This week, we are joined by Te Rita Papesch, a legendary figure in the Maori tradition of Kapa Haka, and…
This week we invited Ioana Mischie, a futurist and transmedia artist working with creative writing, film, and virtual reality, and…
This week’s conversation with scientist turned author SB Divya and philosophy student turned conceptual artist Jonathon Keats continues our series…
This week, we’re joined by Sarena Ulibarri, Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press and a science fiction writer whose works include…
Candis Callison, an environmental journalist and associate professor at the University of British Columbia, and Julian Brave Noisecat, a Senior…
Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke, co-founders of the Pop Culture Collaborative, join us today to talk about the…
This week’s guest, Warren Hedges, teaches a course at the University of Southern Oregon on how speculative genres such as…
This week we host James Paul Gee, recently retired Arizona State University professor and researcher in a plethora of topics…
This week we’re joined by Talia Stroud, Director of the Center for Media Engagement at The University of Texas at…
This week we welcome Parmesh Shahani, founder of the Godrej India Culture Lab and author of Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love…
This week we welcome Japanese Hip Hop scholar and reporter for Vice News, Dexter Thomas, and we talk a little…
This week we’re joined by two USC colleagues, Zoë Corwin of the Pullias Center for Higher Education and Annenberg’s Neftalie…
Most of us probably aren’t making an effort to hang out in public spaces lately, much less seeing them as…
Settle in for an extra-spooky Halloween episode! We’re joined by Michael Monello, one of the creators of The Blair Witch…
We’re joined by Crystal Echo Hawk, founder and CEO of IllumiNative, a research-driven initiative created and led by Natives that…
If you like religion, sports or popular culture, this episode is for you, dear listener… and if you think you’re…
This week, from deep in the San Fernando Valley, we’re joined by filmmaker Set Hernandez Rongkilyo. A passionate storyteller from…
This week, we offer an episode which starts with The Baby-Sitters Club, ends with The Fast and the Furious, and…
This week, we offer the second of an ongoing series of episodes focused on fandom and fandom studies. Last week,…
Welcome back to How Do You Like It So Far?, listeners! Today, we’re bringing you a time capsule of an…
This week we welcome Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, author of the new book The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from…
Our guest this week is Jaroslav Švelch, author of Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia…
In this episode we talk to David Craig, Clinical Associate Professor at USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism and…
In this episode we discuss lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. We are joined by Peatónito, an…
This week we talk about Korean science fiction, with Sang-Joon Park, publisher; Soyeon Jeong, a Science Fiction writer; Gord Sellar,…
Amber J. Phillips (aka the High Priestess of Black Joy), podcaster and Participatory Civic Media Fellow at USC, takes the…
This is part 2 of our Power and Pleasure of Podcasting event at USC (see episode 32 for part 1,…
We recently hosted an event on The Power and Pleasure of Podcasting at USC, and we have the live recording…
This week we experiment with format, but also with how we think about media, with our guest Shrikanth S. Narayanan,…
This week we touch on gender in film history with Professor of Film at Columbia University School of the Arts,…
In this episode we discuss the Oscars with Raffi Sarkissian, Lecturer at Christopher Newport University, Virginia. Raffi has written about…
In this episode we talked to Caty Borum Chatoo (Twitter: CatyBC), Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact…
In our third and final installment of the need for critics of color, Eric Deggans, NPR’s first full-time TV…
