Category Archives: The Oxford Comment

Season’s Greetings – Episode 29 – The Oxford Comment



In this month’s episode, Sara Levine, Multimedia Producer, sat down with Katherine Connor Martin, head of US Dictionaries, Allan Metcalf, author of From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations, and Edmund Weiner, Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary to solve the season’s most baffling linguistic conundrums.

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Game On – Episode 28 – The Oxford Comment



As fall deepens, painted faces and packed stadiums abound, with sports aficionados all over the country (and world) preparing for a spectacle that is more than just entertainment. In this month’s episode, Sara Levine, Multimedia Producer for Oxford University Press, sat down to discuss the evolution of sports with Chuck Fountain, author of The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball, Julie Des Jardins, author of Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man, Dr. Munro Cullum, a Clinical Neuropsychologist who specializes in the assessment of cognitive disorders, and Paul Rouse, author of Sport and Ireland: A History.

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Trick or Treat – Episode 27 – The Oxford Comment



From baristas preparing pumpkin spiced lattes to grocery store aisles lined with bags of candy, the season has arrived for all things sweet-toothed and scary. In this month’s episode, we sat down with Katherine Connor Martin, Head of US Dictionaries for Oxford University Press, Greg Garrett, author of Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination, Jason Bivins, author of Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism, and Jim Buhler, co-author of Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History to broaden our understanding of Halloween.

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Between the Stacks – Episode 26 – The Oxford Comment



What, exactly, are the origins of the American public library? Sara Levine, Multimedia Producer for Oxford University Press, chats with Wayne Wiegand, author of Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library, and more.

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Portrait of a Lady – Episode 25 – The Oxford Comment



Estelle Hallick, an Associate Publicist in our New York Office, sits down to chat with Susan Doran, author of Elizabeth I and Her Circle, and her daughter, playwright Bathsheba Doran, about Elizabethan history.

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