d’Archive Episode 55: Disgruntled Haradrim, Tolkien’s Multiverse, and AfroFuturism

d’Archive Episode 56: Dune and the Campus Cult

This episode features a deep dive into archives and library collections that relate to the fantastical desert world of Dune created by author Frank Herbert (1920-1986) which gained traction with environmental activists of the late 1960s and 70s. This research session integrates my field recordings from the archives doing research into this selected topic on […]

d’Archive Episode 55: Disgruntled Haradrim, Tolkien’s Multiverse, and AfroFuturism

This episode features a conversation with Assistant Professor Dexter Gabriel of the UConn History Department who writes speculative fiction under the pen name P. Djèlí Clark. This is Part 2 of the research sessions episodes on Hippie Hobbits (d’Archive #50) and the influences of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth on the late1960s counter-culture as discovered through […]

d’Archive Episode 54: Zines, Printmaking, and Impractical Labor with Emily Larned

This episode of d’Archive features a conversation with Emily Larned who is a printmaker, zinester, and Associate Professor of Art in Graphic Design at UConn’s School of Fine Arts. We discuss her history as a Zine maker and creator of artists’ books, her co-founding of the Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (ILLSA), and continued […]

d’Archive Episode 53: James Marshall Fellow 2024

This episode of d’Archive is hosted by archivist Kristin Eshelman in conversation with elementary school educator and picture book maker Corbin Lichtinger. Corbin spent time in the John P. McDonald Reading Room researching the James Marshall Papers as the 2024 James Marshall Fellow. This conversation features his perspective on process, creative pedagogy, and children’s books as he explored the […]

d’Archive Episode 52: Gary King, Organizing for Change 1974

This episode features an exhibition walkthrough with alumni Gary King (’74) who was active in organizing Black students during his time at the University of Connecticut, Storrs campus. One of the high-water marks for activism by students of color at UConn was the 1974 Black Student Sit-In in Wilbur Cross Library which he operated as […]