Pod Quixote: A Cervantine Podcast

In episode 7, Steven Ritz-Barr and Esther Fernández discuss the fascinating effects that puppets have on representing stories and how puppetry provides us a novel perspective from which to consider the world in which we live. Steven Ritz-Barr is a puppeteer with decades of experience and the creative force behind Quixote (2010), an adaptation of Don Quixote done completely with puppets. Esther Fernández is an Associate Professor at Rice University and her most recent book is titled To Embody the Marvelous: The Making of Illusions in Early Modern Spain (Vanderbilt University Press 2021).

In episode 6, Stephen Haff of Still Waters in a Storm and Rogelio Miñana of Drexel University's Office of Global Engagement discuss Don Quixote  in education and social activism. Stephen Haff is the author of Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything is Possible. Rogelio Miñana is the author of Living Quixote: Performative Activism in Contemporary Brazil and the Americas. 

In this special episode, three guests will discuss the recent New Yorker cover featuring Don Quixote, approaches to Don Quixote in art, and how to bring art to bear as a force for positive change in society. We are joined by Eric Drooker, the artist of the New Yorker cover, William Childers of Brooklyn College, and William Egginton of Johns Hopkins University.

In episode four, I speak with Miguel Cervantes III  about famous names, middle age, self-improvement, adaptations of Don Quixote, and much more.

In this episode of Pod Quixote, I chat with Dominick Finello about the Spanish pastoral, La Galatea, and many other scenes from Cervantes's other works linked to this idyllic, and sometimes not so idyllic, genre.

In this episode of Pod Quixote, I chat with Brian M. Phillips about the picaresque, space in place in Cervantes, and bridging the gap between early modern Spain and contemporary culture and society.

In this first episode of Pod Quixote, I chat with Christi Garst-Santos about female characters from Don Quixote (Dorotea and Zoraida), Cervantes and social media, and the #MeToo movement.