Episodes

  • Nosferatu (Murnau 1922, Herzog 1979, Eggers 2024)
    Mar 8 2026

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    Matt and Katherine Bergevin follow up on their discussion of Dracula and Carmilla to discuss F.W. Murnau's 1922 classic horror film Nosferatu as well as two of the most important remakes by Werner Herzog and Robert Eggers.

    This podcast is tagged as explicit material because we discuss prominent themes from the films including sexuality, sexual assault, and animal abuse. While we do not go into more detail than is necessary, if you don't want to engage with these themes, this might not be for you.

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    2 hrs and 16 mins
  • Frankenstein: Student Edition
    Jan 30 2026

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    Students from Bard Early College Hudson Valley, Chance Tangunu (Poughkeepsie HS), Finn Simons (Beacon HS), Rowan Khleifat (Roy C. Ketcham HS), and Devin Suchite Rosado (Dover HS) discuss the 1818 edition of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and respond to our professor podcast on the same text.

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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • Antigone: Student Edition
    Nov 23 2025

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    Students from the Bard Sequence program Jentle Brown (Plainfield HS, NJ) , Donyjanae Weaver (Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS, DC) , and Aleeya White (Orange HS, NJ) discuss Sophocles' tragic play Antigone.

    Between minutes 25:00 and 29:11 we discuss Antigone's choice of death over life including thinking about this as a form of suicide. While the discussion is not graphic, anyone not interested in engaging with this content should skip this section.

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Dracula x Carmilla
    Sep 19 2025

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    Matt, Katherine Bergevin ( PhD candidate at Columbia University's Department of English and Comparative Literature), and Jehan Senai Worthy (Attorney at the Hudson Valley Justice Center) discuss two of the most influential vampire texts of all time: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla.

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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
    Sep 16 2025

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    Matt, Allen Ascher (Osher Lifelong Learning Institue at Rutgers University), and Patrick Oray (Bard High School Early College Baltimore) discuss Shakespeare's historical tragedy depicting the assassination of the Roman leader and it's aftermath.

    This podcast was recorded on August 20, 2025.

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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Things Fall Apart
    Aug 21 2025

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    Matt discusses Chinua Achebe's landmark novel Things Fall Apart with Yawa Agbemabiese (Bard Highschool Early College, DC) and Carla Stephens (Bard Queer Leadership Project, Borough of Brooklyn Chair for History and Culture at Bard Microcollege Brooklyn Public Library).

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    1 hr and 43 mins
  • The Communist Manifesto
    Jul 23 2025

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    Bard Sequence professors Rosie Jayde Uyola (BHSEC Bronx), Paul Gilmore (Plainfield High School, NJ), and Andrew Worthington (Orange High School, NJ) discuss Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto.

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • The Communist Manifesto: Students of the World Unite
    Jun 23 2025

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    Today, three students from the Bard Sequence program discuss Marx and Engels' seminal text: The Communist Manifesto.

    Anderson Morocho is from Orange High School in Orange, NJ. Dominick Cruz attends Bronx Envision Academy in Bronx, NY. David Ixcuna hails from Plainfield High School in Plainfield, NJ.

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    1 hr and 12 mins