Many Academies is a monthly podcast designed for graduate students and early-career scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Featuring interviews with writers, publishers, teachers, and scholars who create new publics and practices through their work, the podcast dismantles the idea that there is one Academy, with a capital A, to which we must all work to belong.
"What if the university is a mother?": Gil Anidjar on the possibility and politics of 'Alma Mater: The University at War'
Gil Anidjar attends to the persistence of the phrase, "Alma Mater," considering what it helps us to see about the place and role of the university in politics and the reproduction and perdurance of our world.
17 Dec 2025
"Maybe the future of our writing lies in that weirdness": Katina Rogers on her new book and the difficult beauty of critical hope
Katina Rogers describes the value of understanding the ecology of higher education as networks of care and possibility. Discussing her forthcoming book, "Unexpected Flourishing: Growth from Decay in the Mycelial University," she considers the necessity of critical hope when we might be given to despair.
17 Nov 2025
""I can't think of another way": Tim Roberts on the challenges of inventing new university presses
In this episode, Lette Bragg talks with Tim Roberts about the origins of np: From publishing books to starting university presses, the non-profit works to critique the university by finding new ways to produce knowledge and to study. But why is it so hard to do? And what happens in spite of this challenge?
23 Oct 2025
Notes from a Research Assistant: Talking about Many Academies, Graduate School, and Thinking Now
On this episode, celebrating International Open Access Week, Lette talks to Nina Zhuo, the podcast's first research assistant, about how working on The Many Academies Podcast affects her decision to attend graduate school. The conversation is grounded in an awareness of what is possible to do both inside/outside the university, as well as what constrains study and writing.
9 Apr 2025
"The proliferation I see everywhere": Sophie Lewis on the praxis and theory of utopia and abolition
Lette Bragg talks with Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now, Abolish the Family, and Enemy Feminisms, about actualizing care and thinking.
1 Apr 2025
Incognito Academic: Pia Deas on How Intellectuals Meet the World
One of the challenges to thinking or being otherwise is naming what you do. On this episode of Many Academies, we name the practices and values that orient Pia Deas within the Black tradition.
9 Nov 2024
The Poets Made All the Words: Talking about Borg Diem with Cy Weise
On this episode, Lette Bragg and The Cyborg Jillian Weise talk about Borg Diem, a new dictionary edited and curated by Cy Weise and others. The dictionary begins (and stays) a game for disabled people by disabled people, and its format requires changing the rules of academic publishing and thinking about the importance of language.
1 Jul 2024
Studying at Night School Bar
In this episode, Lindsey Andrews and D.M. Spratley talk about Night School Bar, a faculty collective offering evening classes in the arts and humanities. We talk about the school's origins, Marxism, study, and the connections between learning and life, trying to work through the push and pull of the university.
2 Jun 2024
What the Seagrass Said
In this episode, I talk to Kriti Sharma and Michal Osterweil about their new book, co-authored with Arturo Escobar. Their book, Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human, moves away from conventional knowledge practices to make legible the possibility of a politics and future removed from our "toxic loops of existence."
1 May 2024
Thinking out loud with punctum books
On the first episode of Many Academies, Eileen Fradenburg Joy and Vincent van Gerven Oei, co-directors of punctum books, talk about the origin and mission of punctum, building an infrastructure to get books out, and how to infiltrate existing structures of knowledge production.
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