The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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Novel RomAntics #5: Lesley Nneka Arimah's What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
In this episode, novelist Nadifa Mohamed and host Douglas Cowie discuss What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, a collection of short stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah. They discuss several of...
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LadyFiction#4: Poetry by Elizabeth Alexander, Marilyn Nelson and Bettina Judd
Recorded on International Women's Day, LadyFiction’s episode 4 turns to the history of science—and the forgotten role black people played as study objects in this context. Stefanie Schäfer and D...
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Novel RomAntics #4: Madeline Miller's Circe
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Classicist Hannah Bean, discuss Circe by Madeline Miller. The novel reimagines and retells the story of one of the characters Odysseus encounte...
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Europe's COVID Vaccine Crisis
In this episode, host Andrew Sola and our resident EU expert Guenter Danner discuss challenges facing the EU's vaccination program. Also, they discuss the long-term economic consequences of the...
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Novel RomAntics #3: Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future
In Episode 3, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, science fiction writer Adam Roberts, discuss The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, an ambitious novel set in the near future that t...
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LadyFiction #2: Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife
We celebrate Women's History Month with an episode about women and politics. In the second episode of LadyFiction Stefanie Schaefer discusses First Ladies and “First Lady Fiction” with her gues...
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NovelROMANtics #2: Colum McCann's Apeirogon
March is Irish-American Heritage Month in the United States. In Episode #2 of NovelROMANtics, host Douglas Cowie and his guest Shane Carmichael discuss Apeirogon by Colum McCann, an Irish story...
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LadyFiction#1: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
The Trans-Atlanticist launches its second new podcast series called LadyFiction. In the first episode, our host Dr. Stefanie Schaefer and her guest Prof. Alexandra Ganser-both from the Universi...
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NovelROMANtics #1: Attica Locke's Bluebird,Bluebird and Heaven, My Home
February is African-American History month in the United States, and the Trans-Atlanticist is celebrating with a number of podcasts about African-American authors.
For this first episode o...
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Michele Obama and FLOTUS Studies with Dr. Stefanie Schäfer
Dr. Stefanie Schäfer discusses the cultural history of the “first family,” the concept of civil religion in the US, the development of the academic specialty of First Lady of the United States (...