Reflecting on the Romantic Archive with Mathelinda Nabugodi

We are joined by Dr. Mathelinda Nabugodi. She is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at University College London. She has previously held post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge and Newcastle, including in the literary archive at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She is the author of Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic (2023) and one of the editors on the six-volume Longman edition of The Poems of Shelley (1989-2024). Her latest book, The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive, which came out only a few months ago, explores the connections between British Romanticism and the Black Atlantic. In its deeply erudite yet personal engagement with the archive of romanticism, Mathelinda, in this book, offers us radically new reading methods that are rooted in a conscious engagement with the events in this period, while also redefining what it means to take pleasure in reading literature marred by violence. To learn more about Mathelinda Nabugodi's book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/719891/the-trembling-hand-by-mathelinda-nabugodi/To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab visit https://www.raceandregency.org/The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members, and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.