Dr. Jean Mills, Associate Professor and chairperson in the English Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Dr. Ria Banerjee, Professor of English and Honors Program Coordinator at Guttman Community College and the Graduate Center, are both literary modernists. In this episode they discuss feminist modernist studies, antiwar and pacifist literature, as well as ideas about teaching, learning, and scholarship in general. But the content is even more far reaching than that. There is talk of the value of physical bookstores, concepts of inheritance and relevance, archival research, anti-intellectualism, live reading marathons, and Star Trek slash fan fiction. They begin by discussing Ria’s book, Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot, and Woolf: Spatiality and Cultural Politics.
This episode continues a collaboration with CUNY Academy, for which Dr. Banerjee is deputy director and awards director. She will be presenting at CUNY Academy Book Talks on Friday, April 4 at 3pm at the Graduate Center.
Discussed/related/bonus:
- Feminist Modernist Studies (journal)
- Blue Heron Books – New*Used*Banned
- Ulster Literacy Association
- “A Dear Colleague Letter in Defense of DEI” by Shaun Harper (Inside Higher Ed)
- On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
- The Anatomy of Facism by Robert O. Paxton
- Alice J. Mills Kirk/Spock (K/S) Fanzine Collection (Bowling Green State University Libraries finding aid)
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