Resonate Recordings https://resonaterecordings.com © 2026 The American Vandal Matt Seybold, Center For Mark Twain Studies en-us Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:15:05 +0000 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:15:05 +0000 https://www.MarkTwainStudies.org https://storage.googleapis.com/com-resonaterecordings-public/cover-art/jNeuHZClASoiBZCAChkKwTs44wCMQPb0jgDDT6He.jpg https://www.MarkTwainStudies.org Matt Seybold, Center For Mark Twain Studies false serial Matt Seybold, Center For Mark Twain Studies Matt Seybold, Center For Mark Twain Studies twaincenter@elmira.edu No false 8 12 Muskism with Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff A discussion of the forthcoming book "Muskism: A Guild For The Perplexed" with its authors. Topics includes Muskism as the antidote to Musk Fatique, methods of historical research under threat of e... full 512445bc-8cf1-4945-a224-26fa0f95aa61 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0000 4643 false false 7 12 The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UVU) Opens with Matt Seybold's short history of Instructure, the makers of Canvas LMS, with special emphasis on its acquisition by Dragoneer and KKR in 2024. This talk was delivered at Utah Valley Unive... full 8a79f460-17bf-4932-9da5-41773802a333 Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:01:00 +0000 6720 false false 6 12 Close Reading Is Not A Luxury (Vandal Live at Emory) From the Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium, hosted by Emory University. What are the challenges, strategies, and rewards for teaching close reading? What are the stakes of teaching close... full 1ff20fda-d444-4bda-b7f9-b9af6a49160a Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:01:00 +0000 false false 5 12 Close Reading Is A Conversation (Vandal Live at Emory University) From the Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium, hosted by Emory University. Why is close reading best understood as a conversation? What are its evaluative standards? How does it extend the ... full 7a331eb6-c2b6-4824-9a20-89959f64594a Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:01:00 +0000 5818 false false 4 12 Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium (Vandal Live at Emory) The first of three episodes based on the "Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium" hosted by Emory University. The symposium's opening address is followed by short provocations on "Freedom," "... full 3bb2ced8-689c-4c99-9848-b5e203ca056d Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:01:00 +0000 false false 3 12 Theory At The Bargaining Table with Dominique Baker & Anna Kornbluh (Vandal Live at UIC) Hosted by the University of Illinois-Chicago United Faculty, a roundtable discussion about confronting the challenges facing higher education labor organizing. Topics included education technology,... full 1054dba9-b1e1-4659-9f97-ee27c1dfc3df https://theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/theory-at-the-bargaining-table-vandal Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:01:00 +0000 5104 true true 2 12 Everyday Ecofascism with April Anson & Alexander Menrisky (Vandal Live at 2025 Quarry Farm Symposium) The event launching the 2025 Quarry Farm Symposium on Energy Studies begins with opening address by co-organizer Jeffrey Insko, then discussion of the theory of Everyday Ecofascism with collaborato... full aae629fc-2b8f-4d36-9875-d5f6ee96a309 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:01:00 +0000 3777 false false 1 12 Criticism & The Chatbot Bubble with Christopher Newfield & Whitney Trettien (Vandal Live at UPenn English) A spirited discussion of the state of higher education, the history of criticism, and the future of literary knowledge production, recorded with a live audience at University of Pennsylvania's Engl... full e7447fde-fbb1-46f7-a4cc-12e3bf1cd0e4 Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:45:00 +0000 6369 false false 25 11 Inside Slow Civil War with Jeff Sharlet A chance to reflect, with journalism professor Jeff Sharlet, on his book, "The Undertow: Scenes From A Slow Civil War," the looming threat of acceleration, the methods and media of lingering, docum... full dbe28c0a-d41f-4469-bd91-4e576898fdd1 Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:15:00 +0000 2788 true true 24 11 Cruel Futurism The finale of "A Tale of Today," the eleventh season of "The American Vandal." Matt Seybold offers his journey of curiosity from the end of "Criticism LTD" to "The Technofeudal Text." Cast (... full e8ad2ee5-414e-4fbf-b072-6ce615756782 Mon, 18 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000 5346 false false 23 11 "Ideology: Marx & Lukacs" by Fredric Jameson (1977 Institute On Culture & Society) Remastered audio of Fredric Jameson's second lecture at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society sponsored by the Marxist Literary Group and hosted by St. Cloud State University. For further con... bonus 5428bef0-dbc6-4d7a-8c64-d12ac7ec3355 Fri, 08 Aug 2025 07:30:00 +0000 false false 23 11 The Jameson Tapes, Side B The second episode contextualizing Fredric Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society begins with a discussion of Jameson's controversial efforts to resuscitate György Lukács. Fr... full 1e5c33bf-1484-4ea5-8b78-b1224ce4ef4a Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:25:00 +0000 5831 false false 22 11 "Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric Jameson (1977 Institute On Culture & Society) Remastered audio of Fredric Jamesons opening lecture at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society sponsored by the Marxist Literary Group and hosted by St. Cloud State University. For further context... bonus 5fe7a6f0-879d-479d-9f15-77a2ad61a70a Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000 5707 false false 22 11 The Jameson Tapes, Side A The first of two installments contextualizing Fredric Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society begins with a discussion of "Marxism & Historicism," followed by conversations ab... full 7dd9faf6-7099-4e94-ae4d-cc2546ef4de9 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000 5732 false false 21 11 Spitesgiving in Flyover Country Analysis of the Gilded Age tropology of alienation precedes discussions of Hubert Humphrey & Tim Walz [9:00], the reception of "Hillbilly Elegy" and its aftermath [38:00], and "The Mismeasurement o... full 5aa84c5a-1543-4df8-8907-9f90a5e0e9ae Fri, 18 Jul 2025 06:00:00 +0000 5646 true true 20 11 Literary Sociology a.k.a. The Institutional Turn a.k.a The Spreadsheet School of Literary Criticism A so-called Spreadsheet Man responds. Does the institutional turn have a distinctly feminine ethos? [27:30] How is it rooted in the Post45 Collective? [49:00] What are its debts to New Historicism ... full 07c383c9-9e0b-43f4-a25a-043ba4558d96 Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000 6224 false false 19 11 The Mutational Romances of Silicon Valley Speculation Our ideology critique of contemporary tech fascist SciFi begins with the first selections from Fredric Jameson's 1977 seminar at the Institute On Culture & Society, followed by a journalists narrat... full 510c49ab-225b-438a-95db-e6117c4c890b Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:00:00 +0000 6126 false false 18 11 Vandal Live: Affordances of Enclosure & The Ends of Empires Our inaugural installment of "live" podcasting was recorded with a small audience in the library at Quarry Farm. It features Caroline Levine and Jed Esty discussing their recent books, "The Activis... full 1cdedb8b-b6d3-415d-87a9-1dde8b9f4a79 Fri, 16 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000 3634 false false 17 11 Solidarity & Speculation The finale of our trilogy centered on Technofeudalism begins with the intersection of political economy with aesthetics and literary forms, followed by a synthesis of financial and fictive definiti... full 21268ed2-4cdb-471c-ad00-1c989c8b423d MarkTwainStudies.com/Speculators Wed, 14 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000 4651 false false 16 11 From Technostructure To Technofeudalism An exploration of the political economy of technofeudalism begins by defining the technostructure and introducing its personification, followed by testimony from a skeptic [26:00], competing period... full 877e5b73-3cb3-4c22-90c3-db756d566c18 Mon, 05 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000 5675 false false 15 11 Newspapers Worse Than Dead (But Print Is A Rent Strike) Episode opens with journalism's "race to the bottom," described by a journalist who lived it, followed by what "The Facebook Files" revealed about social media's relationship to news [8:00], the ta... full 9af05d0f-7706-4ff0-92e4-4471784e72d6 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:05:00 +0000 5322 false false 14 11 The Facebook Files & The Gutenberg Parenthesis A two-part meditation on the history of journalism and the fate of investigative journalism under tech fascism begins with the model of Ida Tarbell, the epochal Wall Street Journal reporting on Fac... full 8a3d5320-bbdd-44e3-a317-d8fb9b704888 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 5670 false false 13 11 The Gilded Network Our 150th anniversary celebration of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" turns to political economies of mass media, then and now, beginning with a close readin... full 397d97f9-9edb-409e-8bf8-6c53cafc63c4 Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:20:00 +0000 5798 false false 12 11 A Journey of Curiosity The second act of "A Tale of Today," focused on HBCUs and the political economy of education in Gilded Ages old and new, concludes with a journey of curiosity through the unschooling movement, a hi... full 066b9ee8-8eed-4157-afe9-7deea3cfa953 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0000 5811 false false 11 11 The First Curriculum Is Work Without Wages Following Jelani Favors's description of how the second curriculum of HBCUs has been compromised since the 1980s, we look back at the origins of Howard University in the Freedman's Bureau [10:00], ... full a8e81877-2017-4820-990b-9da53f3f204f Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:25:00 +0000 5212 false false 10 11 Fake Work, Fucking Models, & The Archive of Empire Archives, physical and digital, are suffering from austerity, enshittification, and censorship. In this episode scholars discuss the ambivalent impacts of digitization, what information matters in ... full cda80ab5-d433-4f9e-9798-7edf65fcd8a6 Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:09:00 +0000 7216 true true 9 11 Half Castle 'Gainst The Scott Walkers "A Tale Of Today" returns with an episode inspired by "The Teaching Archive." Its authors discuss the pedagogical innovations of HBCUs and strategies for teaching literary history, followed by the ... full 7b13a5e2-c52a-43c6-a48d-66616245f5b9 Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000 5418 false false 8 11 The Education Gospel, Enshittify.edu, & The Expansion of Lower Ed An episode built around an interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom covers what lessons the rest of Higher Ed can learn from HBCUs [3:00], the vectors of financialization in the New Gilded Age [19:00... full e3a0b559-a4a5-4b2f-9f7b-965411c32ec8 Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000 5678 false false 7 11 Philanthrocapitalism U A Morehouse college commencement speaker makes an extraordinary financial commitment, but there's a "profound story" to tell about the durable funding of HBCUs in the US since the Gilded Age [12:00... full fbe69ed4-3fd9-4979-a3cb-264ef5957f91 https://marktwainstudies.com/morehouse Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000 5617 false false 6 11 The Black University Concept & The Second Curriculum A brief history of HBCUs through conversations with five scholars about the second curriculum which informs movements for Civil Rights in the midcentury US, segregation scholars and the long withho... full e2db504b-7081-4421-80f1-fc48ad3766cd Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000 6635 false false 5 11 BONUS EPISODE: "First at Farce: Structures of Feeling in The Gilded Age" by Nathan Wolff (2024 Quarry Farm Symposium Keynote) As Nathan Wolff himself puts it, his recent keynote address at the 2024 Quarry Farm Fall Symposium is "very much in dialogue with The American Vandal." In this talk, Wolff not only summarizes Mark ... bonus 0d35d3bc-9dea-45f4-a895-f2848408b620 Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:15:00 +0000 2747 false false 5 11 The Historical Novel Organized around a comparison of György Lukács's "The Historical Novel" and Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner's "The Gilded Age," in this episode we take a detour from Jameson to Lukács, question ... full 1228c0a7-908e-48ca-83c1-50ceb6551818 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000 6212 false false 4 11 Always Historicize? From Fredric Jameson on why "the most important goal is history itself" follows a series of conversations about dialectical criticism vs. new historicism [5:00], the wisdom of "always historicizing... full 2b922ada-0ed0-42ef-88a6-16de4755ccaa MarkTwainStudies.com/AlwaysHistoricize Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000 5934 false false 3 11 Strategic Presentism & Resistance History What's the difference? The episode opens with defenses of presentism by two literary critics and a reception history of "The Gilded Age" [6:30] before turning to a critique of resistance history fr... full 756c44c1-037e-4508-8fca-91137c6e4e6f Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000 5199 false false 3 11 Fredric Jameson R.I.P Earlier this Summer, Matt Seybold asked Anna Kornbluh what Fredric Jameson meant to literary criticism. On the occasion of his passing, we'd like to share her answer. bonus 522095ca-3f32-4382-bc57-72911d3d8aff Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:30:00 +0000 87 false false 2 11 Cruel Optimism & The Enclosure of the Commons A new episode of "A Tale of Today" begins with an explanation of the forest charter and the enclosure of the commons through a revisionist version of a familiar story. The enclosure of the commons ... full 50f18007-6815-4d0a-80b7-99b6ce7a8f7b Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000 3945 false false 1 11 The Age of Insecurity A new season inspired by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's 150-year-old novel, "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today," launches with an introduction to Colonel Sellers; a discussion of Astra Taylor... full 034d1a9f-ab89-43bc-ba4f-429dc8619281 Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:50:00 +0000 4716 false false 2 10 Criticism LTD: Continuing The Dialogue (A Project Narrative Event) Recorded at The Ohio State University, as part of the Project Narrative series, Matt Seybold reflects on the making of "Criticism LTD" [3:15], as well as ongoing Ponzi austerity, reassessment of cl... full c670e97e-5acf-414d-995b-35466e56a12f Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:00:00 +0000 5202 false false 1 10 Close Reading Feudalism(s) in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with James Phelan (A Project Narrative Crossover Episode) From the production studios of Ohio State University, American Vandal host, Matt Seybold, and James Phelan, the Director of Project Narrative, read aloud Chapter 18 of "Adventures of Huckleberry Fi... full 871a6f6a-7f5a-45b0-bdd0-9b03f30a234b Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:15:00 +0000 4561 false false 4 9 2024 with Anna Kornbluh & J.D. Connor The finale episode of our miniseries on corporate allegory was recorded the day after the publication of Anna Kornbluh's "Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism" by Verso. 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Who's monetizing our data? How is EdTech being used to bust unions [8:00]? How does EdTech reveal the interdependence of teac... full b99c39e4-e169-4be1-9963-bf9b979e67ce Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0000 7462 true true 12 8 Podcasting Criticism An appropriately rangy discussion of the podcast medium and its debts to existing print and audio forms. The origin story of The American Vandal Podcast is followed by comparison with several other... full 9d4cbf74-a65f-49dc-bdbf-eb4e85af5799 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000 7498 false false 11 8 Criticism in The Conglomerate Era As mass-market literature has been consolidated into a small handful of publishing conglomerates, the critical work once done by publicity and editorial departments has been offloaded. In this epis... full bb8c0dfa-74a9-46d8-b783-37925438720f Tue, 17 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000 4873 false false 10 8 BookTube, BookTok, Wattpad, & The Audible Creation Exchange What is literary knowledge? And, for that matter, what is literature? A survey of new literary media takes on audiobooks [5:00], BookTube and BookTok [26:00], and Wattpad [75:00]. Cast (in order... full f4aeb647-1d58-49f8-bb04-f442c250afb5 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000 6107 false false 9 8 Brittle Paper & The Blogossance What is the relationship between literary criticism and media studies? How has criticism adapted to the digital revolution? These questions are considered by examining the origins of the blogospher... full c5222015-9b76-44e0-a75e-7a1fd252f38b Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000 5632 false false 8 8 Politics & The Paracademy An attempt to triangulate politicization, professionalization, and publication by examining several periods in the history of criticism. The episode begins with Joe Locke describing an overt turn t... full 1eb9debc-ed55-49ae-8db9-6d1613958e73 Sat, 23 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0000 7001 false false 7 8 The Chicago Fight & Economics Imperialism The Chicago Critics won the Chicago Fight of the 1930s, but they lost the Chicago Cold War. Chicago Economics got its start dismantling the Chicago Plan. This episode covers the brief victory of th... full 8555c9e4-6c05-4ca2-be1a-cc9cf93513ef Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:30:00 +0000 4655 false false 6 8 The Chicago Fight & "Criticism Inc." A deep dive into the Chicago Critics who inspired John Crowe Ransom's 1937 essay, "Criticism Inc.," as well as their working conditions at the University of Chicago under Robert Maynard Hutchins. H... full a38b3b74-a30e-4ad3-bb5b-06f77ab7d89f Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000 4390 false false 5 8 The Racist Interpretation Complex What is the political economy of New Criticism? Are the racist and reactionary Cold War politics of the New Critics immanent to their trademark method: close reading? The episode begins with the st... full 4b88f0dd-2f75-4587-93ec-764e7d3a811f Mon, 28 Aug 2023 09:45:00 +0000 4881 false false 4 8 Ponzi Austerity & The Monolingual University Last week, West Virginia University announced that it would abolish its World Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics Department, proposing to replace it with automated digital instruction. This is t... full 49faeb82-bec4-4f01-a171-fd5cad16d79f Thu, 24 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0000 5955 false false 3 8 Ponzi Austerity in The Age of Cultural Abundance How has the systemic defunding and deprofessionalizing of humanities academia impacted literary criticism? Why is there such a flourishing culture industry if demand for cultural education is suppo... full 38b333ee-2780-48c6-923f-c09e1c813f91 Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0000 5085 false false 2 8 Hungover From The Bad Old Days of High Theory What is criticism? Why should it matter? Can it be saved from the gun-toting businessman? A crossover episode with the High Theory podcast connects internal and external crises (6:00), imagines con... full 77bbac9a-b90b-4d26-af1a-cd50596c2754 Mon, 14 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0000 5255 false false 1 8 The Golden Age of The Working Critic The premiere of a new series, "Criticism LTD," on the contemporary state of criticism. This episode covers proclamations of crisis from legacy media earlier this year, demands for a cosmopolitan tu... full 6f1f18c6-a505-461d-b815-b20456e60694 Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0000 4825 false false 8 Criticism LTD. Trailer A first look at the eighth season of The American Vandal Podcast, an assessment of the contemporary state of literary criticism and literary studies through conversations with more than two dozen s... trailer 658a2843-01ff-4ba3-aff7-0a7afdccba12 Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:25:00 +0000 382 false false 1 8 Working Conditions with Christopher Newfield & Anna Kornbluh (50th Episode #MLA2023 Special) On the eve of the largest annual gathering of literary scholars, the MLA convention in San Francisco, a discussion of this year's presidential theme, Working Conditions, with the MLA President. ... full 74a9bbc0-eae1-4cb7-a4cf-e20b03d8a806 Wed, 04 Jan 2023 10:00:00 +0000 3600 false false 4 7 The Twitter Elegies (& Mastodon Scolds) with Rebecca Colesworthy & Jeff Jarvis Two scholars embedded in publishing discuss the impact of chaos at Twitter and in social media more generally upon journalism and academic presses. Also, some brief discussion of "The Twitter Files... full a2e7a2e2-3af7-4484-9005-2e9b2c032dcc Mon, 19 Dec 2022 13:08:00 +0000 4762 true true 3 7 Reckless Monetization, Surveillance Kleptocracy, & Olivia Snow's Villain Origin Story As the Elon Musk era at Twitter descends ever further into chaos, we discuss the canaries in the coal mine of surveillance, shadowbanning, algorithmic censorship, data firesales, and deplatforming:... full 06ecbbb5-5a42-4cbc-a34f-7a302b2025f3 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000 2820 true true 2 7 The Plausible End of Social Media, Downscaling, & The Latent Celebrity Mindset with Ian Bogost Earlier this month, The Atlantic published an essay by our guest, Ian Bogost, titled "The Age of Social Media is Ending." Since then there have been layoffs at several social media companies, inclu... full 58da114d-7eec-42f3-993a-0a9dc402466d Wed, 23 Nov 2022 10:00:00 +0000 3505 false false 1 7 The Collapse of Twitter, Zombie Cyberlibertarianism, & Commercial Content Moderation with Sarah T. Roberts With the end of Twitter seemingly imminent, content moderation and social media expert, Sarah T. Roberts, discusses Elon Musk's ideology, the labor of social media, and the migration to Mastodon. ... full 8cadd215-3b6e-48f4-a14b-711bc2f90304 Fri, 18 Nov 2022 13:00:00 +0000 3404 true true 6 6 Dance of the Cash Dragons with Aaron Bady, Michelle Chihara, & Sarah Mesle The series finale finds "Dear Television" correspondents joining the podcast to discuss the Fall 2022 franchise season, foremost HBO's "House of the Dragon," but also Disney+'s "Andor" and Amazon's... full aafb329b-8aba-4e42-b171-34242af16645 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 10:05:00 +0000 4797 true true 5 6 Industry Cringe & Reproductive Horror with Johanna Isaacson & Madeline Lane-McKinley A ranging conversation inspired by two forthcoming books about genre, work, and visual culture. The authors consider HBO series like "The Baby," "Barry," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and "The Larry Sand... full bd3edbc1-b19d-4787-ae53-0af4828f38be Tue, 25 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0000 4081 true true 4 6 Rooting For Everybody Black in the Issa Rae Extended Universe with Jalylah Burrell & Danielle Fuentes Morgan Inspired by HBO shows "Insecure" and "Rap Sh!t," as well as Yvonne Orji's new stand-up special and recent Emmy wins for Quinta Brunson's "Abbott Elementary" and Jerrod Carmichael's "Rothaniel," Mat... full 88763d84-6fce-45fa-8dda-7c7094df2801 Fri, 14 Oct 2022 11:45:00 +0000 4548 false false 3 6 The Sopranos Revival (Remember The End of The End of History?) with Peter Coviello & Xine Yao No single program transformed the HBO brand like "The Sopranos," which became a hit all over again upon the launch of HBOMax in the midst of the 2020 lockdown. For more about this episode, pleas... full 0a9e209f-3e07-40ce-b5ad-9f4537d1ef54 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0000 4629 true true 2 6 The Rehearsal, Reality TV, & Warner Bros Discovery with J. D. Connor & Olivia Stowell Is Nathan Fielder's "The Rehearsal" a critique of Reality TV? Moreover, might it be read as an attack on HBO's new parent company, Warner Bros Discovery? A conversation about the show, the network,... full c99bfae5-898e-45e8-a024-fd129bcf1dfc Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:15:00 +0000 4891 false false 1 6 Puzzles of Collective Intention, Corporate Authorship, Family Business Insurrection, & HBO's Succession with Lisa Siraganian & Michael Szalay Our sixth season - "HBO, From Pulp to Prestige" - kicks off with a discussion of conglomeration, collective intention, and corporate authorship through HBO's original programming and especially "Su... full d8f4afba-222c-46e4-925b-6f1a2a5abe3c Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:50:00 +0000 4603 false false 3 5 Reconsidering Mark Twain Among The Indians with Herman Fillmore & Drew Lopenzina In the concluding episode of our series on Kerry Driscoll's field-shaping book, Mika Turim-Nygren seeks reception of the work in Native Studies and from Native communities. For more about this e... full 3fe4ddfa-740a-4f23-9cf8-754c6684b8dd Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:45:00 +0000 3179 false false 2 5 Talking Mark Twain Among The Indians with Kerry Driscoll This seminal book in Twain Studies was a decades-long undertaking. Kerry Driscoll explains how she became "an accidental Twain scholar," and discusses with Mika Turim-Nygren the multifold archival ... full 7279677d-0c11-4608-b11f-8d159a4e4250 Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +0000 3195 false false 1 5 Reviewing Mark Twain Among The Indians with John Bird, Susan K. Harris, & Ann Ryan A new series hosted by Mika Turim-Nygren premieres with a discussion of Kerry Driscoll's 2019 book, "Mark Twain Among The Indians & Other Indigenous Peoples," featuring three established scholars i... full 6ea6d697-568b-41e2-a195-91eb8d8385ad Mon, 25 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000 3904 false false 7 4 Ministry For The Future (Worldwide Climate Teach-In Special Episode) with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Anna Kornbluh, & Min Hyoung Song Produced in observance of and solidarity with the Worldwide Teach-In On Climate & Justice taking place on many campuses today, including Elmira College, we host discussion of a CliFi novel by Kim S... full dad7a74f-2e0a-489f-a819-64b681edaba1 Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0000 4557 true true 6 4 Bullshit Jobs, Fuck Work, & The Legacy of David Graeber with James Livingston & Corey McCall Is is possible to imagine a world without work? Or, at least, a world in which work is not romanticized, is not treated as defining element of social and individual achievement? James Livingston ha... full 932eff5c-47fc-487f-92b1-224b661e5acd Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:52:00 +0000 3423 true true 5 4 Working For The New Yorker: Putting The Historicity Back In The French Dispatch with Nora Shaalan & Dan Sinykin Wes Anderson's acclaimed new movie, The French Dispatch, draws inspiration from the Golden Age of The New Yorker magazine, a period from roughly the early 1940s to the mid 1970s. This episode featu... full 17dbb7c3-9210-4d76-9436-284d8b401a9b Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:35:00 +0000 4994 true true 4 4 Decommodified Labor, Selling Out, & Other Compromises of The Great Resignation with Leigh Claire La Berge & Rachel Greenwald Smith How do we explain the Great Resignation? Or, for that matter, other mysteries of the contemporary economy, like the high price of culture work and the low wages of culture workers? Two scholars of ... full 8b249a92-f614-44a9-a6e7-13b4c6d065d4 Wed, 23 Feb 2022 20:15:00 +0000 4923 true true 3 4 Bootstrapping Across Dystopia: Autofiction, Autotheory, Autoeverything with Merve Emre & Anna Kornbluh A conversation about the personal essay boom, iterations of the memoir in other literary genres, the constructive use of social media, the style of "too late capitalism," and other means of self-in... full b7653dfb-700d-4531-817c-e50b1ce07be1 Mon, 14 Feb 2022 21:15:00 +0000 4234 true true 2 4 Are We All Porn Workers Now?: Gigwork & Radical Flexibility with Heather Berg & Michelle Chihara A ranging conversation with two scholars - Heather Berg (Porn Work: Sex, Labor, & Late Capitalism) and Michelle Chihara ("Radical Flexibility: Driving for Lyft & The Future of Work in The Platform ... full 021ba254-4555-43b3-94f3-03ae9d2aad48 Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:45:00 +0000 3108 true true 1 4 A Hedge Fund with A Drone Fleet: EdWork in 2022 with Annie McClanahan & Asheesh Kapur Siddique "The World's Work" begins with a discussion of student debt, faculty deskilling, outsourcing, adjunctification, EdTech, and the financialization of U.S. higher education. Special theme music: "W... full ed29459d-6076-46f5-b177-cc32e89c3e84 Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:00:00 +0000 4078 true true 4 3 Showtime's Billions & COVID Form with Anna Kornbluh & Devin William Daniels The season finale of Billions aired exactly 17 months after the season premiere. This was not by design. In this episode, scholars of finance and popular culture discuss the popular Showtime series... full 69317385-321e-48a4-bd9f-4229af0b5a60 Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:45:00 +0000 3762 false false 3 3 Antiracism In The Contemporary University with Amanda Bailey, Tita Chico, & Emily Yoon Perez A discussion of the Antiracism project sponsored by University of Maryland's Center For Literary & Comparative Studies with three faculty members heavily involved in the project, as well as their i... full 1f1d59b9-7862-4cd0-87ec-12219ed811ed Thu, 09 Sep 2021 20:45:00 +0000 3646 false false 2 3 The Shush (& The Chair) with Michelle Chihara & Kyla Wazana Tompkins In her recent PMLA essay, "The Shush," Kyla Wazana Tompkins writes, "The future of the English department cannot be the same as its past." The recent Netflix original series, "The Chair," offers on... full 93f096e1-48a4-4b62-9ac7-6f51a30b927e Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:13:00 +0000 4025 true true 1 3 A Chair On The Chair with Karen Tongson The new Netflix original series, The Chair, focus on the first woman of color to Chair the English Department at fictional Pembroke University. Dr. Karen Tongson (University of Southern California)... full 74b85edc-4954-427c-b988-450cc4493d96 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:40:00 +0000 2660 false false 13 2 The Invisible Home of Frederick Douglass, John W. Jones, & Mark Twain with Jill Spivey Caddell & Shirley Samuels On a special Emancipation Week episode, three scholars with both personal and professional ties to the Southern Tier of New York, discuss the recently-reconstructed speech by Frederick Douglass whi... full 7ba5ad25-98a4-4c47-822f-4d6556e84419 Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:30:00 +0000 2897 false false 12 2 Why Trust In Antitrust? with Sanjukta Paul & Marshall Steinbaum With a series of recent events indicating bipartisan interest in antitrust reform from Congress and the Supreme Court, host Matt Seybold speaks with Law Professor, Sanjukta Paul, and economist, Mar... full 4bbd110a-2dc3-4103-9e2e-ac585e666de4 Thu, 01 Jul 2021 14:10:00 +0000 4084 false false 11 2 Generation Z, Mark Twain's Poetry, & Teaching English From East Texas to Harvard with Jocelyn Chadwick The coordinators of the 2021 Summer Teachers Institute sponsored by the Center For Mark Twain Studies converse about the upcoming event, the state of U.S. education, the resonance of Mark Twain for... full e5f39220-a06e-4e28-8e65-f5fc88656d0e Fri, 18 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000 3408 false false 10 2 Teaching With Tension & The Illusion of Postracialism with Philathia Bolton, Cassander Smith, & Lee Bebout The co-editors of a new collection on "Race, Resistance, & Reality in The Classroom" discuss the "flash point" of 2008 for American education, the recent Critical Race Theory panic, pedagogical str... full 5531cfe3-bcb5-48d9-9f0c-dd0d7efc93ed Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:40:00 +0000 4713 true true 9 2 Mark Twain, Journalism, & the Search for Genus Americanus with Loren Ghiglione, Alyssa Karas, & Dan Tham The authors of Genus Americanus (2020) join host Matt Seybold to discuss their 2011 road trip. Inspired by Mark Twain, they went looking for American identity through interviews with other journali... full f0a1c85c-16de-4949-a84c-5c9a793e34fb Wed, 19 May 2021 14:30:00 +0000 3522 false false 8 2 Exterminate All The Brutes with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Andrew Hoberek, & Ignacio Sanchez Prado The recent HBO documentary series, directed by Raoul Peck, offers a grand narrative of European colonialism and American imperialism which is broadly sympathetic with the works of Mark Twain from t... full 1b96dddc-7223-4fbd-8a5c-d59d0a42e48f Tue, 04 May 2021 12:20:00 +0000 5420 false false 7 2 BONUS EPISODE: Readings for Hal Bush & Hiroko Bush A beloved member of the Mark Twain Studies community, author, and St. Louis University Professor, Hal Bush, recently suffered a traumatic brain injury which has put him into a coma. In this episode... full bfceb0bf-3f7a-4875-a014-acd46624c8b7 Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:45:00 +0000 5319 false false 6 2 The Suez Canal, #Stuckboat, & The Sinews of War & Trade with Laleh Khalili Following on the heels of the grounding of the Ever Given in the Suez Canal last month, Matt Seybold speaks with Dr. Laleh Khalili, whose 2020 book, Sinew of War & Trade: Shipping & Capitalism in t... full a6f87603-5c68-4fe5-9221-5b032048302d Thu, 08 Apr 2021 17:01:00 +0000 3064 false false 5 2 A Music Box, Minstrel Songs, & Mark Twain's Emo Playlist with Erin Bartram & Kerry Driscoll This episode brings together three scholars who have been researching and writing about Mark Twain's musical tastes and the role of music education and performance in the Clemens family household. ... full 3114206d-8b3a-4df2-9189-86b79afaf71e Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:11:00 +0000 3626 false false 4 2 Unsealing the Archive of T.S. Eliot's Love Letters To Emily Hale with Frances Dickey, Megan Quigley, & John Whittier-Ferguson Very few embargoed archives are as momentous as Mark Twain's Autobiography, released a century after his death, but the Hale archive, opened last year, is an obvious rival. Emily Hale saved over a ... full 33c69bad-311a-46cf-901e-94aafd24609f Tue, 16 Mar 2021 09:00:00 +0000 4736 false false 3 2 Project Huckleberry (a.k.a. The Mandalorian) with Emmet Asher-Perrin & Nathaniel Williams The hit Disney+ & Lucasfilm TV series, The Mandalorian, was produced under the working title of "Project Huckleberry." This allusion the Mark Twain's under-appreciated legacy as an innovator in Sci... full f36b2a37-09e4-489e-9032-51a2ccaaecca Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:33:00 +0000 3208 false false 2 2 Robinhood, r/WallStreetBets, Who's Yellen Now, & The GameStop-ification of Finance with Anna Kornbluh, Leigh Claire La Berge, & Michelle Chihara Three scholars of finance and literature join to talk about the ongoing story of the "Reddit Revolution," members of the r/WallStreetBets forum who organized a run on several stocks, notably GameSt... full 4060dace-6c9a-4211-892f-339f865b0b42 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:45:00 +0000 3915 true true 1 2 The Myths of Reconstruction in The Wake of Insurrection with Brook Thomas Following the storming of the Capitol Building on January 6th, there has been a resurgent interest in the era of Reconstruction following the American Civil War. Senators, journalists, and even sch... full 4d69602f-440e-44ef-ad18-1e7ca2b60f33 Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:30:00 +0000 4834 false false 12 1 BONUS EPISODE: Center for Mark Twain Studies 2020 Debrief From Quarry Farm with Joe Lemak & Steve Webb The staff of the Center for Mark Twain Studies gathers in the library at Quarry Farm to discuss the recently-announced Quarry Farm Fellowships for the coming year, the peculiarities of living and w... full bc843719-6f8f-4630-88e6-e5d1f53272a6 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 22:47:00 +0000 2947 false false 11 1 BONUS EPISODE: The Gospel of Revolt: Mark Twain in Elmira with Hal Holbrook & Will Holbrook Did you know that Mark Twain’s father-in-law lobbied for the release of a young woman arrested under the Fugitive Slave Law in 1853? That Twain’s grave lies in a cemetery with numerous conductors a... full f0c9855a-836e-406d-9b87-c1329ac4b1b4 Wed, 23 Dec 2020 10:00:00 +0000 2837 false false 10 1 DEEP CUTS BOOK CLUB #1: Mark Twain's "Letter From Santa Claus" with Mark Dawidziak, Penne Restad, & Jana Tigchelaar This episode focuses on a letter Mark Twain composed for his three-year-old daughter on Christmas 1875. After actor Mark Dawidziak reads the letter, Matt Seybold hosts a book club style discussion ... full 64a7c768-b71e-4fba-a835-8cab453388e9 Fri, 18 Dec 2020 16:42:00 +0000 3815 false false 9 1 Good Lord Bird & John Brown in Ethan Hawke's America with Jeffrey Insko & Ashley Rattner James McBride's retelling of John Brown's epochal raid on Harpers Ferry through the eyes of a young black man won the National Book Award in 2013 and was recently adapted into a Showtime miniseries... full 8ae1dc87-473e-47ed-8efd-74b8b824c1c6 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 17:48:00 +0000 4027 false false 8 1 Dave Chappelle & Killjoy Comedy with Jalylah Burrell, Bambi Haggins, & Maggie Hennefeld American Humor Studies scholars Jalylah Burrell, Bambi Haggins, and Maggie Hennefeld join host Matt Seybold to discuss the recent work of stand-up comic Dave Chappelle, especially his free half-hou... full 76ef98bc-bda4-4fbb-b63b-3d1ed600a1d5 Tue, 01 Dec 2020 19:58:00 +0000 3948 true true 7 1 Mark Twain, James Redpath, & The Vigilante Origins of American Police Concluding the 2020 Trouble Begins Lecture Series, Matt Seybold interposes the early careers of Mark Twain and James Redpath, both of whom, in the years surrounding the American Civil War, denounce... full e0b1f7b9-8535-4e2d-8e50-b7a2d9f3680e Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:50:00 +0000 2880 false false 6 1 The New Black Gothic & Lovecraft Country with Sheri-Marie Harrison The Gothic has been, since Mark Twain's time, a popular way for artists to reckon with the life and afterlife of American slavery. But only recently has a Gothic tradition emerged which places blac... full e951f2a7-90d5-4955-ae27-f26e3b35307b Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:40:00 +0000 3324 false false 5 1 American Humor & Matters of Empire with Judith Yaross Lee Coming off the 2020 Quarry Farm Symposium which she organized, Judith Yaross Lee talks with Matt Seybold about her ongoing project, the disciplinary history of American Humor Studies, romantic come... full 1ee1a4f0-fe7e-4c4d-ae5e-33beb464e26c Mon, 02 Nov 2020 20:47:00 +0000 3446 false false 4 1 Elmira Correctional Facility & The Prison Fix with Andrea Morrell With the backdrop of a large COVID-19 outbreak within its walls, Andrea Morrell talks to Matt Seybold about Elmira Correctional Facility, one of the oldest continuously-operational prisons in the U... full 793004fd-f53d-4e2a-8335-89514d618376 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:15:00 +0000 3090 false false 3 1 Mark Twain, The World, & Susan K. Harris Susan K. Harris, author of "Mark Twain, The World, & Me: Following the Equator, Then & Now," sits down with Matt Seybold to discuss the project that took her to Australia, India, New Zealand, and S... full 317d6435-17db-46c0-9a3e-fc99cb94052b Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:43:00 +0000 2994 false false 2 1 The Viral Reprinting of Mark Twain's Hawaii Jokes & Mark Twain Meets Dracula This episode begins with Todd Nathan Thompson's paper for "The Viral Twain" panel at Virtual C19. Dr. Thompson tracks how Twain's jokes based on his visit to Hawaii were reprinted and often misprin... full 348a6386-d392-4282-8ef3-236a15c824b9 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:37:00 +0000 2906 false false 1 1 James Redpath, Bleeding Kansas, & The Networks of Disunion Mark Twain's publicist and booking agent, proprietor of the Boston Lyceum Bureau, started his career as a hardscrabble freelance journalist. He discovered he had a knack for star-making long before... full ce85f33e-7e3c-4b4a-b14a-a268ade0f13d Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:26:00 +0000 2705 false false