The Race and Regency Pod

Welcome to the Race and Regency Pod! Today, we are joined by Damienne Scott, who is a Professor, scholar, critic, and advocate. She is the founder and moderator of the community Black Girl Loves Jane , a Facebook group devoted to promoting and celebrating diversity within the Austen community. Dami supports an inclusive online environment for readers and lovers of Austen and demonstrates how peopl...

Welcome back to The Race and Regency Pod. Today, we are joined by Amita Murray. Amita is a writer based in London, by way of Delhi and California. Her first novel, The Trouble with Rose , came out from Harper Collins in 2019, and her short fiction has won the SI Leeds Literary Prize , and has appeared in Wasafiri, SAND Berlin, the Berkeley Fiction Review and others. She's held writerly reside...

Welcome back to The Race and Regency Pod. Today, we are joined by Carole Bell and Adrianna Herrera.  Carole Bell is a cultural critic, writer, and researcher exploring media, identity, public opinion, and the politics of art and entertainment. Carole’s writing inspires and influences so many writers, thinkers, and readers. She writes about books, new and old, she writes about movies, politics, cul...

Today, we are joined by Dr. Adrienne Childs. Dr. Childs is an independent scholar, art historian, and curator. She is Senior Consulting Curator at The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. She is also the co-curator of Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest for The Phillips Collection. In April 2022 The High Museum of Art awarded Childs the 2022 Driskell Prize in recognition of her contribution to Afric...

Welcome back to The Race and Regency Pod! Today, we are joined by Dr. Kim Hall, who is Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College. Professor Hall's research and teaching cover Renaissance/Early Modern Literature and Culture, Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Studies, Slavery Studies, Visual Culture, Food Studies, and Digital Humanities. She was bo...

We are joined by Dr. Mathelinda Nabugodi. She is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at University College London. She has previously held post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge and Newcastle, including in the literary archive at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She is the author of Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic (2023) and one of the editors on the six-volume Longman edition of The Poems of She...

We are joined by Dr. Devoney Looser, a writer and professor at Arizona State University. Devoney talks about her new book, Wild for Austen , that honors and explores Austen's writings, life, and legacy, just in time for the celebration her 250th birthday on December 16. 2025!  To learn more about Dr. Devoney Looser visit https://www.devoneylooser.com/ To learn more about the Race and Regency...

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! The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an...