5.12 Shane McCrae from 'Last on Earth' to the Dream Songs of Berryman
On this episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, we offer an interview with poet Shane McCrae, conducted by the editor of Literary Imagination, Paul Franz.
The interview kicks off with Shane McCrae reading two poems that are featured in the newest issue of Literary Imagination: "from ‘Last on Earth’"and "His Letter to Everyone After They Have Vanished." It’s an engaging conversation spanning McCrae’s own forthcoming work as well as his recently edited collection of John Berryman’s uncollected Dream Songs, which is also reviewed in this issue of Literary Imagination.
We’ve made McCrae’s poems and Will Brewbaker's review of McCrae's new Berryman volume available to read for free on Project MUSE for the month of September.Visit the podcast website at www.press.jhu.edu/multimedia for links.
4 Sept 2026
5.11 Nnamdi Nnake on Seeing Technical Labor in 20th Century Nigeria
Today we feature an interview with Nnamdi Nnake, who is currently a PhD Candidate at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, researching communications technology history in Africa. His new article made the cover of the latest issue of Technology and Culture, an article entitled “Seeing Technical Labor,” which explores photographic archives of the technicians and laborers installing telegraph lines in Nigeria in the early 20th century.
Concurrent with the publication of this article, the McMaster Museum of Art has an exhibition curated by Nnamdi Nnake, called Connected Histories: The Telegraph in Nigeria. This exhibition opened this week and runs through December 1, and I understand that for those of us not lucky enough to be in Hamilton, Ontario this fall, the exhibit includes an online component, so you can view some of the work no matter where you are.
We’ve made Nnamdi Nnake’s article, “Seeing Technical Labor” in the new issue of Technology and Culture available to read for free on Project MUSE through the month of September.
11 Aug 2026
5.10 Udith Dematagoda on Joseph Conrad and the Romanticism of the Lost Cause
On today’s episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast we have Paul Franz, the editor of our journal Literary Imagination, chatting with Udith Dematagoda, whose new article An Idea without a Future: Joseph Conrad and the Romanticism of the Lost Cause is out now in the newest issue of Literary Imagination.
We have unlocked the paywall for this article through Labor Day, so everyone will be able to read this piece for free at Project MUSE. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/993964
Udith Dematagoda took his PhD in 2016 from the University of Glasgow and is currently an external researcher at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study in Tokyo. He is the author of Vladimir Nabokov and the Ideological Aesthetic, editor of Wyndham Lewis's Left Wings Over Europe (OUP, 2025), and serves on the Editorial Board of Oxford University Press's The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the independent literary publisher Hyperidean Press.
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