C19 Podcast

Happy New Year! As of today, Stefan Schöberlein (Texas A&M–Central Texas) and Jessica Van Gilder (Georgia Tech) are the new co-chairs of the C19 Podcast!

Finally had a chance to listen to this while doing some pre-holiday food prep. It's delightful! Check out this great episode of @c19podcast.bsky.social by @ainenorris.bsky.social about one of the "Queens of Ghost-Land," a purported milk-bewitching woman named Sally (Sallie) Friddly.

S09 E05 | Animals in 19th-Century African American Literature This episode features a conversation between Alex Alston, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College, and Maurice O. Wallace, Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Br

New episode out today featuring Alex Alston (Bryn Mawr College) and Maurice O. Wallace (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)!

It's called marketing

S09 E02 | How Do We Teach Literature When Students Won’t Read What We Assign? Podcast Episode · C19: America in the 19th Century · 08/14/2025 · 37m

I tried a couple new things this term. It has been my best term since 2019.

Among my trial runs was self-directed reading, following the advice of Mary Isbell on @c19podcast.bsky.social

I highly recommend this & it should be part of your 2025 best of public humanities, @americanstudier.bsky.social

Big thanks to the amazing folks at @c19podcast.bsky.social for letting me babble about Appalachian witchcraft and math. 🖤🖤🖤 It’s an honor to do this work.

Who among us &c. &c.

The old enchanted milk pail trick. Nice.

S09 E04 | Sally Fridley’s Bewildering Press: Investigating Accusations of Appalachian Witchcraft On this episode, Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University), guides us through one story of an age-old accusation levied against women throughout colonial and early American history: witchcraft. In 1891,

New episode out now! Join Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University) in searching the archives for records of “Sally Friddly” of Potts Creek, Alleghany County, Virginia, who was accused of enchanting a milk pail to steal cream from her neighbors.

Our next episode contains a witch! Or does it?

If you liked "S03 E02 | Wives and Their Authors: Elizabeth and Herman Melville, Literary Labor, and Women's Work" back in the day, you should read @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social's essay in the latest issue of @j19journal.bsky.social!

Paperback book titled "Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century"

Paperback book titled "Reasons & Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now"

The humanities are so hot right now

This is my university! Seeking 18th century-ists!

S09 E03 | Chesser & Holly: A Collision of Love, Race, and Law in Nineteenth-Century Arkansas In 1888, James Chesser and Georgianna Holly married in the growing city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. A few months later during James's arrest, courts argued that Georgianna was legally a man. Legal and so

New episode! Join Rachel Trusty (Bucknell University) as she discusses James Chesser and Georgianna Holly's queer marriage in 19th-century Arkansas!
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2026-2028 Call for Applications: C19 Podcast Subcommittee Call for Applications | C19 Podcast Subcommittee 2026-2028 The C19 Podcast Subcommittee seeks to bring on new members for the 2026-2028 term! We welcome applications from scholars of all ranks who ...

We need new producers to serve on the C19 Podcast Subcommittee for the 2026-2028 term! Send us your applications by 9/29!

FWIW, in this course I am trying a version of Mary Isbell’s student-selected reading curriculum.

Too early to say that is why attendance & participation are so strong, but it’s certainly my working thesis.

Black cat lying down in a windowsill behind a computer monitor beside a pile of C19 Podcast stickers

Perfect mid-August listening. You gotta check it out.

Excited to dig into this!

Searching for Wonder – Simple Book Publishing Many journeys, one course.

Mary Isbell's book Searching for Wonder: Teaching Literature with Student-Selected Texts is free and available for digital download now! unewhaven.pressbooks.pub/searchingfor...

S09 E02 | How Do We Teach Literature When Students Won’t Read What We Assign? This episode addresses the elephant slouching on its phone in the corner of many literature classrooms. Mary Isbell (University of New Haven) describes her search for a solution to the student reading

New episode! As you compile your syllabus, learn how Mary Isbell (University of New Haven) structures her classroom when students don't read assigned readings. soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s...

Searching for Wonder – Simple Book Publishing Many journeys, one course.

Our next episode is by Mary Isbell, author of Searching for Wonder: Teaching Literature with Student-Selected Texts! Stay tuned! unewhaven.pressbooks.pub/searchingfor...

S09 E01 | Just Add Nutmeg: YouTube, Nostalgia, and the Fantasy of Early America In this episode, Christopher Douglas (Jacksonville State University) leads Ashley Rattner (Jacksonville State University) through some of the most popular late 18th and early 19th-century content avai

"I started watching this during the pandemic, as, oh, I can't go outside my house, but I can watch this guy make me an 18th century boiled apple inside of a bit of a dough and call it a pudding. And you know what, that's something." –Christopher Douglas (Jacksonville State University)

I got a lot of thoughts.... right now I'm at the overview of the earliest content period of the channel. I watched back then. I forgot about those episodes in that 2014-16ish period. I stopped watching when it moved away from that presentation style getting away from going to sites and experts.

S09 E01 | Just Add Nutmeg: YouTube, Nostalgia, and the Fantasy of Early America In this episode, Christopher Douglas (Jacksonville State University) leads Ashley Rattner (Jacksonville State University) through some of the most popular late 18th and early 19th-century content avai

"Never forget that no peer-reviewed journal article you ever write will reach as many people as an ASMR video about making an 1807 version of macaroni and cheese."

In this episode, Christopher Douglas (Jacksonville State University) leads Ashley Rattner (Jacksonville State University) through some of the most popular late 18th- and early 19th-century content available on YouTube: period cooking recreation!

"Never forget that no peer-reviewed journal article you ever write will reach as many people as an ASMR video about making an 1807 version of macaroni and cheese."

Gonna have to drop everything to write about how the company running these Prompt Engineering Certificates (with laundered brand equity) was created by a Venture Capital firm.

Not “funded” or “bankrolled.” The VCs imagined it, invented it, built it, then installed their hand-picked “founder.”

"I started watching this during the pandemic, as, oh, I can't go outside my house, but I can watch this guy make me an 18th century boiled apple inside of a bit of a dough and call it a pudding. And you know what, that's something."
–Christopher Douglas (Jacksonville State University)