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Critical ConnectionsAn Overthought Narrative: Humanities vs STEM Part 1Would you like fries with that English degree? Dani pits the Humanities and STEM against each other in this double feature to settle once and for all which arm of education ought to be amputated in the name of cost-effective efficient synergetic return on investment DBA incentive.
Dani interviews UVU Doctor-professors Zan Cammack, an English Literature professor and host of "The Thing About Austen," Ezgi Sertler, and Leslie Simon to figure out why someone would devote their entire life to studying the humanities.
The Thing About Austen:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7iqMz2...2024-04-0150 min
The Moore Institute Podcast“Seeing Wilde Songs: Oscar Wilde’s Poetry and Charles T. Griffes’ Four Impressions”Charles T. Griffes (1884–1920), America’s first Impressionistic composer, was deeply inspired by Oscar Wilde’s (1854–1900) poetry. The composer drew out the latent musicality and highlighted colour-based thematic developments in Wilde’s works by interlacing written images with tonal references. And Griffes’ synaesthesia, or colour-hearing, plays a particular role in drawing out yellow/gold tonalities and images in his “Wilde songs.”
Dr. Zan Cammack is a lecturer in the Department of English and Literature at Utah Valley University. She was the 2017-18 Fulbright Scholar at the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, and is a is a graduate of...2021-10-281h 02
Students and ScholarsEp15 - Discrimination, Mental Health, and Grief in Jacqueline Roy's The Fat Lady Sings with Dr. Zan CammackThis episode discusses Jacqueline Roy's 2000 debut novel The Fat Lady Sings and themes such as race, gender and sexuality, and mental health. It turns out this is an incredibly apt novel to wrap up an exceptionally heavy semester on a note of hope and joy.
CW: sexual assault, loss of a loved one2021-04-1921 minStudents and ScholarsEp14 - Theatre of the Absurd with Kath, Addison, and BrookeIn this student-led episode, Kath, Addison, and Brooke discuss the Theatre of the Absurd in relation to Samuel Beckett’s play Krapp’s Last Tape and Enda Walsh’s play Penelope.
Bibliography
Beckett, Samuel. Krapp's Last Tape. Faber and Faber Ltd, 2014.
Billington, Michael. “Penelope | Theatre Review.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 26 July 2010, www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/jul/26/penelope-druid-lane-galway-review.
Dickson, Andrew. “Nonsense Talk: Theatre of the Absurd.” The British Library, The British Library, 3 Aug. 2017, www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/nonsense-talk-theatre-of-the-absurd.
Hurt, John. “Krapp's Last Tape: John Hurt on Samuel Beckett's Loner Hero.” The Guardian, Guardian News and...2021-04-1227 minStudents and ScholarsEp13 - Film and Propaganda in Isherwood's Prater Violet with Jamey, Alexis, and EmmaIn this student-led episode, Jamey, Alexis, and Emma discuss Christopher Isherwood’s novel Prater Violet in connection with film and propaganda.
Bibliography
Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood
“Breakfast at the Prater: Christopher Isherwood, His Women and Men” by Ercolino, Stefano, et al. Imaginary Films in Literature. Brill | Rodopi, 2016.
Propaganda and the Citizen in British Feature Films of World War II
“The Power of Cinema’: Film in the 1920s and 30s” from University of Warwick
Britain's World War II films were more than just propaganda
Queer Camera: Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin and Prater V...2021-04-0521 minStudents and ScholarsEp12 - Stream of Consciousness and Mrs. Dalloway with Darian, Robby, Alicia, Jessica, and AshleyIn this student-led episode, Darian, Robby, Alicia, Jessica, and Ashley walk us through the concepts of stream of consciousness and how this narrative style became a trademark of modernist works such as Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway.2021-03-3024 minStudents and ScholarsEp11 - World War One Poetry with Jonathan PattersonIn this episode our guest scholar, Jonathon Patterson, explores poetry from World War One. He explains why poetry was one of the primary media outlets for soldiers and citizens during this era and how it was politicized. He also discusses broadening representations in our definition of WWI poets and why these works remain relevant over 100 years later.
Jonathan Patterson is a doctoral candidate at Kansas University and plans to defend his dissertation on spatiality in the experiences of World War One combat poets later this semester. He has published work on this theme in several peer-reviewed...2021-03-2130 minStudents and ScholarsEp10 - Victorian Genre Fiction and Material Culture in Dracula with Dr. Ashley NadeauThis episode we welcome guest scholar Dr. Ashley Nadeau as she examines Dracula as a novel that draws from popular Victorian genre fiction, and detective fiction in particular. She also uses examples of material culture within the novel—railways, blood, nightdresses, and typewriters—as objects that help us better understand Dracula’s narrative.
Dr. Nadeau received her doctorate from University of Massachusetts Amherst where she studied Victorian fiction in relation to architecture and form. She has been faculty here at UVU for the past three years. She has recently begun a new study exploring the impact of audiob...2021-03-1531 minStudents and ScholarsEp08 - Victorian New Media and Dracula with Braydon, JoAnne, and KialeyIn this student-led episode, Braydon, JoAnne, and Kialey discuss six different forms of Victorian new media as they appear in Bram Stoker's Dracula, posing questions about new media's reliability in constructing larger narratives.
Bibliography
Fava-Verde, Jean-François. “Victorian Telegrams: The Early Development of the Telegraphic Despatch and Its Interplay with the Letter Post.” Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, vol. 72, no. 3, 2018, pp. 275–292., doi:10.1098/rsnr.2017.0031.
Bellis, Mary. “The History of Typewriters, Typing, and Qwerty Keyboards.” ThoughtCo, 2019, www.thoughtco.com/typewriters-1992539#:~:text=Christopher%20Sholes&text=He%20i...2021-03-0124 min
Students and ScholarsEp07 - Marriage and the New Woman with Dr. Ellen CampbellToday we are joined by guest scholar Dr. Ellen Campbell who discusses women’s rights under marriage contract law in the 19th century and the New Woman figure in Dracula.
Dr. Campbell received her doctorate from Southern Illinois University Carbondale where her dissertation discussed marriage trauma narratives in transatlantic 19th-century fiction. She is currently a lecturer at Auburn University and has a forthcoming chapter in the edited collection #MeToo Modernism from Clemson University Press.
Content Warning: this episode discusses themes related to domestic abuse and sexual assault. If these are triggers for you, please forego th...2021-02-2231 min
Students and ScholarsEp06 - Victorian Print Culture and Serialized Fiction with Emily, Sage, Melanie, and AubreeIn this student-led episode Aubree, Sage, Melanie, and Emily lead us through a conversation about Victorian print culture and serialized fiction especially in relation to Wilkie Collins' novel The Moonstone.2021-02-1321 min
Students and ScholarsEp05 - Darwinism in the 19th Century with Dr. Trent OlsenIn this episode, we welcome Dr. Trent Olsen as our guest scholar. He will be discussing the impact Charles Darwin’s discoveries and published work in The Origin of Species had on the wider 19th century. He discusses points of literary connection between Darwin, William Wordsworth, Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Pfeiffer, H.G. Wells, and Thomas Hardy as a spectrum of the shifting world views on humankind’s role in nature.
Dr. Olsen earned his doctorate at the University of Minnesota and is currently an associate professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho. In 2018 he published his book ...2021-02-0530 minStudents and ScholarsE04 - #Bigger6 Romanticism with Alanna CamargoThis episode, I’m excited to present our first student-led episode which discusses the movement for #Bigger6 Romanticism. Alanna Camargo leads our conversation about the purpose behind the movement and collective as well as how broadening our perspectives of race and empire can introduce us to a much more vibrant and textured understanding of the Romantic era and help us continue our work on being anti-racist.
Bibliography
“An Introduction to British Romanticism.” Poetry Foundation
@Bigger6Romantix. ““Bigger 6 isn’t about either saving or scrapping a field so much as it is about com...2021-01-3128 min
Students and ScholarsEp03 - Literary and Musical Romanticism with Dr. Karali HunterIn this episode we are joined by guest scholar, Dr. Karali Hunter, as we discuss the cross-sections between literary and musical Romanticism, particularly in the context of romantic themes, such as breaking away from rigid form and structure, evoking emotion, and embracing the individual and national voices of the period.
Dr. Hunter has a DMA in piano performance from Arizona State University. She is an award-winning performer and pedagogue as well as owner and founder of Hammer & Strings Conservatory. She has performed at Carnegie Hall and continues as an active performer, as a founding artist of...2021-01-2230 min
Students and ScholarsEp02 - Sedition, Riots, and Rumor Networks in Northanger Abbey with Dr. Zan CammackToday’s episode seems nearly ripped from the headlines as Dr. Zan Cammack discusses sedition, riots, and rumor as part of the larger new media networks at play in Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey. We’ll examine the pervasive theme of surveillance and political upheaval in the novel, the innovations in mapping that more concretely trace the networks of information in England, and you might be get some Bridgerton vibes as we discuss Bath as its own kind of surveillance state with scandal sheets and gossip mills.
Access to transcript available here.
Bibl...2021-01-1526 min
Students and ScholarsEp01 - The Novel as New Media with Dr. Emily GroverIn our first episode our guest scholar Dr. Emily Grover discusses precursors to Austen’s novels, the fraught history of female authors and readers, and the dangers of falling too deep into fiction.
Bibliography
Anne Radcliffe. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Project Gutenberg.
Charles Lamb, and Mary Lamb. The Works Of Charles and Mary Lamb, Miscellaneous Prose, Project Gutenberg.
Charlotte Lennox. The Female Quixote, Project Gutenberg.
Marta Kvande and Emily Gilliland Grover. “The Mediation Is the Message: Charles Johnstone’s Chrysal (1760).” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 32, no. 4, June 2020, pp. 535–57. doi:10.3138/ecf.32.4.535.
2021-01-1229 min
Students and ScholarsEp00 - Welcome to Students and ScholarsWelcome to the Students and Scholars podcast for English 2620-British Literature before 1800.2021-01-0902 min