An interview with Adriana Helbig, professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on Professor Helbig's research, teaching, and the way both have been affected by various crises in 2020. It was recorded on Friday, March 12, 2021. The Music at Pitt podcast, which is recorded and produced by Phil Thompson, can be found here: https://www.music.pitt.edu/podcast.

Music, Scholarship, And Social Change: An Interview With Adriana Helbig

An interview with Shelome Gooden, professor of linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on Professor Gooden's research, teaching, and the way both have been affected by various crises in 2020. It was recorded on Friday, May 7, 2021. Professor Gooden's LSA plenary talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlVotlTf6QM&t=565s. A citation and abstract for her essay "In the Fisherman's Net" can be found here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429427886-4/fisherman-net-shelome-gooden. Citation and abstract for "African American Language in Pittsburgh and the Lower Susquehanna Valley" here: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199795390.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199795390-e-35. Information on the linguist.

Click here to listen to Backbone, a podcast about essential workers, hosted and recorded by Being Human producer Jacqui Sieber: www.spreaker.com/show/backbone.

Language In Motion: An Interview With Shelome Gooden

An interview with Paul Bové, professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on Professor Bové's new book Love’s Shadow, which was published in January by Harvard University Press. The interview was recorded on Friday, May 21, 2021. 

Information on boundary2, the journal Professor Bové edits, can be found here: read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2.

The book launch for Love's Shadow hosted by boundary2 is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSWaaRRI-s. 

Click here for a conversation on Love's Shadow hosted by Dartmouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opVQOsKRamw. 

More information on the book, including Professor Bové's review of it, can be found here: https://paulbove.wordpress.com/2021/04/03/the-reviewer-writes-on-loves-shadow-march-30-2021/. 

The clip of Harold Bloom talking about "The Auroras of Autumn" that we discuss in the interview is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLBXe3z9zx8. 

Click here to listen to Backbone, a podcast about essential workers, hosted and recorded by Being Human producer Jacqui Sieber: www.spreaker.com/show/backbone.

Learning from Poetry: An Interview with Paul Bové

An interview with Charles Exley, professor of Japanese literature and film and Associate Director of film and media studies at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on Professor Exley's work with Screenshot:Asia, a project to promote Asian film and culture in Pittsburgh. The website for Screenshot:Asia is here: https://www.screenshot.pitt.edu/. The essay we discuss on Takagi Tokuko and Japanese popular opera can be found here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44508506?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents.

Screenshot Asia and Transnational Film: An Interview with Charles Exley

An interview with Michael Clune, Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities at Case Western University. The interview focuses on Professor Clune's most recent book A Defense of Judgment. Professor Clune's essays at the Chronicle of Higher Education, including one that reproduces the core argument of A Defense of Judgment, are available here: https://www.chronicle.com/author/michael-clune.

Defending Judgment: An Interview with Michael Clune

An interview with Heather Love, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. The interview focuses on Professor Love's most recent book Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory.

The (Somewhat) Secret History Of Queer Theory: An Interview with Heather Love

An interview with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. The interview focuses on Professor Sullivan's most recent book The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora. 

Information on the essay collection Teaching Black, from the University of Pittsburgh Press, can be found here: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822946953/. 

The webpage for Professor Sullivan's upcoming novel can be found here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/712169/big-girl-by-mecca-jamilah-sullivan/9781324091417.

The Poetics Of Difference, An Interview With Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

An interview with Gayle Rogers, professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on Professor Rogers's most recent book Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI.

The Story Of Speculation: An Interview With Gayle Rogers

An interview with Marlon Ross, professor of English at the University of Virginia. The interview focuses on Professor Ross's most recent book Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness.

Sissy Insurgencies: An Interview with Marlon Ross

An interview with Kelly Wisecup, professor of English at Northwestern University. The interview focuses on Professor Wisecup's most recent book Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures.

Indigenous Compilations, Colonial Archives: An Interview with Kelly Wisecup

An interview with Min Song, professor of English at Boston College University. The interview focuses on Professor Song's most recent book, Climate Lyricism.

Climate Lyricism: An Interview With Min Song

An interview with Anthony Bogues, Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, and Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. He visited Pitt during the Year of Humanities to give a lecture titled "The Black Radical Tradition: Freedom, Emancipation, and the Question of the Human." This interview focuses on his life and work, and the relationship of his work to the broader public.

How (and Why) to Think Radically: An Interview with Anthony Bogues

An interview with Ursula Heise, the Marcia H Howard Chair in Literary Studies at UCLA. The interview focuses on Professor Heise's research and writing, particularly her work as one of the leading practitioners of environmental criticism in the US in the last 20 years.

Imagining Global Futures: An Interview with Ursula Heise

An interview with Petra Kuppers, professor of English at the University of Michigan, as well as a poet, filmmaker, artist, and disability activist. The interview focuses on the politics of Professor Kuppers' scholarship and art. We pay particular attention to her latest book of poetry, PearlStitch. 

A written transcript of the interview is available at the following link: www.humcenter.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/Petra_Kuppers_Interview_Transcript.pdf.

Poetry, Performance, and Disability Culture: An Interview with Petra Kuppers

An interview with Michael Chabon, University of Pittsburgh alum and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, and Telegraph Avenue. Chabon was in Pittsburgh as part of a book tour for his new novel Moonglow, which the Wall Street Journal recently named the best novel of 2016. The interview focuses on Chabon's work and features readings from his new novel.

Novels, Nihilism, and Criticism Sandwiches: An Interview with Michael Chabon

An interview with Jane Ward, professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of California, Riverside. The interview focuses on Professor Ward's life and career, particularly her newest book, "Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men" and the controversy it's caused since it's publication in 2015.

Not Gay Sex, Queer Erotic Worlds: An Interview with Jane Ward

In the first episode of Imprints, Humanities Media Fellow Matt Moret profiles the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and how it is working to revitalize some of Pennsylvania's most vulnerable communities.

Imprints, episode 1

In the second episode of Imprints, Humanities Media Fellow Matt Moret features a panel discussion titled "More Just Communities--From Stories to Action." The panel was part of the 2017 Pittsburgh Humanities Festival, and featured Lindsay Houpt-Varner, director of Greater Carlisle Heart and Soul, Chris Ivey, documentary filmmaker and director of the East of Liberty series, and Jason Schupbach, who oversees placemaking partnerships with the NEA.

Imprints, Episode 2

In the final episode of Imprints, media fellow Matt Moret interviews Julie Beaulieu, a lecturer in Pitt's Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies program. The conversation focuses on the program's new major and ways that educational institutions can become more diverse, inclusive spaces.

Imprints, Episode 3

An interview with Janet Marstine, Academic Director of the Art Museum and Gallery Studies program at the University of Leicester. The interview focuses on Dr. Marstine's life and career, particularly her work on museums and ethical practice. For information on Theaster Gates' piece "To Speculate Darkly," see here: http://www.chipstone.org/exhibitionframe.php/9/To-Speculate-Darkly/.  Robert Fontenot's "Recycle LACMA": https://www.robertfontenot.com/new-page-1/. Ansuman Biswas's "Manchester Hermit": http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/article/?id=4711.

Museums and the Ethics of Engagement: An Interview with Janet Marstine

An interview with author John Edgar Wideman. The interview focuses on Wideman's life and career, particularly connections between his writing and the various communities of which he has been a part. The conversation also features Leon Ford, a social activist in Pittsburgh. Ford was shot by police in 2012 and is paralyzed as a result. He currently works for social justice in Pittsburgh, and has developed a relationship with Wideman based on their mutual investment in writing. For more on Leon's story see here: http://www.leonfordspeaks.com/.

Writing and Communities: A Conversation with John Edgar Wideman

An interview with Christopher Fynsk, professor and dean of the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School. The interview focuses on Professor Fynsk's life and career, particularly his 2004 book "The Claim of Language: A Case for the Humanities."

The Claim of Language: An Interview with Christopher Fynsk

An interview with Fred Moten, professor in the Department of Performance Studies at NYU. The interview focuses on Professor Moten's life and career, particularly his recent volume of criticism called "consent not to be a single being." The Nathaniel Mackey poem "Destination Out," which Moten references at the end of the conversation, is available here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70124/destination-out.

Revolution as Preservation: An Interview with Fred Moten

An interview with Rob Nixon, professor of English at Princeton University. The interview focuses on Professor Nixon's life and career, particularly his work in environmental criticism and public humanities. You can find his book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor here: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674072343. The essay we discuss, How to Read a Bridge, can be found here: http://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives/2014/1/article/how-read-bridge.

Slow Violence and a Repertoire of Selves: An Interview with Rob Nixon

A reading and interview with Andrea Brady, professor of poetry at Queen Mary University of London and fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. The interview was taped live at City of Asylum in Pittsburgh on February 27, 2019. It focuses on Professor Brady's recently completed poem The Blue Split Compartments as well as her writing on Drone Poetics. A sample of the poem she reads can be found here: http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue20/AndreaBradyBM20.html. The essay "Drone Poetics" was published in volume 89-90 (2017) of the journal "new formations."

Drone Poetics: An Interview With Andrea Brady

An interview with Maria Loh, Professor of Art History at CUNY Hunter College. The interview focuses on Professor Loh's life and career, particularly her work on Titian and early modern painting. Her newest book is titled Titian's Touch: Art, Magic, and Philosophy.

Visual Possibilities Of Worlds To Come: An Interview With Maria Loh

An interview with Rebecca Jordan-Young, professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. The interview focuses on Professor Jordan-Young's research into the science of gender and sexuality, particularly her most recent book Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography, which she co-authored with Katrina Karkazis.

Matter and Meaning: An Interview with Rebecca Jordan-Young

An interview with Allen MacDuffie, professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. The interview focuses on Professor MacDuffie's work as a scholar of Victorian literature and the environment. The essay we discuss, "Charles Darwin and the Victorian Pre-History of Climate Denial," is currently available on Jstor, here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.60.4.02#metadata_info_tab_contents. Professor MacDuffie also mentions Rob Nixon's work during the conversation. A Being Human interview with Professor Nixon is available here: https://soundcloud.com/humanities-pitt/slow-violence-and-a-repertoire-of-selves-an-interview-with-rob-nixon.

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Denial as a Way of Life: An Interview with Allen MacDuffie

An interview with Robin Brooks, professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on Professor Brooks' teaching and research, and the perspectives they provide on the crises of 2020. Dr. Brooks' essay on RIP Shirts in the journal Biography can be found here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/40025. A Washington Post article that draws on that research is here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/10/mass-shootings-everyday-grief-honoring-loved-ones-with-rest-peace-shirts/. Links to other research can be found on Dr. Brooks' website, here: https://drrobinbrooks.com/.

The Thought Life of Social Justice: An Interview with Robin Brooks

An interview with RA Judy, professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on RA Judy's research and writing, in particular his recently published book Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black. The interview with Fred Moten we discuss can be found here: http://www.boundary2.org/2020/05/of-human-flesh-an-interview-with-r-a-judy-by-fred-moten/. A citation and abstract for the boundary2 essay "Restless Flying" can be found here: https://read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/article-abstract/47/2/91/164269. Professor Judy's interview for the Minneapolis Interview Project can be found here: https://turtleroad.org/2020/08/02/ronald-judy/.

Thinking With Blackness, Thinking With The Human: An Interview with RA Judy

An interview with Alaina Roberts, professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on Professor Roberts' research and writing, in particular her forthcoming book I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. More information on the book can be found here: https://bit.ly/3garKyE. Professor Roberts' website can be found here: https://alainaeroberts.com/. The interview we discuss during this podcast (with WVON Chicago) can be found by scrolling down on this page: https://alainaeroberts.com/in-the-media/.

Black Freedom On Native Land: An Interview with Alaina Roberts

An interview with Mohammed Bamyeh, professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on Professor Bamyeh's research and writing, in particular, including his books Lifeworlds of Islam: the Pragmatics of a Religion, and Anarchy as Order: the History and Future of Civic Humanity. The essay we discuss (which is in Arabic) on civil war in the US is here: http://www.al-adab.com/article/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81-%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8F-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%87%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9%D8%9F. The interview we discuss is here: https://countervortex.org/anarchism-and-the-arab-uprisings/. The issue of Mizna focusing on literature and revolutions can be found here: https://mizna.org/journal-slider/mizna-13-1-literature-in-revolution/.

Listening To Lifeworlds: An Interview With Mohammed Bamyeh

An interview with Christopher Nygren, professor of art history at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on Professor Nygren's research, teaching, and the way both have been affected by the pandemic. It was recorded on Friday, February 5, 2021. The Beatrice Institute podcast we discuss can be found here: https://beatriceinstitute.libsyn.com/nygren-interview.  

Click here to listen to Backbone, a podcast about essential workers, hosted and recorded by Being Human producer Jacqui Sieber: https://www.spreaker.com/show/backbone.

Miracle-Working In The Pandemic: An Interview with Christopher Nygren

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