[Jeremy Dauber: What’s coming up]: How to save the humanities (or at least try) + why he’s obsessed with the 80s Ep 1154

Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

Welcome back to part 3 of my interview with Jeremey Dauber, a processor of Jewish literature and American studies at Columbia University and the author of the new book "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond,” which chronicles the rise and enduring grip of fear and horror throughout American culture and American history.

As “J.A. Dauber,” he is also the author of the YA novel "Mayhem and Madness: Chronicles of a Teenaged Supervillain," and his new middle grade novel, currently titled "Press 1 For 1nvasion," is coming out in 2025.

In this final installment, we talked about:

- The seminar he’s teaching in the spring that’s giving him a great excuse to watch shows and movies set in the 1980s (with lots of recommendations)

- The two Stephens whose bodies of work inspire him

- His thoughts on how to “re-enchant” students and the world on the humanities

- The BBC show and his wife can’t stop watching once they start

- The niche music genre he listens to when he wants to get psyched up

- The gameshow mash-up he’d like to see

For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com.

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