Porno Cultures Podcast: graduate student roundtable

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe Porno Cultures Podcast was created in 2017 by Brandon Arroyo while finishing his PhD in Film & Moving Image studies at Concordia University. After being a fan of podcasts for years, Brandon became frustrated that there were hardly any shows featuring the authors or ideas that he became familiar with while writing a dissertation centred on pornography studies. So, he decided to start his own show featuring academics writing about pornography. The podcast also includes performers, directors, bloggers, and playwrights who are helping us think about pornography within our culture in new and interesting ways. This is the podcast where we think about pornography rather than react to it. This is a partial transcript from an episode featuring four up-and-coming graduate students and recently minted PhDs talking about their experience working on pornography studies while in graduate school. The guests include John Paul Stadler, PhD in Literature with a certificate in feminist studies from Duke University, Darshana Mini, a PhD candidate in Cinema and Madia studies at the University of Southern California, Ben Strassfeld, PhD in Screen Arts & Cultures from the University of Michigan, and Madita Oeming, a PhD candidate in American Studies from the University of Paderbon in Germany. This conversation took place at the 2018 edition of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Toronto, Canada. To listen to more episodes and find out more about the podcast, check out the website (pornoculture.podomatic.com).