Itinera Podcast

In this podcast, I, Scott Lepisto, interview classicists from all walks of life to discover how they became interested in the Greco-Roman world, who influenced them, and how their careers evolved.

Bonus Episode: Endless Knot at SoundEdu19 11/19/2019

Bonus Episode: Endless Knot at SoundEdu19 Enjoy this bonus episode of the Endless Knot with Aven McMaster and Mark Sundaram recorded at Sound Education 2019! /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/12099179

Episode 22 - Donna Zuckerberg 06/03/2019

Episode 22 - Donna Zuckerberg Donna Zuckerberg, Editor in Chief of Eidolon (https://eidolon.pub) and author of Not All Dead White Men (https://amzn.to/2WcS57P) sits down with me on the finale of season 2 of Itinera to discuss the creation and evolution of Eidolon, the reception of classics in Red Pill communities, and how she conceives of her role as an ally. Recorded at the Annual Conference of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in 2018. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/9872300

Episode 21 - Lisl Walsh Part 2 05/20/2019

Episode 21 - Lisl Walsh Part 2 Lisl Walsh (https://twitter.com/lislanna), Associate Professor of Classics at Beloit College, on Homeric and Senecan bodies, corporeal discord, and how performance venue informs the meaning of drama. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2019. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/9841037

Episode 20 - Lisl Walsh Part 1 05/06/2019

Episode 20 - Lisl Walsh Part 1 Lisl Walsh (https://twitter.com/lislanna), Associate Professor of Classics at Beloit College, on forging personal connections with students, her unusual path into the field, and how her disability informs her teaching. Recorded at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/9660980

Episode 19 - Rebecca Futo Kennedy 04/22/2019

Episode 19 - Rebecca Futo Kennedy Rebecca Futo Kennedy (@kataplexis, https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com) of Denison University on identity in the ancient world, her working class background, and the Taleb/Beard feud. Recorded at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/9460382

Episode 18 - Stamatia Dova 04/08/2019

Episode 18 - Stamatia Dova Stamatia Dova, Professor of Classics at Hellenic College Holy Cross, on reading Greek in Greece, respecting the text, and her "door half open" approach to advising. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2018. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/9303836

Episode 17 - Joel Christensen Part 2 03/25/2019

Episode 17 - Joel Christensen Part 2 Joel Christensen of Brandeis University and Sententiae Antiquae (https://twitter.com/sentantiq,https://t.co/LtyNIUHkAB) goes deep on the power of narrative. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/9082592

Episode 16 - Joel Christensen Part 1 03/11/2019

Episode 16 - Joel Christensen Part 1 Joel Christensen of Brandeis University and Sententiae Antiquae (https://twitter.com/sentantiq, https://t.co/LtyNIUHkAB) on his early interest in Classics, the appeal of Homeric poetry, and the power of narrative. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2018. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/8940986

Episode 15 - Sonya Wurster 02/25/2019

Episode 15 - Sonya Wurster Sonya Wurster on Philodemus, her approach to writing, and how teaching Greek and Roman literature prepared her to teach the classics of China and India. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in 2018. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/8764028

Episode 14 - Ariane Schwartz 02/11/2019

Episode 14 - Ariane Schwartz Ariane Schwartz on the development of the Online Public Classics Archive (http://opca.paideiainstitute.org/articles), the reception of Horace, and life as a classicist in the private sector. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2018. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/8593013

Episode 13 - Emily Hauser 01/28/2019

Episode 13 - Emily Hauser Emily Hauser on the relationship between her historical fiction and her scholarship, how she approaches creative writing, and the most interesting receptions of classical literature by contemporary women writers. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2018. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/8412773

Episode 12 - Jackie Murray 01/10/2019

Episode 12 - Jackie Murray Jackie Murray, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky, on her groundbreaking research on Apollonius, the difficult path she walked from graduate student to professor, African-American and Afro-Caribbean receptions of classical literature, and racism within the field of Classics. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/8201138

Season 2 Teaser 01/05/2019

Season 2 Teaser The teaser episode for season 2 of Itinera. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/8131640

Episode 11 - Ryan Stitt 12/18/2017

Episode 11 - Ryan Stitt On the season finale of season 1 of Itinera, Ryan Stitt (@greekhistorypod) of the History of Ancient Greece Podcast and I discuss classics podcasting. http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/6051512

Episode 10 - Amy Richlin 12/11/2017

Episode 10 - Amy Richlin Amy Richlin, Professor of Classics at UCLA, reflects on how she became a feminist, her winding road to a tenure-track job, her favorite subject to teach, and her (hilarious) approach to advising. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/6032129

Episode 9 - Amy Pistone 12/04/2017

Episode 9 - Amy Pistone Amy Pistone (@apistone), Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, on inebriation in classical antiquity, applying classics to the contemporary world, and prophecy in ancient Greece. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/5912874

Episode 8 - Christine Wong 11/27/2017

Episode 8 - Christine Wong Aspiring classicist and graduate student at San Diego State University, Christine Wong (@c_ycwong), on the relationship between magic, medicine, and religion in classical antiquity. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/5912850

Episode 7 - Hannah Čulík-Baird 11/20/2017

Episode 7 - Hannah Čulík-Baird Hannah Čulík-Baird (@opietasanimi), Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University, on Classics Twitter, the SCS, and her research on Cicero. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/5912793

Episode 6 - Ichiro Taida 11/13/2017

Episode 6 - Ichiro Taida Ichiro Taida, Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Japanese at I-Shou University, on his history as a classicist and the place of classics in Japan and Taiwan. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/5912775

Episode 5 - Christelle Fischer-Bovet 11/06/2017

Episode 5 - Christelle Fischer-Bovet Christelle Fischer-Bovet, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California, on the state of classics in Switzerland, American and continental approaches, and her work on Hellenistic Egypt. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/5912737

Episode 4 - Helen Morales 10/30/2017

Episode 4 - Helen Morales My interview with Helen Morales, Professor of Classics at UC Santa Barbara, on writing for a general audience, Pilgrimage to Dollywood, and feminist theory. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/5890287

Episode 3 - Alexis Whalen 10/23/2017

Episode 3 - Alexis Whalen My interview with LA-based high school teacher, Alexis Whalen, on living Latin, Latin pedagogy, and combining research with teaching at the high school level. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/5866964

Episode 2 - Ellen Finkelpearl 10/16/2017

Episode 2 - Ellen Finkelpearl My interview with Ellen Finkelpearl, Professor of Classics at Scripps College, on zoomusicology, Apuleius, and teaching at a liberal arts women's college. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/5844393

Episode 1 - Alex Purves 10/09/2017

Episode 1 - Alex Purves My interview with Alex Purves, Professor of Classics at UCLA, on her research process, approach to mentoring, and scholarship on Homer. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/5821415

Teaser 08/27/2017

Teaser The teaser episode for Itinera. /episode/index/show/itinerapodcast/id/5680627

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