Lit@MIT: The Poetechnics Podcast

In this episode, Michael speaks to Lit Section affiliate Erica Zimmer from MIT's Concourse Program , who ends up asking him a few questions about his work and time at MIT. Poetechnics is a podcast from the Literature Section at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about the intersections of poetic and technical knowledge. The theme song is Anachronist by Kevin MacLeod , used under a Crea...

Hello! Things have been busy here in Lit, but Poetechnics is back for a brief run before the end of the year. In this episode, Michael speaks with Literature Professor and Chair of Faculty Mary Fuller about her new book, Lines Drawn Across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt’s “Principal Navigations” . Poetechnics is a podcast from the Literature Section at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

In this episode, Michael chats with graduating MIT seniors Anjali Chadha and Trevor Carter about the Literature double major, the positives of mixing the humanities with STEM, and more. Poetechnics is a podcast from the Literature Section at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about the intersections of poetic and technical knowledge. The theme song is Anachronist by Kevin MacLeod , used und...

Today, Michael chats with Associate Professor of Literature Arthur Bahr about print history, medieval miscellanies and student ingenuity.

In this episode, we discuss teaching, research, and and Herman Melville's technology of the semicolon with Literature Section Senior Lecturer Wyn Kelley .

In the premier episode of Poetechnics, sociologist, humanitarian, and speculative fiction author Dr. Malka Older ( Infomacracy , The Mimicking of Known Successes ) visits the MIT Literature section for a discussion about society, literature, and speculation with Dr. Joaquin Terrones of Literature and graduate student and speculative fiction author Steve Gonzalez of MIT's Doctoral Program in H...