Our podcast explores a variety of topics from our issues with special guests and contributors. We hope you will listen here or on our Soundcloud page.
In this new episode of the Early American Literature Podcast, Digital Media Editors Kingston Trice and Melanie Werner interview with professor Martin Brückner on his work “Common Objects: Literary Materialism and the Early American Novel.” Brückner’s article discusses the presence of material objects in literature, and what that tells about the characters, meaning, and genre as a whole.
In this episode of the Early American Literature Podcast, Digital Media Editor Autumn Hall converses with professor David Lawrimore on his work “’Federalism in Fidelity’: Samuel Relf, the Early American Novel, and the Limits of Textual Representation,” which tackles unconventional political characters, visual formatting, and contemporary connections in a piece of epistolary fiction.
In this episode of the Early American Literature podcast, scholar Laurel Daen and artist Marianne Petit join Digital Media Editor Autumn Hall to discuss their collaborative project Mouth & Toes, which explores the lives and work of 19th-century artists with disabilities.
In this episode of the Early American Literature Podcast, artists Brece Honeycutt and Miriam Cantor-Stone join Digital Media Editor Autumn Hall to discuss their performance “meetinghouse,” which blends spoken word with Shaker hymns. The piece commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Shakers’ Arrival Day through an exploration of labor, nature, and collaboration.
In this episode of the Early American Literature Podcast, Professor Thomas Baker joins Digital Media Editor Autumn Hall to discuss his research into the misattributions of two early American novels, Monima (1802) and Margaretta (1807).
In “Teaching A Mercy: Shaping Our Understanding of the North American Experience,” Digital Media Editor Autumn Hall dialogues with Dana Williams, Riché Richardson, Angelyn Mitchell, and Michelle Hite, all of whom authored articles on Morrison’s A Mercy in the EAL 59.1 SEA Common Reading Forum.
In “What Every College Student Should Know about Phillis Wheatley,” our former Digital Media Editor Abigail Eplin sits down with Cassander Smith, Tara Bynum, and Brigitte Fielder, the three guest editors behind our special issue “Dear Sister: Phillis Wheatley’s Futures.” If you’ve been looking for a great introduction to Wheatley for yourself or your classroom, join us as we discuss Wheatley’s life, work, and legacy.
In this episode, winner of the 2021 Book Prize Dr. Rodrigo Lazo sat down with former Digital Media Editor Natalie Harrington to discuss archival research post-COVID, the intersection of Latinx studies and early American literature, and his book Letters From Filadelfia.
In this episode, former Digital Media Editor Natalie Harrington sat down with 56.3’s guest editors, Thomas Koenigs and Matthew Pethers, to discuss the ins and outs of fictionality, editing, and the context of the broader world of academia.
In this episode, Drs. Sarah Rivett and Chi-ming Yang discuss their creative process of writing the “Inventions” dialogue piece featured in 56.2, “The Raven and the Bobolink.” Drs. Rivett and Yang were interviewed by former Digital Media Editor Aileen Tierney.
In this episode, Dr. Lisa Blee and Dr. Jean O’Brien discuss their fieldwork around the Massasoit statue in Plymouth, Massachusetts and how it related to their article in 56.1, “Decentering 1620.” Interviewed by Digital Media Assistant Aileen Tierney.
In this episode, Dr. Angela Calcaterra discusses her review essay, “Indigenous Humanity and Early American Archives,” featured in issue 55.3. Interviewed by Digital Media Assistant Aileen Tierney.
In this episode, Sarah Klotz discusses her work “Pictograph as Epitaph: Reading Algonquian Pictography in the Removal Period” which appears this issue. She examines the impacts of Constantine Rafinesque’s invention of the Walam Olum, of Catharine Sedgwick’s fictionalization of the Pequot War, and of Mount Hope Rock on negotiations of territorial sovereignty in the 1830s.
Marie Taylor, another contributor to this issue, discusses her work “The Sachem and the Minister: Questions, Answers, and Genre Formation in the New England Missionary Project.” She considers how the relationship between Puritan minister John Eliot and Massachusett sachem Cutshamekin, the post-sermon question and answer sessions, and the concept of Manitou all maintained an active discursive collaboration between Indigenous people and English settlers.
In this episode, guest editor and contributor Michael Boyden discusses the theme of 54.3’s special issue on a New Natural History. He also demonstrates the link between salt and slavery in Crèvecœur’s writings and considers the trope of blindness. Juliane Braun, another contributor to the special issue, explores the effects of motivated mistranslation on slavery and the transplantation of the breadfruit tree. Inventions contributor Paul Lindholdt discusses hurricanes, Hamilton, and the climate crisis.
In this episode, DaMaris Hill talks about her prose poem “Formed>in,” that explores her place in Kentucky and confronts the weight of history that the land bears witness to and Ana Schwartz discusses her interest in “selective fellow feeling” as it relates to how the early Puritan settlers conceived of their own place in early America, especially in relation to their neighbors, both indigenous and settler.
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