Izzy and Luca interview Dr. Tim Personn in our Halloween episode! As is the trend for us, this episode was uploaded a little late. Happy post-Halloween, listeners! Who said Reading Week can't get a little scary?
Join us as we discuss Edgar Allen Poe, the American psyche, necromancers, and how horror "makes us children again."
(This is my first time editing the pod! Any aural badness should be cleared up next time: thank you for your patience. -Izzy)
Better late than never: Kate, Kayci, and Alex talk Canadian lit, contemporary lit, and just lit period with Lisa Chalykoff.
Kayci is joined by three wonderful new cohosts!
Topics include genre, film adaptations, and generative A.I.
Also, it STINKS
In this episode, Alex and Cedar talk to Dr. Gary Kuchar about his recently published Shakespeare and the World of “Slings & Arrows.”
Topics include Postmodern and Humanist interpretations of Shakespeare, teaching The Bard across literary mediums, pedagogical styles, adaptation theory, and the limits of political interpretation.
Find Dr. Kuchar's work here!
Dr. Andrew Murray joins us this October to talk vampirism!
Topics include the postmodern vampire, Nosferatu, adaptation, genre blending, Slenderman, and the relationship between childhood and experiences of horror. Enjoy!
We're back with new CorNerds! In this season opener, we talk internet aesthetics, recent movies, Twilight, The SpongeBob Movie, and Family Guy.
So much Family Guy.
Watch the video Cedar mentions here.
In this bonus episode, Dr. Tim Personn returns to the podcast to discuss his recently released Fictions of Proximity.
Topics include Mark Fisher, Postmodernism, and American Psycho.
In this episode, Braedon and Leia interview 7 different Honours students (including themselves) who wrote their capstone papers this semester. Thinking about the Honours program? Want to learn what English students do? Looking for inspiration for your own papers? Then check out this episode!
Interview timestamps:
0:01:44: Rowan Watts, "The Social Fabric is a Cotton-Polyester Blend: Social Network Graphs of Contemporary Ecofiction
0:16:07: Sarah Webster, "The Silent Treatment: Oppression and Resistance in 'All My Puny Sorrows' and 'A Complicated Kindness'
0:30:00: Ella Reedman, "Dance as Disguise: Sexualization and Coming-of-Age in Jane Austen's Dance Scenes"
0:41:46: Maya Linsley, "Life After Canon: Dramione Fanfiction's Literary Reconstruction in Harry Potter Fandom"
0:57:52: Mahayla Galliford, "A Partial Edition of Thomas Middleton's 'Civitatis Amor"
1:13:00: Braedon Lowey, "Raiding the Victorian Closet: From Queer Art to Queer Community in 19th Century Periodical Poetry"
1:31:14: Leia Soulsbury, "That Sweet Boy' Rolph: Minorness, Misogyny, and Male Suicide in Jennifer Egan's 'A Visit From the Goon Squad' and 'The Candy House'"
You are scrolling through Spotify and stop at a podcast called the Clearihue Corner.
>Investigate
This episode features a professor named Jentery Sayers, and seems to be about fiction in interactive forms: twine games, video games, choose your own adventure novels, and more. It features in depth discussion about how to analyze and talk about these kinds of narratives. Would you like to listen?
>Yes
You press play, and the podcast begins.
In our month-late winter break episode, we sit down with Dr. Nicholas Bradley to talk about poetry, climate change, lofi beats, and more.
With ESA Vice President Rowan Watts, your usual crew of co-hosts interviews undergraduate English advisor and renaissance specialist Dr. Erin Ellerbeck on the rising use of generative AI in the humanities.
It's spooky month! To celebrate, Alex, Braedon, and Leia invite Sam Wong to chat about his horror class and everything he loves about the genre.
Are you thinking about getting involved with the ESA? Want to know more about what we do? Listen to this episode to hear Rowan and Maya talk about their experience with this lovely community!
We are back to kick off season 4 with a chat about summer reading, what's coming up for the Clearihue Corner, and two NEW HOSTS!
We couldn't record in our usual studio, so bear with us as we navigate hardware issues. We've made this as listenable as possible, and we'll be back to usual for future episodes!
As another academic year comes to an end, embrace apocalypse with us by exploring the Book of Revelation. Is the end meaningful? Is it imminent? Is it preventable? Dr. Christopher Douglas joins us to discuss apocalypse as a genre, and his work on apocalyptic theology in the Christian far-right in contemporary American literature and politics.
Read some of Dr. Douglas's research here:
Republicans Draw from Apocalyptic Narratives to Inform Democrat Conspiracy Theories
Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics
Now having completed her bachelor degree, Mariah hopes to discover that the suffering was worth it!
Dr. Gary Kuchar is fascinated by times of epistemic uncertainty, and in this episode he tells us about how this inspired the Metaphysical poets. We discuss George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, and John Donne. This episode also features fellow ESA member and legacy Clearihue Corner host Jocelyn Diemer.
In this episode, Braedon, Mariah, and John sit down with Dr. Tim Personn (starting at 14:00) to learn about one of his areas of expertise: irony in contemporary fiction. Through explorations of the works of David Foster Wallace, Otessa Moshfegh, and more, we attempt to unravel exactly what irony is and how it appears in fiction, how it interacts with sincerity and authenticity, and what it's come to mean for culture at large.
In this episode, we (belatedly) kick off the spring semester with a discussion of our winter reads, career prospects, and what we love about studying literature -- plus, in our second segment, we sit down with Dr. Corinne Bancroft to learn about the curriculum changes coming soon to UVic's English department. What's changing, what's not, and why is it ultimately good news for English majors? Dr. Bancroft answers these questions and more (starting at timestamp 58:40 for those who may want to skip ahead!)
You can learn more about the new curriculum on the English department's website: https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/english/undergraduate/curriculum-upgrades/index.php.
This episode features expertise from Germanic and Slavic Studies Professor Dr. Megan Swift. We learn about the classic opposition between readers preferring Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, and try to sway Braedon who enters into the conversation new to both authors.