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Send a text Matt and Katherine follow up on their discussion of Dracula and Carmilla to discuss F.W. Murnau's 1922 classic horror film Nosferatu as well as two of the most important remakes by Werner Herzog and Robert Eggers. This podcast is tagged as explicit material because we discuss prominent themes from the films including sexuality, sexual assault, and animal abuse. While we do not go into more detail than is necessary, if you don't want to engage with these themes, this might no...
30 Jan 2026
Frankenstein: Student Edition
Send us a text Students from Bard Early College Hudson Valley, Chance Tangunu (Poughkeepsie HS), Finn Simons (Beacon HS), Rowan Khleifat (Roy C. Ketcham HS), and Devin Suchite Rosado (Dover HS) discuss the 1818 edition of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and respond to our professor podcast on the same text.
23 Nov 2025
Antigone: Student Edition
Send us a text Students from the Bard Sequence program Jentle Brown (Plainfield HS, NJ) , Donyjanae Weaver (Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS, DC) , and Aleeya White (Orange HS, NJ) discuss Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Between minutes 25:00 and 29:11 we discuss Antigone's choice of death over life including thinking about this as a form of suicide. While the discussion is not graphic, anyone not interested in engaging with this content should skip this section.
19 Sept 2025
Dracula x Carmilla
Send us a text Matt, Katherine Bergevin ( PhD candidate at Columbia University's Department of English and Comparative Literature), and Jehan Senai Worthy (Attorney at the Hudson Valley Justice Center) discuss two of the most influential vampire texts of all time: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla.
16 Sept 2025
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Send us a text Matt, Allen Ascher (Osher Lifelong Learning Institue at Rutgers University), and Patrick Oray (Bard High School Early College Baltimore) discuss Shakespeare's historical tragedy depicting the assassination of the Roman leader and it's aftermath. This podcast was recorded on August 20, 2025.
21 Aug 2025
Things Fall Apart
Send us a text Matt discusses Chinua Achebe's landmark novel Things Fall Apart with Yawa Agbemabiese (Bard Highschool Early College, DC) and Carla Stephens (Bard Queer Leadership Project, Borough of Brooklyn Chair for History and Culture at Bard Microcollege Brooklyn Public Library).
23 Jul 2025
The Communist Manifesto
Send us a text Bard Sequence professors Rosie Jayde Uyola (BHSEC Bronx), Paul Gilmore (Plainfield High School, NJ), and Andrew Worthington (Orange High School, NJ) discuss Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto.
23 Jun 2025
The Communist Manifesto: Students of the World Unite
Students Anderson Morocho, Dominick Cruz, and David Ixcuna analyze Marx and Engels' *Communist Manifesto*, exploring its historical context and relevance to contemporary society in this interview.
14 Aug 2024
Gilgamesh II: Students Who Saw the Deep
Send us a textBard Sequence students Tito Oshuntolu and Kimora James respond to Gilgamesh and to the Bard Sequence Podcast. Tito Oshuntolu attends Orange High School in New Jersey and Kimora attends Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School in Washington DC.
8 Aug 2024
Gilgamesh x Matilda
Send us a textMatt and Shana Russell delve into the unlikely pairing of Gilgamesh and Roald Dahl's Matilda. Shana Russell is a professor at Bard High School Early College, Newark where she teaches Seminar, literature, and electives in anything from Afrofuturism to the Literature of Newark.
8 Mar 2024
Frankenstein x Horror
Send us a textIn which our intrepid panelists make connections between horror films and Mary Shelly's seminal horror text. Featuring Rosa Schneider, Katherine Bergevin, and Matt Park. Content Warning: Between 1:12 and 1:14 a stage adaptation of Frankenstein which features sexual assault is discussed. There are no graphic descriptions, but anyone who does not want to engage with this content will want to skip. Spoiler Warning: Spoilers for the film M3gan as well as some mu...
17 Oct 2023
Frankenstein
Send us a textThe Bard Sequence explores Frankenstein with the help of Ben Bagocious (Bard Sequence), Kevin Doyle (Bard Sequence), Katherine Bergevin (Columbia University, Keats-Shelley Association of America), and Rosa Schneider (Bard Sequence, Urban Academy, Bronx). Key topics include sexuality, science and technology, shame, otherness, and exclusion.
17 Oct 2023
Gilgamesh
Send us a textThe Bard Sequence explores humanity's oldest epic, Gilgamesh, with help from Shana Russell (Bard High School Early College Newark), Nico Veroli (Bard Sequence) and Matt Park (Bard Sequence). Key conversations touch on gender and sexuality, urbanism, and the historical context for the epic.
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