Ep. 201 “Time Will Tell” - Miranda Steege

Miranda Steege has a B.F.A. in drama from Carnegie Mellon University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside. Her specialties include Victorian literature, LGBT studies, and fan culture. Steege describes her experimental dissertation, Mystery Dissertation Project, as “part scholarly work, part mystery novel, part fanfiction, full queer.” This work-in-progress can be found on her blog here.

Ep. 202 “Mild Mannered” - Stina Attebery and Josh Pearson

Stina Attebery is a Ph.D candidate in the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program at the University of California, Riverside, where she is an expert in Indigenous SF. Josh Pearson is a lecturer in Science Fiction at California State University, Los Angeles, where he teaches 20th century American fiction and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Together, Attebery and Pearson co-wrote “Today’s Cyborg is Stylish,” an academic exploration of fashion theory in tabletop gaming.

Ep. 204 “Age Before Beauty” - Dr. Christine Adams

Dr. Christine Adams is a scholar of French history with research expertise in gender, sexuality, and the culture of fashion and beauty. She is a Professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland, and recently edited the book Female Beauty Systems: Beauty as Social Capital in Western Europe and the United States. She writes op-eds on topics that link historical insights with current events, especially with regard to the politics of reproduction, women, and sexuality.

Ep. 205, “13.1” - Dr. Amanda Shubert

Amanda Shubert (University of Chicago) teaches and writes about nineteenth-century British literary, visual, and media cultures—from the rise of the novel to the invention of cinema. Her current book project, Virtual Realism: Victorian Fiction as Optical Technology, explores the relationship between the realist novel and pre-cinematic optical technology in Victorian Britain.

Ep. 206, “Around the Bend” - Dr. Courtney floyd

Courtney Floyd is a singer-songwriter, vegan cooking enthusiast, specualtive fiction writer, and recovering academic. She is the host of the biography & literature podcast Victorian Scribblers, and showrunner of the lighthearted audio drama The Way We Haunt Now (it’s about ghosts!). While at the University of Oregon, Floyd earned her Ph.D. in English, with a research emphasis in 19th-century print culture and disability studies.

Ep 207, “For the Team” - Dr. Dayanna Knight

Dayanna Knight earned her doctorate in Archaeology and is a scholar of medieval identity development in the North Atlantic. She is the Principal Investigator and Content Creator for the Viking Coloring Book Project, which counteracts harmful misuse of Vikings and the Viking Age through accurate visual representations of artifacts, plants, places, and scenes of everyday medieval life in Scandinavia.

Ep 208, “Merge with Caution” - Dr. Ellen Hampton

Ellen Hampton is a historian, author, editor, former professor and occasional journalist. An American-born French resident, she is a scholar of WWII who earned her Ph.D. at the EHESS in Paris. Her article for the Daily Beast, "Was Mata Hari a Sexy Spy or Sexy Scapegoat?" was immensely helpful when analyzing this episode of Warehouse 13.

Ep. 209, “Vendetta” - Lisa Franklin

Lisa Franklin is a teacher, comedian, and creator of the comic, "My Two Lesbian Ants," — which AutoStraddle has described as "four perfectly gay panels of joy." Her interests include crushes and television, and she has appeared in many of Podcast 13's favorite places, including Lez Represent and ClexaCon. You can check out her merch here.

Ep. 210, “Where and When” - Kalynn Bayron

Kalynn Bayron is the bestselling author of Cinderella is Dead — a queer, Black reimagining of the Cinderella myth. She is a classically trained vocalist, and when she’s not writing you can find her listening to Ella Fitzgerald on loop, attending the theater, watching scary movies, and spending time with her kids. Her newest Young Adult novel, This Poison Heart, will be released on July 6, 2021.

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Episode 212, “Reset” Part 2 - Lauren Bullock

Lauren Bullock is a queer multiracial writer, performer, teaching artist, and published model. Her work, spanning almost a decade, appears on AFROPUNK.com, Button Poetry, The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and more. Lauren earned acclaim for her pop culture commentary through editorials on Black Nerd Problems as well as serving as poetry editor for FreezeRay Poetry.

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Ep. 102 “Resonance” — Valjeanne Jeffers

Valjeanne Jeffers is an author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and erotica. Her work was recently included in 100+ Black Women in Horror, and has also appeared in numerous anthologies including, most recently, Fitting In; Sycorax’s Daughters (nominated for the Bram Stoker Award); and Black Magic Women and Luminescent Threads (Winner of the 2018 Locus Award for nonfiction). She is a graduate of Spelman College and a member of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective (CAAWC).

Ep. 103 “Magnetism” — Kameron Sanzo

Kameron Sanzo (University of California, Riverside) formerly worked as a mechanical engineer, and is currently a PhD student in English. She studies Victorian Literature as it relates to the history of science, particularly physics. Her dissertation researches what nineteenth-century telegraphic infrastructure can reveal about the historical narrative of Electromagnetic Field Theory. She is an expert on energy, “imponderables,” and mesmerism.

Ep. 104 “Claudia” — Dr. Kathleen Crowther

Dr. Kathleen Crowther (University of Oklahoma) is an Associate Professor of the History of Science, whose main research fields are in the early modern and Reformation periods. Her diverse areas of expertise also include the history of the body, gender and sexuality, and the history of medicine written from the point of view of patients rather than practitioners. Her work on late medieval and early modern astronomical texts, co-written with Peter Barker, is forthcoming in Isis.

Ep. 105 “Elements” — Dr. john Norwood

Dr. John Norwood is a member of the Tribal Council of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation and the Principle Justice of that tribe's Supreme Court. He is a historian among his people, and represents the tribe at national functions as a delegate to the National Congress of American Indians. He is also the general secretary for the Alliance of Colonial Era Tribes (ACET). To support 501(c)(3) nonprofit Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape educational outreach programs, click here.

Ep. 106 “Burnout” — Dr. Suleiman Mourad

Dr. Suleiman Ali Mourad (Smith College) teaches courses on Islamic history, law, and religion. His research focuses on the hermeneutics of the Koran, medieval Islam, Jerusalem, and the time of the crusades. He has appeared on film documentaries including The Sultan and the Saint, and Jerusalem: Center of the World. His books include The Mosaic of Islam: A Conversation with Perry Anderson, and The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period, with James Lindsay.

Ep. 107 “Implosion” — Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian

An Armenian-American queer woman by birth, Dr. Nyri Bakkalian is proud to have called the American and Japanese northeasts her home. She has produced nonfiction, fiction, and photography content for more than a dozen publications, including two newspapers and five anthologies. What's her secret, you ask? Garlic and Turkish coffee (but really mostly Turkish coffee). Come say hi to her on Twitter and Facebook at @riversidewings, or check out the cutting edge of her work at shiogamawaves.com.

Ep. 108A — “Duped” Part 1 — Carol Cooper (email Correspondent)

Prof. Carol Cooper is a New York-based journalist, educator, and cultural critic who has been reviewing music, books, film, and live performance for more than 20 years. Her work has appeared in publications such as Actuel (Paris), The Face (London), Latin New York, The Village Voice, and The New York Times. Her essays have also been anthologized in The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock, Rolling Stone Press: The '70s, and others. Her collection of essays, Pop Culture Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race, is available on Amazon.

Ep. 108B — “Duped” Part 2 — Brittany Carlson

Brittany Carlson (University of California, Riverside) is a PhD student in English with an emphasis in Victorian Studies and the history of math. She earned her B.S. in mathematics and English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Her essay about Lewis Carroll’s work, “A Latent Element of Alice’s Agency in Wonderland” won the 2016 award for the History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America.

Ep. 109 “Regrets” — Lydia Pelot-Hobbs

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (City University of New York) is an activist and scholar whose research tracks the dialectical relationship between the formation and contestation of the Louisiana carceral state from the 1970s to the present. She has organized in various social and economic justice movements, which include prison reform/abolition and strengthening solidarity economies. She is a co-founder with AORTA, the Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance.

EP. 110 - “BReakdown” - Ana Quiring

Ana Quiring (Washington University, St. Louis) received her Master’s Degree in English from the University of California, Riverside and is currently pursuing her PhD in English. She works in the fields of both literature and Gender and Sexuality studies, with specialties in Modernism and women writers.

Ep. 111 - “Nevermore” - C.C. Rae

C.C. Rae majored in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. She is the author of the Hidden Magic series, new adult fantasy for lost souls (Book 1, The Portal Opens; Book 2, Lost Prophecy; and Book 3, Dragon King: Ruler of the Realm). She is an educator in Yuma, Arizona, where she is hard at work on her next novel. You can follow her on Twitter @ccraesunshine.

Ep. 112 - “MacPherson” - Dr. Karsonya Whitehead

Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead (Loyola University, Maryland) is a K-12 master teacher of African American History. She is the award-winning author of Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis, and also hosts the daily talk show, Today with Kaye. From 2013-2015, Dr. Whitehead participated in the White House’s Black History Month Panel, co-sponsored by President Obama.

Courtney Yu

Courtney Yu is a Digital Illustrator, currently creating character designs, visual development pieces, and her own line of enamel pins and accessories. You can find her latest art and merchandise at @sketchmocha on Instagram and SketchmochaDesign on Etsy.