Ep.39 – FLASH (aaah) Meme from 2023-03-23T01:00:19

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With more fans than Grumpy Cat (RIP), we're joined by the chronically online Dr Idil Galip, queen of memes and founder of the Meme Studies Research Network. Here to sort t...

Ep.38 – Got G-Earth at the AnthroBROcene. from 2023-02-23T00:27:16

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL. WE ARE BACK. WE HAVEN'T FOSSILISED. YET. But our guest, Professor David Farrier, is about to tell us about our bleak, trashy, fossilised futures via t...

Ep.37 – Womb is Wet from 2022-11-28T00:30:59

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Did you miss us? We were observing the UCU industrial action. This is the only reason for our lateness. Promise. This week we're joined by New Generation Flake, Dr Joan Pa...

Ep.36 – Squirting Spiritualists from 2022-10-31T06:30:05

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We’re back and this week we're getting spooky and ECTOGASMIC with Dr Emma Merkling. Emma is an Art Historian at the Courtauld specialising in in late C19th history of art,...

Ep.35 – Shiny Dead Things from 2022-10-12T23:01

This episode we're talking about shiny dead things. Not Edward Cullen the Sparkle Vamp, but the intersections of jewellery and death with the world's first forensic jeweller Dr Maria Maclennan. ...

Ep.34 – The War on Praxis from 2022-09-30T05:46

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WERE BACK, BABY! Did you miss us? We’re celebrating our emergence from hot burn-out summer by speaking with Dr Arin Keeble about the literature of Terror and collective tr...

Ep.33 – Cotton-Art Joe from 2022-05-25T23:06:28

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WE'RE BACK!!! DID YOU MISS US?! This episode we're joined by Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson to discuss visual art, visual culture, lenses, ways of seeing, the gaze, the critical...

Ep.32 – Georgian Spunk Dunk from 2022-04-14T05:38

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We're back and we're getting institutionally promiscuous with SUPER KEENO Rachel (Bynoth) Smith. Rachel is a PhD student based between all of the Universities in the South...

Ep.31 – Marxist Hoes Before Marxist Bros from 2022-03-17T01:28:09

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HI THEORY!! Are you psyched for some high theory? We're joined by Dr Anna Kornbluh of many many books, Victorians, and critical theory to establish why good Marxists don't...

Ep.30 – Gay Angel Sex from 2022-02-24T05:53

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We're here and we're getting ShakesQUEER. This week we're speaking with the notorious SGB, otherwise known as Professor Stephen Guy-Bray. Stephen is currently Professor of...

Ep.29 – Austen's Pearl Necklace from 2022-02-10T08:36

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Welcome back! This week we're chatting with Jane Austen and K-pop superfan, Dr Rita Dashwood. Rita is currently a postdoctoral research fellow on the Romantic Ridiculous p...

Ep.28 – No Praxis Like ShowPRAXIS from 2022-01-27T00:46

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And a 5, 6, 7, 8...dust off those sequins and ready those jazz hands, we're joined by Dr Hannah Robbins to chat MUSICALS, James Corden conspiracy theories, and why Hamilto...

Ep.27 – Topping the Archive from 2022-01-13T07:00

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We're back! Did you miss us? This week we're speaking with Dr Kate Simpson, Lecturer in Information Studies at the University of Glasgow and specialist in 19th century di...

Ep.26 – Have Yourself a Problematic Little Christmas from 2021-12-22T00:43:50

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AS A LITTLE FESTIVE TREAT...we're joined by Slavoj Žižek himself!! Or is it Liz Truss? Either way, the brains behind the anonymous Twitter account A Very Theory Xmas chats...

Ep.25 – Dear Lord, what a sad little institution you have Jane from 2021-11-05T20:43:31

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Dear Lord, what a sad little obsession we have with a retro episode of Come Dine with Me...this episode we're joined by the hopeless Professor Richard Hall. We're here to ...

Ep.24 – Pissing Beasts from 2021-10-19T23:00

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We're back! This week we're speaking with Professor Erica Fudge and Dr Elsa Richardson about all things Fleshy History. Erica and Elsa are based at the University of Strat...

Ep.23 – Hit me with your whiffle stick from 2021-09-29T06:30

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We're back! This week we're speaking with self-proclaimed 'sweary Prof', Dr Tracey Hill. Tracey is currently professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Bath Spa U...

Ep.22 – Be Gay, Do Glitter from 2021-09-08T06:00

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We're back! This week it's all gay frogs, rainbow-shitting unicorns, and glitter bombing with Dr Nicole Seymour, ASSOCIATE professor of English at California State Univers...

Ep.21 – Spear Wanker and Ned the Bear from 2021-08-18T08:13

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This week we're speaking with Dr Andy Kesson, Box Office Bear and Reader in Early Modern Studies at Roehampton University. In this episode we find out how bears caused tra...

Ep.20 – Hot Crip Summer from 2021-08-03T23:00

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We've CRACKed America! In this episode we speak with Dr Travis Chi Wing Lau, queer, crip, cat-dad and current Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College, Ohio. In th...

Ep.19 – Moira Rose the Accent Slayer from 2021-07-14T14:14:45

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We don't know if you've noticed, but stats = STEM and STEM = FUNDING. This episode we're trying to cheat our way into 'science' via sociolinguistics. Guided by Dr Sadie Ry...

Ep.18 – Good Fairy Fairfuck and the Nip Slip from 2021-06-30T05:47

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Our guest this week is Mollie Clarke, webmistress of the Third Sex Reading Group and current PhD student at the University of Roehampton. Mollie is currently working on he...

Ep.17 – Fascists In Space from 2021-06-08T23:53:33

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What do you get when you combine Elon Musk, Bumble, cumrockets, and AI? Presenting the ultimate B-movie for our times: FASCISTS IN SPACE. Oxford DPhil candidate, Chelsea H...

Ep.16 – The Dangleum Waltz from 2021-05-26T08:54:19

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This week we're speaking with LOL My Praxis super-fan, Dr Christine Slobogin who admits that she likes to think about us in the shower. Christine is currently a Welcome Tr...

Ep.15 – Faanta and THE BORG from 2021-05-11T23:08:01

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Set phasers to FUN...we're back and we're hungry for an intergalactic smorgasbord of impossible burgers, in vitro meats, and cannibalism with Nora Castle. Nora is a PhD st...

Ep.14 – Penguin Mandela from 2021-04-28T08:14:15

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This week we're joined by Dr Madhu Krishnan, known cat fanatic and Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures at the University of Bristol. In this episode we...

Ep.13 – Shitting Ducks and Butthole Cats from 2021-04-14T08:32

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Ready yourselves for the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquillity…plus a load of shitting duck satire. In this episode we’re taking Romanticis...

Ep.12 – Live, Laugh, OnlyFans from 2021-03-31T04:30

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This week we're speaking with Dr Freya Gowrley, an Art Historian and current postdoctoral fellow in History at the University of Derby. Freya's work is particularly intere...

Ep.11 – The Eel Word from 2021-03-17T06:00

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This week we’re going gay for statues and speaking with Dr Melissa Gustin who BEGGED to be on this podcast. Melissa’s research focuses on forms of reproduction in classica...

Ep.10 – Tiny Titty Apocalypse from 2021-03-03T06:05

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This week we're joined by Dr Eleanor Janegameister for some full frontal medievalism. Dr Janega is a historian who specialises in late medieval sexuality, apocalyptic thou...

Ep.9 – Bonnet Vision: Cosplaying with Dorothy from 2021-02-16T00:00

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Welcome to WordsWars. This week we're joined by Dr Jo Taylor, the very grand Presidential fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Manchester to defend the good n...

Ep.8 – Mollusc Bollocks and Darwin's Sexy Crabs from 2021-02-02T21:21:29

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This week we're joined by Dr Rachel Murray, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English Literature based at the University of Sheffield. In this episode we talk to Rachel ...

Ep.7 – Soundtrack to a Blowjob from 2021-01-21T00:35:07

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Well, January 2021 has lasted about 5 years already...but we are BACK and feeling PEACHY. This episode we're joined by Dr Sarah Artt who is a lecturer in Film and Literatu...

Ep.6 – LOL My DYSpraxis from 2021-01-06T00:02:56

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Yo, yo! Happy New Year! We're joined by DJ DYScourse, aka dance artist Aby Watson to chat about neurodivergence, academia, and spacehoppers as praxis. Aby is a PhD researc...

Ep.5 – Dick Swiveller's Festive Carol from 2020-12-23T00:02:06

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Jingle your bells and set discourse to festive, LOL My Praxis is here to save Christmas!

We're joined by the absolute LAD, Dr Pete Orford, to discuss one of the mos...

Ep.4 – Napoleonic Flatulence and ABBA Bingo from 2020-12-09T00:00:46

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This week we're joined by BBC New Generation Thinker Dr Emma Butcher! Emma is a gravy-guzzling military historian, who works on children and war. She is an expert in the j...

Ep.3 – SEX MAGIC...You're Wel(l)come! from 2020-11-25T00:00:57

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We're joined by writer, academic, and badass intersectional feminist witch, Dr Alice Tarbuck. Alice is an award-winning poet who seeks to make poetry accessible through in...

Ep.2 – Kill Your Darlings from 2020-11-10T15:21

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We made it to episode two! This time we're joined by Dr Jen Baker and legions of dead Victorian children. Jen is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick and she wor...

Ep.1 – Dildos and Dragons from 2020-10-28T00:01:46

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It's our inaugural episode and we're joined by an actual fantasy...Dr Taylor Driggers. Taylor works on fantasy literature and queer theologies at the University of Glasgow...

Brace for IMPACT: Trailer from 2020-10-21T15:03:03

Introducing 'LOL my praxis', the fortnightly academic/comedy podcast - smashing ivory towers one innuendo at a time...

Each episode we'll be interviewing academics from across the arts an...