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Episode Notes 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 the evergreen content from the cancelled - repilcate to disseminate xoxo

Episode Notes 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 the temporalities of Cher, chicken-sized horses and horse-sized chickens and doing deep time in different voices. David is the author of 'Footprints' (2020) and 'Anthropocene Poetics' (2019), a publication timeline that makes us feel deeply inadequate. Shantih shantih shantih.

Episode Notes 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 Passey (or is it Passé?) and her creepy haunted cavern...Joan is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol, the editor of the British Library short story collection 'Cornish Horrors' and is a 2022 New Generation Thinker. She is salty AF.

Episode Notes 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, science and occultism. Emma is “Just a creepy weirdo who lik es creepy weird stuff”. In this episode we chat about racist ghosts, squirting spiritualists, and what it's like to be a Spooky Terrifying Ect oplasm Mama (aka a woman in STEM). We consider the production of ectoplasm and/as the female orgasm, discuss the pros and cons of automatic writing for REF submissions, and question whether or not x-rays can be used for upskirting? Also as women in SHAPE we consider why orbs are so important for mediums. You can check out the podcast Emma co-hosts with LOL My Praxis superfan, Dr Christine Slobogin, here https://drawingbloodpod.wordpress.com/ or follow her @EmmaMerkling. If you fancy playing with stereographs you can come along to Emma's event at the Courtauld on November 14th https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/science-in-the-seance-room-stereographs-medical-men-and-the-testing-of-margery-crandons-extraordinary-body-c-1925/

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. Maria is the most tattooed academic we know and can often be found on BBC Crimewatch. We'll leave that one there. You can follow her @ForensicJewelery.

Episode Notes 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 trauma. Arin is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, he has written on everything from hurricanes and punk rock to Stranger Things and contemporary literary TV studies. In this episode we talk about counternarratives to the War on Terror, what objects we would throw at War Criminal George W. Bush Jr., and conditions of radicalisation in relation to White Nationalism. We ask whether or not jet fuel can melt steel beams, if a Hurricane can be a terrorist, and whether or not narratives of Terror can, or should, be funny? You can follow Arin @KeebleArin and check out his work on New Literary Television here https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/new-literary-tv/

Episode Notes 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 eye, and Specsavers...in an entirely oral medium. Oooh, I get the shivers. Anna is an Assistant Professor of African American and Black Diasporic Art at Princeton University; she is the author of Black Bodies, White Gold Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World (2021) and the director of Art Hx, a digital humanities project and object database that addresses the intersections of art, race and medicine in the British empire.

Episode Notes 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 West and specialises in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century social, gender, and emotions history, particularly in relation to letter writing with a special focus on the Canning Family Network. Rachel BEGGED to come on the podcast and we finally gave in. In this episode we discuss overlaps between C18th anxieties and the life of contemporary academia, that the Canning family Letters were as spicy as Bridgerton Season 1, and whether or not writing over 1000 letters to your mother is normal. We play a quick round of Georgian Familial Anxiety Bingo and somehow end up speaking about spunk. A lot. Also, Louise and Alex record in the same place for the first time ever. Set phasers to CRUDE. You can follow Rachel @RachelBynoth and get involved in the IHR History Lab seminars here https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/history-lab

Episode Notes 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 skip leg day and what WAP has to say about social reproduction. We also reveal what happens when you read 'Of Grammatology' backwards. Truly radical discourse. You can follow Anna @V21collective xoxo

Episode Notes 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 English Literature at the University of British Columbia where he is a specialist in Renaissance poetry, queer studies, and poetic insemination. In this episode we discuss whether Shakespeare was a top or a bottom, find out which play is the gayest play ever, and we figure out what the relationship is between sonnet sequences and incel culture. Stephen also bestows upon us wisdom about poetry cakes, the signature scent of a monograph, and what literary tattoos we should get. Stephen's most recent book, 'Shakespeare and Queer Representation' was published in 2020 and he's already gone and finished ANOTHER monograph on Line Endings in Renaissance poetry (out in May 2022). To find out more about Stephen's research into hot man-on-man action you can follow him @SGUYBRAY. To ensure we keep producing world-leading totally NON-REFable content you can support us for the price of an oat flat white by signing up to our patreon at www.patreon.com/LolMyPraxis. If you want to get in touch drop us a line at lolmypraxis@gmail.com or follow us @LOLMyPraxis

Episode Notes 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 project at Edge Hill University. When not reading books, Rita likes to write them and is currently working on her first novel - a YA fantasy about queer witches. In this week's episode shots are fired at our guest from episode 13, Dr Andy McInnes who suggested Austen would have voted for Brexit. We get to the bottom of her Brexit-voting ways, find out what her position would be on the housing crisis, and that she was into sodomy and pearl necklaces. We also dive into the world of adaptation and discuss the relationship between Disney villains, Austen baddies and...incest? You can find out about Rita's work on the Romantic Ridiculous project here https://romanticridiculous.wordpress.com/, follow her on twitter @rjdashwood, and check out her youtube channel here https://www.youtube.com/c/DrRitaJDashwood?app=desktop

Episode Notes 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 Hamilton isn't as great as you think it is. One of us is a Broadway Baby and the other is a philistine, so who knows what will happen! We do. We recorded it. Hannah is Assistant Professor in Popular Music and the Director of Black Studies at the University of Nottingham and specialises in the intersection between race and gender in the American Musical.

Episode Notes 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 digital creation and curation. In this episode we ask: is Rick-rolling digital humanities? Is the Matrix still scholarly relevant? Is there such a thing as WO-manuscripts? We find out that Dr Livingstone had a terrifying ungroomed poodle (not a euphemism) and liked to steal jewellery. We learn that while C19th women 'colonised', men went on 'adventures' and 'discovered'. Finally, we figure out why 19thC explorers are all incels who are obsessed with boob mountains. You can find out more about Kate's research into non-western voices and women from the colonial period by following her @drkatesimpson, or exploring livingstoneonline.org and onemorevoice.org If you want to help LOL MY PRAXIS keep to some sort of schedule you can support us for the price of a Tunnocks teacake by signing up to our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lolmypraxis

Episode Notes 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 to us about the postcolonial melancholia of Lynx Africa and a primary school nativity narrated by Derrida. Continental philosophy with a Christmas Twist. Remember to follow @AVeryTheoryXmas on Twitter

Episode Notes 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 radicalise your pedagogy and diversify your curriculum with the help of a straight white man. You can find Richard's research here: http://www.richard-hall.org/ and get his new book The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the End of the End of History for FREE here: http://mayflybooks.org/?page_id=305

Episode Notes 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 Strathclyde where they currently co-teach a course all about vegetarian culture and eating animals. Erica's work emerges at the intersection of Renaissance Studies and Animal Studies while Elsa is a New Generation Thinker and currently holds a Chancellor's Fellowship in Health and Wellbeing. In this episode we find out what bladder control and pissing dogs have to do with the Enlightenment, why a woman giving birth to a cat was pretty common for the Renaissance, and how horrendously itchy the C19th was. We also consider if cows are the sharks of the land, what the Victorians thought about Birkenstocks and queer vegetarianism. You can find out more about Erica's work by following the British Animal Studies Network @BASN and find out more about Elsa's work here @elsacrichardson

Episode Notes 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 University. In this episode we find out why the emblem of Envy always had her tits out while eating a human heart, why Early Modern pageants were a major fire hazard, and what on earth a whiffler is. We also learn about the role of rhinos in civic pageantry, what hippos have to do with anything (they don't), and why the Lord Mayor's show is considered to be an 'acoustic assault'. You can find out about Tracey's big AHRC project here: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/projects/civic-london/ and follow her on Twitter @TraceLarkhall

Episode Notes 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 University. In this episode we find out about the funny side of climate change and coin a new term: ecoLOLogy. We chat about the power of irony in addressing the darkest timeline, and learn about queer ecologies and whether or not it's fair to describe glitter as the STD of the craft world. We also discuss the ethics of laughing WITH vegans not AT them, and think about why fascist environmentalism is so hot right now. She is the author of TWO monographs, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (University of Illinois Press, 2013), and Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and is currently working a new text for the Bloomsbury 'Object Lesson' series on, you guessed it, GLITTER. Fabulous. You can follow Nicole @nseymourPHD

Episode Notes 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 traffic jams in the Tudor period, and what the questionable sitcom, Will and Grace, has to do with Shakespeare's sonnets. Did you know that during the Early Modern period statistically there were more people who were not William Shakespeare than people who were? We learn that women were actually pretty important in Early Modern theatre, second only to Rhubarb salesmen. We also talk about GAY PANIC in the era and why Twelfth Night can get tae fuck. You can check out Andy's project 'A Bit Lit here @a_bit_lit, and find out more about other NON-Shakespearean early modern authors here @b4shakes. For more bear content give him a follow @andykesson

Episode Notes 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 this week's episode we find out why anti-vaccination sentiment is just one more thing we can blame Victorians for, which COVID-19 vaccine is the most queer, and whether or not our constant chat about our vaginas can officially be classified as Medical Humanities. We also talk about the private and public discourses of chronic pain and consider what the heck is going on with Super-crip discourses and the 'narrative prosthesis' of disabled characters. You can follow Travis on Twitter @travisclau, or thirst over his very professional cardigan-wearing headshot here: https://travisclau.com/ For anyone looking for more crip-poetic content look no further than his most recent poetry collection Paring, available here: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/paring-by-travis-chi-wing-lau/

Episode Notes 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 Ryan of the AWARD-WINNING podcast Accentricity, we're here to chat accents, prejudice, Buffy, and GRAPHS. I guess we're legit now?! You can follow Sadie @Sadie_d_ryan and her various podcasts at @accentricitypod or @sadie_and_osh for Buffy. As per, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, FOLLOW @LOLMyPraxis

Episode Notes 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 her thesis titled 'Female Cross-Dressing, Genre, and Popular Literary Forms from 1830-1900'. In this episode we discuss why we always think of the Victorians as tightlaced, prudish, asexual beings when in fact they were hella kinky. We learn all about the salacious secret life of George Augustus Sala who when he wasn't publishing essays, articles and popular fiction was getting kinky with whips and corsets. We also debate the merits of the nip slip as praxis, why cross-dressing is better than crossfit. We also learn a lot about a show girl named Lola. If you fancy a queer geek out with Mollie and her menagerie of popular fiction porno lovers then you can join the Third Sex Reading Group here: https://victorianpopularfiction.org/third-sex-reading-group/ follow them on twitter here @VPFA1 and follow Mollie here @molclarke

Episode Notes 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 Haith joins us to discuss speculative fiction, the sounds of contagion, and whether we could (or should) programme a robot to love. Chelsea is PI of the Futures Thinking Network and is works on the Sound of Contagion project (soundofcontagion.com) in addition to a million other things - she is a machine. Quite literally. You can find Chelsea on Twitter @chelsea_haith or on her website: chelseahaith.com

Episode Notes 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 Trust ISSF Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Christine's research emerges at the nexus of the medical humanities and art history. Her latest project considers the visual cultures of WWII plastic surgery and focuses on the work of DICKIE Orpen. In this episode we discuss TUBES & FLAPS and find out what the heck a dangleum is. We also learn about the super sexist world of plastic surgery and how female artists managed to see the funnier side of reconstructive facial surgery. You can follow Christine @slobogin and check out her band, Cash Cassettes on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CashCassettes/, you can also delve into the fleshier parts of art history on her blog https://morbidarthistory.wordpress.com/about/ Come on Barbie, let's go party.

Episode Notes 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 student in English and Comparative Literatures at the University of Warwick; her research chews over the importance of food in environmental crisis narratives and science-fiction. You can follow Nora on Twitter @nora_castle.

Episode Notes 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 ask the most important question about African culture: Do they know it's Christmas time at all? We also examine Toto's Africa as a colonial methodology, and discuss the girthy pros and cons of big 'P' vs small 'p' pan-Africanisms. We find out that Madhu has a wide-on for imperial statues, loves penguins and why Americanah is the Zoolander of African novels. Finally, we discuss the extractive economies of research partnerships and find out why Robben Island is like a Sir Mix A Lot concert. CONTENT WARNING: the first 7mins of this episode is dedicated to cat chat, you cannot skip it. #JusticeForKeenyah You can follow Madhu @ProfMadhuK and check out her AWARD WINNING books here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/writing-spatiality-in-west-africa/1E02E2E5F0066485D63D016DAC301B51; https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/contingent-canons/00419809FEB9B9CC0AAC69AD54E256A7

Episode Notes 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 Romanticism from the sublime to the ridiculous with Dr Andrew McInnes, lead investigator on the AHRC-funded project The Romantic Ridiculous. We rate the ‘Big Six’ of Romantic poetry in terms of fuckboi-ness and  identify the Brexiteers among beloved authors. All this while remaining entirely unREF-able - in spite of Andy’s best efforts. You can follow Andy @drbeard79 and the Romantic Ridiculous project blog at romanticridiculous.wordpress.com. We demand the immediate release of the butthole cut of Cats 2019. For research.

Episode Notes 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 interested in the relationship between identity and visual and material culture in C18th and C19th Britain and focuses on three key sites: collage, the body and domestic space. In this episode we ask penetrating questions about art history including, 'What is collage?' and 'exactly how important is macaroni art?'. We also discuss the potential REF impact of OnlyFans accounts and how the aesthetic abomination of 'Live, Laugh, Love' decals actually started in C18th homes. We also discuss the visual and material cultures of fatness, and find out how to use Cosmo as a critical framework. You can follow Freya on twitter @Freya_Gowrley, find out about the New Directions in C18th and C19th seminar series at @NDENCAseminar, and finally you can catch episodes of her newly launched podcast @TSAHpodcast.

Episode Notes 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 classically informed sculpture from the 18thC through to contemporary 3D printing. In addition to her interests in classicism and antiquity Melissa works on queer archaeology, murderous mermaids with great hair, and volcanic breasts. In this episode we discuss the secrets of eel cave sex, why marble feels so good you just wanna spank it, and which 19thC lesbian sculptor had the best jawline. You can follow Melissa on twitter @Hosmeriana for top notch quilt content and you can purchase the flocked velvet bust of Artemis here: https://luxeology.co.uk/products/bright-yellow-flocked-large-artemis-bust

Episode Notes 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 thought, propaganda, and the urban experience. Described as a 'sad, sad medievalist' she is the brain and dump-truck booty behind going-medieval.com, a blog where she discusses the medieval influences on the everyday world in a bid to get us through this garbage fire of a century. In this episode we ask Dr Janega some key questions: How do we pronounce her name? What is the medieval period and why the heck is it so long? Why are illuminated bushels of dicks so popular? What is the ideal medieval body? You can follow Dr Janega @goingmedieval, pre-order her graphic guide to the Middle Ages here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-middle-ages/eleanor-janega/neil-max-emmanuel/9781785785917 and access all her juicy extra medieval patreon content here: https://www.patreon.com/GoingMedieval

Episode Notes 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 name of drug dealer to the big 6, Dorothy Wordsworth. In this episode we find out what it's like to LARP up Scafell Pike in a bonnet and skirt in miserable weather and why visitors to the Lake District were investing heavily in Deluxe Canon Bangs. We also find out what the f**k the Digital humanities is. You can find out more about the Women in the Hills Network here: https://womeninthehills.co.uk/ and you can

Episode Notes 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 about Darwin's Sexy crabs, why T.S. Eliot was bad in bed and whether or not A Bug's Life can be read as Marxist allegory. Rachel is interested in all things creepy crawly and recently published her first monograph The Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects, War, Literary Form with Edinburgh University Press. You can follow Rachel at @murrayrachel89 and can listen to her BBC4 episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qwtx Unlike Rachel's BBC4 production we can proudly state that no bugs were harmed in the making of this episode.

Episode Notes 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 Literature at Edinburgh Napier University. She has published on many iconic films and television shows, including Gossip Girl, Sex and the City, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Twilight, and she is currently working on her first monograph 'Quiet Pictures: British and French Cinema by Women on the work of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Celine Sciamma.' You can follow Sarah on Twitter @Sarah_Jane_Artt. The Wizard of Oz reference is here: Alexander Doty, '“My Beautiful Wickedness”: The Wizard of Oz as Lesbian Fantasy' in 'Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon' (2000). You can contact us on Twitter @Lolmypraxis or get in touch via email at lolmypraxis@gmail.com.

Episode Notes 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 researcher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, her practice-based research embraces her dyslexia/dyspraxia/ADHD to challenge the neuronormativity of dance culture and wider academic structures. She is the founder of the Scottish Neurodiverse Performance Network and her solo work has been seen across the UK and internationally at various venues, including the Southbank Centre (London), Sophiensaele (Berlin), Tramway (Glasgow) and the Millennium Centre (Cardiff). NOTE: To respect, give a platform to, and celebrate neurodiverse modes of expression, we have not edited any tangents or moments of processing from the episode. You can find Aby through her website abywatson.co.uk or through her project blog disorderingdance.com. Her Twitter handle is @abswatson. Aby is DJing a virtual neurodivergent-led DYSco as DJ DYScourse through the Southbank Centre on 16th January, find out more here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/performance-dance/dysco?eventId=862401 Get in touch with us on Twitter @lolmypraxis or by emailing us at lolmypraxis@gmail.com - tell all your pals and SUBSCRIBE

Episode Notes 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 most underrepresented straight white men of the Western literary canon: Charles Dickens. Pete the course director of the MA by research in Charles Dickens studies at the University of Buckingham and the author of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel and our endless attempts to end it'. Most importantly, Pete attended the London premiere of 'The Muppet Christmas Carol'. You can find Pete on Twitter @DrPeteOrford and try to solve the Mystery of Edwin Drood at his droodinquiry.com. Get in touch with us on Twitter @lolmypraxis or by emailing us at lolmypraxis@gmail.com - tell all your pals and SUBSCRIBE - MERRY CHRISTMAS YA FILTHY ANIMALS!!

Episode Notes 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 juvenilia of the Brontë siblings and her recent monograph, 'The Brontës and War', was published earlier this year. She's a wannabe Emily, but identifies as a Charlotte, and she's here to tell us whether or not ABBA were on to something when they stated 'the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself' (Andersson and Ulvaeus: 1974). You can find Emma on Twitter @EmmaButcher_ and you can donate to the Brontë Parsonage Museum Appeal here: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/bronteparsonageappeal Get in touch with us @lolmypraxis on Twitter or email lolmypraxis@gmail.com. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes 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 interactions with the natural world. We invite you to settle down with Alice, her perfect kidneys, some fava beans, and a nice chianti as we discuss sex magic, psychotropic plants of Glasgow's East End, and hating the Wordsworth siblings. You can find Alice on Twitter @atarbuck and buy her new book 'A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and six centuries) of Magic', here: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Alice-Tarbuck/A-Spell-in-the-Wild--A-Year-and-six-centuries-of-Magic/25135618 Get in touch with us @lolmypraxis on Twitter or email lolmypraxis@gmail.com. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes 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 works on haunting representations of child dead in Anglophone literature of the long nineteenth century. This episode is brought to you with the confidence of Pip, a smattering of Big Dick(ens) energy, and a murderous strawberry cart. You can find Jen on Twitter @Jendeavour and read her recently published chapter on monstrous pop-up books in The Palgrave Gothic Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (2020). Get in touch with us @lolmypraxis on Twitter or email lolmypraxis@gmail.com - we are always looking for fun interviewees... This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes 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. In this episode we ask the important questions ('Is Jesus a queer wizard?'), demand #JusticeForSusan, and talk drag(ons). You can find Taylor on Twitter @TaylorWDriggers and see him lecture on fantasy and monstrosity here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZeZ7WHWEVQ&t=2856s&ab_channel=Stay-at-Home%21FringeLitFest Get in touch with us @lolmypraxis on Twitter or email lolmypraxis@gmail.com - we're always looking for fun interviewees... This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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 and humanities and celebrating all things praxis! This podcast is powered by Pinecast.