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This week on Office Hours, we sat down with poet and English Professor Russell Price, whose work focuses on the exploration of identity through writing. We discussed carving an identity through art, the Chicago poetry scene, and the political power of poetry.

This week, we sat down with Performance Studies professor Marcela Fuentes, whose research examines the use of embodied performance as a tool for activism, both online and offline. In our post-inauguration interview, we discussed Women’s Marches around the world, the role of social media in protest, and moving forward in the next four years of Trump’s presidency.

This week, we sat down with Prof. Al Tillery, an associate chair of the Political Science Department who specializes in American politics, including how it interacts with media and public opinion. Prof. Tillery broke down the 2016 presidential election for us, explaining how demographics, the Obama legacy and the electoral college have shaped 2016 into more surprising electoral season than most.

Following the Chicago Cubs’ historic World Series win on Wednesday, November 2, we sat down with English professor and lifelong Cubs fan Bill Savage. Savage teaches a class called Baseball in American Narrative and wrote a Cubs column for ESPN called “The View from Section 416.” In our Tuesday interview, we talked to Savage about the historical significance of the Cubs’ win, the Cubs’ place in Chicago sports, and why he doesn’t believe in curses.

Office Hours features interviews with Northwestern professors about current events.

This week, we revisited an interview conducted in May with Dan McAdams, a psychology professor who wrote The Atlantic's June cover story, "The Mind of Donald Trump." McAdams, who also analyzed former president George W. Bush in his 2011 book "George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream: A Psychological Portrait," spoke to us about Donald Trump's personal narrative, his personality traits, and what attracts voters to him.

Madeline Fox, Jeremy Margolis and Isabel Robertson contributed to this podcast.

This week, we sat down with Weinberg Prof. Laurel Harbridge Yong, a political science professor who specializes in the lack of bipartisan agreement in American politics. Prof. Harbridge Yong discussed the history of partisan conflict and walked us through where it comes from, as well as how it affects people's lives even beyond politics.