General Introduction – Positively doctoral – The informality of Minnesotans Situating “Neighbour Rosicky” – Idealization of immigrant life and tradition – The story’s quaintness – Cather’s critical reputation – The…

General Introduction – Snow introduction – Listener feedback – Adjuncts and online education – Women and the Great American Novel Our Experience – Hitchcock and scary movies – Good eeeeeevening…

General Introduction – Snowpocalypse, Round Two – Sprezzatura, sprezzatura – Listener feedback – American folk The Postmodern Condition – The age of networked computers – Incredulity toward metanarratives – Speculation…

Note: This is our first transcontinental podcast, and there’s some noise and feedback we couldn’t get rid of. Thanks for sticking with us! Introductions Congratulations Shelah and Shawn! A little…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – Tarantino and meaning – Harper Lee, the great American novelist? – More fake papers for us – The mascot of the CHU – The…

Author’s Note: Marie’s microphone was being a bit spotty. We’re sorry! Introductions KNOWING A review of the Bechdel Test :http://www.dw.de/sex-violenceand-gender-bias-swedish-cinemas-test-the-bechdel/a-17299348  http://www.slashfilm.com/infographic-movies-that-passed-the-bechdel-test-made-more-money-in-2013/ It’s about representation. Objections to the test More representation…

…Oh, I’m sorry. Did I break your concentration? General Introduction – We’re all here! – The Polar Vortex – Listener feedback and a caveat Pulp Autobiography – Encountering the parody…

One of the persistent heroes of philosophically minded folks is Socrates, the godfatherof question-askers, the Athenian philosopher, the drinker of hemlock. Although the Platonic dialogues never present him as entirely averse…

General Introduction – How cold is it? – Michial is froggy – Which one of you is the butler? – A big load of listener feedback – Our devoted lovers…

General Introduction – Nathan reports from Orlando – Finals week – Who suggested this episode? Positing the Essay – Orwell and Huxley – Early and late career – Orwell’s unbelievable…

Perhaps no book in the Hebrew Bible is more disturbing, befuddling, and thought-provoking than The Book of Job. Believers and nonbelievers alike have wrestled like the ideas and emotions put…

A correction   KNOWING With progress comes backlash Faludi, Susan. Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women. New York: Crown, 1991. Print. Levy, Ariel. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of…

  Knowing When was the Third Wave? Why was the Third Wave? Pop culture and “The personal is political.” Reading http://www.girlstothefront.com/ Laurie was a punk rocker: anger, class consciousness, and…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – We talk about Mike Tyson for awhile What Is Postmodernism? – Modernism without the anxiety – Incredulity toward metanarratives – Playfulness and literary production…

General Introduction – Wrapped up in wires – How tall are we? – Listener feedback The Descent to the Underworld – Opening the third act – Katabasis – A gender-reversed…