LCLC Oral History

Nov 04 2024 22 ep. 39 mins 4
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The LCLC Podcast is a set of oral histories that explores the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture (LCLC) since its inception in 1973 to today as we near our half-centennial. Listen to intimate and scholarly reflections from participants about a storied conference that has had a shaping influence on contemporary arts and letters.

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Season 3, Episode 3: Sam Vaknin

Nov 04 2024 45 mins  
In this episode, conference director Matthew Biberman speaks with Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Management Studies at the Commonwealth Institute of Advanced Professional Studies (CIAPS) in Cambridge and Birmingham, UK; Ontario, Canada; and Lagos, Nigeria. A former Visiting Professor of Psychology at Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Vaknin is a

Season 3, Episode 2: Adam Walker

Oct 01 2024 34 mins  
Join Matthew Biberman as he sits down with Adam Walker, a PhD candidate at Harvard and the creator of the popular YouTube channel, Close Reading Poetry. In this episode, Adam shares his journey from self-taught poetry reader to academic and public humanities educator. With a commitment to accessible and relatable education, he founded the Antrim Literature Project, an innovative p

Season 3, Episode 1: Robert Archambeau

Sep 06 2024 52 mins  
In this episode, conference director Matthew Biberman talks with Robert Archambeau about his novel, Alice B. Toklas is Missing, as well as the current state of humanities in academia. The Chair of English at Lake Forest College and an author, Archambeau discusses his view of the intersection of arts, culture, and higher education. This LCLC podcast episode is intended for graduate

Season 2, Episode 5: Ryan Engley

Sep 12 2023 26 mins  
IIn this episode, conference director Matthew Biberman talks with Ryan Engley about current topics and trends in media studies. Currently an Assistant Professor of English at Pomona College, Engley researches the intersection of psychoanalytic theory and media studies. Engley co-hosts the popular podcast Why Theory, along with Todd McGowan, which brings Continental philosophy and p

Season 2, Episode 4: Olivia Sun

Jul 20 2023 44 mins  
In this episode, Matthew Biberman talks with YouTube video essay creator Olivia Sun. With a subscriber base nearing one million, Olivia Sun has emerged as one of the first truly influential practitioners of the new art form of the social media-made video essay. Matthew and Olivia discuss her creative process and the potential for this new mode for thought. Of interest to media theo

Season 2, Episode 3: Aldon Nielsen

Feb 17 2023 25 mins  
In this episode, Conference Director Matthew Biberman talks with Aldon Lynn Nielsen, the George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature at Penn State, about the African American Literature and Culture Society, its history and mission, as well as the two panels the group has organized for the 50th LCLC conference. In addition, Biberman and Nielsen discuss the Society of U

Season 2, Episode 2: Mark Mattes

Feb 06 2023 24 mins  
In this episode, Conference Director Matthew Biberman talks with Mark Alan Mattes about American Afterlives, a sequence of three panels he organized for the upcoming 50th LCLC conference to be held this February 2023. This episode is for scholars of American culture as well as enthusiasts of American multi-ethnic literature, including beloved writers such as Phillis Wheatley Peters

Season 2, Episode 1: Joshua Hoeynck

Jan 13 2023 32 mins  
In this episode Conference Director Matthew Biberman talks with noted Charles Olson scholar, Josh Hoeynck about the Olson Society and their slate of panels at the upcoming 50th LCLC conference to be held in February 2023. This episode is for fans of Olson as well as aficionados of contemporary American poetry and the black mountain school of poetry.

Episode 14: Michael Anania

Oct 07 2022 50 mins  
In this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talks with Michael Anania who headlined the LCLC After Dark Reading this past February 2022 during the LCLC's 49th conference. Michael Anania is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. His published work includes twelve collections of poetry, among them Selected Poems (1994), In Natural Light (1999) and his most recent, Night Songs

Episode 13: Brenda Hillman

Aug 19 2022 49 mins  
In this episode, conference director Matthew Biberman talks with the celebrated feminist poet Brenda Hillman, who read at the LCLC in February 2022 as the creative keynote for its 49th annual conference. Brenda Hillman teaches at Saint Mary College of California. She is the Poetry Director of Community of Writers as well as Chancellor emerita of The Academy of American Poets and ha