Episodes

On this episode, we sat down with authors Judith S. Weis (Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know®) Daniel K. Gardner (Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know®) and Philip J. Landrigan (Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know®) to discuss the global plastic problem and how it impacts a global population, hosted by OUP’s Senior Marketing Manager, Erin Katie Meehan. © Oxford University Press

World Press Freedom Day provides a forum to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom, and to defend the media from attacks on their independence. This year, we sat down with OUP President Niko Pfund, as well as authors Nadine Strossen (HATE) and Tom Nichols (The Death of Expertise) to discuss the challenges faced by the media today, and the future of press freedom, hosted by OUP’s Senior Marketing Manager, Erin Katie Meehan. © Oxford University Press

Our host for this episode is William Beezley, Professor of History at the University of Arizona and Editor in Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. He moderates a roundtable discussion with historians Stephanie Wood and Susie Porter about Mexican women’s self-expression through textiles and dress throughout history to the present day. © Oxford University Press

On this episode of The Oxford Comment, we chatted with SJ Miller, Deputy Director of Educational Equity Supports and Services at the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools; and David E. Kirkland, author of “Black Masculine Language” from The Oxford Handbook of African American Language, and Executive Director of the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools; to discuss the developments we’re seeing in today’s Englis...

This month on The Oxford Comment, Anita Lam, Associate Professor at York University in Toronto and author of “Gansters and Genre” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, chats with Dr. Karen Fang and Peter Stanfield about the characteristics of gangster films; the differences we see in these films internationally; the cultural metaphors the films present about race, gender, and class; as well as the role the genre plays into other mediums such as music and televi...

Please note: this episode contains explicit language and references to explicitly sexual artwork and has not been bleeped. In this episode of the Oxford Comment (the latest in a series produced by the Benezit Dictionary of Artists), Benezit’s Editor in Chief, Dr. Kathy Battista, sits down with painter Betty Tompkins in our New York office. The two discuss the start of Tompkins’ life as an artist in New York in the 1970s, the success of her large-scale sex paintings and other airbrush works, and...

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In this episode of the Oxford Comment, we sat down with Eleanor Maier, Senior Editor at the Oxford English Dictionary, Giorgio Riello, co-author of Luxury: A Rich History, Wendy Doniger, author of Redeeming the Kamasutra, Jessica Berson, author of The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business, and Rachel Kuo, contributing writer at everydayfeminism.com, to learn more about the history and usage of the word “exotic.” © Oxford University Press

This episode of the Oxford Comment is the second in our two-part series in conjunction with the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. We resume our roundtable conversation at the New York office with artist Robert Whitman, Benezit Editor in Chief, Dr. Kathy Battista, and Experiments in Art and Technology Director Julie Martin, to discuss many of E.A.T.’s noteworthy and laudable undertakings. To learn more, our multimedia producer, Sara Levine, also interviews Dr. Julia Robinson, a Grove Dictionary of A...

In this episode of the Oxford Comment, the first of a two-part series in conjunction with the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Robert Whitman sits down in our New York office with Benezit Editor in Chief, Dr. Kathy Battista, and Julie Martin, the director of Experiments in Art and Technology. Inspired by this roundtable conversation, our Multimedia Producer, Sara Levine, reaches out to Shawn Van Every, of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and Emilie Gossiaux, an artist and Museum Educa...

Our multimedia producer Sara Levine chats with Robin Hanson, author of The Age of Em; Robert Repino, an editor in OUP’s Reference Department and author of Mort(e) from SoHo Press; Maggie Boden, author of AI: Its Nature and Future; and Steve Furber, Editor-in-Chief of The Computer Journal. Together, they explore the dichotomy between what is expected of artificial intelligence in the future and what is actually happening in the field today—including the use of AI to solve climate change and disea...

In this month’s episode of the Oxford Comment, Sara Levine chats with Brian Lai, associate editor for Foreign Policy Analysis; Dr. Anthony Richards, author of Conceptualizing Terrorism; Richard English, author of Illusions of Terrorism and Counterterrorism; Erica Chenoweth, associate editor for Journal of Global Security Studies. Together, they explore the meaning of terrorism, whether terrorism can be used for more than just a political motive, and the effectiveness of violence versus non-viole...

In this month’s episode of The Oxford Comment, host Sara Levine chats with William Murphy, author of Political Imprisonment and the Irish, 1912-1921; Fearghal McGarry, author of The Rising (Centenary Edition): Easter 1916; and Robert Schmuhl, author of Ireland’s Exiled Children: American and the Easter Rising. Together, they engage in fascinating conversation about the experience of women during the Easter Rising, the cultural and national identity that was forged between the rebels in prison af...

In this month’s Oxford Comment, we discuss The Paris Agreement, held from 30 November to 12 December 2015, and since hailed as a “historic turning point” in the battle against global climate change. © Oxford University Press

In this month’s episode of The Oxford Comment, Leif Wenar, author of Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World, and Dale Jamieson, author of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed, explore the unseen costs of consumer demand, corporate conduct, and more. © Oxford University Press

In this month’s episode, host Sara Levine chats with Alice Hammel, co-editor of Winding It Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings, Taylor Walkup and Adam Goldberg, two music educators in New York City, and Karmen Ross and Hyacinth Heron Haughton, the parents of special needs students. Together, they engage in fascinating conversation about the role of music in special needs education, illustrating its challenges and—most importantly—its rewards. © Oxfo...

In this month’s episode, Sara Levine, Multimedia Producer, sat down with Katherine Connor Martin, head of US Dictionaries, Allan Metcalf, author of From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations, and Edmund Weiner, Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary to solve the season’s most baffling linguistic conundrums. © Oxford University Press

As fall deepens, painted faces and packed stadiums abound, with sports aficionados all over the country (and world) preparing for a spectacle that is more than just entertainment. In this month’s episode, Sara Levine, Multimedia Producer for Oxford University Press, sat down to discuss the evolution of sports with Chuck Fountain, author of The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball, Julie Des Jardins, author of Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man, Dr. Munro Cullum,...

From baristas preparing pumpkin spiced lattes to grocery store aisles lined with bags of candy, the season has arrived for all things sweet-toothed and scary. In this month’s episode, we sat down with Katherine Connor Martin, Head of US Dictionaries for Oxford University Press, Greg Garrett, author of Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination, Jason Bivins, author of Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism, and Jim Buhler, co-author of Hearing th...

What, exactly, are the origins of the American public library? Sara Levine, Multimedia Producer for Oxford University Press, chats with Wayne Wiegand, author of Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library, and more. © Oxford University Press

Estelle Hallick, an Associate Publicist in our New York Office, sits down to chat with Susan Doran, author of Elizabeth I and Her Circle, and her daughter, playwright Bathsheba Doran, about Elizabethan history. © Oxford University Press

In this month’s episode, Alyssa Bender, an Assistant Marketing Manager, and Carolyn Napolitano, a Marketing Associate, sat down with Greg Garrett in the New York office to discuss the intersection of the cultural and the theological in modern-day life. Visit us at blog.oup.com. © Oxford University Press

In this month’s episode, Sara Levine, a Multimedia Producer in our New York Office, chats with Katherine Martin, head of Oxford Dictionaries, about the origins of the word ‘mullet.’ Visit us at blog.oup.com. © Oxford University Press

In this month’s episode, Ryan Cury, a Trade Marketing Manager in the New York office, chats with Nancy Sherman, author of Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers, to explore the moral injuries sustained by soldiers after combat. Visit us at blog.oup.com. © Oxford University Press