Episode Notes With more fans than Grumpy Cat (RIP), we're joined by the chronically online Dr Idil Galip, queen of memes and founder of the Meme Studies Research Network. Here to sort the evergreen content from the cancelled - repilcate to disseminate xoxo
Episode Notes THIS IS NOT A DRILL. WE ARE BACK. WE HAVEN'T FOSSILISED. YET. But our guest, Professor David Farrier, is about to tell us about our bleak, trashy, fossilised futures via the temporalities of Cher, chicken-sized horses and horse-sized chickens and doing deep time in different voices. David is the author of 'Footprints' (2020) and 'Anthropocene Poetics' (2019), a publication timeline that makes us feel deeply inadequate. Shantih shantih shantih.
Episode Notes Did you miss us? We were observing the UCU industrial action. This is the only reason for our lateness. Promise. This week we're joined by New Generation Flake, Dr Joan Passey (or is it Passé?) and her creepy haunted cavern...Joan is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol, the editor of the British Library short story collection 'Cornish Horrors' and is a 2022 New Generation Thinker. She is salty AF.
Episode Notes We’re back and this week we're getting spooky and ECTOGASMIC with Dr Emma Merkling. Emma is an Art Historian at the Courtauld specialising in in late C19th history of art, science and occultism. Emma is “Just a creepy weirdo who lik es creepy weird stuff”. In this episode we chat about racist ghosts, squirting spiritualists, and what it’s like to be a Spooky Terrifying Ect oplasm Mama (aka a woman in STEM). We consider the production of ectoplasm and/as the female orgasm, discuss t...
This episode we're talking about shiny dead things. Not Edward Cullen the Sparkle Vamp, but the intersections of jewellery and death with the world's first forensic jeweller Dr Maria Maclennan. Maria is the most tattooed academic we know and can often be found on BBC Crimewatch. We'll leave that one there. You can follow her @ForensicJewelery.
Episode Notes WERE BACK, BABY! Did you miss us? We’re celebrating our emergence from hot burn-out summer by speaking with Dr Arin Keeble about the literature of Terror and collective trauma. Arin is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, he has written on everything from hurricanes and punk rock to Stranger Things and contemporary literary TV studies. In this episode we talk about counternarratives to the War on Terror, what objects we would throw at War ...
Episode Notes WE'RE BACK!!! DID YOU MISS US?! This episode we're joined by Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson to discuss visual art, visual culture, lenses, ways of seeing, the gaze, the critical eye, and Specsavers...in an entirely oral medium. Oooh, I get the shivers. Anna is an Assistant Professor of African American and Black Diasporic Art at Princeton University; she is the author of Black Bodies, White Gold Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World (2021) and the director of Art Hx, a digital ...
Episode Notes We're back and we're getting institutionally promiscuous with SUPER KEENO Rachel (Bynoth) Smith. Rachel is a PhD student based between all of the Universities in the South West and specialises in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century social, gender, and emotions history, particularly in relation to letter writing with a special focus on the Canning Family Network. Rachel BEGGED to come on the podcast and we finally gave in. In this episode we discuss overlaps between C18th anxieties an...
Episode Notes HI THEORY!! Are you psyched for some high theory? We're joined by Dr Anna Kornbluh of many many books, Victorians, and critical theory to establish why good Marxists don't skip leg day and what WAP has to say about social reproduction. We also reveal what happens when you read 'Of Grammatology' backwards. Truly radical discourse. You can follow Anna @V21collective xoxo
Episode Notes We're here and we're getting ShakesQUEER. This week we're speaking with the notorious SGB, otherwise known as Professor Stephen Guy-Bray. Stephen is currently Professor of English Literature at the University of British Columbia where he is a specialist in Renaissance poetry, queer studies, and poetic insemination. In this episode we discuss whether Shakespeare was a top or a bottom, find out which play is the gayest play ever, and we figure out what the relationship is between son...
Episode Notes Welcome back! This week we're chatting with Jane Austen and K-pop superfan, Dr Rita Dashwood. Rita is currently a postdoctoral research fellow on the Romantic Ridiculous project at Edge Hill University. When not reading books, Rita likes to write them and is currently working on her first novel - a YA fantasy about queer witches. In this week's episode shots are fired at our guest from episode 13 , Dr Andy McInnes who suggested Austen would have voted for Brexit. We get to the bott...
Episode Notes And a 5, 6, 7, 8...dust off those sequins and ready those jazz hands, we're joined by Dr Hannah Robbins to chat MUSICALS, James Corden conspiracy theories, and why Hamilton isn't as great as you think it is. One of us is a Broadway Baby and the other is a philistine, so who knows what will happen! We do. We recorded it. Hannah is Assistant Professor in Popular Music and the Director of Black Studies at the University of Nottingham and specialises in the intersection between race an...
Episode Notes We're back! Did you miss us? This week we're speaking with Dr Kate Simpson, Lecturer in Information Studies at the University of Glasgow and specialist in 19th century digital creation and curation. In this episode we ask: is Rick-rolling digital humanities? Is the Matrix still scholarly relevant? Is there such a thing as WO-manuscripts? We find out that Dr Livingstone had a terrifying ungroomed poodle (not a euphemism) and liked to steal jewellery. We learn that while C19th women ...
Episode Notes AS A LITTLE FESTIVE TREAT...we're joined by Slavoj Žižek himself!! Or is it Liz Truss? Either way, the brains behind the anonymous Twitter account A Very Theory Xmas chats to us about the postcolonial melancholia of Lynx Africa and a primary school nativity narrated by Derrida. Continental philosophy with a Christmas Twist. Remember to follow @AVeryTheoryXmas on Twitter
Episode Notes Dear Lord, what a sad little obsession we have with a retro episode of Come Dine with Me...this episode we're joined by the hopeless Professor Richard Hall. We're here to radicalise your pedagogy and diversify your curriculum with the help of a straight white man. You can find Richard's research here: http://www.richard-hall.org/ and get his new book The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the End of the End of History for FREE here: http://mayflybooks.org/?page_id=305...
Episode Notes We're back! This week we're speaking with Professor Erica Fudge and Dr Elsa Richardson about all things Fleshy History. Erica and Elsa are based at the University of Strathclyde where they currently co-teach a course all about vegetarian culture and eating animals. Erica's work emerges at the intersection of Renaissance Studies and Animal Studies while Elsa is a New Generation Thinker and currently holds a Chancellor's Fellowship in Health and Wellbeing. In this episode we find out...
Episode Notes We're back! This week we're speaking with self-proclaimed 'sweary Prof', Dr Tracey Hill. Tracey is currently professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Bath Spa University. In this episode we find out why the emblem of Envy always had her tits out while eating a human heart, why Early Modern pageants were a major fire hazard, and what on earth a whiffler is. We also learn about the role of rhinos in civic pageantry, what hippos have to do with anything (they don't), and wh...
Episode Notes We're back! This week it's all gay frogs, rainbow-shitting unicorns, and glitter bombing with Dr Nicole Seymour, ASSOCIATE professor of English at California State University. In this episode we find out about the funny side of climate change and coin a new term: ecoLOLogy. We chat about the power of irony in addressing the darkest timeline, and learn about queer ecologies and whether or not it's fair to describe glitter as the STD of the craft world. We also discuss the ethics of ...
Episode Notes This week we're speaking with Dr Andy Kesson, Box Office Bear and Reader in Early Modern Studies at Roehampton University. In this episode we find out how bears caused traffic jams in the Tudor period, and what the questionable sitcom, Will and Grace, has to do with Shakespeare's sonnets. Did you know that during the Early Modern period statistically there were more people who were not William Shakespeare than people who were? We learn that women were actually pretty important in E...
Episode Notes We've CRACKed America! In this episode we speak with Dr Travis Chi Wing Lau, queer, crip, cat-dad and current Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College, Ohio. In this week's episode we find out why anti-vaccination sentiment is just one more thing we can blame Victorians for, which COVID-19 vaccine is the most queer, and whether or not our constant chat about our vaginas can officially be classified as Medical Humanities. We also talk about the private and public discourses ...
Episode Notes We don't know if you've noticed, but stats = STEM and STEM = FUNDING. This episode we're trying to cheat our way into 'science' via sociolinguistics. Guided by Dr Sadie Ryan of the AWARD-WINNING podcast Accentricity, we're here to chat accents, prejudice, Buffy, and GRAPHS. I guess we're legit now?! You can follow Sadie @Sadie_d_ryan and her various podcasts at @accentricitypod or @sadie_and_osh for Buffy. As per, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, FOLLOW @LOLMyPraxis
Episode Notes Our guest this week is Mollie Clarke, webmistress of the Third Sex Reading Group and current PhD student at the University of Roehampton. Mollie is currently working on her thesis titled 'Female Cross-Dressing, Genre, and Popular Literary Forms from 1830-1900'. In this episode we discuss why we always think of the Victorians as tightlaced, prudish, asexual beings when in fact they were hella kinky. We learn all about the salacious secret life of George Augustus Sala who when he was...
Episode Notes What do you get when you combine Elon Musk, Bumble, cumrockets, and AI? Presenting the ultimate B-movie for our times: FASCISTS IN SPACE. Oxford DPhil candidate, Chelsea Haith joins us to discuss speculative fiction, the sounds of contagion, and whether we could (or should) programme a robot to love. Chelsea is PI of the Futures Thinking Network and is works on the Sound of Contagion project ( soundofcontagion.com ) in addition to a million other things - she is a machine. Quite li...
Episode Notes This week we're speaking with LOL My Praxis super-fan, Dr Christine Slobogin who admits that she likes to think about us in the shower. Christine is currently a Welcome Trust ISSF Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Christine's research emerges at the nexus of the medical humanities and art history. Her latest project considers the visual cultures of WWII plastic surgery and focuses on the work of DICKIE Orpen. In this episode we discuss TUBES & FLAPS and find out what th...
Episode Notes Set phasers to FUN...we're back and we're hungry for an intergalactic smorgasbord of impossible burgers, in vitro meats, and cannibalism with Nora Castle. Nora is a PhD student in English and Comparative Literatures at the University of Warwick; her research chews over the importance of food in environmental crisis narratives and science-fiction. You can follow Nora on Twitter @nora_castle.
Episode Notes This week we're joined by Dr Madhu Krishnan, known cat fanatic and Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures at the University of Bristol. In this episode we ask the most important question about African culture: Do they know it's Christmas time at all? We also examine Toto's Africa as a colonial methodology, and discuss the girthy pros and cons of big 'P' vs small 'p' pan-Africanisms. We find out that Madhu has a wide-on for imperial statues, loves penguins and why A...
Episode Notes Ready yourselves for the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquillity…plus a load of shitting duck satire. In this episode we’re taking Romanticism from the sublime to the ridiculous with Dr Andrew McInnes, lead investigator on the AHRC-funded project The Romantic Ridiculous. We rate the ‘Big Six’ of Romantic poetry in terms of fuckboi-ness and identify the Brexiteers among beloved authors. All this while remaining entirely unREF-able - in spite of Andy’s b...
Episode Notes This week we're speaking with Dr Freya Gowrley, an Art Historian and current postdoctoral fellow in History at the University of Derby. Freya's work is particularly interested in the relationship between identity and visual and material culture in C18th and C19th Britain and focuses on three key sites: collage, the body and domestic space. In this episode we ask penetrating questions about art history including, 'What is collage?' and 'exactly how important is macaroni art?'. We al...
Episode Notes This week we’re going gay for statues and speaking with Dr Melissa Gustin who BEGGED to be on this podcast. Melissa’s research focuses on forms of reproduction in classically informed sculpture from the 18thC through to contemporary 3D printing. In addition to her interests in classicism and antiquity Melissa works on queer archaeology, murderous mermaids with great hair, and volcanic breasts. In this episode we discuss the secrets of eel cave sex, why marble feels so good you just...
Episode Notes This week we're joined by Dr Eleanor Janegameister for some full frontal medievalism. Dr Janega is a historian who specialises in late medieval sexuality, apocalyptic thought, propaganda, and the urban experience. Described as a 'sad, sad medievalist' she is the brain and dump-truck booty behind going-medieval.com , a blog where she discusses the medieval influences on the everyday world in a bid to get us through this garbage fire of a century. In this episode we ask Dr Janega som...
