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.

Episodes

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!

In the next episode, you will hear from Devoney Looser about her new book Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane (Macmillan).

Forthcoming episodes include exciting conversations with scholars including Whiting Award Winner (2022) Mathelinda Nabugodi about her new book The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive (Penguin)and art historian and curator  Adrienne L. Childs author of Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts (Yale)

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This podcast is produced and hosted by Shruti Jain. She is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Binghamton University, SUNY. Her dissertation is interested in the entanglements of Race and Caste in Enlightenment culture. Her work has been published/is forthcoming in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Public Humanities. In addition to her work in British studies, she works on community engaged public humanities projects. She hosts and produces podcasts like Immigrants Wake America, Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere, and contributes to the New Books Network. She is currently editing a section and co-writing a chapter for the Handbook of Humanities Podcasting (forthcoming).