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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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).

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