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On today’s episode we have an interview with Elizabeth Szkirpan, Collections and Discovery Specialist at Harvard Business School's Baker Library, who is in conversation with Katie O'Hara-Krebs, social media manager for our journal portal: Libraries and the Academy. Elizabeth Szkirpan's new article for portal is entitled "Library Services Contributing to Institutional Success at R1 Universities: An Exploratory Mixed-Source Quantitative Model." Her article, which is available open access through Project MUSE, takes a look at how academic libraries are challenged in justifying their value in the current business-oriented higher education environment, particularly as non-revenue generating units with increasing costs, and how academic libraries can develop metrics to translate library service into key institutional performance indicators. This article, along with rest of this issue of portal: Libraries and the Academy is open access, available to read for free, thanks to the Project MUSE Subscribe to Open initiative. Elizabeth Szkirpan is a library and information studies professional with a research focus on the history of library technical services and business-adjacent practices for academic libraries. She currently works at Harvard Business School's Baker Library, where she assists with collection development and electronic resources licensing.

Today on the podcast, we talk with Richard Gabri about his new article for ELH, “All White in the End: From the Passage of James Wait to the Passing of James Gatz; Intertextuality and the Riddle of Race in The Great Gatsby.”  Building on the work of Carlyle Van Thompson, whose 2004 book The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination explored the ways that Jay Gatsby can be read as a white-passing Black man, Gabri and his high school students began a literary exploration of the classic novel, and discovered fascinating intertextual links between Fitzgerald's titular character to James Wait, the protagonist of Joseph Conrad's controversial novella known as The Children of the Sea.  Gabri links Gatsby’s racial passing to Fitzgerald’s rewriting of Conrad’s James Wait, a Black imposter whose presence aboard the ship "Narcissus" produces projection, suspicion, and moral crisis. In pre-press, the article has already garnered a great deal of attention, with over 8000 downloads. In 2024, Gabri and his students traveled to the American Literature Association conference in Chicago, where they presented their findings — becoming perhaps the first high school students to present at ALA. Last year, as The Great Gatsby celebrated its 100th anniversary, the research received mainstream press attention, including an article from Bay Area PBS affiliate KQED.  “All White in the End: From the Passage of James Wait to the Passing of James Gatz; Intertextuality and the Riddle of Race in The Great Gatsby” is slated to publish in the summer 2026 issue of ELH, and will be available #OpenAccess at Project MUSE. Richard Gabri teaches high school English at Bentley School in Lafayette, California, and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University.

Today on the podcast, we talk with education scholars Gina Ann Garcia and Demetri L. Morgan about their recent article for Review of Higher Education, entitled “Mission-Based vs. Enrollment-Based Institutions: Segmented Governance at a Catholic Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI)” This article explores the role of governing boards of Hispanic Serving Institutions in advancing “servingness” — in other words, the embodiment of an identity for serving Latines, and the authors study this through the lens of the ways trustees at one Catholic Hispanic Serving Institution make sense of their organization’s identity. Garcia and Morgan conclude with their recommendation that HSIs trustees must understand their institutions as unique, and that governing boards have a distinct role in influencing “servingness.” The Review of Higher Education is one of our #S2O #OpenAccess journals, so this article, along with all of the issues from this volume year of the Review of Higher Education is free for everyone to read at Project MUSE.

Today on the podcast, we meet Alex Brostoff and rl Goldberg, the guest editors of the special issue of College Literature on trans literatures. Alex Brostoff is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Georgetown University, and rl Goldberg is currently Assistant Professor of Queer Studies at Hampshire College. Independently, Brostoff and Goldberg have done a lot of interesting and innovative work on literature, transness, queerness, and auto theory, and together they’ve joined forces not just to edit this issue of College Literature, but also a forthcoming book from Fordham Press, titled Reassignments: Trans and Sex from the Clinical to the Critical. This issue of College Literature offers a variety of exciting pieces, including Stephanie Burt on Philip Larkin, Sarah Snyder and Will Anderson on Incarcerated Trans Resistance, and Cameron Awkward-Rich on Red Jordan Arobateau. The issue also includes must-read interviews with Jordy Rosenberg, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, gaita nihil, Cole Rizki — and there’s so much more. We’re making this whole issue free to read on Project MUSE through May 15, so go forth and read while you listen!

The latest issue of Literary Imagination includes Six Tanka by Shizuka Omori, and on today’s episode Literary Imagination editor Paul Franz brings together Shizuka Omori reading her poetry, along with translations by poet Yuki Tanaka. And after the poems, an interview between Franz, Omori and Tanaka about the tanka tradition and method, as well as an exploration of the process of translation. We’ve made Omori’s tanka pieces In Literary Imagination free to read on Project MUSE thru the end of the month.

Today’s episode features a conversation between Literary Imagination editor Paul Franz, and Ryan Hintzman, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. He recently received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale. Ryan HIntzman has an article in the new issue of Literary Imagination called “Distant Views of Waka Bay: Traditional Japanese Verse and the Question of Lyric” which centers on the real and imaginary Waka Bay in Japan. Hintzman says “Waka Bay (Waka no ura) is a pliable poetic place name (utamakura) whose name suggests the “Bay of Japanese Poetry” (waka). The real Waka Bay is a picturesque salt marsh located down the coastline from modern Osaka, but over centuries of poetic practice the physical landscape became entangled with an idealized site for the exercise of the literary imagination.” We’ve made “Distant Views of Waka Bay: Traditional Japanese Verse and the Question of Lyric” available free to read via Project MUSE for the month of April. The image in the podcast icon is a view of Mount Nagusa from Mount Tengu in Wakayama, Wakayama prefecture, Japan. Photo by 663 Highlands; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

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On today's episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, Literary Imagination editor Paul Franz introduces the new issue of Literary Imagination, and interviews author/scholar John Pistelli about his new article, "Romantic Truth: Imaginative Authority in the Literary Criticism of René Girard." Engagement with Girard's work has expanded outside of academic and literary circles in recent years, and his ideas have found purchase in economic and political institutions within the U.S. and around the world. In this discussion, Pistellii and Franz look at ways Girard has become an "oracle of the social-media epoch." Along with two other pieces in the new issue of Literary Imagination — "The Mysteries of Love: On Alice Munro" by James Tussing and "Poems and Translations" by Victoria Moul — "Romantic Truth: Imaginative Authority in the Literary Criticism of René Girard" will be free to read on Project MUSE through the end of December.

From the new issue of Literary Imagination, one of the newest journals to join the Hopkins Press Journals roster, Victoria Moul reads originals and her translations of works by Julian the Apostate, Horace, a Latin didactic, and an ancient Pāli poem from the Therīgāthā — the oldest existing collection of poetry by women. Victoria Moul is a British literary critic, scholar, poet and translator living in Paris. She's held a series of academic posts at Queen’s College, Oxford; Cambridge; and King’s College London, and most recently was Professor of Early Modern Latin and English at University College London. Victoria publishes a Substack about poetry and translation, Horace & Friends, and reviews regularly for other venues, including the Times Literary Supplement, PN Review, The Dark Horse and The Friday Poem. We publish a lot of poetry in the Hopkins Press Journals, and as we move into 2026 we’ll be offering more readings on the podcast, and pepper in some shorter episodes among the long form interviews.

Today’s episode features an interview with Lydia Cooper and Matthew Reznicek, the guest editors of a brand new special issue of Studies in the Novel focusing on “Disease and Disability.” As they say in their introduction, “This special issue offers critical insights into the way the novel as a form intertwines, disaggregates, confounds, and represents the embodied experience of disability and disease.” With articles that consider Nathanael Hawthorne, Ling Ma, Toni Morrison, Somerset Maugham, Wilkie Collins, and more, this discussion sets the stage for a can’t-miss issue of studies in the way novels can challenge and broaden "our understanding of how and why novelistic discourse is uniquely capable of representations of disease and disability”

On today's episode, we talk with Yumi Roth & Emmanuel David about their award-winning article in Journal of Asian American Studies, "Playing Filipino: Racial Display, Resistance, and the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West" Delving into archival photographs and records about the Filipino performers who joined Buffalo Bill's immensely popular touring show in the wake of the Philippine-American War, Roth and David uncover a fascinating and largely forgotten history. In October, Roth and David accepted the Vicki L. Ruiz Award from the Western History Association for their research into the obscured history of the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill's Wild West touring show. This annual award recognizes the best article on race in the North American West published that year. To accompany the podcast, "Playing Filipino: Racial Display, Resistance, and the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West" will be free to read on Project MUSE through the end of November.

On today’s episode we’re talking with the guest editors of a forthcoming issue of Leviathan, a journal of Melville Studies. These three editors, Jordan Alexander Stein, Dana Seitler, and Adam Fales have put together a riveting collection of essays exploring what they call Melville's Queer Afterlives — scholarship on the ways Herman Melville’s work has influenced queer studies today. This is an epic conversation that includes mentions of Maurice Sendak and John Ashbery and, believe it or not, Gilbert Gottfried. A content warning: this episode contains some senstive content and may not be suitable for all listeners. Listener discretion is advised.

Today we are talking with Emily Cousens, who is an assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Northeastern University, London, and their expertise focuses on trans feminist philosophy and history. They are also the UK lead for the Digital Transgender Archive. They are the author of Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave, which is the first book to explore the philosophical and intellectual contributions of trans individuals in the 1970s. Emily’s got a new article in L'esprit Créateur called “Subjectivity Without Sex? The Materialist Trans Feminist Potential in Monique Wittig’s Non-Fiction” This is part of a special issue of L'esprit Créateur devoted to Monique Wittig, and this whole issue is available free to all because L'esprit Créateur is part of our Subscribe to Open (S2O) Open Access initiative. Click through in the show notes to learn more about this great new initiative, and especially to read some exciting new scholarship about Monique Wittig.

On today’s episode, we talk with Patrick McKelvey about his new article for Theatre Journal about the early 20th century publicity campaign that popularized the Seeing Eye Dog. Patrick McKelvey is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Notre Dame, and his research focuses the theatrical, cultural, and social history of disability in the twentieth-century United States. His first book, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (New York University Press, 2024) examines the relationship between US disability policy and the disability arts and culture movement, 1960-1990. He’s also currently a National Humanities Center Fellow, as well as Book Review Editor for American Quarterly, another of the journals Hopkins Press publishes. Patrick McKelvey’s Theatre Journal article "Honest Work Done by Honest Dogs":Canine Unemployment, Interspecies Rehabilitation, and Disability Performance.” will be available to read for free at Project MUSE for a few weeks after this podcast is released.

On today's episode, we talk with David Shiffman, author of Why Sharks Matter, about his recent study of how scientists are engaging social media: “Scientists No Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky." In this episode, we explore the findings of the survey and discuss some of the reasons why this shift has occurred. A marine conservation biologist and public science engagement specialist based in Washington, DC, David Shiffman is a prolific writer, with words appearing in National Geographic, the Washington Post, Scientific American, SCUBA magazine, his blog Southern Fried Science, and, of course, his 2022 Hopkins Press book, Why Sharks Matter. Follow him on the social media platform of your choice: @WhySharksMatter

On today's episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, we talk with Lisa Anderson about here new article in Social Research, “From Pursuing Truth to Managing Stress: The Costs and Consequences of the Therapeutic Turn in American Universities.” This is part of a phenomenal and timely special issue of Social Research devoted to exploring “The Embattled University.” Listeners will be able to read this article for free on Project MUSE through the end of September 2025. Dr. Anderson is Special Lecturer and James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations Emerita and Dean Emerita at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). She also served as provost and president of the American University in Cairo in 2008–2016.

Today we talking with Sarah M. Misemer, a professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M. She has a new article out in South Central Review’s "Worlds In Crisis" special issue, which is called “What a Bawd from the Renaissance Can Teach Us about AI: Celestina, Robots, and Free Will," Dr. Misemer's article takes a look back at a piece of bawdy Spanish Renaissance literature, La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, and considers what it has to say about human free will in the age of AI robots.

Today on the Podcast, we have Marissa J. Spear, whose new article in Journal of Women’s History studies “Women, Survival and the Black Panther Party in Baltimore.” In this article, Marissa J. Spear focuses on the activities of four women — Angie Hatten, Connie Felder, Lula Hudson, and Nkenge Touré — and the ways they transformed, and were transformed by — working with the party. It’s a story that comes to a head with a three-week-long seige of the Black Panther headquarters by police and FBI. It’s a great read for anyone interested in the history of the Black Panther party, of women’s liberation and the transformation of gender politics, and of the city of Baltimore. The article will be be free to read on Project MUSE through the end of August. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/960906

We are kicking off Season 4 of the pod with David Hollinger, who is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialties are American intellectual history and American ethnoracial history, and today we’ll talk to him about his new article for Social Research: An International Quarterly, entitled “The Evangelical Capture of the Republican Party and Its Implications for Academia” Dr. Hollinger’s new article is part of a new special issue called “The Embattled University,” a stellar issue which also features contributions from Judith Butler, Lisa Anderson, Albena Azamanova, Ahmed Bawa, Supriya Chaudhuri, Nicholas B. Dirks, Len Gutkin, and Jonathan Veitch. It's a highly recommended issue, especially for those with a stake in the future of higher education.

On today’s episode, we’re talking with Barrett Taylor, professor and coordinator of the higher education program at the University of North Texas. He studies the ways in which higher education interfaces with society, investigating topics including state politics and policy, the organization of academic work, and institutional inequality. Outside of his professorship, he is a fellow in the Center for the Defense of Academic freedom, a project housed at the AAUP, funded by the Mellon Foundation and directed by Isaac Kamola. Together with Kimberly Watts (currently a doctoral candidate at UNT), he is the co-author of a new article in The Review of Higher Education entitled “Tenure Bans: An Exploratory Study of State Legislation Proposing to Eliminate Faculty Tenure, 2012-2022” This article, as you might guess, surveys ten years of proposed legislation across the United States aiming to restrict tenure in higher education, and offers observations on the underlying motives and meanings behind these legislative efforts, as well as some recommendations for educators and administrators interested in protecting academic freedom.

Koritha Mitchell is is a public intellectual, a professor of English, a literary historian, an award-winning author and cultural critic, and as of last year she is also a member of the Hopkins Press Advisory Board. Her work has already had quite an impact both within the academy as well as in the larger public sphere. Her article "Identifying White Mediocrity and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Form of Self-Care", which was published in African American Review in 2018, has impacted both the academy and the mainstream. Thousands of readers are still finding the article each year, making it one of our consistently most-read Hopkins Press Journal articles on Project MUSE. In our recent Hopkins Press Podcast interview, Mitchell defines her groundbreaking concept of "know-your-place aggression" as "a reaction to the success of people who are not supposed to be successful," and the idea has resonated into recent articles about Junot Diaz in Chronicle of Higher Education and Shedeur Sanders in Esquire, and a 2024 interview with Mitchell published in Public Books brought her work to the attention of numerous new readers. Over the years, Mitchell has been a prolific contributor to several of the journals that call Hopkins Press home, including Callaloo, African American Review, American Quarterly, Theatre Journal, and J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.

On today's Hopkins Press Podcast, we talk with Kelly Ross (editor of Poe Studies) Elissa Zellinger (guest editor of the forthcoming special issue of Poe Studies), and Eliza Richards, author of Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle. This fall, a new special issue of Poe Studies — due out in Fall 2025 — celebrates 20 years of Eliza Richards' influential book, which has played an important role on the study of 19th century women poets as well as other minoritized poets, print culture, and even Poe himself.

On this episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, we sat down in the library of the Hopkins Press offices with Milan Terlunen, author of an article in the new issue of Book History entitled “What We Can(’t) Know Before We Read: Towards a Theory of the Pre-Reading Environment." Dr. Terlunen coins this term, "the pre-reading environment" to talk about all the ways we come to know things about a text — a book, a film, etc. — before we read it, if we ever read it. Terlunen's article focuses on newspaper reviews of Agatha Christie's 1926 novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Twitter discussions about Hanya Yanagihara's 2016 novel A Little Life, but as you'll learn, pre-reading environments include a broad range of information, from advertising and cover art to spoiler alerts, content warnings, and even film rating systems. Milan Terlunen is a currently the 2024-25 Tabb Center/AGHI Engaged Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins who specializes in public and digital humanities, with a particular emphasis on podcasting. Dr. Terlunen is the co-founder of the Humanities Podcast Network and the host of the How To Read podcast. This Spring, he is convening a series of podcasting round tables called What Makes Podcasting Accessible?, featuring podcasters across the Hopkins community and beyond. Beginning February 27 and running through April, these round tables will be available to attend both in person and streaming as well. On March 26, Hopkins Press Podcast host Rahne Alexander will be among the guests participating in the What Makes Podcasting Accessible? round table.

On this episode of The Hopkins Press Podcast, we introduce you to Kyla Kupferstein Torres, the new executive editor of Callaloo, the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora. This year, she took the reins of from the founding editor of Callaloo, Charles H. Rowell, who founded Callaloo in 1976 and cultivated the journal into a vital voice for original work by and about writers and visual artists of African descent worldwide. We talk with Kyla Kupferstein Torres about the legacy of Callaloo and the exciting plans she has for the journal's new era. To accompany this podcast, we're providing a supplementary reading list, highlighting some of the great pieces Callaloo has published over the years. Read them all at https://www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/callaloo-reading-list-across-decades

On today's episode, we talk with Scott Gelber, a professor of education who currently serves as chair of the Education Department at Wheaton College about his recent article for Review of Higher Education is titled "Does Academic Freedom Protect Pedagogical Autonomy?" and discuss the origins of the idea "academic freedom" and how it's considered regarding pedagogy today. "Does Academic Freedom Protect Pedagogical Autonomy?" is available to read for free on Project MUSE through 30 November 2024 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/937142 About Scott Gelber https://departments.wheatoncollege.edu/faculty/scott-gelber/ Scott Gelber is a historian whose work focuses on the development of American education during the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. He is the author of Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of American College Access, 1860-1960 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), and The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), which won the Linda Eisenmann Prize of the History of Education Society. Gelber has published articles and essays in the American Journal of Education, American Journal of Legal History, Journal of Social History, and History of Education Quarterly, among others. His research has been supported by the National Academy of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He is working on two research projects: a history of learning disabilities and a study of federal financial aid during the New Deal. Before arriving at Wheaton, Gelber taught high school in New York City and supervised student teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Scott Gelber - Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12156/grading-college Scott Gelber - Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of College Access, 1860−1960 https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/11347/courtrooms-and-classrooms Jonathan Zimmerman - The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12000/amateur-hour

All through 2024, one of the most-read articles across all of the Hopkins Press journals has been "Exploring Undergraduate Research Experiences For Latinx College Students From Farmworker Families", published in the January-February 2022 issue of Journal of College Student Development. We talk with three authors of this multidisclipinary team—Sneha Amaresh, Raúl Gámez, and Joseph Lee—to explore more deeply the background of this popular study that looks at ways academic research can be strengthened through inclusivity. This article is free to read through the month of September: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/853534 Sneha Amaresh is currently pursuing her Master of Public Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a bachelor's degree in public health from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. With a strong passion for qualitative research, Sneha focuses on the social determinants of health, environmental health, and social justice. Raúl Gámez is a Ph.D. candidate in higher education at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan. Raúl’s research focuses on understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion as organizational processes with the potential for transforming higher education institutions into more equitable, inclusive, and just organizations. He earned an MA in higher education administration at the University of Michigan and a BA in theatre arts and translation and interpretation studies from California State University, Long Beach. Before enrolling in graduate school, Raúl worked with migrant and immigrant youth in North Carolina using theatre and arts as tools for leadership development. He also coordinated a statewide coalition focused on increasing college access for undocumented students. https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/people/student-staff/gamez.html Joseph G. L. Lee, PhD, MPH, is the McGee Professor of Health Education and Promotion at East Carolina University (ECU) and the Associate Dean for Research at ECU College of Health and Human Performance. His research seeks to document, understand, and reduce unfairness in health by building evidence for policy interventions that make a difference. Lee focuses this work in three areas: the health of young people at risk of tobacco use; the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people; and the health of farmworkers and farmworker families. Much of his work is centered in eastern North Carolina at East Carolina University's Department of Health Education and Health Promotion. https://scholars.ecu.edu/display/F80379154 Music from this episode is "le train sur du velours" by Jean Toba, available at the Free Music Archive. freemusicarchive.org/music/jean-tob…ur-du-velours/

Dr. Helene Hedian, Director of Clinical Education, Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health, discusses data a new study published in the February 2024 edition of Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved,"What Patients Want in a Transgender Center:Building a Patient-Centered Program." This article is free to read through the month of June. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/919816 Music from this episode is "le train sur du velours" by Jean Toba, available at the Free Music Archive. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/jean-toba/n-e-es-du-sommeil-1/le-train-sur-du-velours/

Speculative fiction author and children's literature scholar Gabriela Lee's recent article in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, "When the Shoe Doesn't Fit: Reading Cinderella as Colonial Children's Literature in the Philippines," went viral earlier this year on Hopkins Press social media. We kick off our new season of the Hopkins Press podcast with a discussion of her article and the ways children's myths have been used as colonial tools. For more information, including links to the author's website and a link to the journal article discussed in this issue, please visit https://press.jhu.edu/multimedia

In this episode we talk with the authors of recent article that appears in Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, titled "The Voices on Vax Campaign: Lessons Learned from Engaging Youth to Promote COVID Vaccination." This article tells the story of how several organizations, including the Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Hip Hop Public Health, united efforts to create an art-and-music-driven campaign to help young people in the city of Baltimore recognize the importance of vaccination in response to the Covid pandemic and become advocates for their own health care. Featured on this episode: Tamar Mendelson of Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Lori Rose Benson and Lindsay Harr of Hip Hop Public Health, and Voices on Vax Youth Ambassador Taylor Clinton. This article is free to read thru 30 Nov 2024: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/937393 Visit the show notes for more information on the project and participants, as well as a transcript of this episode: https://www.press.jhu.edu/multimedia/voices-vax-engaging-youth-promote-covid-vaccination

Our guest this week is Dr. Robert Karp. Dr. Karp is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. A native Philadelphian, he is a graduate of Central High School, Muhlenberg College and Thomas Jefferson University Medical College, did his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in nutrition at New York Hospital/ Cornell Medical Center and completed training as Chief Resident at St Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. He stayed on the St Christopher’s staff in a War on Poverty School Health and Nutrition project. His 14 years in Philadelphia are summarized in a 1993 text, "Malnourished Children in The United States: Caught in the Cycle of Poverty." The remainder of his active career was in Brooklyn at SUNY Downstate where he was director of residency training and service clinics at Kings County and SUNY Downstate Hospitals. While at Kings County he read a study from 1962 by Harold Jacobziner and Harry Raybin describing the epidemiology of lead poisoning in New York City. Many of the children attending Kings County’s lead poisoning clinic were from three `lead belt’ neighborhoods in north Brooklyn described – Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant and Crowne Heights. More recently, with publication of the FHA maps of 1934, he recognized the same neighborhoods as being “redlined.” His commentary on this connection “Redlining and lead Poisoning: Causes and Consequences” followed, and was recently published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved and is available Open Access.

Our guest this episode is Scott Kushner, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Rhode Island's Harrington School of Communication and Media. His scholarship and teaching explore the ways overlooked media give shape to our everyday encounters with culture. his work has appeared in venues including Space & Culture, Convergence, and New Media & Society. Most recently, He published a paper in the journal Technology and Culture, titled "Controlling Crowds: On the Technological Management of Entertainment Audiences." We sat down with him to learn more about how technology plays a role in the way a crowd becomes an audience.

Our guests this week are Dr. Mandy Savitz-Romer and Dr. Heather Rowan-Kenyon. Dr. Savitz-Romer is the Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Senior Lecturer in Human Development and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also the faculty lead of the school counseling strand of the Human Development and Education program. Dr. Heather Rowan-Kenyon is professor and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. Their paper, "School Counselors and College Counseling During the COVID-19 Pandemic" was published in latest issue of the Review of Higher Education. They joined us to discuss how the covid-19 pandemic has shifted how school counselors focus their work and the state of the profession today.

On this episode, we are joined by Elizabeth Lanphier, a faculty member in the Ethics Center and in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She is a philosopher and bioethicist affiliated faculty in the University of Cincinnati departments of Pediatrics, Philosophy, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as well as the Center for Public Engagement With Science, and is a non-resident fellow with the George Mason Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. She is guest editor, along with Larry Churchill, of the latest issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, which is titled " "Translational Work of Bioethics." She joins us today to talk about how the issue came about, and what important work the field of bioethics is doing today.

We are joined this episode by Jennifer Hochschild and David Beavers, both of Harvard University. Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. Her recent books include Genomic Politics: How the Revolution in Genomic Science Is Shaping American Society (2021) and Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics (2016), coauthored with Katherine Levine Einstein. David Beavers is a PhD student in the Department of Government, Harvard University. He specializes in the study of political communication in the United States. He was formerly a journalist and editor at Politico. Their recent paper, "Learning from Experience? COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Their Implications for Democratic Discourse," was published in the Fall 2022 issue of Social Research. Their study looked at coronavirus-related conspiracy narratives in the United States across the continuum of political affiliation. They joined us today to discuss their research and how what they found surprised them.

Our guest today is Dr Sahanika Ratnayake - a philosopher of psychiatry and medicine, whose work focuses on talking therapy. She is interested in what constitutes evidence for talking therapy, the ethics of therapy and the integration of therapy into healthcare systems. She is currently a researcher at the UK Council for Psychotherapy. She joined us today to discuss her paper published in a recent issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, titled "It's Been Utility All Along: An Alternate Understanding of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and The Depressive Realism Hypothesis."

Last month, the United States Post office announced its 2023 slate of stamp designs, which includes tributes to writers Toni Morrison and Ernest Gaines, both of whom died in 2019. Our guest today, Dr. Rafael Walker, recently published a paper in the journal Arizona Quarterly that examines there two extraordinary writers. He explores how Gaines' last book, "The Tragedy of Brady Sims" draws parallels to Toni Morrison's "Beloved". Dr. Walker joined us to discuss his research and the legacy of these two critically acclaimed authors. Rafael Walker is assistant professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York, where he is also affiliate faculty in the Department of Black and Latino Studies and in the Program in Women and Gender Studies. He has published on a variety of topics both in American literature and in higher education. Walker is the editor of a critical edition of Kate Chopin's work, The Awakening and Other Selected Stories (Warbler Press), and of Broadview Press's inaugural edition of Nella Larsen’s Passing (forthcoming). And he is working on two book-length monographs—one on the American realist novel and the other on biraciality in American culture.

Our guest today is Nicholas Tilmes, whose research focuses on the intersection of cognition, law, and technology, ranging from disability rights to neurotechnology and AI. He holds an M.A. in Bioethics from NYU and a B.A. in Philosophy & Psychology from Cornell University. He joins us today to discuss his paper published in the latest issue of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, which examines the areas of psychological diagnosis that are fuzzy, vague, or indeterminate, and philosophical ways this vagueness can be reckoned with.

Our guest this week is Dr. Samuel Woolley, a researcher and writer who examines how emerging media tools are used for both democracy and control. He is a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin and directs the Propaganda Research Lab at UT’s Center for Media Engagement. He has published four books, including the recently released Bots and the forthcoming Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Age of Automation and Anonymity. He has testified before the U.S. Congress regarding the impact of electoral disinformation on communities of color. His work has been presented to and cited by the UK Parliament, NATO, and the United Nations. He joined us today to discuss his paper recently published in the Journal of Democracy - "Digital Propaganda: The Power of Influencers", which examines how attempts to manipulate public opinion using social media and emerging information communication technologies continue to proliferate and evolve internationally.

Hopkins Press is honored to welcome to this podcast episode President of The New School in New York City, Dr. Dwight McBride. Dr. McBride is an accomplished higher education leader, educator, scholar, and author. Over nearly three decades in higher education, he has encouraged innovation in scholarship and teaching, launched initiatives to build interdisciplinary strength around global challenges, created environments that foster inclusive excellence, and expanded opportunities for experiential learning. The Summer 2022 issue of the journal Social Research, Books That Matter II, invited notable scholars to select one book that had a deep and lasting influence on their thinking and life. Dr. McBride's essay, "A Rising Tide Lifts all Boats", reflects on Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects. He joined us to discuss his essay, which not only details Wheatley's remarkable life and writing, but examines what over 200 years of analysis and criticism of Wheatley's work can show us about the history of racism in the United States and its enduring impact on African American literature.

This week we are joined by Dr. Rebecca Natow, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at Hofstra University, where she is also the director of the Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies program. Dr. Natow is an expert on higher education policy and has conducted extensive research on the U.S. Department of Education’s rulemaking process, performance-based funding for higher education, federal higher education policymaking, and research utilization in the creation of federal regulations. She joined Hopkins Press to speak about her legislation research recently published in the Review of Higher Education.

The Summer 2022 issue of Social Research, Books That Matter II, invited notable scholars to select one book that had a deep and lasting influence on their thinking and life. Joining us this episode is Dr. Wendy Doniger. Dr. Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, Emerita. She is the author of over forty books, including The Hindus: An Alternative History [2010], Hinduism in the Norton Anthology of World Religions [2014]. Dr. Doniger's essay for Books that Matter II, "My Life in Wonderland", explores the many ways the work of Lewis Carroll has held a special place in her heart. She joined us to discuss her essay and how Carroll's work has threaded through her scholarly work, as well.

Our guest today is Maria Ortiz-Myers. Maria is a doctoral candidate in library and information science at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her research focuses on information practice, particularly collaborative information interactions and personally meaningful information experiences. The journal Library Trends recently published her paper, titled "The Information Practices of Parents of Transgender and Non-Binary Youth: An Exploratory Study". She joined us to discuss her research on how families of transgender youth pursue and assess information.

Dr. Clara Humpston is our guest this week, discussing her paper “Isolated by Oneself: Ontologically Impossible Experiences in Schizophrenia,” published in the latest issue of the journal Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology.

Dr. Rachel Pruchno is an endowed professor of medicine at Rowan University and the director of research at the New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging. She joins Hopkins Press Acquisitions Editor Joe Rusko to discuss her book, Beyond Madness: The Pain and Possibilities of Serious Mental Illness.

Our guests this week are The Hopkins Review's Dora Malech and Kosiso Ugweuze. They joined us to talk about the literary journal's recent dramatic redesign, and what's in store for the publication's bright future. Dora Malech an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the new editor-in-chief of The Hopkins Review. She has written four books of poetry: Flourish (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020), Stet (Princeton University Press, 2018), Say So (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), and Shore Ordered Ocean (2009). With Laura T. Smith, she is the co-editor of The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Essays and Poems, forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in 2022. Kosiso Ugwueze is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and editor. She was born in Enugu, Nigeria and raised in Southern California. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Joyland, Gulf Coast, Subtropics, and the New England Review, among others.Kosiso is an MFA candidate in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University where she’s the managing editor of The Hopkins Review.

Joining us on this episode is Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien, a postdoctoral fellow at the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University, also affiliated with École Normale supérieure (Paris). She holds a PhD in philosophy of science and psychiatry at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Dr. Gagné-Julien was recently named the 2021 winner of the Karl Jaspers award, given by the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Her winning paper is titled "Dysfunction and the Definition of Mental Disorder in the DSM.”

Our guest this week is Dr. Z Nicolazzo, an associate professor of Trans* Studies in Education at the University of Arizona, which resides on the unceded homelands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui peoples. Dr, Nicolazzo's paper, "Ghost Stories from the Academy: A Trans Feminine Reckoning" speaks to her experience as a trans woman in academia. The paper was published in the Winter 2021 issue of The Review of Higher Education.

The Journal of the History of Philosophy occasionally selects articles published in its pages for 30 minute podcast interviews with the author(s). The interviewer and interviewee are both specialists in the field, but the podcast focuses on the significance of the article for the general philosophical public. In this episode, Peter Adamson (LMU Munich) interviews Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) on Jari’s article, “Avicenna's Outsourced Rationalism,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 58.2 (April 2020): 215-40. The article won the JHP’s Prize for the best article published in its pages in 2020. The interview was recorded in November 2021. Episode Transcript: https://www.press.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/2021-12/JHP%20Podcast%201%20transcript.pdf Producer: Andrew Gittlitz Music: Taylor Carman JHP contact: Jack Zupko (zupkoATualberta.ca) Transcription by Calum Jopling, University of Alberta

Our guest this month is Dr Freeden Blume Oeur, author of Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools from University of Minnesota Press. Dr. Blume Oeur was Guest Editor for the most recent issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, and joins us today to discuss the special issue commemorating the 100th anniversary of the groundbreaking children's magazine, The Brownies' book.

Joining us today for a conversation about the history and ethics of vaccine mandates is Dr. James Colgrove, a Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and the Dean of the Premedical Program at the Columbia School of General Studies.