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  1. 5.6 PLA Elizabeth Szkirpan on quantifying library services for university success metrics

    May 28

    5.6 PLA Elizabeth Szkirpan on quantifying library services for university success metrics

    On today’s episode we have an interview with Elizabeth Szkirpan, Collections and Discovery Specialist at Harvard Business School's Baker Library, who is in conversation with Katie O'Hara-Krebs, social media manager for our journal portal: Libraries and the Academy. Elizabeth Szkirpan's new article for portal is entitled "Library Services Contributing to Institutional Success at R1 Universities: An Exploratory Mixed-Source Quantitative Model." Her article, which is available open access through Project MUSE, takes a look at how academic libraries are challenged in justifying their value in the current business-oriented higher education environment, particularly as non-revenue generating units with increasing costs, and how academic libraries can develop metrics to translate library service into key institutional performance indicators. This article, along with rest of this issue of portal: Libraries and the Academy is open access, available to read for free, thanks to the Project MUSE Subscribe to Open initiative. Elizabeth Szkirpan is a library and information studies professional with a research focus on the history of library technical services and business-adjacent practices for academic libraries. She currently works at Harvard Business School's Baker Library, where she assists with collection development and electronic resources licensing.

    9 min
  2. 5.5 ELH Richard Gabri on race, liminality and passing in The Great Gatsby

    May 8

    5.5 ELH Richard Gabri on race, liminality and passing in The Great Gatsby

    Today on the podcast, we talk with Richard Gabri about his new article for ELH, “All White in the End: From the Passage of James Wait to the Passing of James Gatz; Intertextuality and the Riddle of Race in The Great Gatsby.”  Building on the work of Carlyle Van Thompson, whose 2004 book The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination explored the ways that Jay Gatsby can be read as a white-passing Black man, Gabri and his high school students began a literary exploration of the classic novel, and discovered fascinating intertextual links between Fitzgerald's titular character to James Wait, the protagonist of Joseph Conrad's controversial novella known as The Children of the Sea.  Gabri links Gatsby’s racial passing to Fitzgerald’s rewriting of Conrad’s James Wait, a Black imposter whose presence aboard the ship "Narcissus" produces projection, suspicion, and moral crisis. In pre-press, the article has already garnered a great deal of attention, with over 8000 downloads. In 2024, Gabri and his students traveled to the American Literature Association conference in Chicago, where they presented their findings — becoming perhaps the first high school students to present at ALA. Last year, as The Great Gatsby celebrated its 100th anniversary, the research received mainstream press attention, including an article from Bay Area PBS affiliate KQED.  “All White in the End: From the Passage of James Wait to the Passing of James Gatz; Intertextuality and the Riddle of Race in The Great Gatsby” is slated to publish in the summer 2026 issue of ELH, and will be available #OpenAccess at Project MUSE. Richard Gabri teaches high school English at Bentley School in Lafayette, California, and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University.

    35 min
  3. 5.4 RHE Garcia and Morgan on Segmented Governance at HSIs

    Apr 28

    5.4 RHE Garcia and Morgan on Segmented Governance at HSIs

    Today on the podcast, we talk with education scholars Gina Ann Garcia and Demetri L. Morgan about their recent article for Review of Higher Education, entitled “Mission-Based vs. Enrollment-Based Institutions: Segmented Governance at a Catholic Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI)” This article explores the role of governing boards of Hispanic Serving Institutions in advancing “servingness” — in other words, the embodiment of an identity for serving Latines, and the authors study this through the lens of the ways trustees at one Catholic Hispanic Serving Institution make sense of their organization’s identity. Garcia and Morgan conclude with their recommendation that HSIs trustees must understand their institutions as unique, and that governing boards have a distinct role in influencing “servingness.” The Review of Higher Education is one of our #S2O #OpenAccess journals, so this article, along with all of the issues from this volume year of the Review of Higher Education is free for everyone to read at Project MUSE.

    38 min
  4. 5.3 Alex Brostoff and rl Goldberg on Trans Literatures

    Apr 16

    5.3 Alex Brostoff and rl Goldberg on Trans Literatures

    Today on the podcast, we meet Alex Brostoff and rl Goldberg, the guest editors of the special issue of College Literature on trans literatures. Alex Brostoff is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Georgetown University, and rl Goldberg is currently Assistant Professor of Queer Studies at Hampshire College. Independently, Brostoff and Goldberg have done a lot of interesting and innovative work on literature, transness, queerness, and auto theory, and together they’ve joined forces not just to edit this issue of College Literature, but also a forthcoming book from Fordham Press, titled Reassignments: Trans and Sex from the Clinical to the Critical. This issue of College Literature offers a variety of exciting pieces, including Stephanie Burt on Philip Larkin, Sarah Snyder and Will Anderson on Incarcerated Trans Resistance, and Cameron Awkward-Rich on Red Jordan Arobateau. The issue also includes must-read interviews with Jordy Rosenberg, Trish Salah, torrin a. greathouse, gaita nihil, Cole Rizki — and there’s so much more. We’re making this whole issue free to read on Project MUSE through May 15, so go forth and read while you listen!

    35 min
  5. 5.2 Shizuka Omori and Yuki Tanaka on tanka and translation

    Apr 10

    5.2 Shizuka Omori and Yuki Tanaka on tanka and translation

    The latest issue of Literary Imagination includes Six Tanka by Shizuka Omori, and on today’s episode Literary Imagination editor Paul Franz brings together Shizuka Omori reading her poetry, along with translations by poet Yuki Tanaka. And after the poems, an interview between Franz, Omori and Tanaka about the tanka tradition and method, as well as an exploration of the process of translation. We’ve made Omori’s tanka pieces In Literary Imagination free to read on Project MUSE thru the end of the month.

    26 min
  6. 5.1 Paul Franz & Ryan Hintzman on the Literary Imagination in Waka Bay & Traditional Japanese Verse

    Apr 1

    5.1 Paul Franz & Ryan Hintzman on the Literary Imagination in Waka Bay & Traditional Japanese Verse

    Today’s episode features a conversation between Literary Imagination editor Paul Franz, and Ryan Hintzman, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. He recently received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale. Ryan HIntzman has an article in the new issue of Literary Imagination called “Distant Views of Waka Bay: Traditional Japanese Verse and the Question of Lyric” which centers on the real and imaginary Waka Bay in Japan. Hintzman says “Waka Bay (Waka no ura) is a pliable poetic place name (utamakura) whose name suggests the “Bay of Japanese Poetry” (waka). The real Waka Bay is a picturesque salt marsh located down the coastline from modern Osaka, but over centuries of poetic practice the physical landscape became entangled with an idealized site for the exercise of the literary imagination.” We’ve made “Distant Views of Waka Bay: Traditional Japanese Verse and the Question of Lyric” available free to read via Project MUSE for the month of April. The image in the podcast icon is a view of Mount Nagusa from Mount Tengu in Wakayama, Wakayama prefecture, Japan. Photo by 663 Highlands; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

    43 min
  7. 4.13 Rivoletti, Lisi, and Livingstone on MLN's Auerbach Dossier

    12/11/2025

    4.13 Rivoletti, Lisi, and Livingstone on MLN's Auerbach Dossier

    4.13 Rivoletti, Lisi, and Livingstone on MLN's Auerbach Dossier by Johns Hopkins University Press

    33 min
  8. 4.12 Paul Franz and John Pistelli on René Girard and "Romantic Truth"

    12/03/2025

    4.12 Paul Franz and John Pistelli on René Girard and "Romantic Truth"

    On today's episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, Literary Imagination editor Paul Franz introduces the new issue of Literary Imagination, and interviews author/scholar John Pistelli about his new article, "Romantic Truth: Imaginative Authority in the Literary Criticism of René Girard." Engagement with Girard's work has expanded outside of academic and literary circles in recent years, and his ideas have found purchase in economic and political institutions within the U.S. and around the world. In this discussion, Pistellii and Franz look at ways Girard has become an "oracle of the social-media epoch." Along with two other pieces in the new issue of Literary Imagination — "The Mysteries of Love: On Alice Munro" by James Tussing and "Poems and Translations" by Victoria Moul — "Romantic Truth: Imaginative Authority in the Literary Criticism of René Girard" will be free to read on Project MUSE through the end of December.

    32 min
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