Kathleen Collins – Indoor Voices Podcast

Martin Cloutier is an adjunct assistant professor at the College of Staten Island where he teaches writing to undergraduates. So, needless to say, we spend some unavoidable time in this episode talking about AI. But first we talk about Martin’s Lambda Literary Award-nominated novel, Waiting for Something Else, which was published by Heliotrope Books in 2025. … Continue reading Episode 1...

Adam McKible is a Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His most recent book is Jim Crow Modernism, a volume co-edited with Keith Clark and Robert Jackson. In this volume and in his previous book, Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity, Adam explains how and … Continue reading Episode 122: Adam McKible on Jim Crow&#160...

C. Julian Jiménez is an award-winning queer, Puerto Rican, and Dominican playwright and Chairperson of the Department of Communication, Theatre, and Media Production at Queensborough Community College. In this episode, he’s in conversation with a friend and former castmate from their Rider University days. Elaina Battista-Parsons is an editor, writer, and reader for Vine Leaves … Conti...

Mila Burns is associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at Lehman College and of history at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is also the associate director at the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies. Dr. Burns’s most recent book is Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold … Continue reading Episode 120: Mila Burns on the S...

Jennifer T. Roberts, Professor of Classics and History, and Nickolas Pappas, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, have been City College colleagues for more than thirty years. Here they discuss Jen’s latest book, Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture. The word “many” in the book’s title describes the variation within and … Continue reading Episode 119: Jennifer T. Robe...

In this episode, we have the good fortune of welcoming back returning guest and host, Dr. Sarah Hoiland, Professor of Sociology at Hostos Community College. When she was here in 2018, she talked about an article she had written about the 1947 Gypsy tour motorcycle rally in Hollister, California. That was foundational research she was … Continue reading Episode 118: Sarah Hoiland on women&#16...

This episode reunites two friends and former CUNY colleagues, Char Adams and Beth Harpaz. The occasion is the publication of Char’s new book, Black-owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore, published by the Penguin imprint, Tiny Reparations Books. They discuss the history and continued relevance of the Black-owned bookstore which serves as a center … Continue reading Episode 117:...

This episode exemplifies the ideals of Indoor Voices. It is a conversation between two people whose work overlaps and interfaces, both working away at CUNY for years without knowing of the other until very recently, and now that they have met, they have already collaborated and have so much to talk about that it justifies … Continue reading Episode 116: Rossi and Sibley on narrating mot...

This is Dr. Mark Christian‘s second visit to the podcast. Last year he was here to talk about his books on Booker T. Washington and Liverpool England’s overlooked Black history. In this episode he is in conversation with his Lehman College colleague Dr. Gillian Bayne to talk about his book Frederick Douglass: A Life in … Continue reading Episode 115: Mark Christian on Frederick Do...

Dr. Caroline Reitz is an associate professor of English at John Jay and the Graduate Center and the author of Female Anger in Crime Fiction published by Cambridge University Press in the Elements in Crime Narratives series. She is in conversation in this episode with Dr. Olivia Rutigliano, a writer, film critic, and editor at … Continue reading Episode 114: Reitz and Rutigliano on female&#16...