Welcome to the Race and Regency Pod. Today we have as our guest Dr. Rae Greiner, who is an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, author of Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (2012), and co-editor of Victorian Studies.

Rae edited the 2025 Norton critical edition of Persuasion. In this podcast, we talk about Persuasion, Austen’s ever-present relevance to our world, and Rae’s upcoming projects, including the book Stupidity after Enlightenment.

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

In this episode, we are joined by Camille Simone Thomas, who is a Playwright, Producer, Performer, Researcher, Educator, Aspiring TV writer, Facilitator, Business Owner, and all-around creative.

Camille Simone Thomas is a 5th-generation Detroiter through her father’s side and a first-generation Jamaican through her mother's. It’s important for her to name this because her work most often interrogates cultural legacies, familial healing, spirituality + ancestral wisdom, and the general kicking and screaming of how Black folks get free despite the oppressive forces of colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy. Her plays have been workshopped and performed at The Connelly Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Sanguine Theatre Company, Blackboard Playwriting series, Lime Arts Theatre company, American Slavery Project, The Obie Award-winning Harlem9 and Detroit Public Theatre Company, Dixon Place, Workshop Theatre, Barter Theatre Company, The National Women’s Theatre Festival, The Brick, and more!

To learn more about Camille’s work, find her website here: https://www.camillesthomas.com/

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

Welcome to the Race and Regency Pod!

Today, we are joined by Damienne Scott, who is a Professor, scholar, critic, and advocate. She is the founder and moderator of the community Black Girl Loves Jane, a Facebook group devoted to promoting and celebrating diversity within the Austen community. Dami supports an inclusive online environment for readers and lovers of Austen and demonstrates how people with different cultural identities and who come from various backgrounds find meaning and importance in the writings and stories of Austen.

Dami has conducted interviews on her work for various outlets and been spotlighted by the Jane Austen Summer Program on multiple occasions. She has also published “Sanditon and the Pineapple Emoji Craze” in Persuasions Online.

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

Welcome back to The Race and Regency Pod.

Today, we are joined by Amita Murray. Amita is a writer based in London, by way of Delhi and California. Her first novel, The Trouble with Rose, came out from Harper Collins in 2019, and her short fiction has won the SI Leeds Literary Prize, and has appeared in Wasafiri, SAND Berlin, the Berkeley Fiction Review and others. She's held writerly residencies with Leverhulme/University College London and Plymouth University/Literature Works, and has taught advanced fiction at the University of East Anglia and CityLit London. She was named runner-up for the 2022 CRIMEFEST scholarship for authors of color. 

We discuss her work, paying special attention to her historical romance trilogy set in Regency England, where the mixed-race Marleigh sisters each go through a journey of adventures and love. 

Amita also shares some tips for young aspiring writers on her Instagram @amitamurray

Find more of her work on www.amitamurray.com.

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

Welcome back to The Race and Regency Pod.

Today, we are joined by Carole Bell and Adrianna Herrera. 

Carole Bell is a cultural critic, writer, and researcher exploring media, identity, public opinion, and the politics of art and entertainment. Carole’s writing inspires and influences so many writers, thinkers, and readers. She writes about books, new and old, she writes about movies, politics, culture. Carole not only has a finger on the pulse of culture at large, but also the wherewithal to inform it through her incredible writing. She’s written about books and authors for print and online media, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, Book Riot, Shondaland, and theGrio.

You can find more of her work here: portfolio.cvbell.com

Adriana Herrera is a USA Today Best Seller Author. She loves writing stories about people who look and sound like her people, getting unapologetic happy endings.  She has written successful romance fiction and erotica, such as her trilogy: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, An Island Princess starts a Scandal, and A Tropical Rebel gets the Duke; her Dating in Dallas Books include: Here to Stay and On the Hustle; There’s also the Sombrano Studios Books, The Dreamer Series, and other standalone books as well. She won a Ripped Bodice Award in 2020 and the Audie Award in 2023. 

You can find more of her work here: adrianaherreraromance.com

Carole and Adrianna share with us their thoughts on the new adaptation of Wuthering Heights by Emerald Fennell. They also leave us with some incredible recommendations for what to read and watch to satisfy the historical fiction hunger that might emerge post-Wuthering Heights.

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

Today, we are joined by Dr. Adrienne Childs. Dr. Childs is an independent scholar, art historian, and curator. She is Senior Consulting Curator at The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. She is also the co-curator of Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest for The Phillips Collection. In April 2022 The High Museum of Art awarded Childs the 2022 Driskell Prize in recognition of her contribution to African American art and art history.

 In this episode, Dr. Childs discusses her new book entitled Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts, published by Yale University Press. She also shares some of her current and future projects with us. 

For more on Dr. Childs' work, see her website https://www.adriennelchilds.com/

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members, and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

Welcome back to The Race and Regency Pod!

Today, we are joined by Dr. Kim Hall, who is Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College.

Professor Hall's research and teaching cover Renaissance/Early Modern Literature and Culture, Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Studies, Slavery Studies, Visual Culture, Food Studies, and Digital Humanities. She was born in Baltimore and holds a doctorate in sixteenth and seventeenth-century English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.  

Her first book, Things of Darkness, was published in 1996 by Cornell University Press. Her second book, Othello: Texts and Contexts(Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, was published in 2006) In this podcast she talks to us about her most recent publication Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo-Caribbean, which examines the roles of race, aesthetics and gender in the Anglo-Caribbean sugar trade during the seventeenth century.  She is also an avid quilter who was named “Quilter of the Month” at the Seminole Sampler Quilt Shop in Baltimore, Maryland.

In this episode, she will also tell us about the Weaving Dreams Exhibition at Barnard College that showcases handmade quilts and other textile artifacts selected from the Dr. Hall’s oeuvre of quilt art.

To learn more about Dr. Kim Hall's book The Sweet Taste of Empire, visit https://www.pennpress.org/9781512827866/the-sweet-taste-of-empire/

To learn more about the Weaving Dreams Exhibition, visit https://library.barnard.edu/weaving-dreams-exhibition

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members, and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

We are joined by Dr. Mathelinda Nabugodi. She is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at University College London. She has previously held post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge and Newcastle, including in the literary archive at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She is the author of Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic (2023) and one of the editors on the six-volume Longman edition of The Poems of Shelley (1989-2024). Her latest book, The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive, which came out only a few months ago, explores the connections between British Romanticism and the Black Atlantic. 

In its deeply erudite yet personal engagement with the archive of romanticism, Mathelinda, in this book, offers us radically new reading methods that are rooted in a conscious engagement with the events in this period, while also redefining what it means to take pleasure in reading literature marred by violence. 

To learn more about Mathelinda Nabugodi's book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/719891/the-trembling-hand-by-mathelinda-nabugodi/

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members, and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

We are joined by Dr. Devoney Looser, a writer and professor at Arizona State University. Devoney talks about her new book, Wild for Austen, that honors and explores Austen's writings, life, and legacy, just in time for the celebration her 250th birthday on December 16. 2025! 

To learn more about Dr. Devoney Looser visit https://www.devoneylooser.com/

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members, and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.

In this episode, we are joined by the director of the Race and Regency Lab Dr. Patricia Matthew, who is an Associate Professor of English, Montclair State University. We talk about the vision behind The Race and Regency Lab and what we hope to accomplish with The Race and Regency Pod. Join us to discuss all things regency and race!

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now. 

For more details visit www.raceandregency.org

To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/

The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. 

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.