Uncited: An English Lit Podcast

Years in the making, we're finally covering Shakespeare's Henriad in a new series! We begin with Richard II, who was indeed a Dick 2 everyone.

In this episode recorded on April Fools Day (ish), we return to our dear old friend, Reddit OC Poetry... with a twist.

This week we're talking about Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray! In which everyone is in love with the same person and nobody wins. Content warning for suicide.

This week we talk about Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with a bad guy narrator.

In this week's episode, we talk about Lord Alfred Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, plus wall repair and artificial intelligence.

This week we recommend and have a short preview of #IndianLovePoems by Tenille Campbell (edited by Garry Thomas Morse, Signature Editions, 2017)! You can support the author at https://www.tenillecampbell.com/ or follow her at @sweetmoonphoto on Instagram.

In our longest episode ever, we're joined by the illustrious James Anderson (@UnabashedJames) to discuss Stephen Chbosky's coming-of-age classic, Perks of Being a Wallflower. Enjoy this book club/therapy session, and please mind the myriad of content warnings.

This week we talk about Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl, then go off the rails about our school year experiences. Wild rides abound. Come along.

For this first episode of the year, we go in with no plan, and come out with a reasonably cohesive comparative analysis of The Disabled Debauchee and An Unanswerable Apology for the Rich.

In this special holiday episode, we try to talk about Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman and things go off the rails real quick.

We talk about Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates, and it is rough! Content warning for sexual assault, implied murder, and discussion of domestic violence. Other topics covered include winter incidents, wellness apps, and the Satanic Panic. If you are impacted by domestic violence and need help, here are some resources: Advice for survivors and shelter map in Canada - ht...

Hop over from an English class to a history class! We're wrapping up our series on the Salem witch trials with Cotton Mather's primary source text, On Witchcraft.

We're staying with the Salem witch trials and reading Moi, Tituba on the internet's least reliable FRENCH literature podcast this week! Amy maintains her perfect attendance record despite having Covid.

It's Halloween! And Uncited's second anniversary! And Amy is engaged! To celebrate, we're talking about witches and communism in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

We're heading back to Medieval England with Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales! We learn that the Knight and the Wife of Bath have very different routes to get to the same place. Content warning for mentions of sexual assault.

Our official Sandman correspondent Zach is back for another special guest episode! This time, we're covering the Netflix adaptation and how it compares to the comics. Content warning for a mention of rape.

This week we're reading An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce for the first time! Thank you to Uncanny Robot Podcast for suggesting the story for this episode. Amy also has hot tips about washing machines.

Wow, we made it through fifty episodes! And we picked... the saddest book to celebrate. We talk about YOUR best and worst books from school, plus Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Content warnings beginning at 17:00: pandemics, death, suicide, murder.

This week we chat about Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, including: what it means to be a comedy, hypocritical characters, and what the heck happened with the gun. 

We're back on our YA with Maureen Johnson's The Name of the Star, which one of us has read! Featuring classic Uncited hits like Ghosts are Real, Romance Subplots Don't Matter, and Books With Gratuitous Violence.

We talk about how Porphyria's Lover, a very weird Victorian poem named after a disease that turns your pee purple, is actually a feminist masterpiece. Content warning for domestic abuse and murder. If you are impacted by domestic violence and need help, here are some resources: Advice for survivors and shelter map in Canada - https://sheltersafe.ca/ Shelter map in the United States - https://www.d...

Welcome back to YA week! We talk about Cassandra Clare's City of Bones from The Mortal Instruments series. Special mention goes to my brother, Alec.

We're back to our ally extraordinaire homeboy, Terry Pratchett! Amy and special guest Sam talk about Equal Rites from the Discworld series.

This week we're joined by very special guests, Glen and Gertie Nuzzles to talk about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet! We queer read some characters, judge all the adults, and find out who needs the most therapy. Find Glen and Gertie's podcast, Gestating the Curious Mind, under the Nuzzle House umbrella @HouseNuzzle.

Did Auden write autobiographically? Was Percy Shelley really that bad? Would Shakespeare have been Instagram famous? These are our ponderings as we discuss three poems on the theme of posterity.