90: Jane Austen: Society, Marriage & Irony

Is it true that adults cannot master new languages? Or does the adult brain simply learn differently?In this episode of Literary Rides, we move beyond traditional Second Language Acquisition theory to explore the neuroscience of adult language learning. While early childhood may ...  عرض المزيد

What happens before we name what we feel? How do bodies respond before language intervenes?In this episode of Literary Rides, we explore affect theory—a contemporary framework that shifts attention from structured emotion to pre-conscious intensity, embodied relationality, and th ...  عرض المزيد

Tonight's sleep story is a special two hour episode of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Published in 1818, this novel, written by a teenaged Mary Shelley, is one of the most influential stories in literature and is possibly the first science fiction novel. In the episode, Captain ...

Born from grief, exile, intellectual ferment and the ‘year without a summer’, Frankenstein is a creation myth with its own creation myth. Mary Shelley’s novel is a foundational work of science fiction, horror and trauma narrative, and continues to spark reinvention and reinterpre ...  عرض المزيد

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a new reimagining of Mary Shelly’s classic gothic horror tale about a misunderstood monster who’s abandoned by his creator and shunned by society. Oscar Isaac is the narcissistic doctor Victor Frankenstein, and Jacob Elordi has a gargantuan ye ...  عرض المزيد

This week NPAD is on vacation, but as a special treat, we wanted to share an episode of our other podcast, Watch Her Cook, with you. This episode has a few surprising NPAD tie ins, and we are so excited to share it with you all. We will be back to our regularly scheduled National ...  عرض المزيد