LOL my praxis

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Welcome to LOL, my praxis! The timely, interdisciplinary, and entirely un-REFable academic/comedy podcast! Striving for four star, world-leading excellence in terms of originality, significance, rigour, and sarcasm. Hosted by the perennially damp Dr Alexandra Campbell, and the barely literate, Dr Louise Creechan, each episode we interview academics working on cutting-edge and unapologetically niche research projects from across the arts and humanities. So, buckle up and brace for IMPACT

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Ep.9 – Bonnet Vision: Cosplaying with Dorothy

Episode Notes Welcome to WordsWars. This week we're joined by Dr Jo Taylor, the very grand Presidential fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Manchester to defend the good name of drug dealer to the big 6, Dorothy Wordsworth. In this episode we find out what it's like to LARP up Scafell Pike in a bonnet and skirt in miserable weather and why visitors to the Lake District were investing heavily in Deluxe Canon Bangs. We also find out what the f**k the Digital humanities is. You can fi...

Feb 16, 2021•Ep. 9

Ep.8 – Mollusc Bollocks and Darwin's Sexy Crabs

Episode Notes This week we're joined by Dr Rachel Murray, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English Literature based at the University of Sheffield. In this episode we talk to Rachel about Darwin's Sexy crabs, why T.S. Eliot was bad in bed and whether or not A Bug's Life can be read as Marxist allegory. Rachel is interested in all things creepy crawly and recently published her first monograph The Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects, War, Literary Form with Edinburgh University Press. You can follo...

Feb 02, 2021•Ep. 8

Ep.7 – Soundtrack to a Blowjob

Episode Notes Well, January 2021 has lasted about 5 years already...but we are BACK and feeling PEACHY. This episode we're joined by Dr Sarah Artt who is a lecturer in Film and Literature at Edinburgh Napier University. She has published on many iconic films and television shows, including Gossip Girl, Sex and the City, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Twilight, and she is currently working on her first monograph 'Quiet Pictures: British and French Cinema by Women on the work of Joanna Hogg, L...

Jan 21, 2021•54 min•Ep. 7

Ep.6 – LOL My DYSpraxis

Episode Notes Yo, yo! Happy New Year! We're joined by DJ DYScourse, aka dance artist Aby Watson to chat about neurodivergence, academia, and spacehoppers as praxis. Aby is a PhD researcher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, her practice-based research embraces her dyslexia/dyspraxia/ADHD to challenge the neuronormativity of dance culture and wider academic structures. She is the founder of the Scottish Neurodiverse Performance Network and her solo work has been seen across the UK and intern...

Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 6

Ep.5 – Dick Swiveller's Festive Carol

Episode Notes Jingle your bells and set discourse to festive, LOL My Praxis is here to save Christmas! We're joined by the absolute LAD, Dr Pete Orford, to discuss one of the most underrepresented straight white men of the Western literary canon: Charles Dickens. Pete the course director of the MA by research in Charles Dickens studies at the University of Buckingham and the author of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel and our endless attempts to end it'. Most importa...

Dec 23, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 5

Ep.4 – Napoleonic Flatulence and ABBA Bingo

Episode Notes This week we're joined by BBC New Generation Thinker Dr Emma Butcher! Emma is a gravy-guzzling military historian, who works on children and war. She is an expert in the juvenilia of the Brontë siblings and her recent monograph, 'The Brontës and War', was published earlier this year. She's a wannabe Emily, but identifies as a Charlotte, and she's here to tell us whether or not ABBA were on to something when they stated 'the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself' (And...

Dec 09, 2020•48 min•Ep. 4

Ep.3 – SEX MAGIC...You're Wel(l)come!

Episode Notes We're joined by writer, academic, and badass intersectional feminist witch, Dr Alice Tarbuck. Alice is an award-winning poet who seeks to make poetry accessible through interactions with the natural world. We invite you to settle down with Alice, her perfect kidneys, some fava beans, and a nice chianti as we discuss sex magic, psychotropic plants of Glasgow's East End, and hating the Wordsworth siblings. You can find Alice on Twitter @atarbuck and buy her new book 'A Spell in the W...

Nov 25, 2020•52 min•Ep. 3

Ep.2 – Kill Your Darlings

Episode Notes We made it to episode two! This time we're joined by Dr Jen Baker and legions of dead Victorian children. Jen is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick and she works on haunting representations of child dead in Anglophone literature of the long nineteenth century. This episode is brought to you with the confidence of Pip, a smattering of Big Dick(ens) energy, and a murderous strawberry cart. You can find Jen on Twitter @Jendeavour and read her recently published chapter on ...

Nov 10, 2020•49 min•Ep. 2

Ep.1 – Dildos and Dragons

Episode Notes It's our inaugural episode and we're joined by an actual fantasy...Dr Taylor Driggers. Taylor works on fantasy literature and queer theologies at the University of Glasgow. In this episode we ask the important questions ('Is Jesus a queer wizard?'), demand #JusticeForSusan, and talk drag(ons). You can find Taylor on Twitter @TaylorWDriggers and see him lecture on fantasy and monstrosity here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZeZ7WHWEVQ&t=2856s&ab_channel=Stay-at-Home%21Frin...

Oct 28, 2020•46 min•Ep. 1

Brace for IMPACT: Trailer

Introducing 'LOL my praxis', the fortnightly academic/comedy podcast - smashing ivory towers one innuendo at a time... Each episode we'll be interviewing academics from across the arts and humanities and celebrating all things praxis! This podcast is powered by Pinecast .

Oct 21, 2020•1 min

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