Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on October 31, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyA brief history of HBCUs through conversations with five scholars about the second curriculum which informs movement for Civil Rights in the midcentury US, segregation scholars...
Category: The American Vandal
First As Farce: Structures of Feeling In The Gilded Age (A Tale of Today, Bonus Episode)
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on October 18, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyAs Nathan Wolff himself puts it, his recent keynote address at the 2024 Quarry Farm Fall Symposium is “very much in dialogue with The American Vandal.” In this talk, Wolff not...
The Historical Novel (A Tale of Today, Episode #5)
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on October 15, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyOrganized around a comparison of György Lukács’s The Historical Novel (1937) and Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner’s The Gilded Age (1873), in this episode we take a...
Always Historicize? (A Tale of Today, Episode #4)
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on October 1, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyFrom Fredric Jameson on why “the most important goal is history itself” follows a series of conversations about dialectical criticism vs. new historicism [5:00], the wisdom of...
Strategic Presentism & Resistance History (A Tale of Today, Episode #3)
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on September 23, 2024 Apple PodcastsSpotifyWhat’s the difference? The episode opens with defenses of presentism by two literary critics and a reception history of “The Gilded Age” [6:30] before turning to a critique...
Cruel Optimism and The Enclosure of The Commons (A Tale of Today, Episode #2)
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on September 12, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyA new episode of “A Tale of Today” begins with an explanation of the forest charter and the enclosure of the commons through a revisionist version of a familiar story. The...
The Age of Insecurity (A Tale of Today, Episode #1)
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on September 9th, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyA new season of The American Vandal Podcast inspired by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s 150-year-old novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, launches with an...
Criticism LTD: Continuing The Dialogue (A Project Narrative Event)
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on February 26, 2024 SpotifyApple PodcastsRecorded at The Ohio State University, as part of the Project Narrative series, Matt Seybold reflects on the making of “Criticism LTD” [3:15], as well as ongoing Ponzi...
Close Reading Feudalism(s) in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with James Phelan (A Project Narrative Crossover)
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on February 23, 2024SpotifyApple PodcastsFrom the production studios of The Ohio State University, Matt Seybold, the host of The American Vandal Podcast, and James Phelan, the Director of Project Narrative, read...
2024 with Anna Kornbluh & J. D. Connor
SpotifyApple PodcastsThe finale episode of our miniseries on corporate allegory was recorded hot on the heels of the publication of Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism (Verso, 2024). With numerous allusions to the book, Matt Seybold asks...