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With more fans than Grumpy Cat (RIP), we're joined by the chronically online Dr Idil Galip, queen of memes and founder of the Meme Studies Research Network. Here to sort the evergreen content from the cancelled - repilcate to disseminate xoxo
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL. WE ARE BACK. WE HAVEN'T FOSSILISED. YET. But our guest, Professor David Farrier, is about to tell us about our bleak, trashy, fossilised futures via the temporalities of Cher, chicken-sized horses and horse-sized chickens and doing deep time in different voices. David is the author of 'Footprints' (2020) and 'Anthropocene Poetics' (2019), a publication timeline that makes us feel deeply inadequate. Shantih shantih shantih.
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Did you miss us? We were observing the UCU industrial action. This is the only reason for our lateness. Promise. This week we're joined by New Generation Flake, Dr Joan Passey (or is it Passé?) and her creepy haunted cavern...Joan is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol, the editor of the British Library short story collection 'Cornish Horrors' and is a 2022 New Generation Thinker. She is salty AF.
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We’re back and this week we're getting spooky and ECTOGASMIC with Dr Emma Merkling. Emma is an Art Historian at the Courtauld specialising in in late C19th history of art, science and occultism. Emma is “Just a creepy weirdo who lik es creepy weird stuff”. In this episode we chat about racist ghosts, squirting spiritualists, and what it’s like to be a Spooky Terrifying Ect oplasm Mama (aka a woman in STEM). We consider the production of ectoplasm and/as the female orgasm, discuss the pros and cons of automatic writing for REF submissions, and question whether or not x-rays can be used for upskirting? Also as women in SHAPE we consider why orbs are so important for mediums.
You can check out the podcast Emma co-hosts with LOL My Praxis superfan, Dr Christine Slobogin,here https://drawingbloodpod.wordpress.com/ or follow her @EmmaMerkling.
If you fancy playing with stereographs you can come along to Emma’s event at the Courtauld on November 14thhttps://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/science-in-the-seance-room-stereographs-medical-men-and-the-testing-of-margery-crandons-extraordinary-body-c-1925/
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This episode we're talking about shiny dead things. Not Edward Cullen the Sparkle Vamp, but the intersections of jewellery and death with the world's first forensic jeweller Dr Maria Maclennan. Maria is the most tattooed academic we know and can often be found on BBC Crimewatch. We'll leave that one there. You can follow her @ForensicJewelery.
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WERE BACK, BABY! Did you miss us? We’re celebrating our emergence from hot burn-out summer by speaking with Dr Arin Keeble about the literature of Terror and collective trauma. Arin is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, he has written on everything from hurricanes and punk rock to Stranger Things and contemporary literary TV studies. In this episode we talk about counternarratives to the War on Terror, what objects we would throw at War Criminal George W. Bush Jr., and conditions of radicalisation in relation to White Nationalism. We ask whether or not jet fuel can melt steel beams, if a Hurricane can be a terrorist, and whether or not narratives of Terror can, or should, be funny?You can follow Arin @KeebleArin and check out his work on New Literary Television here https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/new-literary-tv/
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WE'RE BACK!!! DID YOU MISS US?! This episode we're joined by Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson to discuss visual art, visual culture, lenses, ways of seeing, the gaze, the critical eye, and Specsavers...in an entirely oral medium. Oooh, I get the shivers.
Anna is an Assistant Professor of African American and Black Diasporic Art at Princeton University; she is the author of Black Bodies, White Gold Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World (2021) and the director of Art Hx, a digital humanities project and object database that addresses the intersections of art, race and medicine in the British empire.
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We're back and we're getting institutionally promiscuous with SUPER KEENO Rachel (Bynoth) Smith. Rachel is a PhD student based between all of the Universities in the South West and specialises in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century social, gender, and emotions history, particularly in relation to letter writing with a special focus on the Canning Family Network. Rachel BEGGED to come on the podcast and we finally gave in. In this episode we discuss overlaps between C18th anxieties and the life of contemporary academia, that the Canning family Letters were as spicy as Bridgerton Season 1, and whether or not writing over 1000 letters to your mother is normal. We play a quick round of Georgian Familial Anxiety Bingo and somehow end up speaking about spunk. A lot. Also, Louise and Alex record in the same place for the first time ever. Set phasers to CRUDE.
You can follow Rachel @RachelBynoth and get involved in the IHR History Lab seminars here https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/history-lab
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HI THEORY!! Are you psyched for some high theory? We're joined by Dr Anna Kornbluh of many many books, Victorians, and critical theory to establish why good Marxists don't skip leg day and what WAP has to say about social reproduction. We also reveal what happens when you read 'Of Grammatology' backwards. Truly radical discourse.
You can follow Anna @V21collective xoxo
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We're here and we're getting ShakesQUEER. This week we're speaking with the notorious SGB, otherwise known as Professor Stephen Guy-Bray. Stephen is currently Professor of English Literature at the University of British Columbia where he is a specialist in Renaissance poetry, queer studies, and poetic insemination. In this episode we discuss whether Shakespeare was a top or a bottom, find out which play is the gayest play ever, and we figure out what the relationship is between sonnet sequences and incel culture. Stephen also bestows upon us wisdom about poetry cakes, the signature scent of a monograph, and what literary tattoos we should get.
Stephen's most recent book, 'Shakespeare and Queer Representation' was published in 2020 and he's already gone and finished ANOTHER monograph on Line Endings in Renaissance poetry (out in May 2022). To find out more about Stephen's research into hot man-on-man action you can follow him @SGUYBRAY.
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Welcome back! This week we're chatting with Jane Austen and K-pop superfan, Dr Rita Dashwood. Rita is currently a postdoctoral research fellow on the Romantic Ridiculous project at Edge Hill University. When not reading books, Rita likes to write them and is currently working on her first novel - a YA fantasy about queer witches. In this week's episode shots are fired at our guest from episode 13, Dr Andy McInnes who suggested Austen would have voted for Brexit. We get to the bottom of her Brexit-voting ways, find out what her position would be on the housing crisis, and that she was into sodomy and pearl necklaces. We also dive into the world of adaptation and discuss the relationship between Disney villains, Austen baddies and...incest?
You can find out about Rita's work on the Romantic Ridiculous project here https://romanticridiculous.wordpress.com/, follow her on twitter @rjdashwood, and check out her youtube channel here https://www.youtube.com/c/DrRitaJDashwood?app=desktop
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And a 5, 6, 7, 8...dust off those sequins and ready those jazz hands, we're joined by Dr Hannah Robbins to chat MUSICALS, James Corden conspiracy theories, and why Hamilton isn't as great as you think it is. One of us is a Broadway Baby and the other is a philistine, so who knows what will happen! We do. We recorded it. Hannah is Assistant Professor in Popular Music and the Director of Black Studies at the University of Nottingham and specialises in the intersection between race and gender in the American Musical.
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We're back! Did you miss us? This week we're speaking with Dr Kate Simpson, Lecturer in Information Studies at the University of Glasgow and specialist in 19th century digital creation and curation. In this episode we ask: is Rick-rolling digital humanities? Is the Matrix still scholarly relevant? Is there such a thing as WO-manuscripts? We find out that Dr Livingstone had a terrifying ungroomed poodle (not a euphemism) and liked to steal jewellery. We learn that while C19th women 'colonised', men went on 'adventures' and 'discovered'. Finally, we figure out why 19thC explorers are all incels who are obsessed with boob mountains.
You can find out more about Kate's research into non-western voices and women from the colonial period by following her @drkatesimpson, or exploring livingstoneonline.org and onemorevoice.org
If you want to help LOL MY PRAXIS keep to some sort of schedule you can support us for the price of a Tunnocks teacake by signing up to our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lolmypraxis
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AS A LITTLE FESTIVE TREAT...we're joined by Slavoj Žižek himself!! Or is it Liz Truss? Either way, the brains behind the anonymous Twitter account A Very Theory Xmas chats to us about the postcolonial melancholia of Lynx Africa and a primary school nativity narrated by Derrida. Continental philosophy with a Christmas Twist.
Remember to follow @AVeryTheoryXmas on Twitter
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Dear Lord, what a sad little obsession we have with a retro episode of Come Dine with Me...this episode we're joined by the hopeless Professor Richard Hall. We're here to radicalise your pedagogy and diversify your curriculum with the help of a straight white man.
You can find Richard's research here: http://www.richard-hall.org/ and get his new book The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the End of the End of History for FREE here: http://mayflybooks.org/?page_id=305
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We're back! This week we're speaking with Professor Erica Fudge and Dr Elsa Richardson about all things Fleshy History. Erica and Elsa are based at the University of Strathclyde where they currently co-teach a course all about vegetarian culture and eating animals. Erica's work emerges at the intersection of Renaissance Studies and Animal Studies while Elsa is a New Generation Thinker and currently holds a Chancellor's Fellowship in Health and Wellbeing. In this episode we find out what bladder control and pissing dogs have to do with the Enlightenment, why a woman giving birth to a cat was pretty common for the Renaissance, and how horrendously itchy the C19th was. We also consider if cows are the sharks of the land, what the Victorians thought about Birkenstocks and queer vegetarianism.
You can find out more about Erica's work by following the British Animal Studies Network @BASN and find out more about Elsa's work here @elsacrichardson
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We're back! This week we're speaking with self-proclaimed 'sweary Prof', Dr Tracey Hill. Tracey is currently professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Bath Spa University. In this episode we find out why the emblem of Envy always had her tits out while eating a human heart, why Early Modern pageants were a major fire hazard, and what on earth a whiffler is. We also learn about the role of rhinos in civic pageantry, what hippos have to do with anything (they don't), and why the Lord Mayor's show is considered to be an 'acoustic assault'.
You can find out about Tracey's big AHRC project here: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/projects/civic-london/ and follow her on Twitter @TraceLarkhall
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We're back! This week it's all gay frogs, rainbow-shitting unicorns, and glitter bombing with Dr Nicole Seymour, ASSOCIATE professor of English at California State University. In this episode we find out about the funny side of climate change and coin a new term: ecoLOLogy. We chat about the power of irony in addressing the darkest timeline, and learn about queer ecologies and whether or not it's fair to describe glitter as the STD of the craft world. We also discuss the ethics of laughing WITH vegans not AT them, and think about why fascist environmentalism is so hot right now. She is the author of TWO monographs, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (University of Illinois Press, 2013), and Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and is currently working a new text for the Bloomsbury 'Object Lesson' series on, you guessed it, GLITTER. Fabulous.
You can follow Nicole @nseymourPHD
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This week we're speaking with Dr Andy Kesson, Box Office Bear and Reader in Early Modern Studies at Roehampton University. In this episode we find out how bears caused traffic jams in the Tudor period, and what the questionable sitcom, Will and Grace, has to do with Shakespeare's sonnets. Did you know that during the Early Modern period statistically there were more people who were not William Shakespeare than people who were? We learn that women were actually pretty important in Early Modern theatre, second only to Rhubarb salesmen. We also talk about GAY PANIC in the era and why Twelfth Night can get tae fuck.
You can check out Andy's project 'A Bit Lit here @a_bit_lit, and find out more about other NON-Shakespearean early modern authors here @b4shakes. For more bear content give him a follow @andykesson
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We've CRACKed America! In this episode we speak with Dr Travis Chi Wing Lau, queer, crip, cat-dad and current Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College, Ohio. In this week's episode we find out why anti-vaccination sentiment is just one more thing we can blame Victorians for, which COVID-19 vaccine is the most queer, and whether or not our constant chat about our vaginas can officially be classified as Medical Humanities. We also talk about the private and public discourses of chronic pain and consider what the heck is going on with Super-crip discourses and the 'narrative prosthesis' of disabled characters.
You can follow Travis on Twitter @travisclau, or thirst over his very professional cardigan-wearing headshot here: https://travisclau.com/ For anyone looking for more crip-poetic content look no further than his most recent poetry collection Paring, available here: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/paring-by-travis-chi-wing-lau/
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