Meet the Team

Milan is the co-creator and host of the podcasts How To Read and In Sacred Spaces. He co-founded HPN in 2021, co-organised the first three annual symposia and is co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Humanities Podcasting.

John Plotz is Mandel Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University and editor of the B-Sides feature in Public Books. He co-hosts the podcast Recall This Book and co-founded Novel Dialogue. His books include The Crowd (University of California Press, 2000), Portable Property (Princeton University Press, 2008), Semi-Detached (Princeton University Press, 2017) and Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea: My Reading (Oxford, 2023).

Beth Kramer is a Senior Lecturer of Rhetoric at Boston University. She researches and teaches courses with an interdisciplinary and multimodal focus, and is currently co-editing the The Humanities Podcast Manual for Palgrave. She also is a founding member of the Humanities Podcast Network and serves as chair of their pedagogy working group.

Daniel Dissinger is an Associate Professor (Teaching Writing) at USC. He's the creator and host of Writing Remix & The Nostalgia Test Podcast, a Kerouac scholar, Poet, & co-creator/workshop leader at Inspired Belonging.

Saronik Bosu is a founding member of the Humanities Podcast Network, co-host of the podcast High Theory, and a host at the New Books Network. His research focuses on literature and economic thought in modern India. He also makes and curates art.

Kim Adams is a founding member of the Humanities Podcast Network and co-host of the podcast High Theory. She is scholar of literature and medicine, currently working on a book about electricity, race, and reproduction, and she has a very large dog.

Mary Ellen Kubit is the producer and story editor of the award winning program, Arts & Letters Radio. A faculty member in the School of Communications at the University of Central Arkansas, she also has recently started AR Poetica, where she serves as executive producer and co-host.

Nick is a former philosopher turned sound-designer. He works on projects, such as language preservation, oral histories, and (perhaps obviously) podcasts. His work can be found at his recording studio's website, The Pramana Language Lab which he founded in 2017. The best thing about this job is hiking with his dog to record natural sounds.

Rebecca serves as the inaugural Illinois Scholars at Risk Program Coordinator at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has been a podcaster since 2021, editing and producing shows at UVA, Yale, and UIUC.

Carl is a lecturer in journalism practice at the University of Leeds, bringing more than 25-years of broadcasting experience to the classroom. He still works in industry as a senior journalist; regularly reading the news for on BBC Radio 5-Live. Carl produces The Sound of Politics podcast hosted by Professor Stephen Coleman exploring political communication.

Ross Lennon is a graduate student at the University of Central Florida and the host of the History on Film Podcast. His work focuses on applying film and media studies scholarship to cultural history.

Sebastian Garcia serves as the University of Central Florida Department of History's podcast producer, editing and producing series such as Knights HistoryCast and the award-winning The 2023 UCF VLP Institute Podcast Series. Sebastian revitalized the department's podcasting operations by relaunching the entire apparatus on the major podcast apps, and he currently works on expanding the system into a college-wide network inclusive of future history and humanities podcast productions from other faculty and students.

Aven McMaster is a co-host of The Endless Knot Podcast, about etymology, history, and culture, and helps to produce videos for the educational video channel Alliterative on YouTube. Professor Emerita of the Ancient Studies department at Thorneloe University at Laurentian, she lives in Ottawa, Canada. Her scholarly interests are Latin poetry, gender and sexuality, public scholarship, and reception of the ancient world, especially in speculative fiction and media.

Kim Fox is an award-winning scholar and creative, and a professor of practice at The American University in Cairo, where she specializes in podcasting, audio storytelling and research on Global Majority media makers. She produces the acclaimed Ehky Ya Masr podcast, founded PodFest Cairo, and in addition to her involvement with HPN, she remains active in international media education organizations including AIR, BEA, ICA and AEJMC.

Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University, where he teaches and writes about literature and photography, and Editorial Director at Warbler Press. He is the creator and host of the guest-driven Think About It podcast, on big ideas and great books, and co-host, with Caroline Weber, of The Proust Questionnaire podcast.

Sarah Boye is a public history graduate researcher at the University of Central Florida whose work explores neglected narratives in Orlando’s past, with a focus on marginalized communities and Civil War memory. She is the creator and host of Beneath the City Beautiful, a podcast which uncovers the hidden history of Orlando buried in Greenwood Cemetery.