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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: 151 Why I Panel, Part One: Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti (JP)
Description: Most scholars are both haunted, even undone, by the task of writing papers for peers and traveling to strange campuses to deliver them. Yet we keep it up--we inflict it on our peers, we inflict it on ourselves. Why?
To answer that question, Recall This Book assembled three (if you count John) scholars of Victorian literature asked to speak at the Spring 2025 Northeastern Victorian Studies Association conference. Their discussion began with the idea that agreeing to give papers is an act of âexternalized self-promisingâ and ranged across the reasons that floating ideas before our peers is terrifying, exhilara...