https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/being-human--4068511enEducationCopyright WPTS Radiohttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/46e93f618e9a7151126e7ca7491cf1d5.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/being-human--4068511Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:18:36 +0000WPTS RadioWPTS Radiofeeds@spreaker.comCelebrating the value of the humanities, within the university and beyond.cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/climate-lyricism-an-interview-with-min-song--49561206https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49561206Tue, 26 Apr 2022 17:59:55 +0000WPTS RadioAn interview with Min Song, professor of English at Boston College University. The interview focuses on Professor Song's most recent book, Climate Lyricism.3786asianamericanliterature,climatechange,frankoharacleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/indigenous-compilations-colonial-archives-an-interview-with-kelly-wisecup--48952946https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48952946Fri, 04 Mar 2022 18:12:07 +0000WPTS RadioAn interview with Kelly Wisecup, professor of English at Northwestern University. The interview focuses on Professor Wisecup's most recent book Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures.3358archives,chicago,compilation,english,nativeamerican,wptscleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sissy-insurgencies-an-interview-with-marlon-ross--48663149https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48663149Wed, 09 Feb 2022 20:49:44 +0000WPTS RadioAn interview with Marlon Ross, professor of English at the University of Virginia. The interview focuses on Professor Ross's most recent book Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness.4211culturalstudies,english,gender,race,sexuality,sissycleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-story-of-speculation-an-interview-with-gayle-rogers--48302213https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48302213Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:25:45 +0000WPTS RadioAn interview with Gayle Rogers, professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on Professor Rogers's most recent book Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI.3672intellectualhistory,speculation,translationcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-poetics-of-difference-an-interview-with-mecca-jamilah-sullivan--47869138
Information on the essay collection Teaching Black, from the University of Pittsburgh Press, can be found here: upittpress.org/books/9780822946953/.

The webpage for Professor Sullivan's upcoming novel can be found here: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/712169…781324091417.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47869138Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:33:13 +0000WPTS RadioAn interview with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. The interview focuses on Professor Sullivan's most recent book The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora. Information on the essay...
Information on the essay collection Teaching Black, from the University of Pittsburgh Press, can be found here: upittpress.org/books/9780822946953/.

The webpage for Professor Sullivan's upcoming novel can be found here: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/712169…781324091417.]]>3089cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-somewhat-secret-history-of-queer-theory-an-interview-with-heather-love--47869098https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47869098Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:29:56 +0000WPTS RadioAn interview with Heather Love, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. The interview focuses on Professor Love's most recent book Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory.4004goffman,humanities,penn,queertheory,socialsciencescleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/defending-judgment-an-interview-with-michael-clune--47868720www.chronicle.com/author/michael-clune.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47868720Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:17:26 +0000WPTS RadioAn interview with Michael Clune, Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities at Case Western University. The interview focuses on Professor Clune's most recent book A Defense of Judgment. Professor Clune's essays at the Chronicle of...www.chronicle.com/author/michael-clune.]]>3996berhnard,brooks,dickinson,english,judgment,literaturecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/screenshot-asia-and-transnational-film-an-interview-with-charles-exley--47868640www.screenshot.pitt.edu/. The essay we discuss on Takagi Tokuko and Japanese popular opera can be found here: www.jstor.org/stable/44508506?se…_info_tab_contents.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47868640Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:01:05 +0000WPTS RadioAn interview with Charles Exley, professor of Japanese literature and film and Associate Director of film and media studies at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on Professor Exley's work with Screenshot:Asia, a project to promote...www.screenshot.pitt.edu/. The essay we discuss on Takagi Tokuko and Japanese popular opera can be found here: www.jstor.org/stable/44508506?se…_info_tab_contents.]]>2208asiafilm,documentary,japan,japanesefilm,popularculture,silentfilm,transnationalculturecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/season-6-episode-5-an-interview-with-professor-mohammed-bamyeh--43052084https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43052084Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:35:27 +0000WPTS Radio3924wpts,wptsradiocleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/season-6-episode-3-an-interview-with-professor-ra-judy--43052058https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43052058Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:32:28 +0000WPTS Radio4968wpts,wptsradiocleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/season-6-episode-4-an-interview-with-professor-alaina-roberts--42388550
Check out Jacqui's podcast, Backbone:
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Professor MacDuffie also mentions Rob Nixon's work during the conversation. A Being Human interview with Professor Nixon is available here: https://soundcloud.com/humanities-pitt/slow-violence-and-a-repertoire-of-selves-an-interview-with-rob-nixon

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Professor MacDuffie also mentions Rob Nixon's work during the conversation. A Being Human interview with Professor Nixon is available here: https://soundcloud.com/humanities-pitt/slow-violence-and-a-repertoire-of-selves-an-interview-with-rob-nixon

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