Punk Scholars Podcast
by Punk Scholars Team
Punk scholars. Scholarship about punk. Contested though it may be, punk studies is a growing field in academia with publication outlets, conferences, and even entire organizations, such as the Punk Scholars Network (PSN) with its international branches, dedicated to such pursuits. Join co-hosts, co-producers, and resident punk scholars Jessica Schwartz (UCLA, PSN US, the Punkast series) and Paul Hollins (Bolton, PSN UK) as they explore the many manifestations of punk in the academy and learn how such scholarship is working to change the facade of the
Episodes
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Where It Began
Hi all! Before we launch into some new conversations and a few changes for the season ahead, my co-host, Paul Hollins, and I, Jessica Schwartz, thought we'd return to where it all began. Originally released in June 2024, this inaugural episode features Mike Dines and Russ Bestley discussing the...
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Monica Sklar
How can punk style become a framework that elucidates the multiply expressive aesthetics and sensibilities—the feel, the attitude, the gestures and choreographies of a ‘core community’? Monica Sklar (University of Georgia) joins Jessica Schwartz and Russ Bestley to unpack the layered answers to...
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Caroline Collett, Part 2
"...The singles titles say it all. “Orgasm Addict” promises fiction, romance. “Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn'tve?)” And of course, “What Do I Get?” so perfectly expressing the primal cry of youth? There was also a celebration of androgyny within punk, which further amplified glam...
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Live from Las Vegas: Larry Livermore
Do you hear the dice rolling, the cards shuffling, and the slot machines chiming their contrapuntal cacophony? No? Well, we don’t either. That’s because, although we are back in and coming live to you from Las Vegas, Nevada on this episode, we’re hearing the din of punk scholarship amplified by...
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Ginette Chittick
Who is remembered in Singaporean punk history, who has been erased in the commemorative process, and how? On this episode, co-hosts Jessica Schwartz and Russ Bestley speak with Ginette Chittick about her research efforts and digital archive practices that amplify "the voices that are rarely...
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Martin James
Happy 2026, punk scholars and other interested parties! Your Punk Scholars Podcast co-hosts, Jessica Schwartz and Paul Hollins, are back in action with a recursively engaging interview of Prof. Martin James. Let us let you in on a couple of fun facts about our guest...."Martin has been punched by...
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Live at Leeds: 12th Annual Punk Scholars Network Conference
Here we go again…the second Punk Scholars Podcast live taping…this time, we’re LIVE AT LEEDS from the 12th Annual Punk Scholars Network Conference 2025 at the University of Leeds. In a roundtable format, punk scholars from your familiar PSP co-hosting crew– Jessica Schwartz, Paul Hollins, Mike...
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Caroline Collett
This week, we have something quite different for you. We have the absolute pleasure of introducing you to Caroline Collet. Caroline would not describe herself as a ‘Punk Scholar’, though she did work with me and Martin James on the ‘Four Old Lags’ paper presented at the PSN conference in…
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Russ Bestley
Where to begin with a guest such as Dr. Russ Bestley, who has done so much for the punk scholarly community, not to mention all the graphic design work, exhibits, publications--including his newest publication, Turning Revolt Into Style (2025), and network organizing...Where to begin...or really,...
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Fakhran Ramadhan
Straight outta Jakarta, Indonesia, across all kinds of time zones, we at the Punk Scholars Podcast (PSP) are proud to bring you Indonesian "punk for life" and scholarship leader, organizer, and musician, Fakhran Ramadhan. Interviewed by the PSP co-host team, Jessica Schwartz and Mike Dines,...
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Maria Elena Buszek
From record collecting to radio, from art history to punk, pin-ups, and disciplinary-breaking work in the field of design, we bring you none other than Dr. Maria Elena Buszek. Interviewed by Punk Scholars Podcast (PSP) co-host team Jessica Schwartz and Russ Bustley, Dr. Buszek traces her love of...
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Mike Dines
You heard him on the first episode alongside Russ Bestley in a discussion about co-founding and sustaining the PSN and its significant role in growing the field of punk scholarship globally. You heard him as co-host, helping shape the form and direction of this podcast. In this episode, co-hosts...
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Daniel Makagon
We’re back….with Season 2 marking the beginning of the SECOND YEAR of the Punk Scholars Podcast. And, who better to ring in the new PSP year than OG (or, OP/original punk) co-host, Paul Hollins, to help break down all things punk scholarship with our special guest, an original member of the PSN…
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Alastair Gordon
“Philosophers theorize about changing the world. The point is to change it. And we have changed the world… hopefully [we] inspire people to not feel so isolated in these looming institutions like the academy, rather than feeling I'm not worthy, you know, putting a PSN shirt on and going, yeah, we...
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Nuit Hansgen (Punk Rock Museum)
Keeping the momentum of “Live in Las Vegas,” this week we bring you Nuit Hansgen of the Punk Rock Museum and Punk Foundation. What does it mean to curate a “punk rock” museum and organize a “punk” non-profit that strives to preserve, promote, educate, and advance punk in its genealogical ties to...
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Live from Las Vegas: Fat Mike + Jennifer Finch
Live from Las Vegas, it’s the Punk Scholars Podcast! What happens at the Punk Scholars Network conference in Vegas is now available for your listening (dis)pleasure as Jessica Schwartz interviews Fat Mike (NOFX, Punk Rock Museum) and Jennifer Precious Finch (L7, Sh!t My Rockstar Says!) with a…
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Michael Mary Murphy + Niall McGuirk
For PSP's 9th episode, we have not one…but two guests for your monthly dose of punk scholarly knowledge. Listen to co-hosts Jessica Schwartz and Russ Bestley speak with the Dublin Hope Collective’s Michael Murphy and Niall McGuirk about the history of the Hope Collective and the story of its...
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Francis Stewart
It’s 2025, and the PSP team will not sugarcoat it; we know it has already been quite a mixed bag for many of us. And yet, we can say that our first PSP episode of the New Year offers some critical respite and contemplative hope through much-needed insight into the historical narratives,...
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A PSP Holiday Greeting
On behalf of the Punk Scholars Network/PSN, the Punk Scholars Podcast/PSP team wanted to wish all you punks out there (and all you non-punks, too) the very best for the holiday season and an even better start to the New Year. On this episode filled with seasonal good cheer, your co-hosts, Paul...
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Laura Way
Many are familiar with the commonplace narrative that punk is a “youth subculture” or mainstreamed media representations that center juvenile male figures as embodying punk’s defiant attitude and irreverent spirit across the subculture’s historical epochs. In this episode, be prepared to take all...
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Matt Grimes
It all began with Crass… at least, it did for our guest for our fifth episode, Matt Grimes. Going to great lengths to get Crass’ album Feeding of the 5000 (1978), Grimes explains his introduction to punk and his immersion into punk through anarcho-punk, which became a critical prism opening up…
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Ellen Bernhard
Wow, all. Can you believe that we’re already four episodes into the Punk Scholars Podcast?! And do we have an episode for you…Introducing Ellen Bernhard - she’s the current President of the Punk Scholars Network US, and she has done compelling work on contemporary US punk scenes and has a knack…
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Matt Worley
In this episode, co-hosts and producers, Jessica Schwartz (UCLA) and Paul Hollins (Bolton), are immersed in the world of British punk history as it unfolds as a creative, complex, critical, and artistically heterogeneous way of experimenting with identity and/as culture. And, we were kept in...
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Marie Arleth Skov
We're back with the second PSP episode, and to say this is a must-listen is an understatement... From the Marquis de Sade to Yoko Ono, from Jordan in London 1976 to Bertolt Brecht’s Pirate Jenny in Berlin 1928, from the art of smashing an instrument to play vs. work—Jessica Schwartz and Paul...
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Mike Dines + Russ Bestley
It’s here… the Punk Scholars Podcast! Co-hosts and producers, Jessica Schwartz (UCLA) and Paul Hollins (Bolton), set out to explore the seemingly paradoxical role of punk (and punks) in the academy and break with oft-generalized dismissals by highlighting the pivotal contributions and necessary...
About this show
Punk scholars. Scholarship about punk. Contested though it may be, punk studies is a growing field in academia with publication outlets, conferences, and even entire organizations, such as the Punk Scholars Network (PSN) with its international branches, dedicated to such pursuits. Join co-hosts, co-producers, and resident punk scholars Jessica Schwartz (UCLA, PSN US, the Punkast series) and Paul Hollins (Bolton, PSN UK) as they explore the many manifestations of punk in the academy and learn how such scholarship is working to change the facade of the
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