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New Books in Literary Studies

New Books in Literary Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Literature about their New Books

New Books Network

2,738 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Literary Studies has been publishing since 2010, and across the 16 years since has built a catalogue of 2,738 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to over 2400 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence, with the show now in its 3rd season.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 41 min and 1h 4m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 163 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2022, with 503 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
2,738
Running
2010–2026 · 16y
Median length
53 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Transcending Disciplinary Confinements With(in) Beckett Studies

Aug 25, 20261h 8m

Patricia A. Billingsley, "Lorca in Vermont: The Spanish Poet and His American Lover" (High Road Books, 2026)

Aug 24, 202656 min

Sabrina Inowlocki, "Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Aug 24, 20261h 29m

Joseph Acquisto, "Baudelaire's Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Aug 22, 202643 min

Emily Sibley, "The Poetics of Incivility: Satire and Subversion in Modern Arab Culture" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Aug 20, 202639 min

Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature (Columbia UP, 2026)

Aug 15, 202633 min

Xiaofan Amy Li, "The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Aug 15, 202650 min

Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" (Hogarth, 2026)

Aug 14, 202658 min

Lauren Delapenha, "Supermarketing" (Spring, 2026)

Aug 14, 202636 min

Jarvis C. McInnis, "Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Aug 12, 20261h 6m

Bridget Hourican on Frank Callanan's "James Joyce: A Political Life" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Aug 12, 202657 min

Michael R. Griffiths, "The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

Aug 12, 202651 min

Naomi Kanakia, "What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) (Princeton UP, 2026)

Aug 10, 202648 min

Caro Pirri, "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Aug 10, 202649 min

Edlie Wong, "Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Aug 7, 202650 min

Emma Parker, "Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Aug 7, 202640 min

In The Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship

Aug 6, 202659 min

Sara Pappas, "Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century" (U Toronto Press, 2024)

Aug 5, 202641 min

Paulina Banas, "Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century" (American University in Cairo Press, 2025)

Aug 2, 202651 min

Abdelwahab Meddeb, "Returns to Marrakesh / Retour à Marrakech" (Syracuse UP, 2026)

Aug 1, 202631 min
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