Wuthering Heights with Carole Bell and Adriana Herrera

Welcome back to The Race and Regency Pod.Today, we are joined by Carole Bell and Adrianna Herrera. Carole Bell is a cultural critic, writer, and researcher exploring media, identity, public opinion, and the politics of art and entertainment. Carole’s writing inspires and influences so many writers, thinkers, and readers. She writes about books, new and old, she writes about movies, politics, culture. Carole not only has a finger on the pulse of culture at large, but also the wherewithal to inform it through her incredible writing. She’s written about books and authors for print and online media, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, Book Riot, Shondaland, and theGrio.You can find more of her work here: portfolio.cvbell.comAdriana Herrera is a USA Today Best Seller Author. She loves writing stories about people who look and sound like her people, getting unapologetic happy endings.  She has written successful romance fiction and erotica, such as her trilogy: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, An Island Princess starts a Scandal, and A Tropical Rebel gets the Duke; her Dating in Dallas Books include: Here to Stay and On the Hustle; There’s also the Sombrano Studios Books, The Dreamer Series, and other standalone books as well. She won a Ripped Bodice Award in 2020 and the Audie Award in 2023. You can find more of her work here: adrianaherreraromance.comCarole and Adrianna share with us their thoughts on the new adaptation of Wuthering Heights by Emerald Fennell. They also leave us with some incredible recommendations for what to read and watch to satisfy the historical fiction hunger that might emerge post-Wuthering Heights.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.