Today’s episode features an interview with Lydia Cooper and Matthew Reznicek, the guest editors of a brand new special issue of Studies in the Novel focusing on “Disease and Disability.” As they say in their introduction, “This special issue offers critical insights into the way the novel as a form intertwines, disaggregates, confounds, and represents the embodied experience of disability and disease.” With articles that consider Nathanael Hawthorne, Ling Ma, Toni Morrison, Somerset Maugham, Wilkie Collins, and more, this discussion sets the stage for a can’t-miss issue of studies in the way novels can challenge and broaden "our understanding of how and why novelistic discourse is uniquely capable of representations of disease and disability”

On today's episode, we talk with Yumi Roth & Emmanuel David about their award-winning article in Journal of Asian American Studies, "Playing Filipino: Racial Display, Resistance, and the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West" Delving into archival photographs and records about the Filipino performers who joined Buffalo Bill's immensely popular touring show in the wake of the Philippine-American War, Roth and David uncover a fascinating and largely forgotten history. In October, Roth and David accepted the Vicki L. Ruiz Award from the Western History Association for their research into the obscured history of the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill's Wild West touring show. This annual award recognizes the best article on race in the North American West published that year. To accompany the podcast, "Playing Filipino: Racial Display, Resistance, and the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West" will be free to read on Project MUSE through the end of November.

On today’s episode we’re talking with the guest editors of a forthcoming issue of Leviathan, a journal of Melville Studies. These three editors, Jordan Alexander Stein, Dana Seitler, and Adam Fales have put together a riveting collection of essays exploring what they call Melville's Queer Afterlives — scholarship on the ways Herman Melville’s work has influenced queer studies today. This is an epic conversation that includes mentions of Maurice Sendak and John Ashbery and, believe it or not, Gilbert Gottfried. A content warning: this episode contains some senstive content and may not be suitable for all listeners. Listener discretion is advised.

Today we are talking with Emily Cousens, who is an assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Northeastern University, London, and their expertise focuses on trans feminist philosophy and history. They are also the UK lead for the Digital Transgender Archive. They are the author of Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave, which is the first book to explore the philosophical and intellectual contributions of trans individuals in the 1970s. Emily’s got a new article in L'esprit Créateur called “Subjectivity Without Sex? The Materialist Trans Feminist Potential in Monique Wittig’s Non-Fiction” This is part of a special issue of L'esprit Créateur devoted to Monique Wittig, and this whole issue is available free to all because L'esprit Créateur is part of our Subscribe to Open (S2O) Open Access initiative. Click through in the show notes to learn more about this great new initiative, and especially to read some exciting new scholarship about Monique Wittig.

On today’s episode, we talk with Patrick McKelvey about his new article for Theatre Journal about the early 20th century publicity campaign that popularized the Seeing Eye Dog. Patrick McKelvey is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Notre Dame, and his research focuses the theatrical, cultural, and social history of disability in the twentieth-century United States. His first book, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (New York University Press, 2024) examines the relationship between US disability policy and the disability arts and culture movement, 1960-1990. He’s also currently a National Humanities Center Fellow, as well as Book Review Editor for American Quarterly, another of the journals Hopkins Press publishes. Patrick McKelvey’s Theatre Journal article "Honest Work Done by Honest Dogs":Canine Unemployment, Interspecies Rehabilitation, and Disability Performance.” will be available to read for free at Project MUSE for a few weeks after this podcast is released.

On today's episode, we talk with David Shiffman, author of Why Sharks Matter, about his recent study of how scientists are engaging social media: “Scientists No Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky." In this episode, we explore the findings of the survey and discuss some of the reasons why this shift has occurred. A marine conservation biologist and public science engagement specialist based in Washington, DC, David Shiffman is a prolific writer, with words appearing in National Geographic, the Washington Post, Scientific American, SCUBA magazine, his blog Southern Fried Science, and, of course, his 2022 Hopkins Press book, Why Sharks Matter. Follow him on the social media platform of your choice: @WhySharksMatter

On today's episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, we talk with Lisa Anderson about here new article in Social Research, “From Pursuing Truth to Managing Stress: The Costs and Consequences of the Therapeutic Turn in American Universities.” This is part of a phenomenal and timely special issue of Social Research devoted to exploring “The Embattled University.” Listeners will be able to read this article for free on Project MUSE through the end of September 2025. Dr. Anderson is Special Lecturer and James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations Emerita and Dean Emerita at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). She also served as provost and president of the American University in Cairo in 2008–2016.

Today we talking with Sarah M. Misemer, a professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M. She has a new article out in South Central Review’s "Worlds In Crisis" special issue, which is called “What a Bawd from the Renaissance Can Teach Us about AI: Celestina, Robots, and Free Will," Dr. Misemer's article takes a look back at a piece of bawdy Spanish Renaissance literature, La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, and considers what it has to say about human free will in the age of AI robots.

Today on the Podcast, we have Marissa J. Spear, whose new article in Journal of Women’s History studies “Women, Survival and the Black Panther Party in Baltimore.” In this article, Marissa J. Spear focuses on the activities of four women — Angie Hatten, Connie Felder, Lula Hudson, and Nkenge Touré — and the ways they transformed, and were transformed by — working with the party. It’s a story that comes to a head with a three-week-long seige of the Black Panther headquarters by police and FBI. It’s a great read for anyone interested in the history of the Black Panther party, of women’s liberation and the transformation of gender politics, and of the city of Baltimore. The article will be be free to read on Project MUSE through the end of August. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/960906

We are kicking off Season 4 of the pod with David Hollinger, who is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialties are American intellectual history and American ethnoracial history, and today we’ll talk to him about his new article for Social Research: An International Quarterly, entitled “The Evangelical Capture of the Republican Party and Its Implications for Academia” Dr. Hollinger’s new article is part of a new special issue called “The Embattled University,” a stellar issue which also features contributions from Judith Butler, Lisa Anderson, Albena Azamanova, Ahmed Bawa, Supriya Chaudhuri, Nicholas B. Dirks, Len Gutkin, and Jonathan Veitch. It's a highly recommended issue, especially for those with a stake in the future of higher education.

On today’s episode, we’re talking with Barrett Taylor, professor and coordinator of the higher education program at the University of North Texas. He studies the ways in which higher education interfaces with society, investigating topics including state politics and policy, the organization of academic work, and institutional inequality. Outside of his professorship, he is a fellow in the Center for the Defense of Academic freedom, a project housed at the AAUP, funded by the Mellon Foundation and directed by Isaac Kamola. Together with Kimberly Watts (currently a doctoral candidate at UNT), he is the co-author of a new article in The Review of Higher Education entitled “Tenure Bans: An Exploratory Study of State Legislation Proposing to Eliminate Faculty Tenure, 2012-2022” This article, as you might guess, surveys ten years of proposed legislation across the United States aiming to restrict tenure in higher education, and offers observations on the underlying motives and meanings behind these legislative efforts, as well as some recommendations for educators and administrators interested in protecting academic freedom.

Koritha Mitchell is is a public intellectual, a professor of English, a literary historian, an award-winning author and cultural critic, and as of last year she is also a member of the Hopkins Press Advisory Board. Her work has already had quite an impact both within the academy as well as in the larger public sphere. Her article "Identifying White Mediocrity and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Form of Self-Care", which was published in African American Review in 2018, has impacted both the academy and the mainstream. Thousands of readers are still finding the article each year, making it one of our consistently most-read Hopkins Press Journal articles on Project MUSE. In our recent Hopkins Press Podcast interview, Mitchell defines her groundbreaking concept of "know-your-place aggression" as "a reaction to the success of people who are not supposed to be successful," and the idea has resonated into recent articles about Junot Diaz in Chronicle of Higher Education and Shedeur Sanders in Esquire, and a 2024 interview with Mitchell published in Public Books brought her work to the attention of numerous new readers. Over the years, Mitchell has been a prolific contributor to several of the journals that call Hopkins Press home, including Callaloo, African American Review, American Quarterly, Theatre Journal, and J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.

On today's Hopkins Press Podcast, we talk with Kelly Ross (editor of Poe Studies) Elissa Zellinger (guest editor of the forthcoming special issue of Poe Studies), and Eliza Richards, author of Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle. This fall, a new special issue of Poe Studies — due out in Fall 2025 — celebrates 20 years of Eliza Richards' influential book, which has played an important role on the study of 19th century women poets as well as other minoritized poets, print culture, and even Poe himself.

On this episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, we sat down in the library of the Hopkins Press offices with Milan Terlunen, author of an article in the new issue of Book History entitled “What We Can(’t) Know Before We Read: Towards a Theory of the Pre-Reading Environment." Dr. Terlunen coins this term, "the pre-reading environment" to talk about all the ways we come to know things about a text — a book, a film, etc. — before we read it, if we ever read it. Terlunen's article focuses on newspaper reviews of Agatha Christie's 1926 novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Twitter discussions about Hanya Yanagihara's 2016 novel A Little Life, but as you'll learn, pre-reading environments include a broad range of information, from advertising and cover art to spoiler alerts, content warnings, and even film rating systems. Milan Terlunen is a currently the 2024-25 Tabb Center/AGHI Engaged Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins who specializes in public and digital humanities, with a particular emphasis on podcasting. Dr. Terlunen is the co-founder of the Humanities Podcast Network and the host of the How To Read podcast. This Spring, he is convening a series of podcasting round tables called What Makes Podcasting Accessible?, featuring podcasters across the Hopkins community and beyond. Beginning February 27 and running through April, these round tables will be available to attend both in person and streaming as well. On March 26, Hopkins Press Podcast host Rahne Alexander will be among the guests participating in the What Makes Podcasting Accessible? round table.

On this episode of The Hopkins Press Podcast, we introduce you to Kyla Kupferstein Torres, the new executive editor of Callaloo, the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora. This year, she took the reins of from the founding editor of Callaloo, Charles H. Rowell, who founded Callaloo in 1976 and cultivated the journal into a vital voice for original work by and about writers and visual artists of African descent worldwide. We talk with Kyla Kupferstein Torres about the legacy of Callaloo and the exciting plans she has for the journal's new era. To accompany this podcast, we're providing a supplementary reading list, highlighting some of the great pieces Callaloo has published over the years. Read them all at https://www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/callaloo-reading-list-across-decades

On today's episode, we talk with Scott Gelber, a professor of education who currently serves as chair of the Education Department at Wheaton College about his recent article for Review of Higher Education is titled "Does Academic Freedom Protect Pedagogical Autonomy?" and discuss the origins of the idea "academic freedom" and how it's considered regarding pedagogy today. "Does Academic Freedom Protect Pedagogical Autonomy?" is available to read for free on Project MUSE through 30 November 2024 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/937142 About Scott Gelber https://departments.wheatoncollege.edu/faculty/scott-gelber/ Scott Gelber is a historian whose work focuses on the development of American education during the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. He is the author of Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of American College Access, 1860-1960 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), and The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), which won the Linda Eisenmann Prize of the History of Education Society. Gelber has published articles and essays in the American Journal of Education, American Journal of Legal History, Journal of Social History, and History of Education Quarterly, among others. His research has been supported by the National Academy of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He is working on two research projects: a history of learning disabilities and a study of federal financial aid during the New Deal. Before arriving at Wheaton, Gelber taught high school in New York City and supervised student teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Scott Gelber - Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12156/grading-college Scott Gelber - Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of College Access, 1860−1960 https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/11347/courtrooms-and-classrooms Jonathan Zimmerman - The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12000/amateur-hour

All through 2024, one of the most-read articles across all of the Hopkins Press journals has been "Exploring Undergraduate Research Experiences For Latinx College Students From Farmworker Families", published in the January-February 2022 issue of Journal of College Student Development. We talk with three authors of this multidisclipinary team—Sneha Amaresh, Raúl Gámez, and Joseph Lee—to explore more deeply the background of this popular study that looks at ways academic research can be strengthened through inclusivity. This article is free to read through the month of September: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/853534 Sneha Amaresh is currently pursuing her Master of Public Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a bachelor's degree in public health from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. With a strong passion for qualitative research, Sneha focuses on the social determinants of health, environmental health, and social justice. Raúl Gámez is a Ph.D. candidate in higher education at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan. Raúl’s research focuses on understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion as organizational processes with the potential for transforming higher education institutions into more equitable, inclusive, and just organizations. He earned an MA in higher education administration at the University of Michigan and a BA in theatre arts and translation and interpretation studies from California State University, Long Beach. Before enrolling in graduate school, Raúl worked with migrant and immigrant youth in North Carolina using theatre and arts as tools for leadership development. He also coordinated a statewide coalition focused on increasing college access for undocumented students. https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/people/student-staff/gamez.html Joseph G. L. Lee, PhD, MPH, is the McGee Professor of Health Education and Promotion at East Carolina University (ECU) and the Associate Dean for Research at ECU College of Health and Human Performance. His research seeks to document, understand, and reduce unfairness in health by building evidence for policy interventions that make a difference. Lee focuses this work in three areas: the health of young people at risk of tobacco use; the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people; and the health of farmworkers and farmworker families. Much of his work is centered in eastern North Carolina at East Carolina University's Department of Health Education and Health Promotion. https://scholars.ecu.edu/display/F80379154 Music from this episode is "le train sur du velours" by Jean Toba, available at the Free Music Archive. freemusicarchive.org/music/jean-tob…ur-du-velours/

Speculative fiction author and children's literature scholar Gabriela Lee's recent article in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, "When the Shoe Doesn't Fit: Reading Cinderella as Colonial Children's Literature in the Philippines," went viral earlier this year on Hopkins Press social media. We kick off our new season of the Hopkins Press podcast with a discussion of her article and the ways children's myths have been used as colonial tools. For more information, including links to the author's website and a link to the journal article discussed in this issue, please visit https://press.jhu.edu/multimedia

Dr. Helene Hedian, Director of Clinical Education, Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health, discusses data a new study published in the February 2024 edition of Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved,"What Patients Want in a Transgender Center:Building a Patient-Centered Program." This article is free to read through the month of June. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/919816 Music from this episode is "le train sur du velours" by Jean Toba, available at the Free Music Archive. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/jean-toba/n-e-es-du-sommeil-1/le-train-sur-du-velours/

In this episode we talk with the authors of recent article that appears in Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, titled "The Voices on Vax Campaign: Lessons Learned from Engaging Youth to Promote COVID Vaccination." This article tells the story of how several organizations, including the Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Hip Hop Public Health, united efforts to create an art-and-music-driven campaign to help young people in the city of Baltimore recognize the importance of vaccination in response to the Covid pandemic and become advocates for their own health care. Featured on this episode: Tamar Mendelson of Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Lori Rose Benson and Lindsay Harr of Hip Hop Public Health, and Voices on Vax Youth Ambassador Taylor Clinton. This article is free to read thru 30 Nov 2024: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/937393 Visit the show notes for more information on the project and participants, as well as a transcript of this episode: https://www.press.jhu.edu/multimedia/voices-vax-engaging-youth-promote-covid-vaccination