S10 E04 | Live from the Conference: C19 and the Public

For this episode, Sarah Buchmeier (Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago) and Karah Mitchell (Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia) moderated a live recorded conversation at C19’s 2026 conference in Cincinnati, OH with four experts whose work actively engages various publics: Nan Wolverton, Vice President for Academic and Public Programs at the American Antiquarian Society; Sarah Mesle, Teaching Professor of Writing at the University of Southern California; Ashley Glassburn, President’s Indigenous Peoples Scholar and Associate Professor at the University of Windsor; and Christy Pottroff, Assistant Professor of English at Boston College. For this episode, Sarah and Karah asked our experts questions about the possibilities and challenges of engaging in public humanities work and fielded questions from audience members as well. This episode presents listeners with a wide-ranging, lively, and wisdom-filled conversation about the public humanities and C19 studies, how to get involved in public-facing work, and how to meet current and future challenges to doing this work. This episode was produced by Sarah Buchmeier and Karah Mitchell. Transcript available here - https://bit.ly/4eIurI8.