Tim Barnes chats with literary historian, paleographer, and activist Mary Rambaran-Olm about her love of 80s cartoons, yarn work, and revealing the diverse history of the medieval era.
Dr. Mary Rambaran-Olm is a public scholar who examines the many contributions of non-white people in early England, despite it often figuring in scholarship as a uniformly white period. Relying heavily on cultural theorist Stuart Hall and post-colonial theorist Dipesh Chakrabarty, she explores both the rich contributions that non-white people made to the culture of early Medieval England from the fifth to the eleventh century.
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CREDITS:
* Host: Tim Barnes
* Guest: Mary Rambaran-Olm
* Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez
* Music Engineer: Adam Smith (@a_scug on Instagram)
* Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla
REFERENCES:
* Adventures of the Gummi Bears
* Smurfs
* Roald Dahl's Widow Says Charlie From 'The Chocolate Factory' Was Originally Black