Humanities on the High Plains

Humanities on the High Plains

Ryan M. Brooks

Episodes 19
Avg. Duration 46m
Activity Moderate
Since Apr 2020
Latest Episode May 2025

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About This Podcast

Humanities on the High Plains is a podcast focusing on humanities scholarship, with a special emphasis on topics relevant to the Texas Panhandle and the High Plains. Hosted by Ryan M. Brooks, Assistant Professor of English at West Texas A&M University, each episode features in-depth conversations with scholars exploring new ideas and methods in disciplines like literature, film studies, and cultural history.

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Recent Episodes

S1E19 Ep. 19 The Bomb Cloud

May 07, 2025 55m

Our guest this episode is Tyler Mills, an instructor at Sarah Lawrence College's Writing Institute and an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in – among many other publications – The New…

S1E18 Ep. 18 For the Record

May 06, 2024 55m

In March 2023, The Canadian Record — the weekly newspaper of rural Canadian, TX, population 2,300 — suspended publication after 130 years in print. Ryan's guests this episode are Laurie Ezzell Brown,…

S1E17 Ep. 17 George Saunders

Mar 26, 2024 42m

Before he was a MacArthur Genius or a Booker Prize-winner, George Saunders was a songwriter, an oil-field worker, and a slaughterhouse "knuckle-puller," not to mention an MA student at what was then…

S1E16 Ep. 16 Shadow of the New Deal

Dec 05, 2023 56m

The history of public media is the history of fidelity to an idea: access to public education is "not only a service but a right." On this episode we're joined by Dr. Josh Shepperd, Assistant…

S1E15 Ep. 15 The Thirsty Llano Estacado

May 16, 2023 48m

Ryan's guests this episode are Dr. Timothy M. Foster, former WT prof and currently a Spanish teacher in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and Dr. John Beusterien, Professor of Spanish at Texas Tech University in…

S1E14 Ep. 14 The ERA in the West

Mar 13, 2023 33m

Our guest this episode is WT history professor Dr. Chelsea Ball, author of "'I Oppose the ERA, but I Do Approve of Equal Rights for Women': Gender and Politics in the Aftermath of the Equal Rights…

S1E13 Ep. 13 Dirty Knowledge

Dec 14, 2022 35m

Ryan's guest on this episode is Dr. Julia Schleck, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Schleck joins us to discuss her book, Dirty…

S1E12 Ep. 12 You Will Never Be One of Us

Oct 22, 2022 52m

In this episode, Ryan speaks with his WT colleague Dr. Timothy Paul Bowman, historian and author of You Will Never Be One of Us: A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical…

S1E11 Ep. 11 Running Out

May 13, 2022 46m

On this episode, Ryan is joined by two of his WT colleagues — Dr. Nathan Howell, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, and Dr. Erik Crosman, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences…

S1E10 Ep. 10 Chicana/o Uprising

Mar 15, 2022 43m

In this episode, Ryan is joined by Dr. Joel Zapata to discuss his essay "The South-by-Southwest Borderlands' Chicana/o Uprising: the Brown Berets, Black and Brown Alliances, and the Fight against…

S1E9 Ep. 9 The Great Cowboy Strike

Jan 18, 2022 42m

On this episode, Ryan is joined by Mark. A. Lause, Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati and author of The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots, and Class Conflicts in the American…

S1E8 Ep. 8 Three Women Artists

Nov 30, 2021 43m

Ryan sits down with two of his WT colleagues, Dr. Amy Von Lintel, Professor of Art History, and Dr. Bonnie Roos, Professor of English, who join him to discuss their new book, Three Women Artists:…

S1E7 Ep. 7 The Vanishing Frame

Sep 16, 2021 38m

In this episode, Ryan is joined by Dr. Eugenio Di Stefano, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Di Stefano is the author of The…

S1E6 Ep. 6 Modern Socratic Dialogue

Apr 22, 2021 50m

How can educators cultivate self-cultivation in their students? How can they maintain an intimate connection between their scholarly research, what they teach, and how they teach? How can they…

S1E5 Ep. 5 History of the Gold Sox

Nov 13, 2020 50m

In 2019, after a nearly 40-year absence, affiliated minor-league baseball returned to Amarillo with the debut of the Sod Poodles, a Class AA Padres affiliate who won the Texas League title and drew…

S1E4 Ep. 4 Gunslinging Justice

Aug 03, 2020 1h 16m

For this episode, Ryan is joined by Justin A. Joyce, Research Director for President Dwight McBride at the New School in New York City, Managing Editor of the James Baldwin Review, and the author of…

S1E3 Episode 3: Heartland

Jun 18, 2020 1h 27m

In this episode, Ryan is joined by four of his WT colleagues: Dr. Alex Hunt, Dr. Tim Bowman, Dr. Ashley Pinkham, and Dr. Christopher Macaulay. Together we discuss Sarah Smarsh's bestselling 2018 book…

S1E2 Episode 2: Latin American Textualities

May 13, 2020 51m

Ryan's guests for this episode are Heather J. Allen, Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Mississippi, and Andrew R. Reynolds, Professor of Spanish at West Texas A&M University.…

S1E1 Episode 1: No Longer Newsworthy

Apr 12, 2020 1h 33m

In this episode, Ryan speaks with Christopher R. Martin, Professor of Communication Studies and Digital Journalism at the University of Northern Iowa. Martin is the author of No Longer Newsworthy:…

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