Episode 15: Quidditch Palooza!
Join us for an all-out Quidditch-palooza! Do you skip over the Quidditch scenes in the Harry Potter novels? Katy and Guest Expert Emily Strand talk with author and wizard activist Caitlin Elizabeth ...
8 Okt 20181h 23min
Episode 14: Lighting Up "Strike" - "Harry Potter" and "Cormoran Strike"
Catch up on the latest Cormoran Strike analysis before the release of the fourth novel in the series September 18! With guests Dr. Karen Kebarle and Dr. Louise Freeman, Katy and John examine the con...
10 Sep 20181h 41min
Episode 13: Harry Potter Fan Pilgrimages
Are you a "Harry Potter" pilgrim? If you’ve journeyed to Platform 9 ¾, to a coffee shop in which J.K. Rowling wrote parts of the series, or to sites used in the Harry Potter films and experienced t...
13 Aug 20181h 3min
Episode 12: Galaxies Not So Far Away: Harry Potter and Star Wars
Fan Worlds Are Colliding! "Star Wars" fan and "Harry Potter" scholar Emily Strand (Instructor in Comparative Religions at Mount Carmel College of Nursing) joins Katy and John to talk about the conne...
9 Jul 20181h 22min
Episode 11: Experiencing The Cursed Child: London and New York
Whether or not you think it’s canon, seeing the play The Cursed Child offers a unique Harry Potter experience. Readers of the script were often disappointed, but those who attend the play rave about i...
11 Jun 20181h 17min
Episode 10: Adeel Amini Discusses His Interview With J.K. Rowling in 2008
What happens when a student-journalist meets a famous author? Ten years ago, journalism student Adeel Amini spontaneously asked J.K. Rowling for an interview for the University of Edinburgh newspaper....
14 Mai 20181h 11min
Episode 9: Professor Cecilia Konchar Farr: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of the Academy: Reading Harry Potter as Serious Literature
Readers love the Harry Potter series, but is it a classic? Hosts Katy and John discuss Harry Potter’s relationship to the Academy and the importance of readers with special guest Dr. Cecilia Konchar F...
9 Apr 20181h 22min
Episode 8: Dirt and the Dark Arts; Tackling Taboos in Harry Potter
In this episode, Katy and John talk with Associate Professor of Literature Dr. Beth Sutton-Ramspeck (The Ohio State University in Lima) about Rowling's "literary housekeeping" in the "Harry Potter" se...
12 Mar 20181h 20min
