[Mary Rambaran-Olm] Is The Genre

Tim Barnes chats with literary historian, paleographer, and activist Mary Rambaran-Olm about her love of 80s cartoons, yarn work, and revealing the diverse history of the medieval era.

Dr. Mary Rambaran-Olm is a public scholar who examines the many contributions of non-white people in early England, despite it often figuring in scholarship as a uniformly white period. Relying heavily on cultural theorist Stuart Hall and post-colonial theorist Dipesh Chakrabarty, she explores both the rich contributions that non-white people made to the culture of early Medieval England from the fifth to the eleventh century.

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CREDITS:

• Host: Tim Barnes

• Guest: Mary Rambaran-Olm

• Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

• Music Engineer: Adam Smith (@a_scug on Instagram)

• Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

REFERENCES:

• M.R.O.’s Twitter

• M.R.O.’s Patreon

• Adventures of the Gummi Bears

• Smurfs

• Rupublic of Yarnia

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