Best Dalton Myers Podcasts (2024)

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Joshua Myers on Of Black Study 1:09:24

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You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theo…

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Autumn Womack on The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial data, 1880-1930 1:02:51

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You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theo…

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Mark Deets on A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal 1:23:23

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This discussion is with Dr. Mark W. Deets, an Assistant Professor of African and World History and the Director of the Center for American Studies and Research at The American University in Cairo. His research and teaching focus on 19 th and 20th century West African social and cultural history, especially in the Senegambian region. His first book,…

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Marlene Daut on Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution 1:08:42

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Marlene Daut , she is a Professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University and author of the recently published book Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution. She is series editor of New World Studies at UVA Press, co-editor of Global Black History at Public Books, and ha…

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Eziaku Nwokocha on Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States 1:40:26

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This discussion is with Dr. Eziaku Nwokocha, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. She is a scholar of Africana religions with expertise in the ethnographic study of Vodou in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora. Her research is grounded in gender and sexuality studies, visual and material culture and A…

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Drew Dalton on The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism 1:24:55

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You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theo…

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Isaac Vincent Joslin on Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions 1:15:59

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This discussion is with Dr. Isaac Joslin who holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota in Francophone Studies. Currently Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies and Global Futures Scholar at Arizona State University, he has travelled extensively for research in Francophone Africa in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Cameroon, Togo, Burkina Faso, Rwanda…

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Tina Post on Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression 55:24

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Tina Post, an Assistant Professor of English and Theater and Performance at the University of Chicago. Her recent first monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, is the first book in NYU Press’s new Minoritarian Aesthetics series. Her scholarly articles have appeared in Modern Drama, TDR: The Drama Rev…

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Rima Vesely-Flad on Black Buddhists & the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation 1:03:31

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad, she is the author of Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice (Fortress Press, 2017). She is the Visiting Professor of Buddhism and Black Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she teaches classes on Buddhism and social just…

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Jasmine Nichole Cobb on New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair 45:16

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Jasmine Nichole Cobb is Professor of African & African American Studies and of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, as well as a co-director of the “From Slavery to Freedom” (FS2F) Franklin Humanities Lab. A scholar of black cultural production and visual representation, Cobb is the author of two monographs, Picture Freedom: Rema…

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Darieck Scott on Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics 53:07

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Darieck Scott, a professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His book Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination (NYU Press 2010), was the winner of the 2011 Alan Bray Memorial Prize for Queer Studies of the Modern Language A…

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Perry Zurn on Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry 55:47

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John Drabinski hosts this conversation with Perry Zurn, who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at American University in Washington, D.C. In addition to dozens of articles on key figures and issues in the European philosophical tradition, Perry has edited three volumes: with Andrew Dilts, Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Inform…

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Mari Crabtree on My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching 1:20:20

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This discussion is with Mari Crabtree, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. Mari has published on African American history and culture, with particular emphasis on trauma, the history of lynching, and critical aspects of African American humor. Along with a number of a…

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Shanna Greene Benjamin on Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay 1:20:34

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This discussion is with Shanna Greene Benjamin, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She has published widely on African American literary and cultural studies, with particular emphasis on Black women’s literature and intellectual history. Along with numerous articles,…

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Stefanie Dunning on Black to Nature: Pastoral Return in African American Culture 1:19:35

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John E. Drabinski hosts a conversation with Stefanie Dunning, Professor of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The author of numerous essays on African American literature and culture, Stefanie has authored two books: Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture, published by Indiana …

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Sarah Jane Cervenak on Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life 1:14:46

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John E. Drabinski hosts a discussion with Sarah Jane Cervenak, who teaches in the departments of Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African American Studies at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is the author of a number of critical essays on African American art and literature with particular focus on Black feminist writing and p…

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Andrea A. Davis on Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean & African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation 59:11

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This discussion is with Dr. Andrea Davis, she is an Associate Professor at York University,Toronto in the Department of Humanities and the Academic Convenor of the 2023 Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She teaches and supervises in literatures and cultures of the Black Americas and holds cross-appointments in the g…

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Margret Grebowicz and Kiff Bamford on Lyotard and Critical Practice 1:32:36

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This conversation is with Margret Grebowicz and Kiff Bamford, editors of a new collection of essays entitled Lyotard and Critical Practice, published in late-2022 by Bloomsbury. Margret teaches political theory at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is the author of a number of scholarly and popular media pieces, ranging from French cr…

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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora 1:19:30

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A conversation with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, associate professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has written widely in popular and scholarly venues on African American literature and culture, with particular emphasis on the Black feminist tradition, queer theory, and twentieth and twenty first century li…

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Christopher Freeburg on Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death 1:09:27

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This discussion is with Professor Christopher Freeburg, Dr. Freeburg is the John A. and Grace W. Nicholson Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Freeburg is an award-winning author of three scholarly books and numerous articles including, Melville in the Idea of Blackness (Cambridge UP, 2012), Black Aesthetics an…

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Habiba Ibrahim on Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life 1:26:05

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This conversation is with Habiba Ibrahim, who teaches in the Department of English at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. In addition to a number of published articles on African American literature and cultural studies, Ibrahim co-edited with Badia Ahad a 2022 issue of South Atlantic Quarterly organized around the theme “Black Tem…

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Nicholas Harrison on Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education 58:30

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Nicholas Harrison, he is a Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies at King’s College London. During his student years he worked as a teacher at the university of Tunis, at a school in rural Quebec, and at the ENS in Paris. He returned to the UK to take up a Junior Research Fellowship at St Catharine’s College, Ca…

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Rinaldo Walcott on The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom 1:18:11

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This conversation is with Rinaldo Walcott, who teaches in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto, where he is the director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Black Like Who? Writing Black Canada (1997), Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Cri…

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Felisa Vergara Reynolds on The Author as Cannibal: Re-Writing in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre (1969-1995) 56:04

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This discussion is with Dr. Felisa Vergara Reynold, an Associate Professor of French for the Department of French and Italian at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD from Harvard University. Her focus is on literature in French from the Antilles, West Africa, and North Africa. She primarily works on the legacy and impa…

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Brian Valente-Quinn on Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theatre-Making in Francophone Africa 54:42

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This discussion is with Dr. Brian Valente-Quinn, he is an associate professor of Francophone African Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on the histories and politics of theatrical performance in West Africa, and especially the stage’s interplay with questions of decoloniality, Pan-Africanism, popular culture, and fo…

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Bruce Janz on African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition: The Space of Thought 1:23:28

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Today’s conversation is with Bruce Janz, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, where he also co-directs the Center for Humanities and Digital Research. In addition to dozens of articles, he is the editor of a special journal issue with History of Intellectual Culture on space and interdisciplinarity and a…

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Nick Bromell on The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass 1:44:01

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This conversation is with Nick Bromell, Professor Emeritus in the English Department at University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass. Bromell is the author of numerous articles on 19th and 20th century literature and politics, and has edited the Norton Critical Edition of Frederick Douglass’ My Bondage and My Freedom, as well as a collection of ess…

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Sandra Gunning on Moving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic 1:02:43

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This discussion is with Professor Sandra Gunning, Dr. Gunning is a literary scholar working jointly in the Department of American Culture, and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Currently she’s at work on an alternate Black literary history of the American Civil War. In today’s conversation,…

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Muriam Haleh Davis on Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria 59:05

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This discussion is with Dr. Muriam Haleh Davis, Dr. Davis teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the author of Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria (Duke University Press, 2022). Her research studies the relationship between decolonization and the history of the social sciences. She is a frequent comme…

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Catriona MacLeod on Invisible Presence: Drawing Women in French Comics 1:02:26

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Catriona MacLeod, a Senior lecturer in French Studies at the University of London Institute in Paris. Her research interests concern women in French-language graphic novels (or bandes dessinées) and migration and trauma narratives in bandes dessinées and caricatures. She has published on these topics in a range of aca…

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Andil Gosine on Nature's Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean 1:09:43

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This discussion is with Dr. Gosine, a Professor of Environmental Arts and Justice at York University in Toronto. His publications include co-authorship of the text Environmental Justice and Racism in Canada and contributions to many journals including Small Axe, Wasafiri, Sexualities, Topia, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Art in America, as we…

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Dannelle Gutarra Cordero on She is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World 46:08

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, she is a Lecturer in African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus in 2012. Gutarra Cordero specializes in the Intellectual History of the Caribbean and the Atlantic World…

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Elodie Silberstein on Animality & Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity 1:03:47

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This discussion is with Dr. Elodie Silberstein (she/her), an artist and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Pace University (New York City, United States). She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University (Naarm/Melbourne, Australia), and a Master of Fine Arts from the University Paul-Valery (Montpel…

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Adrienne J. Cohen on Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea 1:03:14

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This discussion is with Adrienne Cohen, an Assistant Professor of cultural anthropology at Colorado State University. She has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Guinea, West Africa on urban dance and political change, and in the United States among migrant artists from Guinea. Cohen is the author of Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urba…

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Jennifer P. Nesbitt on Rum Histories: Drinking in Atlantic Literature and Culture 1:03:16

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Jennifer Nesbitt, professor of English at the York campus of The Pennsylvania State University, where she teaches everything from first-year composition to upper-division courses in women’s writing and Caribbean culture. She is the author of two books: Narrative Settlements: Genre and Geography in British Women’s Fict…

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Robin Brooks on Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction 1:05:51

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Robin Brooks, an associate professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh with an impressive record of scholarship that examines a range of cultural matters concerning Black communities in the United States and the wider African Diaspora. Primary research and teaching interests for Dr. Brooks include co…

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Emily Marker on Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era 1:11:41

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Emily Marker, she is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden. Her research and teaching interests are in imperial and postcolonial Europe, francophone Africa, race, religion, youth, and global history. Her work has been published in The American Historical Review, French Politics, Culture & Soci…

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Lee McBride on Ethics and Insurrection: A Pragmatism for the Oppressed 1:16:25

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A discussion with Lee McBride, who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio where he also serves as Chair of Africana Studies. He writes on a wide range of issues in American philosophy, the pragmatist tradition, and topics of race, affect, and political justice. He is the author of Ethics and Insurrection:…

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Ana Lucia Araujo on Museums and Atlantic Slavery 1:05:58

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This discussion is with Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo, a Professor of History at Howard University in Washington DC. She is a social and cultural historian writing transnational and comparative history, her work explores the history of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and their present-day legacies, including the long history of demands of reparations f…

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Lindsey B. Green-Simms on African Queer Cinemas 57:36

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This discussion is with Dr. Lindsey B. Green-Simms, a Professor of Literature at American University, Washington D.C. where she teaches classes on film and fiction from Africa and the global South. In this conversation, we discuss her most recent book, Queer African Cinemas, published by Duke University Press in March 2022. Our conversation here ex…

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Kaiama L. Glover on A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being 54:08

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This discussion is with Kaiama L. Glover, she is an Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies and Faculty Director of the Digital Humanities Center at Barnard College at Columbia University. She has written extensively about Caribbean literature in works such as Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (2010), …

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Ashley M. Williard on Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean 1:04:48

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This discussion is with Dr. Ashley M. Williard, an assistant professor in the Francophone Studies Program at the University of South Carolina, where her research examines disability, gender, and race in the early modern French-speaking world. Her research has appeared in publications including Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies, Early Modern Women…

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Richard Price on Maroons in Guyane: Past, Present, Future 1:00:52

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This discussion is with Richard Price, an anthropologist and historian who has written extensively on the history and culture of African Americans throughout the hemisphere. He has taught at Yale, Johns Hopkins, and William & Mary, and in France, the Netherlands, and Brazil. His prize-winning books, translated into several languages, include First-…

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Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus on Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel 1:23:53

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A discussion with Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus, who teaches in the Department of English at University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She teaches and publishes widely in African-American literary and cultural studies, with a particular emphasis on post-Antebellum literature up to the Harlem Renaissance. Her 2020 book Afro-Realisms and the Roma…

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Jay Rajiva on Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature 1:09:09

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A discussion with Jay Rajiva, who teaches in the Department of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has published widely in anglophone postcolonial literary studies, focusing on South Asia and English language works from sub-Saharan Africa. Rajiva authored the 2017 work Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Et…

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Jacqueline Couti on Sex, Sea and Self: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses, 1924-1948 1:18:47

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This discussion is with Dr. Jacqueline Couti, she is the Laurence H. Favrot Professor of French Studies at Rice university. Her research and teaching interests delve into the transatlantic and transnational interconnections between cultural productions from continental France and its now former colonies. A central theme of her research is how local…

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Michael L. Dickinson on Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807 59:06

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This discussion is with Dr. Michael Lawrence Dickinson, an assistant professor of African American history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was a 2019-2020 Barra Sabbatical Fellow at University of Pennsylvania's McNeil Center for Early American Studies. His research interests include enslaved black life, comparative slavery, Black Atlantic s…

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Alex Madva, Vanessa Wills, Ian Olasov, and Dana Miranda on The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives 1:50:18

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This discussion is with four contributors to a new edited collection titled The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives, published in late-2021 by Oxford University Press. We’re joined by Alex Madva, who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Cal Poly Pomona, where he also directs the California Center for Ethics and Policy. Along …

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Kir Kuiken and Deborah Elise White on Haiti's Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution 1:27:06

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A discussion is with Kir Kuiken and Deborah Elise White, editors of a new collection titled Haiti’s Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution, out with Bloomsbury Publishing in late-2021. Kir teaches in the Department of English at State University of New York at Albany in Albany, New York, and is the author of numerous articles…

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Sarah J. Zimmerman on Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire 1:15:13

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This discussion is with Dr. Sarah J. Zimmerman, an Associate Professor of history at Western Washington University and is the Vice President of the French Colonial Historical Society. Her research focuses on women and gender in West Africa, French Empire, and the Atlantic World. Her current research attends to the gendered production of history and…

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