Literary Archives in the Digital Age: An Overdue Conversation with Dr. Lise Jaillant
This episode grapples with the many implications of one big question: what happens to literary archives when most of the work and communications around book publishing now occurs digitally? Columbia literature curator Melina Moe sits down with Lise Jaillant–an author, researcher, and lecturer at Loughborough University–to discuss this. Lise Jaillant’s research lies at the intersection…
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Deciphering Digital Archives: An Overdue Conversation with Trevor Owens
In this episode, Columbia literature curator Melina Moe sits down with Trevor Owens, the head of Digital Content Management at the Library of Congress. Trevor is the first person to hold this position because it’s new— in fact, digital content management is new to most institutions. Melina and Trevor discuss the many, sometimes contradictory, challenges…
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The Digitization of Archives: In Case of Emergency or the New Normal? An Overdue Conversation with Peter Hirtle
As the COVID-19 pandemic compelled libraries and archives worldwide to close their doors indefinitely, stranded researchers were compelled to radically reimagine what a visit to the archive might look like. Rather than scrutinizing text amid the dust of decaying paper in a Special Collections Reading Room, these researchers found themselves poring over digitized documents bathed…
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Disappearing Publisher Archives in the Digital Age: An Overdue Conversation with Matthew Kirschenbaum
Publishing houses make the study of literature possible in more ways than one. Not only do publishing houses make literary texts available as finished goods for our cultural consumption, the archival holdings of these publishing houses also contain evidence of literature in its myriad unfinished, intermittent, exploratory forms before and after publication. Publisher archives house…
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A People’s History of Computing in the United States: An Overdue Conversation with Joy Lisi Rankin
In this episode, Columbia literature curator Melina Moe sits down with historian and curator of NYU’s AI Now Institute and author of A People’s History of Computing in the United States, Joy Lisi Rankin. Melina and Joy discuss urgent questions about the social history of computing; the ethical dilemmas posed by the power of tech…
Overdue Conversations is a podcast about the ways archives inform our discussions around history, literature, and politics. From digital publishing to reparative justice, climate change to public health, this series of Overdue Conversations takes archival documents out of the stacks and into the public forum to consider how collecting practices, selective reading, and erasure of past knowledge informs and distorts contemporary debates.
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