The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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Lady Fiction #13: Where Are the Men? Same-Sex Societies in American Literature
In light of the pending rollback of abortion rights by the US Supreme
Court's conservative majority, Stefanie Schäfer and her guest Judith
Rauscher turn to a world without men--as i...
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French Presidential Elections and Parliamentary Elections in Hungary
In this episode, Andrew Sola and the Trans-Atlanticist's EU expert Guenter Danner discuss the French election rematch between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. They then delve into the consequ...
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LadyFiction #12: Art, Science, and the Legacies of Slavery in Esi Edugyan's Washington Black
With her guest Nele Sawallisch, Stefanie discusses Esi Edugyan's 2018
novel Washington Black. With Olaudah Equiano's 1789 autobiography as
intertext, the novel entangles the adventur...
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Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of Europe
War has returned to Europe. Andrew Sola and Dr. Guenter Danner, our EU expert, unpack what the war means for Ukraine, Russia, and the future of the continent. Was the West delusional in believi...
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LadyFiction #11: From Beyoncé to Sarah Baartman and Back: Celebrity Performance and Black Feminism
In our first episode 2022, Lady Fiction takes a cue from Black History
Month to ask about the legacies of black woman celebrities in the US
cultural archive. Stefanie Schäfer's guest...
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LadyFiction #3: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
This episode of LadyFiction discusses Zimbabwean author NoViolet
Bulawayo’s “We Need New Names” (2013), a novel about a young girl who
leaves behind her shantytown childhood to pursu...
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The Politics Podcast: Europe in 2022
In the final episode of 2021, Andrew Sola and our resident EU expert Dr. Guenter Danner discuss EU refugee policy, the Dublin Agreement, and Fortress Europe; the challenges facing the new German...
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LadyFiction #10: (Re)reading Little Women for the Holiday Season
This episode features Stefanie Schäfer and her guest Amanda Halter discussing
their experiences in reading Louisa May Alcott's 1868/9 classic. We talk
about Jo's meanings as tomboy a...
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Novel RomAntics #10: Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom
In the final episode of the first series of Novel RomAntics, host Douglas Cowie and guest Gregory Miller, a Wisconsin-based educator, discuss Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, a novel that, whi...
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LadyFiction #9: The American Home in Flames: Art vs. Motherhood in Little Fires Everywhere
Do women have to choose between life as an artist and being a mother? That’s what the story boils (or burns!) down to in Celeste Ng’s 2017 novel (and in the eponymous Hulu Series) Little Fires E...