Guests

Season 1

Episode 1: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Dr. Dana Williams, Howard University

Dr. Tessa Roynon, University of Oxford


Episode 2: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Dr. Alberto Manguel, Novelist, translator, and former Director of the National Library of Argentina

Cristóbal Pérez Barra, Novelist, translator, and doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford


Episode 3: On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Jerry Cimino, Founder and Director of the Beat Museum

Dr. Jean-Christophe Cloutier, University of Pennsylvania


Episode 4: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Dr. Mark Harman, Translator and Professor Emeritus at Elizabethtown College

Dr. Carolin Duttlinger, University of Oxford


Episode 5: The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats

Professor Bernard O’Donoghue, Poet and Emeritus Fellow at the University of Oxford

Dr. Lauren Arrington, National University of Ireland, Maynooth


Episode 6: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Dr. Urmila Seshagiri, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Professor Dame Hermione Lee, Biographer and Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford

Season 2

Episode 7: Cien años de soledad / One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Professor Ilan Stavans, Amherst College

Professor Philip Swanson, University of Sheffield


Episode 8: Rekviem / Requiem by Anna Akhmatova

Alexander Cigale, Poet and Translator

Professor Alexandra Harrington, Durham University


Episode 9: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

Associate Professor Alice Ridout, Algoma University

Professor Roberta Rubenstein, American University

Professor Susan Watkins, Leeds Beckett University


Episode 10: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Dr. Wamuwi Mbao, Stellenbosch University

Dr. Terri Ochiagha, Royal Holloway, University of London