Episodes of Remarkable Receptions

Here's a list of the podcast episodes for Remarkable Receptions.

The episodes are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Buzzsprout,  PlayerFM, and Podcast Republic.

[Related: Episodes (by topics) of Remarkable Receptions]

Season 1

1. Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad – Howard Rambsy II and Elizabeth Cali

2. Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing – Ebony Lumumba

3. Toni Morrison's Beloved – Courtney Thorsson

4. Richard Wright's infamous review – Howard Rambsy II

5. Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone – Richard Schur

6. 3 Novels, 3 Years: Pauline Hopkins – Elizabeth Cali

7. The Largest Vocabulary in African American Literature – Howard Rambsy II 

Season 2

1. Alice Walker’s The Color Purple – Kathy Lou Schultz

2. Pauline Hopkins’s Hagar's Daughter – Alisha Knight

3. Octavia Butler and Wikipedia – Howard Rambsy II and Kenton Rambsy

4. Reading Jesmyn Ward at Parchman – Ebony Lumumba

5. Paul Beatty and Vocabulary – Howard Rambsy II

6. Ernest Gaines and film – Keith Clark

7. Black cultural mythology and Song of Solomon – Christel Temple 

Season 3

1. Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) – Shanna Benjamin

2. Toni Morrison and Vocabulary – Howard Rambsy II

3. Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) –  Donavan Ramon

4. Trudier Harris’s prolific scholarship on African American Novels – Howard Rambsy II

5. Paul Beatty and the Booker Prize – Cameron Leader-Picone

6. Colson Whitehead and Vocabulary – Howard Rambsy II

7. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man – Laura Vrana 

Season 4

1. Toni Morrison and the Seven Days – Abbey Morgan

2. Richard Wright's Native Son – Joseph G. Ramsey

3. The Evolving Reception of The Bluest Eye – Richard Schur

4. Black Writers & Afro-Mississippians – C. Liegh McInnis

5. The Sisterhood, 1977 photograph – Courtney Thorsson

6. The Story of Battle Royal – Kenton Rambsy

7. Graphic Novel--Red, White & Black – Stephyn Phillips

Season 5

1. African American Novels and the 1990s  – Richard Schur 

2. Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy – Emily VanDette 

3. Angie Thomas and Literary Activism – Ebony Lumumba 

4. Black Women Writers courses –  Howard Rambsy II

5. The Mixed Results of Sutton Griggs's debut – John Gruesser

6. How Students Connect to Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal" – Jennifer Colatosti

7. Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale – Aneeka Ayanna Henderson 

Season 6

1. Black Men Novelists and Intellectual Traditions – Howard Rambsy II

2. Static Shock – Stephyn Phillips 

3. The Bluest Eye doesn’t go down easy –  Kathryn Warren

4. The Color Purple film adaptation – Nicole Dixon

5. Read black novels, find Harriet Jacobs’s legacy – Elizabeth Cali 

6. The Color Purple musical adaptation – Carmin Wong

7. Green Lantern (John Stewart) – Stephyn Phillips

Season 7

1. One of the smartest characters in African American fiction – Howard Rambsy II

2. Oprah Winfrey, Film, and African American literature – Nicole Dixon

3. The Bench by the Road Project – Howard Rambsy II

4. African American literature survey courses – Elizabeth Cali and Howard Rambsy II

5. HBW's Novel Collection –  Howard Rambsy II

6. Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Midnight Angels –  Howard Rambsy II

7. Waiting to Exhale film adaptation – Nicole Dixon

Season 8

1. The 50th episode of Remarkable Receptions – Howard Rambsy II

2. Storm – Stephyn Phillips

3. Marc Olden, a prolific, largely unknown novelist – Howard Rambsy II

4. Novelist and Television writer, Nichelle Tramble Spellman – Nicole Dixon and Howard Rambsy II

5. Blade, Vampire Hunter  – Stephyn Phillips

6. August Wilson - Nicole Dixon 

7. The Most African American literature courses in the Country – Howard Rambsy II

Season 9

1. Frequently Featured Authors in African American Review –  Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II

2. Frequently Featured Authors in the CLA Journal –  Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II

3. Quantifying African American Novel Ratings on Goodreads –  Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II

4. Film Adaptations and Wikipedia pageviews –  Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II

5. Quantifying Toni Morrison's Reception –  Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II

6. African American Literary Data Work –  Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II

7. Some Ways of Thinking about African American Literary Data Work –  Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II

Season 10

1. African American literature, film adaptations, and Barry Jenkins – Nicole Dixon

2. 1970s Black Superheroes – Stephyn Phillips

3. Wayetu Moore’s She Would Be King –  by Ebony Lumumba

4. Jonathan Majors the Conqueror – Terrance Wellmaker 

5. From Verses to Visuals on Jack Johnson – Howard Rambsy II

6. Toni Morrison's statement about writing & revision – Howard Rambsy II