Infinite Women
Infinite Women
Tune in for women's stories from throughout history, and check out our website, infinite-women.com, for bios, recommendations and more!
Episodes
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Feb 2, 2026 • 47min
Dr Vanessa R. Corcoran on the Virgin Mary in medieval art
Dr Vanessa R. Corcoran, a medieval historian and an advising dean at Georgetown University, joins us to discuss depictions of the Virgin Mary and how they reflect medieval society.Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Vanessa-R.-Corcoran-on-the-Virgin-Mary-in-medieval-art-transcript.pdf
Jan 26, 2026 • 1h 3min
Dr Zoë Burgess on mid-century amateur filmmakers
Dr Zoë Burgess, Senior Research Fellow at the University of West London’s London School of Film, Media and Design and Film Curator at Wessex Film & Sound Archive. She tells us about her research into gender and class in the WFSA’s Amateur Film Collection, focusing on the early years of film from 1895 to 1950. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Zoe-Burgess-on-mid-century-amateur-filmmakers-transcript.pdf
Jan 19, 2026 • 48min
Dr Shaune Lakin on Olive Cotton
Dr Shaune Lakin, Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to discuss Australian modernist photographer Olive Cotton. The exhibition "Olive Cotton and Her Contemporaries" (https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/making-it-modern-olive-cotton-and-her-contemporaries/) will be at the Gippsland Art Gallery in Victoria through 22 February, then at Cowra Regional Art Gallery in New South Wales from 14 March to 10 May. Cotton’s work is also currently on display at the NGA as part of the "Women Photographers 1853–2018" (https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/women-photographers/) collection display that will be up until 1 March 2026. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Shaune-Lakin-on-Olive-Cotton-transcript.pdf
Jan 12, 2026 • 40min
Dr Lisa Baer-Tsarfati on linguistic gender bias in AI
Dr Lisa Baer-Tsarfati joins us to discuss linguistic bias in artificial intelligence.Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Lisa-Baer-Tsarfati-on-linguistic-gender-bias-in-AI-transcript.pdf
Jan 5, 2026 • 35min
Dr Beth Hubble on Marie de France
Dr. Beth Hubble, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies professor at the University of Montana, is back for round two! Regular listeners may recall that Beth previously joined us to talk about transgender histories, but her first love is French medieval literature. If you have listened to her first episode, she mentioned that she has a tattoo of a quote in old French - which she reads, and that is quite possibly the biggest nerd flex I’ve ever heard, and I talk to a lot of nerds. So she’s here to regale us with a more in-depth conversation about 12th-century poet Marie de France, the first named poet in old French, originator of her tattoo quote and the reason Beth has a crocheted werewolf wearing trans pants on her desk. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Beth-Hubble-on-Marie-de-France-transcript-.pdf
Dec 29, 2025 • 25min
Melissa Chim on Margaret Guenther and the Episcopalian Church
Melissa Chim is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Excelsior University in New York and co-author of the book Living Archives: A History of the Center for Christian Spirituality. She joins us to discuss influential priest Margaret Guenther and women's contributions to the Episcopal Church.Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Melissa-Chim-on-Margaret-Guenther-and-the-Episcopalian-Church-transcript.pdf
Dec 22, 2025 • 39min
Susan Abernethy on Catherine of Braganza
Susan Abernethy is the author of Charles II's Portuguese Queen: The Legacy of Catherine of Braganza.Get the book: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Charles-IIs-Portuguese-Queen-by-Susan-Abernethy/9781036121648Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Susan-Abernethy-on-Catherine-of-Braganza-transcript.pdf
Dec 15, 2025 • 1h 5min
DeAnne Blanton on women in the US Civil War
DeAnne Blanton is the co-author of They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. DeAnne is also a retired reference archivist from the National Archives and Records Administration, where she worked for over 30 years and specialized in the Civil War and 19th century women’s history. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/DeAnne-Blanton-on-women-in-the-US-Civil-War-transcript.pdf
Dec 8, 2025 • 30min
Dr Victoria Wolcott on Eroseanna Robinson
Dr Victoria Wolcott, Professor of History and Director of the Gender Institute at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Wolcott is currently working on The Embodied Resistance of Eroseanna Robinson: Athleticism and Activism in the Cold War Era.Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Victoria-Wolcott-on-Eroseanna-Robinson-transcript.pdf
Dec 1, 2025 • 53min
Kristen Lopez on disability in films
Kristen Lopez is a journalist and author of the new book Popcorn Disabilities: The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kristen-Lopez-on-disability-in-film.pdf
