BookTube, BookTok, Wattpad, & Audible Creation Exchange (Criticism LTD, Episode #10)
What is literary knowledge? And, for that matter, what is literature? A survey of new literary media.
Category: The American Vandal
Brittle Paper & The Blogossance (Criticism LTD, Episode #9)
What is the relationship between literary criticism and media studies? How has criticism adapted to the digital revolution?
Politics & The Paracademy (Criticism LTD, Episode #8)
An attempt to triangulate politicization, professionalization, and publication by examining several periods in the history of criticism.
The Chicago Fight (Criticism LTD, Episodes #6-7)
A deep dive into the Chicago Critics who inspired John Crowe Ransom’s 1937 essay, “Criticism Inc.”
The Racist Interpretation Complex (Criticism LTD, Episode #5)
What is the political economy of New Criticism? Are the racist and reactionary Cold War politics of the New Critics immanent to their trademark method: close reading?
Ponzi Austerity & The Monolingual University (Criticism LTD, Episode #4)
Last week, West Virginia University announced that it would abolish its World Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics Department, proposing to replace it with automated digital instruction. This is the apotheosis of trends going back decades. In this episode we talk about the effects of monolingual education.
Ponzi Austerity In The Age of Cultural Abundance (Criticism LTD, Episode #3)
How has the systemic defunding and deprofessionalizing of humanities academia impacted literary criticism? Why is there such a flourishing culture industry if demand for cultural education is supposedly declining?
Hungover From The Bad Old Days of High Theory (Criticism LTD, Episode #2)
What is criticism? Why should it matter? Can it be saved from the gun-toting businessman? A crossover episode with the High Theory podcast.
The Golden Age of The Working Critic (Criticism LTD, Episode #1)
The premiere of a new series, “Criticism LTD,” on the contemporary state of criticism.
Working Conditions with Christopher Newfield & Anna Kornbluh (50th Episode #MLA2023 Special)
On the eve of the largest annual gathering of literary studies scholars, a discussion of the presidential theme of this year’s convention with the MLA President who chose that theme.