Students and Scholars

Zan Cammack

A pre-lecture podcast for the course English 2620-British Literature after 1800 at Utah Valley University, Spring 2021.

  1. 19/04/2021

    Ep15 - Discrimination, Mental Health, and Grief in Jacqueline Roy's The Fat Lady Sings with Dr. Zan Cammack

    This episode discusses Jacqueline Roy's 2000 debut novel The Fat Lady Sings and themes such as race, gender and sexuality, and mental health. It turns out this is an incredibly apt novel to wrap up an exceptionally heavy semester on a note of hope and joy. CW: sexual assault, loss of a loved one

    22min

  2. 12/04/2021

    Ep14 - Theatre of the Absurd with Kath, Addison, and Brooke

    In this student-led episode, Kath, Addison, and Brooke discuss the Theatre of the Absurd in relation to Samuel Beckett’s play Krapp’s Last Tape and Enda Walsh’s play Penelope.  Bibliography  Beckett, Samuel. Krapp's Last Tape. Faber and Faber Ltd, 2014. Billington, Michael. “Penelope | Theatre Review.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 26 July 2010, www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/jul/26/penelope-druid-lane-galway-review. Dickson, Andrew. “Nonsense Talk: Theatre of the Absurd.” The British Library, The British Library, 3 Aug. 2017, www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/nonsense-talk-theatre-of-the-absurd. Hurt, John. “Krapp's Last Tape: John Hurt on Samuel Beckett's Loner Hero.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 23 July 2014, www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jul/23/john-hurt-samuel-beckett-krapps-last-tape. Lavey, Martha. “Welcome to Penelope.” Steppenwolf Theatre, www.steppenwolf.org/articles/welcome-to-penelope/. Steppenwolftheatre, director. Enda Walsh on Penelope. YouTube, YouTube, 19 Jan. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOX9VM7o_KI. Walsh, Enda. Penelope. Nick Hern Books, 2010. Williams, Tom. “Penelope.” Theatre Reviews, 19 Dec. 2011, chicagocritic.com/penelope/.

    27min

  3. 05/04/2021

    Ep13 - Film and Propaganda in Isherwood's Prater Violet with Jamey, Alexis, and Emma

    In this student-led episode, Jamey, Alexis, and Emma discuss Christopher Isherwood’s novel Prater Violet in connection with film and propaganda. Bibliography Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood  “Breakfast at the Prater: Christopher Isherwood, His Women and Men” by Ercolino, Stefano, et al. Imaginary Films in Literature. Brill | Rodopi, 2016. Propaganda and the Citizen in British Feature Films of World War II “The Power of Cinema’: Film in the 1920s and 30s” from University of Warwick  Britain's World War II films were more than just propaganda Queer Camera: Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin and Prater Violet by U Patra.

    21min

  4. 29/03/2021

    Ep12 - Stream of Consciousness and Mrs. Dalloway with Darian, Robby, Alicia, Jessica, and Ashley

    In this student-led episode, Darian, Robby, Alicia, Jessica, and Ashley walk us through the concepts of stream of consciousness and how this narrative style became a trademark of modernist works such as Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway.

    25min

  5. 21/03/2021

    Ep11 - World War One Poetry with Jonathan Patterson

    In this episode our guest scholar, Jonathon Patterson, explores poetry from World War One. He explains why poetry was one of the primary media outlets for soldiers and citizens during this era and how it was politicized. He also discusses broadening representations in our definition of  WWI poets and why these works remain relevant over 100 years later. Jonathan Patterson is a doctoral candidate at Kansas University and plans to defend his dissertation on spatiality in the experiences of World War One combat poets later this semester. He has published work on this theme in several peer-reviewed journals including Alicante Journal of English Studies and The Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies.

    30min

  6. 15/03/2021

    Ep10 - Victorian Genre Fiction and Material Culture in Dracula with Dr. Ashley Nadeau

    This episode we welcome guest scholar Dr. Ashley Nadeau as she examines Dracula as a novel that draws from popular Victorian genre fiction, and detective fiction in particular. She also uses examples of material culture within the novel—railways, blood, nightdresses, and typewriters—as objects that help us better understand Dracula’s narrative. Dr. Nadeau received her doctorate from University of Massachusetts Amherst where she studied Victorian fiction in relation to architecture and form. She has been faculty here at UVU for the past three years. She has recently begun a new study exploring the impact of audiobooks on 19th century studies, making her insights into new media particularly exciting.

    31min

  7. 01/03/2021

    Ep08 - Victorian New Media and Dracula with Braydon, JoAnne, and Kialey

    In this student-led episode, Braydon, JoAnne, and Kialey discuss six different forms of Victorian new media as they appear in Bram Stoker's Dracula, posing questions about new media's reliability in constructing larger narratives. Bibliography Fava-Verde, Jean-François. “Victorian Telegrams: The Early Development of the Telegraphic Despatch and Its Interplay with the Letter Post.” Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, vol. 72, no. 3, 2018, pp. 275–292., doi:10.1098/rsnr.2017.0031.  Bellis, Mary. “The History of Typewriters, Typing, and Qwerty Keyboards.” ThoughtCo, 2019, www.thoughtco.com/typewriters-1992539#:~:text=Christopher%20Sholes&text=He%20invented%20the%20first%20practical,model%20similar%20to%20today's%20typewriters.  History.com Editors. “Morse Code & the Telegraph.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 9 Nov. 2009, www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph.

    25min
  8. Ep07 - Marriage and the New Woman with Dr. Ellen Campbell

    21/02/2021

    Ep07 - Marriage and the New Woman with Dr. Ellen Campbell

    Today we are joined by guest scholar Dr. Ellen Campbell who discusses women’s rights under marriage contract law in the 19th century and the New Woman figure in Dracula. Dr. Campbell received her doctorate from Southern Illinois University Carbondale where her dissertation discussed marriage trauma narratives in transatlantic 19th-century fiction. She is currently a lecturer at Auburn University and has a forthcoming chapter in the edited collection #MeToo Modernism from Clemson University Press. Content Warning: this episode discusses themes related to domestic abuse and sexual assault. If these are triggers for you, please forego this episode join us for next week’s episode on Victorian New Media. Also, I’m offering you a giant virtual hug.

    31min
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A pre-lecture podcast for the course English 2620-British Literature after 1800 at Utah Valley University, Spring 2021.

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