Students and Scholars

This episode, I’m excited to present our first student-led episode which discusses the movement for #Bigger6 Romanticism. Alanna Camargo leads our conversation about the purpose behind the movement and collective as well as how broadening our perspectives of race and empire can introduce us to a much more vibrant and textured understanding of the Romantic era and help us continue our work on being anti-racist.

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“An Introduction to British Romanticism.” Poetry Foundation

@Bigger6Romantix. ““Bigger 6 isn’t about either saving or scrapping a field so much as it is about committing to training ourselves in arts of epistemological and political transformation through dedicated knowledge practices””. Twitter, 17 Nov. 2020, 9:33 a.m., 

Bakary Diaby's “Black Women and/in the Shadow of Romanticism.” European Romantic Review, vol. 30, no. 3, 2019, pp. 249, 254.

Stephen M. Hart and Jordan Hart's “Latin America’s “Chiaroscuro” Byron.” Romantic Circles.

Olivia Loksing Moy and Marco Ramírez Rojas's “Latin American Afterlives of the British Romantics.” Romantic Circles 

Eugenia Zuroski's “This Ship We’re In.” The Rambling.

Patricia Matthews "Shondaland's Regency: On 'Bridgerton'" Los Angeles Review of Books, 26 Dec. 2020.

Collected Poems of Henry Derozio, Preface by Manu Samriti Chander, Edited by Amardeep Singh. "Intertexts: English Romanticism"

In this episode we are joined by guest scholar, Dr. Karali Hunter, as we discuss the cross-sections between literary and musical Romanticism, particularly in the context of romantic themes, such as breaking away from rigid form and structure, evoking emotion, and embracing the individual and national voices of the period.

Dr. Hunter has a DMA in piano performance from Arizona State University. She is an award-winning performer and pedagogue as well as owner and founder of Hammer & Strings Conservatory. She has performed at Carnegie Hall and continues as an active performer, as a founding artist of the chamber group, Salonnières. Today she will be discussing her experience of arranging and performing the work “'Tis the Last Rose of Summer” as part of this chamber Group.

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Today’s episode seems nearly ripped from the headlines as Dr. Zan Cammack discusses sedition, riots, and rumor as part of the larger new media networks at play in Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey. We’ll examine the pervasive theme of surveillance and political upheaval in the novel, the innovations in mapping that more concretely trace the networks of information in England, and you might be get some Bridgerton vibes as we discuss Bath as its own kind of surveillance state with scandal sheets and gossip mills.

Access to transcript available here.

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In our first episode our guest scholar Dr. Emily Grover discusses precursors to Austen’s novels, the fraught history of female authors and readers, and the dangers of falling too deep into fiction.

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Welcome to the Students and Scholars podcast for English 2620-British Literature before 1800.