Episode 8 (with Amy Branam Armiento and Travis Montgomery)

In our eighth episode, I talk to Amy Branam Armiento and Travis Montgomery, the co-editors of Poe and Women: Recognition and Revision (Lehigh University Press and Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023). Over the course of the discussion, Amy and Travis talk about their research backgrounds (1:47), illuminate the project’s origins and inspirations (5:36), and offer a breakdown of the book’s two sections with attention to each chapter (8:48), including Amy’s “Fifty Years of Women’s Scholarship on Poe” (10:08) and Travis’s “Afterword: Maureen Cobb Mabbott and The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe” (35:47). The conversation ends with a focus on the role of the Poe Studies Association in their scholarship (42:25) and some exciting announcements about their future work (45:40).