Potterversity Episode 11: Reading the Signs
On this episode, we're reading Harry Potter through trauma theory, Fat Studies, and semiotics - and from the perspective of a nonbinary trans scholar of young adult literature. What does it meant to...
12 Juli 20211h 9min
Potterversity Episode 10: William Shakespeare's History of Hogwarts?
Universes collide as we imagine the story of the founding of Hogwarts in the form of a Shakespeare play. In this episode, we're joined by Ian Doescher, author of William Shakespeare's Star Wars as w...
14 Juni 202149min
Potterversity Episode 9: Harry Meets Dracula
Explore the many dark connections between Harry Potter and Dracula, two stories of love, death, and the conquest of evil. In this episode, Katy and Emily talk with Dr. Beatrice Groves (Literary Allu...
10 Maj 20211h 4min
Potterversity Episode 8: The Puffs' Perspective - Part 2
'Our Puffs-palooza continues as we talk with some of the talented people behind the play Puffs. We continue our conversation about the wonderful fan re-vision of the Harry Potter series, the off-Br...
26 Apr 20211h 38min
Potterversity Episode 7: The Puffs' Perspective
Join us for the beginning of our Puffs-palooza! In this episode, we talk with Dr. Melissa Aaron and Dr. Lauren Camacci about the off-Broadway play Puffs - how you can see it at home, why should see...
12 Apr 20211h
Potterversity Episode 6: The Hero with a Thousand Genres
Are the Harry Potter novels fantasy, mystery, school story, bildungsroman, allegory, or something else? Harry Potter’s blend of genres shapes reader expectations and creates fascinating intersectio...
8 Mars 20211h 4min
Potterversity Episode 5: Uncle Vernon
A Valentine for...Uncle Vernon? In this episode of Potterversity, Katy and Emily talk with scholar Tim Jennings about Vernon Dursley in a way that, if it doesn’t redeem Harry’s uncle, does seek to ...
8 Feb 202159min
Potterversity Episode 4: Violence and Civilization
What does the prevalence of violence in the Harry Potter series tell us about magical civilization - and our own? Despite its theme of nonviolence, there’s a fair amount of violence in the Harry Po...
11 Jan 20211h 12min
