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Did you know Andrew was on the first episode of That Ol' Gay Classic Cinema? Celebrate the anniversary of "The Sound of Music" which premiered in the United States on April 1st, 1965. Here's a clip from Andrew's appearance on That Ol' Gay Classic Cinema featuring co-hosts Christian and Nate! Be sure to follow That Ol' Gay Classic Cinema on Instagram, @thatolgayclassic...

Marianne Williamson, a Democratic presidential candidate for the 2024 election, joins Andrew in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room. Marianne is a political activist, spiritual leader, and best-selling author. In total, she has published 15 books, 4 are #1 NY Times best sellers. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a nonprofit organization that aims to deliver nourishing meals to those with serious il...

Hey, true crime friends! This week we are diving into the fifth episode of ABC/Hulu's series Death in the Dorms. Samantha Josephson was a senior at the University of South Carolina with a full-ride scholarship to Drexel University's law school when her life was tragically cut short. An opportunist allowed Samantha to get into his car and pretended to be her Uber driver before brutally kill...

The  “prodigiously inventive” and “galvanic” Karin Coonrod (as noted by the NY Times) joins Andrew in the ITBR to kick off the Spring 2023 season! Karin is a theater director that teaches at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She has an academic background in English at Gordon College and Theater Directing at Columbia University. Additionally, she has founded not one, but two theater compan...

Hey, true crime friends! This week we are back with our Death in the Dorm series (streaming on Hulu now). This week we are covering the murder of Baruch College freshman, Michael Deng. Michael Deng was the only child of Chinese immigrants in Flushing Queens, NY. His academic success landed him in one of the best local colleges- Baruch College. There, he wanted to discover himself and decided to pl...

To end our Winter 23 season, we’re so happy to welcome Dr. Vernon Rosario who has written extensively for The Gay and Lesbian Review ! Rosario is a historian of science and Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA and joins Andrew to talk about the intersection between the LGBTQ+ community and psychiatry. Vernon and Andrew mention an array of...

Hey, true crime friends! For this week's episode, I got to live out a pipe dream of mine. I sat down with not one-but 2 forensic psychologists- Dr. Lina Haji and Dr. John Delatorre.  Dr. Lina Haji is a forensic psychologist working with prison inmates. She hosts a YouTube channel called Rise Psychology where she covers a wide array of mental health issues and she was recently featured in Ligh...

Join The Ivory Tower Boiler Room Cafe, $5 a month, to watch the video interviews and listen to bonus episodes: patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Andrew continues his San Francisco Queer History conference episodes with Ben Miller, a writer, podcaster, and academic, who has made a splash with his new book, co-written with Huw Lemmey, "Bad Gays: A Homosexual History." Ben begins by explaining the ori...

Today, the ITBR gets sprinkled with sugar and spice– a diverse, opinionated commentary on arts and culture for Winter 2023. Join Andrew and Mary as they recap recent buzz in arts and culture including Prince Harry, Pamela Anderson, the Golden Globes, and the Oscars. Andrew and Mary dive deep into films such as "Avatar: The Way of Water"… Um, James Cameron, where is our "Titanic 2"? Andrew and Mary...

Hey, true crime friends! This week, I sat down with author and former executive assistant to the chief medical examiner of Maryland- Bruce Goldfarb. Bruce is not only the first repeat guest here, but he is the FIRST GUEST EVER! Bruce has recently released his newest work- OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center. It details his experience working at and the history of one of the country...

Hey, true crime friends! Here is a sneak peek of February’s Patreon BONUS episode! This month, we covered The Dating Game Killer aka Rodney Alcala. Not a subscriber? Go to patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom or click here . Head to Broadview Press, an independent academic publisher, for all of your humanities-related books. Use our code: ivorytower for 20% off your broadviewpress.com order! To subscr...

Dr. Dominic Janes is not only a professor of Modern History at Keele University, in England, but also one of Andrew’s queer male academic mentors! Following Dr. Chuck Upchurch’s episode last week about sodomy and 19th-century England, Dominic takes us into Victorian England and discusses queer male fashion.  Right away, Andrew asks Dominic how his new book "British Dandies: Engendering Scanda...

Welcome back to Part 2 of our "Carrie the Musical" 35th anniversary podcast episode with Erik Champney!  Erik explains how his "Carrie: The Master Cut" film helped Linzi Hateley and others in the cast and the creative team escape 35 years of being haunted by this musical! Right away he counters any notion you have that the 1988 musical was a Broadway Flop! As Erik says, "Why are we still talk...

Listen to our bonus episode with Dr. Chuck Upchurch by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month! patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Dr. Chuck Upchurch explains that, in 19-century England, male same-sex love, desire, and sex came with frightening baggage...the death penalty! Chuck reveals that so many don't know that anyone engaging in sodomy could be put to death until 1861. Even though the last r...

Want more bonus content? Go to patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom or click here.  Follow True Crime in Academia on social media: IG & TikTok: @truecrimeinacademia Twitter: @tcinacademia Hey, true crime friends! In episode 3 of Death in the Dorms, we hear about the brutal murder of 22-year-old University of Virginia student and start women's lacrosse player- Yeardley Love. This young lawyer-...

On February 13th, 1988, "Carrie the Musical" premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in Stratford, and on April 28th, it would begin previews at the Virginia Theater on Broadway (now the August Wilson). To celebrate 35 years of this enigma powerhouse of a musical, Andrew welcomes Erik Champney, a NYC playwright, screenwriter, and director, who created "Carrie: The Master Cut" which is the firs...

Listen to the rest of the episode by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month! patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Ms. Eboni K. Williams joins Andrew in the ITBR to discuss her new book "Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today." Right away, Eboni says “There is a reason I call this book 'Bet on Black.' It is absolutely better to be black in America today than it was yesterday,...

Want more bonus content? Go to patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom or click here. Follow True Crime in Academia on social media: IG & TikTok: @truecrimeinacademia Twitter: @tcinacademia Hey, true crime friends! In the second episode of Death in the Dorms, we learn about the murder of Christian Aguilar- a freshman at the University of Florida who studied biomechanical engineering. Sadly, his death...

Listen to the rest of the episode by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month! patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Andrew is joined with a fellow Andrew, Dr. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock who is a professor of English at Central Michigan University, where he teaches American literature and popular culture. Right away, he explains why the Horror and Gothic texts (including literature, film, and TV) fall u...

Become a subscriber by going to patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom or click here . Hey, true crime friends! For the next few weeks, we will be going through the cases on ABC/Hulu's new series Death in the Dorms. We are starting with episode one- the murder of Andrea DelVesco. Andrea DelVesco was a 21-year-old psychology student at UCLA. The day before the start of her senior year, her life was bruta...

Want to hear the full episode? Go to patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom or click here.  Hey, true crime friends! Here is a sneak peek at this month's Patreon exclusive episode: The Night Stalker! Follow True Crime in Academia on social media: IG & TikTok: @truecrimeinacademia Twitter: @tcinacademia

Listen to the rest of the episode, over 40 minutes, by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month! patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom.com  For the first time ever, Andrew is joined with a dystopian and war novelist, Zac Topping! Zac explains that his novel "Wake of War" was inspired by one question in the back of his mind...what would happen if America experienced a second Civil War? He didn't k...

Listen to the rest of the episode, another 25 minutes, by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month! patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom.com  On January 27th, the world recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and it seemed poignant and fitting to have Dr. Jake Newsome, a scholar of American and German LGBTQ+ History, join Andrew in the ITBR to discuss his new book "Pink Triangle Lega...

Join The Ivory Tower Boiler Room Cafe, $5 a month, to watch the video interviews and listen to bonus episodes: patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom  What is Romantic Realism? Well, Andrew starts off his conversation with author Rochelle B. Weinstein by coining a new literary genre that he calls "Romantic Realism." Rochelle provides so much literary insight in this episode, and she first explains...

Want more True Crime in Academia? Go to www.patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom or click here . Intro: Pisces by Anne Sophie Andersen Hey, true crime friends! This week we are discussing a once-cold case that has recently turned red HOT. We are diving in to the murder of Minot State University freshman, Anita Knutson. Follow True Crime in Academia on social media! TikTok & IG: @truecrimeinacademi...