Hopkins Press Podcasts

4.9 Roth and David on Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill's Wild West

On today's episode, we talk with Yumi Roth & Emmanuel David about their award-winning article in Journal of Asian American Studies, "Playing Filipino: Racial Display, Resistance, and the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West" Delving into archival photographs and records about the Filipino performers who joined Buffalo Bill's immensely popular touring show in the wake of the Philippine-American War, Roth and David uncover a fascinating and largely forgotten history. In October, Roth and David accepted the Vicki L. Ruiz Award from the Western History Association for their research into the obscured history of the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill's Wild West touring show. This annual award recognizes the best article on race in the North American West published that year. To accompany the podcast, "Playing Filipino: Racial Display, Resistance, and the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West" will be free to read on Project MUSE through the end of November.

4.8 Leviathan Special Issue On Melville's Queer Afterlives

On today’s episode we’re talking with the guest editors of a forthcoming issue of Leviathan, a journal of Melville Studies. These three editors, Jordan Alexander Stein, Dana Seitler, and Adam Fales have put together a riveting collection of essays exploring what they call Melville's Queer Afterlives — scholarship on the ways Herman Melville’s work has influenced queer studies today. This is an epic conversation that includes mentions of Maurice Sendak and John Ashbery and, believe it or not, Gilbert Gottfried. A content warning: this episode contains some senstive content and may not be suitable for all listeners. Listener discretion is advised.

4.7 Emily Cousens on the Materialist Trans Feminist Potential in Monique Wittig’s Non-Fiction

Today we are talking with Emily Cousens, who is an assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Northeastern University, London, and their expertise focuses on trans feminist philosophy and history. They are also the UK lead for the Digital Transgender Archive. They are the author of Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave, which is the first book to explore the philosophical and intellectual contributions of trans individuals in the 1970s. Emily’s got a new article in L'esprit Créateur called “Subjectivity Without Sex? The Materialist Trans Feminist Potential in Monique Wittig’s Non-Fiction” This is part of a special issue of L'esprit Créateur devoted to Monique Wittig, and this whole issue is available free to all because L'esprit Créateur is part of our Subscribe to Open (S2O) Open Access initiative. Click through in the show notes to learn more about this great new initiative, and especially to read some exciting new scholarship about Monique Wittig.

4.6 Patrick McKelvey on Honest Work Done By Honest Dogs

On today’s episode, we talk with Patrick McKelvey about his new article for Theatre Journal about the early 20th century publicity campaign that popularized the Seeing Eye Dog. Patrick McKelvey is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Notre Dame, and his research focuses the theatrical, cultural, and social history of disability in the twentieth-century United States. His first book, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (New York University Press, 2024) examines the relationship between US disability policy and the disability arts and culture movement, 1960-1990. He’s also currently a National Humanities Center Fellow, as well as Book Review Editor for American Quarterly, another of the journals Hopkins Press publishes. Patrick McKelvey’s Theatre Journal article "Honest Work Done by Honest Dogs":Canine Unemployment, Interspecies Rehabilitation, and Disability Performance.” will be available to read for free at Project MUSE for a few weeks after this podcast is released.

4.5 David Shiffman on Why Bluesky Matters

On today's episode, we talk with David Shiffman, author of Why Sharks Matter, about his recent study of how scientists are engaging social media: “Scientists No Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky." In this episode, we explore the findings of the survey and discuss some of the reasons why this shift has occurred. A marine conservation biologist and public science engagement specialist based in Washington, DC, David Shiffman is a prolific writer, with words appearing in National Geographic, the Washington Post, Scientific American, SCUBA magazine, his blog Southern Fried Science, and, of course, his 2022 Hopkins Press book, Why Sharks Matter. Follow him on the social media platform of your choice: @WhySharksMatter