press attention, including an article from Bay Area PBS affiliate KQED. “All White in the End: From the Passage of James Wait to the Passing of James Gatz; Intertextuality and the Riddle of Race in The Great Gatsby” is slated to publish in the summer 2026 issue of ELH, and will be available #OpenAccess at Project MUSE. Richard Gabri teaches high school English at Bentley School in Lafayette, California, and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University.
Today on the podcast, we talk with education scholars Gina Ann Garcia and Demetri L. Morgan about their recent article for Review of Higher Education, entitled “Mission-Based vs. Enrollment-Based Institutions: Segmented Governance at a Catholic Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI)”This article explores the role of governing boards of Hispanic Serving Institutions in advancing “servingness” — in other words, the embodiment of an identity for serving Latines, and the authors study this through the lens of the ways trustees at one Catholic Hispanic Serving Institution make sense of their organization’s identity. Garcia and Morgan conclude with their recommendation that HSIs trustees must understand their institutions as unique, and that governing boards have a distinct role in influencing “servingness.” The Review of Higher Education is one of our #S2O #OpenAccess journals, so this article, along with all of the issues from this volume year of the Review of Higher Education is free for everyone to read at Project MUSE.
Today on the podcast, we meet Alex Brostoff and rl Goldberg, the guest editors of the special issue of College Literature on trans literatures.Alex Brostoff is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Georgetown University, and rl Goldberg is currently Assistant Professor of Queer Studies at Hampshire College. Independently, Brostoff and Goldberg have done a lot of interesting and innovative work on literature, transness, queerness, and auto theory, and together they’ve joined forces not just to edit this issue of College Literature, but also a forthcoming book from Fordham Press, titled Reassignments: Trans and Sex from the Clinical to the Critical.This issue of College Literature offers a variety of exciting pieces, including Stephanie Burt on Philip Larkin, Sarah Snyder and Will Anderson on Incarcerated Trans Resistance, and Cameron Awkward-Rich on Red Jordan Arobateau. The issue also includes must-read interviews with Jordy Rosenberg, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, gaita nihil, Cole Rizki — and there’s so much more. We’re making this whole issue free to read on Project MUSE through May 15, so go forth and read while you listen!
The latest issue of Literary Imagination includes Six Tanka by Shizuka Omori, and on today’s episode Literary Imagination editor Paul Franz brings together Shizuka Omori reading her poetry, along with translations by poet Yuki Tanaka. And after the poems, an interview between Franz, Omori and Tanaka about the tanka tradition and method, as well as an exploration of the process of translation. We’ve made Omori’s tanka pieces In Literary Imagination free to read on Project MUSE thru the end of the month.
Today’s episode features a conversation between Literary Imagination editor Paul Franz, and Ryan Hintzman, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. He recently received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale.Ryan HIntzman has an article in the new issue of Literary Imagination called “Distant Views of Waka Bay: Traditional Japanese Verse and the Question of Lyric” which centers on the real and imaginary Waka Bay in Japan. Hintzman says “Waka Bay (Waka no ura) is a pliable poetic place name (utamakura) whose name suggests the “Bay of Japanese Poetry” (waka). The real Waka Bay is a picturesque salt marsh located down the coastline from modern Osaka, but over centuries of poetic practice the physical landscape became entangled with an idealized site for the exercise of the literary imagination.”We’ve made “Distant Views of Waka Bay: Traditional Japanese Verse and the Question of Lyric” available free to read via Project MUSE for the month of April.The image in the podcast icon is a view of Mount Nagusa from Mount Tengu in Wakayama, Wakayama prefecture, Japan. Photo by 663 Highlands; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
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Friends, and reviews regularly for other venues, including the Times Literary Supplement, PN Review, The Dark Horse and The Friday Poem.We publish a lot of poetry in the Hopkins Press Journals, and as we move into 2026 we’ll be offering more readings on the podcast, and pepper in some shorter episodes among the long form interviews.
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On today’s episode we’re talking with the guest editors of a forthcoming issue of Leviathan, a journal of Melville Studies. These three editors, Jordan Alexander Stein, Dana Seitler, and Adam Fales have put together a riveting collection of essays exploring what they call Melville's Queer Afterlives — scholarship on the ways Herman Melville’s work has influenced queer studies today. This is an epic conversation that includes mentions of Maurice Sendak and John Ashbery and, believe it or not, Gilbert Gottfried. A content warning: this episode contains some senstive content and may not be suitable for all listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
Today we are talking with Emily Cousens, who is an assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Northeastern University, London, and their expertise focuses on trans feminist philosophy and history. They are also the UK lead for the Digital Transgender Archive. They are the author of Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave, which is the first book to explore the philosophical and intellectual contributions of trans individuals in the 1970s. Emily’s got a new article in L'esprit Créateur called “Subjectivity Without Sex? The Materialist Trans Feminist Potential in Monique Wittig’s Non-Fiction” This is part of a special issue of L'esprit Créateur devoted to Monique Wittig, and this whole issue is available free to all because L'esprit Créateur is part of our Subscribe to Open (S2O) Open Access initiative. Click through in the show notes to learn more about this great new initiative, and especially to read some exciting new scholarship about Monique Wittig.
On today’s episode, we talk with Patrick McKelvey about his new article for Theatre Journal about the early 20th century publicity campaign that popularized the Seeing Eye Dog. Patrick McKelvey is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Notre Dame, and his research focuses the theatrical, cultural, and social history of disability in the twentieth-century United States. His first book, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (New York University Press, 2024) examines the relationship between US disability policy and the disability arts and culture movement, 1960-1990. He’s also currently a National Humanities Center Fellow, as well as Book Review Editor for American Quarterly, another of the journals Hopkins Press publishes. Patrick McKelvey’s Theatre Journal article "Honest Work Done by Honest Dogs":Canine Unemployment, Interspecies Rehabilitation, and Disability Performance.” will be available to read for free at Project MUSE for a few weeks after this podcast is released.
On today's episode, we talk with David Shiffman, author of Why Sharks Matter, about his recent study of how scientists are engaging social media: “Scientists No Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky." In this episode, we explore the findings of the survey and discuss some of the reasons why this shift has occurred. A marine conservation biologist and public science engagement specialist based in Washington, DC, David Shiffman is a prolific writer, with words appearing in National Geographic, the Washington Post, Scientific American, SCUBA magazine, his blog Southern Fried Science, and, of course, his 2022 Hopkins Press book, Why Sharks Matter. Follow him on the social media platform of your choice: @WhySharksMatter
On today's episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, we talk with Lisa Anderson about here new article in Social Research, “From Pursuing Truth to Managing Stress: The Costs and Consequences of the Therapeutic Turn in American Universities.” This is part of a phenomenal and timely special issue of Social Research devoted to exploring “The Embattled University.”Listeners will be able to read this article for free on Project MUSE through the end of September 2025.Dr. Anderson is Special Lecturer and James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations Emerita and Dean Emerita at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). She also served as provost and president of the American University in Cairo in 2008–2016.
Today we talking with Sarah M. Misemer, a professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M. She has a new article out in South Central Review’s "Worlds In Crisis" special issue, which is called “What a Bawd from the Renaissance Can Teach Us about AI: Celestina, Robots, and Free Will," Dr. Misemer's article takes a look back at a piece of bawdy Spanish Renaissance literature, La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, and considers what it has to say about human free will in the age of AI robots.
Today on the Podcast, we have Marissa J. Spear, whose new article in Journal of Women’s History studies “Women, Survival and the Black Panther Party in Baltimore.” In this article, Marissa J. Spear focuses on the activities of four women — Angie Hatten, Connie Felder, Lula Hudson, and Nkenge Touré — and the ways they transformed, and were transformed by — working with the party. It’s a story that comes to a head with a three-week-long seige of the Black Panther headquarters by police and FBI. It’s a great read for anyone interested in the history of the Black Panther party, of women’s liberation and the transformation of gender politics, and of the city of Baltimore. The article will be be free to read on Project MUSE through the end of August. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/960906
We are kicking off Season 4 of the pod with David Hollinger, who is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialties are American intellectual history and American ethnoracial history, and today we’ll talk to him about his new article for Social Research: An International Quarterly, entitled “The Evangelical Capture of the Republican Party and Its Implications for Academia”Dr. Hollinger’s new article is part of a new special issue called “The Embattled University,” a stellar issue which also features contributions from Judith Butler, Lisa Anderson, Albena Azamanova, Ahmed Bawa, Supriya Chaudhuri, Nicholas B. Dirks, Len Gutkin, and Jonathan Veitch. It's a highly recommended issue, especially for those with a stake in the future of higher education.
On today’s episode, we’re talking with Barrett Taylor, professor and coordinator of the higher education program at the University of North Texas. He studies the ways in which higher education interfaces with society, investigating topics including state politics and policy, the organization of academic work, and institutional inequality. Outside of his professorship, he is a fellow in the Center for the Defense of Academic freedom, a project housed at the AAUP, funded by the Mellon Foundation and directed by Isaac Kamola.Together with Kimberly Watts (currently a doctoral candidate at UNT), he is the co-author of a new article in The Review of Higher Education entitled “Tenure Bans: An Exploratory Study of State Legislation Proposing to Eliminate Faculty Tenure, 2012-2022” This article, as you might guess, surveys ten years of proposed legislation across the United States aiming to restrict tenure in higher education, and offers observations on the underlying motives and meanings behind these legislative efforts, as well as some recommendations for educators and administrators interested in protecting academic freedom.
Koritha Mitchell is is a public intellectual, a professor of English, a literary historian, an award-winning author and cultural critic, and as of last year she is also a member of the Hopkins Press Advisory Board. Her work has already had quite an impact both within the academy as well as in the larger public sphere. Her article "Identifying White Mediocrity and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Form of Self-Care", which was published in African American Review in 2018, has impacted both the academy and the mainstream. Thousands of readers are still finding the article each year, making it one of our consistently most-read Hopkins Press Journal articles on Project MUSE.In our recent Hopkins Press Podcast interview, Mitchell defines her groundbreaking concept of "know-your-place aggression" as "a reaction to the success of people who are not supposed to be successful," and the idea has resonated into recent articles about Junot Diaz in Chronicle of Higher Education and Shedeur Sanders in Esquire, and a 2024 interview with Mitchell published in Public Books brought her work to the attention of numerous new readers. Over the years, Mitchell has been a prolific contributor to several of the journals that call Hopkins Press home, including Callaloo, African American Review, American Quarterly, Theatre Journal, and J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
On today's Hopkins Press Podcast, we talk with Kelly Ross (editor of Poe Studies) Elissa Zellinger (guest editor of the forthcoming special issue of Poe Studies), and Eliza Richards, author of Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle. This fall, a new special issue of Poe Studies — due out in Fall 2025 — celebrates 20 years of Eliza Richards' influential book, which has played an important role on the study of 19th century women poets as well as other minoritized poets, print culture, and even Poe himself.
On this episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, we sat down in the library of the Hopkins Press offices with Milan Terlunen, author of an article in the new issue of Book History entitled “What We Can(’t) Know Before We Read: Towards a Theory of the Pre-Reading Environment." Dr. Terlunen coins this term, "the pre-reading environment" to talk about all the ways we come to know things about a text — a book, a film, etc. — before we read it, if we ever read it. Terlunen's article focuses on newspaper reviews of Agatha Christie's 1926 novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Twitter discussions about Hanya Yanagihara's 2016 novel A Little Life, but as you'll learn, pre-reading environments include a broad range of information, from advertising and cover art to spoiler alerts, content warnings, and even film rating systems.Milan Terlunen is a currently the 2024-25 Tabb Center/AGHI Engaged Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins who specializes in public and digital humanities, with a particular emphasis on podcasting. Dr. Terlunen is the co-founder of the Humanities Podcast Network and the host of the How To Read podcast. This Spring, he is convening a series of podcasting round tables called What Makes Podcasting Accessible?, featuring podcasters across the Hopkins community and beyond. Beginning February 27 and running through April, these round tables will be available to attend both in person and streaming as well. On March 26, Hopkins Press Podcast host Rahne Alexander will be among the guests participating in the What Makes Podcasting Accessible? round table.
On this episode of The Hopkins Press Podcast, we introduce you to Kyla Kupferstein Torres, the new executive editor of Callaloo, the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora. This year, she took the reins of from the founding editor of Callaloo, Charles H. Rowell, who founded Callaloo in 1976 and cultivated the journal into a vital voice for original work by and about writers and visual artists of African descent worldwide. We talk with Kyla Kupferstein Torres about the legacy of Callaloo and the exciting plans she has for the journal's new era. To accompany this podcast, we're providing a supplementary reading list, highlighting some of the great pieces Callaloo has published over the years. Read them all at https://www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/callaloo-reading-list-across-decades
On today's episode, we talk with Scott Gelber, a professor of education who currently serves as chair of the Education Department at Wheaton College about his recent article for Review of Higher Education is titled "Does Academic Freedom Protect Pedagogical Autonomy?" and discuss the origins of the idea "academic freedom" and how it's considered regarding pedagogy today. "Does Academic Freedom Protect Pedagogical Autonomy?" is available to read for free on Project MUSE through 30 November 2024 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/937142About Scott Gelberhttps://departments.wheatoncollege.edu/faculty/scott-gelber/Scott Gelber is a historian whose work focuses on the development of American education during the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. He is the author of Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of American College Access, 1860-1960 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), and The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), which won the Linda Eisenmann Prize of the History of Education Society. Gelber has published articles and essays in the American Journal of Education, American Journal of Legal History, Journal of Social History, and History of Education Quarterly, among others. His research has been supported by the National Academy of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He is working on two research projects: a history of learning disabilities and a study of federal financial aid during the New Deal. Before arriving at Wheaton, Gelber taught high school in New York City and supervised student teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Scott Gelber - Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12156/grading-collegeScott Gelber - Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of College Access, 1860−1960 https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/11347/courtrooms-and-classroomsJonathan Zimmerman - The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12000/amateur-hour
All through 2024, one of the most-read articles across all of the Hopkins Press journals has been "Exploring Undergraduate Research Experiences For Latinx College Students From Farmworker Families", published in the January-February 2022 issue of Journal of College Student Development. We talk with three authors of this multidisclipinary team—Sneha Amaresh, Raúl Gámez, and Joseph Lee—to explore more deeply the background of this popular study that looks at ways academic research can be strengthened through inclusivity. This article is free to read through the month of September: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/853534Sneha Amaresh is currently pursuing her Master of Public Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a bachelor's degree in public health from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. With a strong passion for qualitative research, Sneha focuses on the social determinants of health, environmental health, and social justice. Raúl Gámez is a Ph.D. candidate in higher education at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan. Raúl’s research focuses on understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion as organizational processes with the potential for transforming higher education institutions into more equitable, inclusive, and just organizations. He earned an MA in higher education administration at the University of Michigan and a BA in theatre arts and translation and interpretation studies from California State University, Long Beach. Before enrolling in graduate school, Raúl worked with migrant and immigrant youth in North Carolina using theatre and arts as tools for leadership development. He also coordinated a statewide coalition focused on increasing college access for undocumented students. https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/people/student-staff/gamez.htmlJoseph G. L. Lee, PhD, MPH, is the McGee Professor of Health Education and Promotion at East Carolina University (ECU) and the Associate Dean for Research at ECU College of Health and Human Performance. His research seeks to document, understand, and reduce unfairness in health by building evidence for policy interventions that make a difference. Lee focuses this work in three areas: the health of young people at risk of tobacco use; the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people; and the health of farmworkers and farmworker families. Much of his work is centered in eastern North Carolina at East Carolina University's Department of Health Education and Health Promotion.https://scholars.ecu.edu/display/F80379154Music from this episode is "le train sur du velours" by Jean Toba, available at the Free Music Archive. freemusicarchive.org/music/jean-tob…ur-du-velours/
Dr. Helene Hedian, Director of Clinical Education, Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health, discusses data a new study published in the February 2024 edition of Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved,"What Patients Want in a Transgender Center:Building a Patient-Centered Program." This article is free to read through the month of June. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/919816Music from this episode is "le train sur du velours" by Jean Toba, available at the Free Music Archive. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/jean-toba/n-e-es-du-sommeil-1/le-train-sur-du-velours/
Speculative fiction author and children's literature scholar Gabriela Lee's recent article in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, "When the Shoe Doesn't Fit: Reading Cinderella as Colonial Children's Literature in the Philippines," went viral earlier this year on Hopkins Press social media. We kick off our new season of the Hopkins Press podcast with a discussion of her article and the ways children's myths have been used as colonial tools.For more information, including links to the author's website and a link to the journal article discussed in this issue, please visit https://press.jhu.edu/multimedia
Our guest this week is Dr. Robert Karp. Dr. Karp is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. A native Philadelphian, he is a graduate of Central High School, Muhlenberg College and Thomas Jefferson University Medical College, did his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in nutrition at New York Hospital/ Cornell Medical Center and completed training as Chief Resident at St Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. He stayed on the St Christopher’s staff in a War on Poverty School Health and Nutrition project. His 14 years in Philadelphia are summarized in a 1993 text, "Malnourished Children in The United States: Caught in the Cycle of Poverty." The remainder of his active career was in Brooklyn at SUNY Downstate where he was director of residency training and service clinics at Kings County and SUNY Downstate Hospitals. While at Kings County he read a study from 1962 by Harold Jacobziner and Harry Raybin describing the epidemiology of lead poisoning in New York City. Many of the children attending Kings County’s lead poisoning clinic were from three `lead belt’ neighborhoods in north Brooklyn described – Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant and Crowne Heights. More recently, with publication of the FHA maps of 1934, he recognized the same neighborhoods as being “redlined.” His commentary on this connection “Redlining and lead Poisoning: Causes and Consequences” followed, and was recently published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved and is available Open Access.
Our guest this episode is Scott Kushner, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Rhode Island's Harrington School of Communication and Media. His scholarship and teaching explore the ways overlooked media give shape to our everyday encounters with culture. his work has appeared in venues including Space & Culture, Convergence, and New Media & Society. Most recently, He published a paper in the journal Technology and Culture, titled "Controlling Crowds: On the Technological Management of Entertainment Audiences." We sat down with him to learn more about how technology plays a role in the way a crowd becomes an audience.
Our guests this week are Dr. Mandy Savitz-Romer and Dr. Heather Rowan-Kenyon. Dr. Savitz-Romer is the Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Senior Lecturer in Human Development and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also the faculty lead of the school counseling strand of the Human Development and Education program. Dr. Heather Rowan-Kenyon is professor and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. Their paper, "School Counselors and College Counseling During the COVID-19 Pandemic" was published in latest issue of the Review of higher Education. They joined us to discuss how the covid-19 pandemic has shifted how school counselors focus their work and the state of the profession today.
On this episode, we are joined by Elizabeth Lanphier, a faculty member in the Ethics Center and in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She is a philosopher and bioethicist affiliated faculty in the University of Cincinnati departments of Pediatrics, Philosophy, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as well as the Center for Public Engagement With Science, and is a non-resident fellow with the George Mason Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. She is guest editor, along with Larry Churchill, of the latest issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, which is titled " "Translational Work of Bioethics." She joins us today to talk about how the issue came about, and what important work the field of bioethics is doing today.
We are joined this episode by Jennifer Hochschild and David Beavers, both of Harvard University. Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. Her recent books include Genomic Politics: How the Revolution in Genomic Science Is Shaping American Society (2021) and Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics (2016), coauthored with Katherine Levine Einstein. David Beavers is a PhD student in the Department of Government, Harvard University. He specializes in the study of political communication in the United States. He was formerly a journalist and editor at Politico.Their recent paper, "Learning from Experience? COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Their Implications for Democratic Discourse," was published in the Fall 2022 issue of Social Research. Their study looked at coronavirus-related conspiracy narratives in the United States across the continuum of political affiliation. They joined us today to discuss their research and how what they found surprised them.
Our guest today is Dr Sahanika Ratnayake - a philosopher of psychiatry and medicine, whose work focuses on talking therapy. She is interested in what constitutes evidence for talking therapy, the ethics of therapy and the integration of therapy into healthcare systems. She is currently a researcher at the UK Council for Psychotherapy. She joined us today to discuss her paper published in a recent issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, titled "It's Been Utility All Along: An Alternate Understanding of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and The Depressive Realism Hypothesis."
Last month, the United States Post office announced its 2023 slate of stamp designs, which includes tributes to writers Toni Morrison and Earnest Gaines, both of whom died in 2019.
Our guest today, Dr. Rafael Walker, recently published a paper in the journal Arizona Quarterly that examines there two extraordinary writers. He explores how Gaines' last book, "The Tragedy of Brady Sims" draws parallels to Toni Morrison's "Beloved". Dr. Walker joined us to discuss his research and the legacy of these two critically acclaimed authors.
Rafael Walker is assistant professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York, where he is also affiliate faculty in the Department of Black and Latino Studies and in the Program in Women and Gender Studies. He has published on a variety of topics both in American literature and in higher education. Walker is the editor of a critical edition of Kate Chopin's work, The Awakening and Other Selected Stories (Warbler Press), and of Broadview Press's inaugural edition of Nella Larsen’s Passing (forthcoming). And he is working on two book-length monographs—one on the American realist novel and the other on biraciality in American culture.
Our guest today is Nicholas Tilmes, whose research focuses on the intersection of cognition, law, and technology, ranging from disability rights to neurotechnology and AI. He holds an M.A. in Bioethics from NYU and a B.A. in Philosophy & Psychology from Cornell University. He joins us today to discuss his paper published in the latest issue of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, which examines the areas of psychological diagnosis that are fuzzy, vague, or indeterminate, and philosophical ways this vagueness can be reckoned with.
Our guest this week is Dr. Samuel Woolley, a researcher and writer who examines how emerging media tools are used for both democracy and control. He is a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin and directs the Propaganda Research Lab at UT’s Center for Media Engagement. He has published four books, including the recently released Bots and the forthcoming Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Age of Automation and Anonymity. He has testified before the U.S. Congress regarding the impact of electoral disinformation on communities of color. His work has been presented to and cited by the UK Parliament, NATO, and the United Nations.
He joined us today to discuss his paper recently published in the Journal of Democracy - "Digital Propaganda: The Power of Influencers", which examines how attempts to manipulate public opinion using social media and emerging information communication technologies continue to proliferate and evolve internationally.
Hopkins Press is honored to welcome to this podcast episode President of The New School in New York City, Dr. Dwight McBride.
Dr. McBride is an accomplished higher education leader, educator, scholar, and author. Over nearly three decades in higher education, he has encouraged innovation in scholarship and teaching, launched initiatives to build interdisciplinary strength around global challenges, created environments that foster inclusive excellence, and expanded opportunities for experiential learning.
The Summer 2022 issue of the journal Social Research, Books That Matter II, invited notable scholars to select one book that had a deep and lasting influence on their thinking and life. Dr. McBride's essay, "A Rising Tide Lifts all Boats", reflects on Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects. He joined us to discuss his essay, which not only details Wheatley's remarkable life and writing, but examines what over 200 years of analysis and criticism of Wheatley's work can show us about the history of racism in the United States and its enduring impact on African American literature.
This week we are joined by Dr. Rebecca Natow, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at Hofstra University, where she is also the director of the Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies program. Dr. Natow is an expert on higher education policy and has conducted extensive research on the U.S. Department of Education’s rulemaking process, performance-based funding for higher education, federal higher education policymaking, and research utilization in the creation of federal regulations. She joined Hopkins Press to speak about her legislation research recently published in the Review of Higher Education.
The Summer 2022 issue of Social Research, Books That Matter II, invited notable scholars to select one book that had a deep and lasting influence on their thinking and life.
Joining us this episode is Dr. Wendy Doniger. Dr. Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, Emerita. She is the author of over forty books, including The Hindus: An Alternative History [2010], Hinduism in the Norton Anthology of World Religions [2014].
Dr. Doniger's essay for Books that Matter II, "My Life in Wonderland", explores the many ways the work of Lewis Carroll has held a special place in her heart. She joined us to discuss her essay and how Carroll's work has threaded through her scholarly work, as well.
Our guest today is Maria Ortiz-Myers. Maria is a doctoral candidate in library and information science at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her research focuses on information practice, particularly collaborative information interactions and personally meaningful information experiences. The journal Library Trends recently published her paper, titled "The Information Practices of Parents of Transgender and Non-Binary Youth: An Exploratory Study". She joined us to discuss her research on how families of transgender youth pursue and assess information.
Dr. Clara Humpston is our guest this week, discussing her paper “Isolated by Oneself: Ontologically Impossible Experiences in Schizophrenia,” published in the latest issue of the journal Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology.
Dr. Rachel Pruchno is an endowed professor of medicine at Rowan University and the director of research at the New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging. She joins Hopkins Press Acquisitions Editor Joe Rusko to discuss her book, Beyond Madness: The Pain and Possibilities of Serious Mental Illness.
Our guests this week are The Hopkins Review's Dora Malech and Kosiso Ugweuze. They joined us to talk about the literary journal's recent dramatic redesign, and what's in store for the publication's bright future.
Dora Malech an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the new editor-in-chief of The Hopkins Review. She has written four books of poetry: Flourish (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020), Stet (Princeton University Press, 2018), Say So (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), and Shore Ordered Ocean (2009). With Laura T. Smith, she is the co-editor of The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Essays and Poems, forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in 2022.
Kosiso Ugwueze is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and editor. She was born in Enugu, Nigeria and raised in Southern California. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Joyland, Gulf Coast, Subtropics, and the New England Review, among others.Kosiso is an MFA candidate in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University where she’s the managing editor of The Hopkins Review.
Joining us on this episode is Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien, a postdoctoral fellow at the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University, also affiliated with École Normale supérieure (Paris). She holds a PhD in philosophy of science and psychiatry at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Dr. Gagné-Julien was recently named the 2021 winner of the Karl Jaspers award, given by the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Her winning paper is titled "Dysfunction and the Definition of Mental Disorder in the DSM.”
Our guest this week is Dr. Z Nicolazzo, an associate professor of Trans* Studies in Education at the University of Arizona, which resides on the unceded homelands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui peoples. Dr, Nicolazzo's paper, "Ghost Stories from the Academy: A Trans Feminine Reckoning" speaks to her experience as a trans woman in academia. The paper was published in the Winter 2021 issue of The Review of Higher Education.
The Journal of the History of Philosophy occasionally selects articles published in its pages for 30 minute podcast interviews with the author(s). The interviewer and interviewee are both specialists in the field, but the podcast focuses on the significance of the article for the general philosophical public.
In this episode, Peter Adamson (LMU Munich) interviews Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) on Jari’s article, “Avicenna's Outsourced Rationalism,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 58.2 (April 2020): 215-40. The article won the JHP’s Prize for the best article published in its pages in 2020. The interview was recorded in November 2021.
Episode Transcript: https://www.press.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/2021-12/JHP%20Podcast%201%20transcript.pdf
Producer: Andrew Gittlitz Music: Taylor Carman JHP contact: Jack Zupko (zupkoATualberta.ca) Transcription by Calum Jopling, University of Alberta
Our guest this month is Dr Freeden Blume Oeur, author of Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools from University of Minnesota Press. Dr. Blume Oeur was Guest Editor for the most recent issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, and joins us today to discuss the special issue commemorating the 100th anniversary of the groundbreaking children's magazine, The Brownies' book.
Joining us today for a conversation about the history and ethics of vaccine mandates is Dr. James Colgrove, a Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and the Dean of the Premedical Program at the Columbia School of General Studies.
Can love be an unhealthy addiction? If you can't kick the habit (or heartbreak) cold turkey, can science help? On this episode, we are joined by Dr. Brian Earp. Dr. Earp is the Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and is a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He co-authored of Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships from Stanford University Press, and has published extensively on moral psychology, experimental philosophy, and bioethics. He joined us today to discuss his 2017 Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology paper, "Addicted to love: What is love addiction and when should it be treated?", which has been cited in The New York Times and New Scientist, among many other publications.
Joining us today is Molly Robson - a researcher, writer and photographer based in Wellington, New Zealand. Molly recently completed her Master’s thesis at Victoria University of Wellington, which explored how listeners engaged with podcasting during the pandemic, and sought to understand the affective dimensions of the fast-growing medium. Molly's paper, “Intimacy in Isolation: Podcasting, Affect and the Pandemic” was published in the latest issue of the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. She is currently working for an environmental organization as an advisor in science and policy communication.
Joining us today is Dr. Bruce Schulman. Dr. Schulman is the William E. Huntington Professor of History at Boston University, and has authored three books: From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt (N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1991); Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism (Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1994); and The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Politics, and Society (N.Y.: Free Press, 2001).
Dr. Schulman also directs the Institute for American Political History at Boston University And is a contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times.
Dr. Schulman's essay, "Islands in Time, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Decade" appears in the latest issue of the journal Reviews in American History. The essay is a comprehensive look at the Decade Book as a literary genre, and traces its history and cultural influence over the last century.
Dr. Leland Tabares is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. Prior to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of Contemporary American Literature at Washington University in St. Louis and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His latest paper, "Misfit Professionals: Asian American Chefs and Restaurateurs in the Twenty-First Century" appears in the Summer 2021 issue of the journal Arizona Quarterly. Listen as we learn more about how "misfit" Asian American chefs are gaining mainstream acclaim through challenging the norms of the restaurant industry.
On this episode, we are joined by University of Cincinnati Assistant Professor of Education, Dr. Antar Tichavakunda. Dr. Tichavakunda received his Ph.D. in Urban Education Policy from the University of Southern California. Born and raised in Washington, DC, he is a product of DC Public Schools and earned his Bachelor of Arts in Education Studies from Brown University. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked as an 11th grade English teacher in DC Public Schools. His latest paper, "Black Joy on White Campuses: Exploring Black Students' Recreation and Celebration at a Historically White Institution" was published in the Spring 2021 issue of The Review of Higher Education. Tune in for a thoughtful conversation about the lived experience of black students at HWI's, and how space for black joy and celebration is created by those living it.
On this episode: Jennifer Davis and Sandie Holguín, Editors of the award winning Journal of Women's History, join us to talk about the journal's recent cover redesign, new editorial website, and podcast.
On this episode, we are joined by Deborah Stevenson, Editor of the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books.
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books provides concise summaries and critical evaluations of current children's books. This invaluable resource assists readers with questions regarding the ever-evolving children's literature field. Reviews give an in-depth look at a selected book's content, reading level, strengths and weaknesses, and quality of the format, as well as suggestions for curricular use.
Deborah joined Mary Alice to talk about the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, as the journal prepares to celebrate its 75th year of publication.
Joining us on this episode is Dr. Peter Kirwan, recently named Editor of the journal Shakespeare Bulletin. Find out how an onstage accident resulted in one of the most unforgettable live performances Peter has witnessed, as well as news on the journal's upcoming special issues.
Peter is also author of The Bardathon review blog, and is two co-editor of collections out this month: Shakespeare's Audiences (with Matteo Pangallo; Routledge) and The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance(with Kathryn Prince; Bloomsbury).
Paige Gray joins us to discuss her research examining "The Defender Junior", a children's section that ran in the early 20th century in the widely circulated and profoundly influential African American newspaper "The Chicago Defender". Her paper, "Join the Club: African American Children's Literature, Social Change, and the Chicago Defender Junior" was originally published in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and was recently featured in The Conversation.
Joining the JHU Press Podcast today are Dr. Rob Shumaker and Professor Carl Jones.
Dr. Rob Shumaker is an evolutionary biologist who currently serves at the President and CEO of the Indianapolis Zoo. Professor Carl Jones is a global hero whose innovative techniques have saved numerous species from extinction and shaped the future of the conservation world. Having spent the majority of his career on Mauritius — an island nation in the Indian Ocean — he has pioneered ways to conserve the island’s wildlife and ecosystems. When Carl landed in Mauritius more than 40 years ago, there were only four Mauritius kestrels left — they were the world’s rarest bird at the time. He spent the next decade restoring the kestrel population, and now there are more than 400 in the wild. But the work didn’t end with kestrels. He has led the recovery efforts for nearly a dozen of the nation’s other wildlife, spanning birds, reptiles and mammals.
In 2016, Carl was awarded the Indianapolis Prize, often dubbed the “Nobel prize” of conservationism. The Indianapolis Prize is a biennial prize awarded by the Indianapolis Zoo to individuals for "extraordinary contributions to conservation efforts" affecting one or more animal species.
Saving Endangered Species: Lessons in Wildlife Conservation from Indianapolis Prize Winners is a new book edited by Rob Shumaker and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Carl Jones is among the Indianapolis Prize winners who contributed to the book, sharing their stories of conservation work.
Recently, Rob sat down with his friend Carl to catch up and hear more about the incredible work he has done - and how much there is left to do - in saving the earth's wildlife.
As members of The College English Association prepared for annual conference last spring, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic led organizers to a now all too familiar decision: the conference had to be cancelled. CEA Critic Editor Jeraldine Kraver was not only gutted about missing this annual event, but now had another challenge: the journals' third issue each year was normally a proceedings of the annual meeting. Along with everything else going on, she was now without a journal issue. But Jeri did what all talented educators know how to do well: change the plan and pivot accordingly. Within a few short weeks, The CEA Critic put out a call for papers for reflections of educators' and students' experiences teaching and learning during the early days of the pandemic. Join us in a candid and congenial conversation to find out how this special issue, "Living the Teaching Life in a Time of COVID-19" came together.
The JHU Press Podcast is a production of the Johns Hopkins University Press, produced by Mary Alice Yeskey and edited by Noelle Curtis. Theme music written and recorded by Emmett Sauchuck.
The Summer 2020 of the journal Social Research is a special issue, "In the Time of Plague : The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease - Covid-19 Edition". This special issue is a revisiting of the journal's Fall 1988 issue of the same name, which was a response to the AIDS epidemic. The Covid-19 edition made up of two "books". Book 1 includes response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and Book 2 is a re-print of the original 1988 issue. Join JHU Press in a conversation about this important and timely work with the journal's editor, Dr. Arien Mack.
For more info on the webinars referenced in this episode, visit
https://www.centerforpublicscholarship.org/single-post/In-Time-of-Plague-2020-COVID-19-webinars
This podcast is a production of the Johns Hopkins University Press, produced by Mary Alice Yeskey and edited by Noelle Curtis. Theme music written and recorded by Emmett Sauchuck.
The online journal Theory & Event has published a special supplement which focuses on the death of Michael Brown and the ensuing protests in Ferguson, Missouri, earlier this year. Nine essays attempt to examine the situation from a number of angles. Guest editor Melvin Rogers, an associate professor of Political Science and African American Studies at UCLA, joined us to talk about the special issue, titled "Disposable Lives."
The age-old academic adage of "publish or perish" still exists. Publishing a book can play a critical role in the future of any academic. However, one piece of that important puzzle plays an important role in the journals published by the JHU Press.
Book reviews.
Many of our 90 journals include reviews of important scholarship in each issue. These essays might not always get the attention of the other articles published by our journals, but the reviews play many critical roles in academic life.
We interviewed Book Review editors from three of our journals to learn about the importance of the work they do.
As the American Journal of Philology wraps up its 140th year of publishing, a new name stands at the top of the masthead. Joseph Farrell from the University of Pennsylvania took over as Editor earlier this year. He joined us on our podcast to talk about the transition as well as the critical issues facing the journal right now.
Earlier this year, Studies in the Novel released a special issue commemorating the journal's first 50 years of publishing. The issue featured seminal articles from the past 50 years, each with an introduction commissioned to put the original work into context.
Editor Nora Gilbert joined us for a podcast to discuss how the issue came together and what the future holds for this important publication.
The Journal of Modern Greek Studies has a new editorial team. Johanna Hanink from Brown University is the Arts & Humanities Editor while Antonis Ellinas from the University of Cyprus is the Social Sciences Editor. They joined us to talk about their path to the masthead and future plans for the journal.
Philip Nel knows first-hand about refugees and diaspora. His parents emigrated to the United States, and he has relatives living in five countries spread over four continents. But he knows the negatives of this experience - he probably would not have been born in the U.S. if his parents had been black South Africans instead of white South Africans. All these things drove Nel, a University Distinguished Professor of English and director of the Graduate Program in Children's Literature at Kansas State University, to put together a special issue of Children's Literature Association Quarterly on displacement—voluntary, involuntary, cultural, emotional, geographical—and its effects on children.
Because of the current refugees crisis and the U.S. government's actions, Nel found the issue vitally important to examine from many different perspectives. The six essays in the issue examine multiple international and historical perspectives on displacement. Nel joined us to talk about the issue as well as the current situation for migrants and refugees.
While not approved by official geological organizations, the term anthropocene has grown in use to describe the current geological age. Proponents of the term use it to mark the time period where humans have had a significant impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems.
MFS Modern Fiction Studies Assistant Editor Robert Marzec put the journal's focus on the Anthropocene in the Winter 2018 issue titled "Anthropocene Fictions." A collection of fives essays joined his comprehensive introduction about the epoch.
Marzec, a professor of environmental and postcolonial studies in the Department of English at Purdue University, joined us for a discussion about climate change and how it connects with modern fiction.
Since 1938, the College English Association has served academics who seek to keep teaching college students as the focus of the profession. Its official publication, the CEA Critic, recently published a double issue commemorating its 80th anniversary with content from the history of the journal.
The issue includes essays from Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken, Pearl Buck, Wallace Stevens, Phillip K. Dick, Margaret Atwood, John Updike and many others. Editor Jeri Craver joined us for a lively discussion about the social issue and the journal's place in the field.
Qwo-Li Driskill's poetry was featured in the Spring 2018 issue of the journal Feminist Formations
Qwo-Li Driskill's poetry was featured in the Spring 2018 issue of the journal Feminist Formations
The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University held a September 2015 conference and subsequent talks about the New Russia of President Vladimir Putin. The journal South Central Review recently published a collection of articles from those events called "Putin's New Russia: Fragile State or Revisionist Power." Andrew Natsios, Director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School, guest edited the issue and joined us for a discussion about the issue.
In 2017, the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine published a pair of articles arguing in favor of a tax on soda. The two authors - Dr. Neal Baer, a television writer and producer and a pediatrician, and Dr. John Maa, a San Francisco-based surgeon - provide a concise history of the obesity epidemic and its connection to the consumption of soda in their articles. They joined us for separate interviews about the issue and why they feel tackling the problem of soda is important to the health of Americans.
In 2012, the journal Theory and Event published a symposium of essays on the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin earlier this year. The symposium brought together an array of contemporary theorists - Anna Marie Smith, Anne Norton, Michael Hanchard, Stephen H. Marshall, Ange-Marie Hancock, Mark Reinhardt, Christopher J. Lebron, and George Ciccariello-Maher - to demonstrate ongoingness of theorizing, the ways we are always to an extent in the middle of the events we endeavor to understand. Guest editor Neil Roberts joined us to talk about the symposium.
A team at Oregon State University took over the editorial duties for the journal Feminist Formations in 2016. Editor Patti Duncan took some time to talk with us about the journal and its innovative work in women's, gender and sexuality studies when she visited Baltimore for the National Women's Studies Association Conference in late 2017.
In March 2017, eight scholars from a variety of disciplines gathered at Texas A&M University for a two-day conference called "1917: A Global Turning Point in History and memory." The discussions and presentations were later developed into a special issue of the journal South Central Review. Adam R. Seipp, A Professor in the Department of History at Texas A&M and guest editor of the issue, joined us to talk about the project and the important historical and cultural lessons we can learn from 100 years ago.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Black feminist love evangelist of Afro-Caribbean ascendance who lives in Durham, North Carolina. Alexis is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind. She is widely published in the fields of Black feminist literature, mothering and diaspora. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. These poems appeared in Issue 29.2 of the journal Feminist Formations.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Black feminist love evangelist of Afro-Caribbean ascendance who lives in Durham, North Carolina. Alexis is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind. She is widely published in the fields of Black feminist literature, mothering and diaspora. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. These poems appeared in Issue 29.2 of the journal Feminist Formations.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Black feminist love evangelist of Afro-Caribbean ascendance who lives in Durham, North Carolina. Alexis is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind. She is widely published in the fields of Black feminist literature, mothering and diaspora. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. These poems appeared in Issue 29.2 of the journal Feminist Formations.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Black feminist love evangelist of Afro-Caribbean ascendance who lives in Durham, North Carolina. Alexis is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind. She is widely published in the fields of Black feminist literature, mothering and diaspora. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. These poems appeared in Issue 29.2 of the journal Feminist Formations.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Black feminist love evangelist of Afro-Caribbean ascendance who lives in Durham, North Carolina. Alexis is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind. She is widely published in the fields of Black feminist literature, mothering and diaspora. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. These poems appeared in Issue 29.2 of the journal Feminist Formations.
The first issue of Classical World's 111th volume takes a wide-ranging look at the 50th anniversary of the so-called "Harvard School" of Vergilian interpretation. Guest editor Julia Hejduk of Baylor University joins us to talk about the importance of the 22 essays by eminent scholars to Classicists and the academic community at large.
To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation on Oct. 31, 2017, the journal Lutheran Quarterly has created a virtual timeline at timeline.press.jhu.edu/lut_reformation/. The site highlights seminal works from the journal’s pages on significant events in the history of the Lutheran Church worldwide. The Rev. Dr. Martin Lohrmann from Wartburg Theological Seminary - also the webmaster for the journal - talked to us about the creation of the timeline and how it can be used by scholars worldwide.
After several years away, Julie Pfeiffer has returned to serve as editor of the annual journal Children's Literature. She joined us to talk about trends in the field and what to expect over the next few years from the journal.
Earlier this year, Shakespeare Quarterly took an important step and launched a brand-new website to showcase content from the journal as well as innovative Shakesperean scholarship outside the traditional print product. The launch of the site coincided with a special issue focused on new media and Shakespeare. Douglas Lanier, professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, served a guest editor for the issue, titled #Bard. He joined us for a podcast about the issue and the direction of Shakesperean scholarship and new media.
For a short time, Fisher Price made a set of Little People toys to help celebrate Hannukah. You can only find the set on the collectible market these days, but the figurines served as an easy starting point for Lauren leibman's introduction to a recent special issue of American Jewish History on Jewish American material culture.
Leibman, a professor of English and Humanities at Reed College, said the toys exemplify "the variety of ways in which objects can embody what it means to be Jewish in American life." The special issue contains a diverse set of articles which dig deep into that concept. She joined us on our podcast to talk about the issue.
Ian Gadd, the president of The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, joins us to talk about the upcoming 25th anniversary conference. Scholars from around the globe will meet in Victoria, British Columbia, starting June 9 for the annual event.
Several years ago at an Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Gwendolyn Alker invited members of a group then known as the (then) Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) for a special issue. Now the Editor of Theatre Topics, Alker said this invitation started the process of something that had not been done before, but that needed to be done: Theatre Topics had never focused an issue on concerns relevant to Latinx theatre-makers and their wider communities. The resulting issue was published earlier this spring. Alker joined us to talk about how it came about and why it is important to the field.
A 2015 issue of the journal American Imago featured four essays focused on grief and loss. The issue, titled "Memory and Remembrance: Essays in Psychoanalytic Autobiography", contains "Lockout: Spacing Trauma and Recovery in the Aftermath of the Virginia Tech Shootings," an essay written by Virginia Tech University faculty, Stefanie Hofer. She lost her husband, Jamie Bishop, on April 16, 2007 during the deadliest school rampage in the US history. Hofer joined us to talk about her post-traumatic writing and how it has helped her to persevere and heal.
When Philosophy and Literature founding editor Denis Dutton died in 2010, his co-editor, Garry Hagberg, took over the reins of the influential journal.
With just over five years in the top position, Hagberg joined our podcast series to talk about the transition, plans for the future and just what inspired the beautiful cover images for the journal.
The one-day novel - that is a book which covers the action of just a single day - has caught the attention of British academic Bryony Randall. A lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Randall took a close look at the topic in a recent essay published in the journal New Literary History. Randall joined our podcast series to discuss her essay and just what makes the one-day novel a draw for some people.
Theory & Event co-editors Kennan Furguson and James Martel join us to talk about the first issue in the journal's 20th volume and what 2017 will hold for the groundbreaking online publication.
Read the new issue for free at http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35735
Twentieth-Century China will join the JHU Press journals collection in 2017. Editor Kristin Stapleton, director of the MA Program and Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University at Buffalo, joined our podcast series to talk about the journal, which promotes a wide range of historical approaches in its examination of twentieth-century China.
Earlier this year, the journal Shakespeare Bulletin took a look at the issue of editing Renaissance drama texts. Stepping outside the boundries of Shakespeare, a trio of guest editors put together a special issue based on a 2013 symposium. The issue helps shine a spotlight on editing and performance for some lesser-known aspects of Renaissance drama. Cassie Ash and Jose Perez Diez - two of the guest editors - visited our podcast series to talk about the special issue.
Mary Lincoln has been a mystery for more than 150 years. Irritable as the wife of Abraham Lincoln in Illinois, erratic as First Lady, and frankly psychotic as a widow, she died at the young age of 63 after years of unusual physical symptoms and progressively increasing weakness. John Sotos, formerly Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, who is now Worldwide Medical Director at Intel Corporation, has solved the mystery in a new article published in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Volume 58, Issue 4).
Sotos' article "What an Affliction" pinpoints pernicious anemia as the root of Mary's poor health during most of her adult life, and as the cause of her death. Pernicious anemia a type of Vitamin B-12 deficiency.
Thirty-five years ago, Deborah Dash Moore published "At Home in America," her groundbreaking look at how the children of immigrants blended elements of Jewish and American culture into a vibrant urban society. The most recent issue of the journal American Jewish History took a look at the impact of Moore's book. Lila Corwin Berman and Tony Michaels, guest editors of the issue, joined us to talk about the project.
In a recent issue of the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, a pair of researchers at the University of Alabama Birmingham shared their study of "Physician Religion and End-of-Life Pediatric Care." The project took a look at how the religion and spirituality of physicians could influence communication with the parents of children at the end of life. Lori Brand Bateman, lead researcher of the paper, joined us to talk about the topic.
Between 2011 and 2015, various celebrations and commemorations took place to mark the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. These events led to many conferences and academic discussions to take advantage of the heightened interest in the topic. Earlier this year, the journal South Central Review released a special issue on Historians and the American Civil War at the Sesquicentennial. Lorien Foote, guest editor of the issue, joined us to reflect its creation and contributions to this growing field of study.
John Irwin, who led The Hopkins Review from its rebirth in 2008, will retire from teaching at Johns Hopkins University this spring. David Yezzi took over the reins of the journal in 2015. A well-known poet, actor and editor, Yezzi joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2013. Yezzi joined us to talk about his new position and the special issue devoted to Irwin's impact on the field.
ASAP/Journal, a new journal from The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, debuted with the JHU Press earlier this year. The inaugural issue focused on "Art & the Commons." The journal promotes intellectual exchange between artists and critics across the arts and humanities. Amy Elias and Jonathan Eburne, editors of the journal, joined us to talk about this exciting new venture.
The Summer 2015 issue of the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics featured more than a dozen personal narratives from intersex people about the challenges they face and problems with how the medical community addresses their needs. Guest editors Georgiann Davis and Ellen Feder joined us to talk about the issue and what they hope happens as medical professionals and the general public learn more about intersex.
(Originally released 9/23/15)