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Episode 14: A Conversation with David Frank about Leisure Reading

Our guest for this episode is David Frank, the Access Services Librarian at Walsh Library. Please join us for a lively discussion about our favorite sports books from the Walsh Library Leisure Reading Collection. Our recommendations include The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams by Darcy Frey, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss, and The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman. 

David Frank is the Access Services Librarian at Seton Hall University Libraries. He joined Seton Hall in November 2022. He oversees circulation, interlibrary loan, and library stacks maintenance while also assisting with teaching, reference, and other public service activities. Prior to arriving at Seton Hall, David worked for 25 years in the University of Pittsburgh libraries, providing essential support in circulation, reference, interlibrary loan, information literacy, special collections, and serials management. Career highlights include receiving the 2017 University Library System (ULS) Staff Excellence Award, participating in the HathiTrust Copyright Review Program, and serving as co-chair of the ULS Planning & Budget Committee. David also worked for many years as a part-time librarian at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; he received a Master of Library and Information Science degree in 2001 and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in 1997, both from the University of Pittsburgh.

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Episode 13: “The Ambiguity of Being, Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural,” With Jonathan Heaps, Ph.D.

We are happy to announce the latest installment of the University Libraries podcast series entitled: Zet Forward. This podcast entitled: “The Ambiguity of Being Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural,” (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 2025). This broadcast features Director of the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute, Center for Catholic Studies and Adjunct Professor in the Core Curriculum, Dr. Jonathan Heaps. 

Publication Website (Catholic University of America Press)

Dr. Jonathan Heaps - Faculty Profile Page

Podcast 12: “Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences,” With Kelly Goedert, Ph.D. and Susan Nolan, Ph.D.

We are happy to announce the latest installment of the University Libraries podcast series entitled: Zet Forward. This podcast entitled: "Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences," (New York: Worth Publishers, Macmillan Learning, 2024) features an interview with Dr. Kelly Goedert, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies and Dr. Susan Nolan, Professor of Cognitive Psychology. Each discusses their respective research and writing process along with related perspectives on this recently published title. 

Publication Website (Worth Publishers, Macmillan Learning)

 

Dr. Kelly Goedert - Faculty Profile Page

 

Dr. Susan Nolan - Faculty Profile Page

 

Podcast 11: “Medievalisms In A Global Age,” with Dr. Angela Weisl and Professor Rachael Warmington

We are happy to announce the latest installment of the University Libraries podcast series entitled: Zet Forward. This podcast entitled: “Medievalisms In A Global Age,” (Cambridge, England: Boydell & Brewer, 2024) features an interview with Dr. Angela Weisl, Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Professor Rachael Warmington, Head of the Digital Humanities Faculty Learning Community which is part of the Center for Faculty Development at Seton Hall University. Each discusses their respective research and writing process along with related perspectives on this recently published title.

Publication Website (Boydell & Brewer)

Dr. Angela Weisl - Faculty Profile Page

Professor Rachael Warmington - Faculty Profile Page

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Episode 10: Front Office Fantasies with Dr. Branden Buehler

Our guest for this episode is Dr. Branden Buehler. Dr. Buehler is in the Department of Communication, Media, and Arts at Seton Hall University, where he is an Associate Professor of Visual and Sound Media.

Branden Buehler is a media studies scholar who received his Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. His research centers around sports media, with a particular focus on sports television and sports media industries. His book Front Office Fantasies: The Rise of Managerial Sports Media, which examines the ubiquity of sports media texts focused on administrative figures and bureaucratic duties, was published by University of Illinois Press in 2023. We will be discussing Front Office Fantasies on this episode. 

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Episode 9: All American Boys with Brendan Kiely

Our guest for this episode is Professor Brendan Kiely. Professor Kiely is a Writer-in- Residence in the English Department at Seton Hall University, where he teaches about fiction writing. He is The New York Times bestselling author of All American Boys (with Jason Reynolds), Tradition, The Last True Love Story, and The Gospel of Winter. His most recent book is The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege. His work has been published in over a dozen languages, and has received the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award, the Walter Dean Meyers Award, and ALA’s Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults. 

In this episode, we discuss his New York Times Best Seller All American Boys. The New York Public Library has selected All-American Boys for its Teen Banned Book Club. The novel, tells the story of two teens—one Black, one white—grappling with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country divided by racial tension.

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Episode 8: Seton Hall University: A History, 1856-2006 with Dr. Dermot Quinn

We are happy to announce the latest installment of the University Libraries podcast series entitled: Zet Forward. This podcast entitled: “Seton Hall University: A History, 1856-2006," features an interview with Dr. Dermot Quinn from the Department of History. He discusses the research and writing process associated with this recently published book. 

Quinn, Dermot. Seton Hall University: A History, 1856-2006. Rutgers University Press, 2023. 

Publication Website (Rutgers University Press)

Dr. Dermot Quinn - Faculty Profile Page

 

Episode 7: Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition with Dr. James Daniel

In this episode we discuss Dr. James Daniel's book "Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition." The book argues that capitalism is responsible for the entangled catastrophes of the twenty-first century, and that it must accordingly become a central focus in the teaching of writing. Daniel calls for an ambitious re-imagining of composition as a discipline opposed to capitalism's excesses.

Dr. Daniel is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of Basic Writing and Assessment in the English Department at Seton Hall University. His research theorizes how the writing classroom can valuably explore issues of precarity, economic inequality, and workers’ rights.

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Episode 6: The Republic of the Church with Dr. Bill Connell

Dr. Bill Connell discusses "The Republic of the Church," the first history of the Catholic Church written by a layperson. All of the early histories of the church from the three hundreds up until this writer, in 1541, were written by priests. According to Dr. Connell, it can be called the first modern history of the church. Dr. Connell is Seton Hall's La Motta Chair of Italian Studies and specializes in medieval and early modern intellectual history.

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Episode 5: Podcast on Historical Scholarship on Brazil and Japan – Dr. Anne Giblin Gedacht & Dr. Kirsten Schultz

We are happy to announce the latest installment of the University Libraries podcast series entitled: Zet Forward. This podcast entitled: “Historical Scholarship on Brazil and Japan,” features an interview with with Dr. Anne Giblin Gedacht and Dr. Kirsten Schultz from the Department of History, College of Arts & Sciences at Seton Hall University. Each discusses their respective research and writing process along with related perspectives on their recently published books.

Gedacht, Anne Giblin. Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan. Brill, 2023.

Publication Website (Brill)

Dr. Anne Giblin Gedacht - Faculty Profile Page

Schultz, Kirsten. From Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil. Yale University Press, 2023.

Publication Website (Yale University Press)

Dr. Kirsten Schultz - Faculty Profile Page

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