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Indoor Voices
by Kathleen Collins
Conversations with scholars, creators and practitioners from around the CUNYverse (City University of New York). Produced by Kathleen Collins, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Episodes
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Episode 127: Curating and disrupting geography
Macushla Robinson, director of the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College, talks with Candice Strongwater and Gauri Bahuguna, curators of the current exhibition, "Uneven Geographies." Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more info.
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Episode 126: Talia Argondezzi on satirizing academia
Kathleen talks with Talia Argondezzi, author of Bedtime Stories for Academics: Quibbles and Squabbles at Typical University (University of Toronto Press). Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
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Episode 125: Brian Jones on the power of Black History
Dr. Brian Jones, Senior Director of Reading and Engagement at the New York Public Library, talks with Dr. Robert Robinson, assistant professor in Africana Studies and Gender Studies, Urban Studies, and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy at John Jay and the Graduate Center, about Brian's book…
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Episode 124: Mark McBeth on objects and queer literacy
BONUS SUMMER EPISODE! Kathleen talks with Mark McBeth, Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center, about his latest book Objectionable: The Quasi-objects of Queer Literacy (Peter Lang, 2026). Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
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Episode 123: Martin Cloutier on humor & sex in literary fiction
Kathleen talks with Martin Cloutier, adjunct assistant professor at the College of Staten Island (CUNY) and author of the novel Waiting for Something Else (Heliotrope Books, 2025). Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
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Episode 122: Adam McKible on Jim Crow modernism
Adam McKible, Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, talks with LaGuardia Community College Professor of English Jesse Schwartz about Jim Crow Modernism, a volume co-edited with McKible, Keith Clark and Robert Jackson. For more, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com
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Episode 121: C. Julian Jiménez on manifesting queer joy
C. Julian Jiménez, playwright and Chairperson of the Department of Communication, Theatre, & Media Production at Queensborough Community College, talks with writer Elaina Battista-Parsons. For more information, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com.
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Episode 120: Mila Burns on the South American Cold War
Mila Burns, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at Lehman College and of history at the CUNY Graduate Center, talks with Richard Relkin, Assistant Vice President for Communications and Marketing at Lehman College, about her most recent book, Dictatorship Across Borders…
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Episode 119: Jennifer Roberts on the infinite variety of the ancient Greeks
City College (CUNY) professors Jennifer T. Roberts and Nickolas Pappas discuss Roberts's book, Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
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Episode 118: Sarah Hoiland on women bikers
Dr. Sarah Hoiland, Professor of Sociology at Hostos Community College, talks with City College political science student (Hostos student at the time of the recording) Ashley Walker about Righteous Sisterhood: Politics and Power in an All-Women's Motorcycle Club. To learn more, visit...
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Episode 117: Char Adams on Black-owned bookstores
Char Adams, CUNY Graduate Center alumna and author of Black-owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore, talks with journalist, author, playwright and Char's former CUNY colleague, Beth Harpaz. Visit IndoorVoicespodcast.com to find out more.
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Episode 116: Rossi and Sibley on narrating motherhood
Dr. Destry Maria Sibley, a CUNY Graduate Center alumna whose dissertation is entitled, "Narrating Mother, Narrating Twenty-First Century America: On Choice, Refusal, and Relation" talks with Dr. María Julia Rossi, Professor in Modern Languages and Literatures at John Jay College of Criminal…
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Episode 115: Mark Christian on Frederick Douglass
Dr. Mark Christian (Lehman College Professor in Africana Studies & Sociology) talks about his latest book, Frederick Douglass: A life in American History (Bloomsbury 2025) with his Lehman colleague Dr. Gillian Bayne. To learn more, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com.
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Episode 114: Reitz and Rutigliano on female anger
Drs. Caroline Reitz and Olivia Rutigliano discuss Dr. Reitz's book Female Anger in Crime Fiction and the way anger is portrayed in popular culture, the role that anger plays, its potential and its limits. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
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Episode 113: Jennifer Laird on energy insecurity
Jennifer Laird, Assistant Professor in Lehman College's Department of Sociology talks with Richard Relkin, Assistant Vice President for Communications and Marketing at Lehman, about Jennifer's book which she co-authored with Columbia University's Diana Hernandez. Powerless: The People's Struggle...
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Episode 112: "Wikipedia is the CUNY of the Internet"
LaGuardia Community College instructional technology librarian Ann Matsuuchi talks with CUNY's University Archivist and co-principal investigator of the Cultivating Archives & Institutional Memory project, Natalie Milbrodt, and the university's Wikimedian-in-Residence Richard Knipel. Visit...
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Episode 111: Nathan Lents on the queerness of animals
John Jay College of Criminal Justice colleagues, Dr. Nathan Lents (Biology) and Dr. Olivera Jokić (English and Gender Studies), discuss Dr. Lents's new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more info.
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Episode 110: The big questions
In collaboration with the John Jay College Office for the Advancement of Research, Kathleen moderates a conversation about the value of the humanities with colleagues David Munns (History), Allison Pease (Provost & Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs), Belinda Rincon (Latin American and...
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Episode 109: Kathleen Collins on common unhappiness
Kathleen discusses her novel, Study in Hysteria (Vine Leaves Press, 2024), with Dr. April Burns, Associate Professor of Psychology at Guttman Community College. This CUNY Academy Book Talk was recorded live at the CUNY Graduate Center on March 5, 2025. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more...
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Episode 108: Valerie Paley on museum truths
Author and CUNY museum studies graduate student Elaina Battista-Parsons talks with Valerie Paley, senior vice president and the Sue Ann Weinberg Director of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library at The New York Historical. Learn more at IndoorVoicesPodcast.com.
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Episode 107: Feminist modernists on reading, relevance, and resistance
Jean Mills, Associate Professor and chairperson in the English Dept. at John Jay College, and Ria Banerjee, Professor of English and Honors Program Coordinator at Guttman Community College and the Graduate Center, discuss Dr. Banerjee's book Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot, and Woolf: Spatiality...
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Episode 106: Olivera Jokić and Dijana Jelača on knowing the past
Olivera Jokić (John Jay College) and Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College) discuss Past: An Introduction to the Problem: Želimir Žilnik on Film, Communism, and Former Yugoslavia, translated from Serbo-Croatian to English by Dr. Jokic. For more information, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com.
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Episode 105: Diana Rickard on the new true crime
Borough of Manhattan Community College colleagues, Diana Rickard and Tracy Bealer, talk about the true crime genre and Dr. Rickard's book The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com to learn more.
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Episode 104: Mary Phillips on Ericka Huggins and Sister Love
Mary Frances Phillips, author of Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins (NYU Press 2025) talks with Olivia Moy, faculty member in the English Dept. at CUNY Lehman College, about the educator, poet, activist, former political prisoner and Black Panther Party…
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Episode 103: Adam Berlin on men and movie-moves
Kathleen talks with John Jay College English professor Adam Berlin about his new short story collection, All Around They're Taking Down the Lights (Livingston Press 2024). Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
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A novel about 1960s' City College activists
Laura Katz Olson, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University, discusses her novel, Wrinkled Rebels, with Olivia Wood, English Department Lecturer at City College. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
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Episode 101: Ulises Gonzales sobre La Vida Papaya
Mercedes Diez, Director of Communications and College Relations at Lehman College, and Professor Ulises Gonzales of the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Lehman discuss Professor Gonzales's new book, La Vida Papaya en Nueva York. For more, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com.
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Episode 100: How did this %@#! bridge get its name?
Rebecca Bratspies and Natalie Gomez-Velez, professors at CUNY School of Law, discuss Professor Bratspies' book, Naming Gotham: The Villains, Rogues and Heroes Behind New York's Place Names (Arcadia Publishing 2023).
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Episode 99: Mark Christian and William Seraile on the maintaining the legacy of Black history
Dr. Mark Christian, Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College and author of Booker T. Washington: A Life in American History and Transatlantic Liverpool: Shades of the Black Atlantic, talks with Dr. William Seraile, professor emeritus of African American history at Lehman College.
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Episode 98: George Guida on cops, characters, and craft
Jeffrey Heiman and Adam Berlin, John Jay college English professors and editors of J Journal: New Writing on Justice, talk with New York City College of Technology English professor George Guida whose latest novel is The Uniform (Guernica Editions, 2024).
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Episode 97: Bryan Warde on persistent settler colonialism
Bryan Warde, professor in the social work program at Lehman College and in the social welfare doctoral program at the Graduate Center, discusses his most recent book, Colorblind: Indigenous and Black Disproportionality Across Criminal Justice Systems, with Lehman College's Assistant Vice…
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Episode 96: Dr. Calvin J. Smiley on putting reentry out of business
Dr. Sarah Hoiland (Hostos Community College) talks with Dr. Calvin J. Smiley (Hunter College) about dismantling the prison industrial complex and shifting away from vengeful systems of reentry. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for information about Drs. Smiley and Hoiland.
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Episode 95: Crissa-Jean Chappell on creative writing & teaching
Rich Relkin, Assistant Vice President for Communications & Marketing at Lehman College, talks with Crissa-Jean Chappell, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and author of the recently published YA novel, Sun Don't Shine (Fitzroy Books, January 2024). Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.
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Episode 94: Second chances at Queensboro Correctional
Faculty from LaGuardia Community College discuss the Second Chance Act Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes grant from the US Department of Justice to fund a comprehensive prison-to-college project at Queensboro Correctional Facility. Prof. Hugo Fernandez interviews Profs. John...
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Episode 93: Resistance, rebellion, and resilience: American slavery on film
Ann Matsuuchi (LaGuardia Community College), Caron Knauer (LaGuardia Community College), and Sherry Antoine (AfroCROWD), discuss Knauer's book American Slavery on Film. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.
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Episode 92: Louis Bury on the way things go
Kathleen talks with Louis Bury, associate professor of English at Hostos Community College and author of The Way Things Go (punctum books, 2023). Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.
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Episode 91: Dara Byrne on making way for inspiration
Kathleen talks with Dara Byrne, Dean of Macaulay Honors College. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
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Episode 90: Academic librarians on popular culture
Kathleen talks with her CUNY librarian colleagues - Vikki Terrile, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College and Stephanie Margolin, Associate Professor and librarian at Hunter College – about pop culture scholarship in the academy and in…
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Episode 89: The Bronx Nobody Knows
Returning guest host Beth Harpaz talks with Helaine Helmreich, wife of the late Professor William Helmreich (Graduate Center/City College, Sociology) about Prof. Helmreich's recently published book, The Bronx Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.
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Episode 88: Jayashree Kamblé on popular romance
Jayashree Kamblé and Tara Hickman of LaGuardia Community College discuss Jayashree's book, Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation] (Indiana University Press, 2023).
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Episode 87: Victoria Sanford on feminicide
Lehman College professor Victoria Sanford talks with Richard Relkin, Assistant Director for Communications & Marketing at Lehman, about her recently published book Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez & Her Father's Quest for Justice.
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Episode 86: Julie Turley and Joan Jocson-Singh on Musicking Motherhood
Julie Turley (Kingsborough Community College) and Joan Jocson-Singh (Lucas Museum of Narrative Art) discuss their book, Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions, with Monica Berger (NYC College of Technology).
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Episode 85: Samantha Majic on celebrity feminism
Kathleen talks with Samantha Majic, Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about her new book, Lights, Camera, Feminism: Celebrities and Anti-trafficking Politics. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.
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Episode 84: Andrew Sidman on Quantitative Literacy and Reasoning
Kathleen talks with John Jay's Interim Dean of Academic Programs and Professor of Political Science Andrew Sidman about the college's strategic plan initiative focusing on quantitative literacy and reasoning. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.
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Episode 83: Angie Beeman on liberal white supremacy
Angie Beeman (Baruch College) talks with Soribel Genao (Queens College) about Angie's book, Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression, Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.
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Gloria J. Browne-Marshall on the courage of Black women
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a writer, civil rights attorney, playwright, and Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College. Her most recent book, She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power – 1619 to 1969, showcases the courage of a range of black women in the face of racial…
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Episode 81: Edward Paulino on sharing words and bearing witness
John Jay College Associate Professor of History Edward Paulino discusses his book Refranes de mi Abuelita: Sayings of my Grandmother and "Eddie's Perejil," his one-man performance about Dominican identity and the 1937 Haitian Massacre.
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Episode 80: The power of sharing stories
Rose Kim, faculty in Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice at BMCC, Wanett Clyde, library faculty at New York City Tech, and Cynthia Tobar, library faculty at Bronx Community College discuss Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY students on race and social justice (DIO...
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Episode 79: Evan Mandery on elite colleges & social stratification
John Jay College's Richard Relkin, director of Media Relations, and Evan Mandery, professor in criminal justice, discuss Evan's new book, Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for more.
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Episode 78: David Puglia on monsters
David J. Puglia talks with Mira Johnson about his edited collection, North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook (University Press of Colorado, 2022). For more info, visit indoorvoicespodcast.com
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Conversations with scholars, creators and practitioners from around the CUNYverse (City University of New York). Produced by Kathleen Collins, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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