Bullshit Jobs, Fuck Work, & The Legacy of David Graeber with James Livingston & Corey McCall

New episode of The American Vandal Podcast about David Graeber’s posthumous book, The Dawn of Everything, as well as the Great Resignation, the Great Recession, the Great Risk Shift, and much more.

Working For The New Yorker: Putting The Historicity Back In The French Dispatch with Nora Shaalan & Dan Sinykin

Wes Anderson’s new movie takes inspiration from a literary magazine with a grand legacy.

Bootstrapping Across Dystopia: Autofiction, Autotheory, Autoeverything with Merve Emre & Anna Kornbluh

A conversation about the personal essay boom, memoir, social media, the style of “too late capitalism,” and other self-indulgences with two decorated literary critics and theorists.

“Are We All Porn Workers Now?”: Gigwork & Radical Flexibility with Heather Berg & Michelle Chihara

A ranging conversation about platform capitalism from the perspective of gigworkers.

A Hedge Fund With A Drone Fleet: EdWork in 2022 with Annie McClanahan & Asheesh Kapur Siddique (An American Vandal Podcast Season Premiere)

“The World’s Work,” a new season of The American Vandal Podcast, kicks off with discussion of the labor of Higher Education.

The Invisible Home of Frederick Douglass, John W. Jones, & Mark Twain with Jill Spivey Caddell & Shirley Samuels

Special Emancipation Week Episode of The American Vandal Podcast!

Why Trust in Antitrust? with Sanjukta Paul & Marshall Steinbaum

Final episode of second season of The American Vandal Podcast focuses on antitrust in Mark Twain’s Gilded Age and our own.

Generation Z, Mark Twain’s Poetry, & Teaching English From East Texas To Harvard with Jocelyn Chadwick

New episode of American Vandal preview Summer Teachers Institute.

Teaching With Tension & The Illusion of Postracialism with Philathia Bolton, Cassander Smith, & Lee Bebout

Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | CastBox | ListenNotes A new episode of The American Vandal Podcast features the co-editors of Teaching With Tension: Race, Resistance, & Reality in The Classrooom (Northwestern, 2019). In their introduction to this collection, they write that the book “advances pedagogical scholarship by examining the discourse of race in a particular cultural moment when the idea of postraciality and color-blind logics […]

Exterminate All The Brutes with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Andrew Hoberek, & Ignacio Sanchez Prado

New episode of The American Vandal Podcast focuses on Raoul Peck’s HBO documentary series.