The Big Read Podcast

I had the pleasure of hosting the Big Read Read Podcast during its Fall 2022 and Fall 2023 seasons. On this podcast, guests discuss topics surrounding the yearly Big Read selection. Episode topics and discussion questions are decided through collaboration between the Big Read Director and the Assistant Director. Additionally, as Assistant Director, I created corresponding graphics and edited the sound for each episode.

For more information, visit the Purdue English Big Read Podcast homepage. This podcast is also available on Spotify and Amazon Music.

“Teaching Monkey King“

Alex Anderson, Ben Lathrop, Chenchen Lu, and Emily Pearson discuss best practices for teaching Julia Lovell’s adaptation of Monkey King: Journey to the West (2021).

Transcript available here.

“Adapting Monkey King: American Born Chinese in Print and on Disney+”

Alex Anderson, Jianfen Chen, Devan Lindey, and Fiona Wang discuss Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel American Born Chinese (2006), Kelvin Yu’s 2023 series adaptation of the graphic novel for the streaming service Disney+, and Journey to the West‘s cross-cultural longevity.

Transcript available here.

“Colonial Pasts, Postcolonial Presents”

Alex Anderson and guests Débora Borba, Jehu Laniog, and Marybeth Perdomo discuss colonialism’s haunting presence in Silvia Moreno Garcia’s novel Mexican Gothic (2020).

Transcript available here.

“Gothic Feminisms and the Female Gothic”

Alex Anderson and guests Veronica Ahmed, Narim Kim, and Frankie Knuckles discuss how Silvia Moreno Garcia’s novel Mexican Gothic (2020) nuances the literary genre of the Female Gothic.

Transcript available here.