Antigone: Student Edition

Nosferatu (Murnau 1922, Herzog 1979, Eggers 2024)

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2263187/fan_mail/new] 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.

Frankenstein: Student Edition

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2263187/fan_mail/new] 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.

Antigone: Student Edition

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2263187/fan_mail/new] 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.

Dracula x Carmilla

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2263187/fan_mail/new] 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.

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2263187/fan_mail/new] 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.