Uncited: An English Lit Podcast
Uncited is an English literature podcast hosted by former English majors Amy and Chantelle. They revisit literary works from their undergraduate studies, covering the good, the bad, and the spectacularly ridiculous. The podcast offers a casual and humorous take on classic and obscure texts.
Episodes
And As Always, Works Cited Unavailable
We're saying goodbye in the only way we can. Thanks for the memories, everyone. It's been a blast.
Which Witch Ditched Willow Sound?
Amy is bringing us a book review of The Witch of Willow Sound by Vanessa F. Penney! This one has the honour of being THE LAST BOOK WE TALK ABOUT ON THE SHOW OH MY GOSH.
Uncited's Finest Hour ft. Scott Pilgrim (and Ben)
We are finally wrapping up our discussion of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series with Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour! Join us and Ben from Words About Books.
A Good Egg
Amy is joined by Sam who tries, and succeeds, to convince her to watch A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, by introducing her to Tales of Dunk and Egg by George R. R. Martin.
Diary Like a Nobody's Watching
We're talking about Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith! Oh, they've got JOKES today. (Victorian jokes (actually funny ones (no, seriously.)))
A Stuart McLean, Mean, Storytelling Machine
We're talking about Stuart McLean, whom Amy says is an integral part of English Canadian culture but whom Chantelle first heard of from Amy, just now! Featuring holiday stories and Dave Cooks the Turkey from The Vinyl Cafe.
That Son of a Bysshe, Ozymandias
Remember when Frankenstein's creature read Ozymandias? Yeah, us too. We're talking about Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley! (And........Horace Smith?)
Frankenstein: Reanimated (2025 Movie Edition)
We're going wayyyy back to our roots, revisiting Frankenstein from our very first episode. But this time we're mixing it up a little (the format, not the body parts). It's the 2025 Guillermo del Toro movie!
Out of the Tom Jones Woods (Part 4)
It's HAPPENING!!! We are FINISHING The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling by Henry Fielding! Get ready for the plot twist to end all plot twists, in the novel to change all novels.
WAHHH! WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT? (Tom Jones Part 3)
We're STILL talking about Henry Fielding's book, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling! We learn that Tom is a bit of a [long-handled gardening tool that can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker]. And he's been kissing Sophia's WHAT now?
He's Tom Jonesin' to Get This Girl Pregnant
We're back at it again with The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding, Books 3-7! Tom is accidentally the luckiest person in the world.
It's Not Unusual for Tom Jones to Get the Short End of the Stick
We're talking about Amy's favourite book, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding! Infants are abandoned! Women get called terrible names for getting pregnant out of wedlock! It's 800 pages!
I'll Make a M(ul)an Out of You: The Ballad (or Ode) of Mulan
We're talking about The Ballad of Mulan from 5th-6th century China! We talk gender, war, class, and how literature course options should be better!
Thou Art Welcome (These Songs Are Poems Now)
It's songs as poems part two! Can you guess the song? Will Amy think all of them are by Taylor Swift or Relient K? Find out!
You Pronounce Pluie "Louie"? Phooey!
Yes! It's the funny literature break we've been promising! We're talking about comedy poetry legend Ogden Nash, wordplay, and perhaps a new way to look at all of society as a whole?
Mad Regeneration: Ghost Road
We're finishing Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy with the final book, The Ghost Road! Be sure to follow along with this week's discussion questions:What?Why?Huh?
There's No "I" in Adore (The Eye in the Door)
We're continuing the Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker with Book 2: The Eye in the Door! This one is suddenly a lot bleaker than the last one, uh oh! Luckily, there's lots of smashin' to make up for it.
Talkin' Bout My Regeneration
It's trilogy time! We're talking about Regeneration, Book 1 of the Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker. Featuring familiar faces from World War 1 literature, a hospital magazine, and canon queer readings. Content warnings: War, death, corpses, mutilation, dismembered body parts, PTSD, dead animals, attempted suicide, conversion therapy.
Deception, Disgrace
You ever remember a book one way, and then you re-read it and it's... not that? Yeah, that was Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. CONTENT WARNINGS: Sexual assualt, abuse of authority, physical assault, racism, light homophobia, animal suffering, animal death, abortion. Yeah, sorry y'all.
Scott Pilgrim Fades Out (Volume 5)
We're back talking about Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe (Volume 5 in the series)! Featuring linguistics, comic book-specific literary techniques, and porch light sensors.
I'm Getting PAID to SPY on my Friend... AITA?
Amy, Chantelle, and Mr. E. Sangria are reading Am I The A**hole Stories from Read-it, the version of Reddit for fictional characters only! Are these guys in the wrong? And what stories are they from, anyway?
Room in the Classroom: Children's Lit Part 2
The long-awaited second part of our children's lit episode, four years after the original! Thank you to everyone who submitted audience recommendations for picture books many, many moons ago. And we are joined by a Very Special Guest who has Lots Of Experience reading to children!
Walking on Broken Glass Hotel
We're talking about The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel! This Canadian book by an Uncited alumnus author delves into murder accusations, investment fraud, and GHOSTS.
Billy Bishop Goes to War, but It Didn't Seem Like War at All
We're talking about Billy Bishop Goes to War, a musical by Eric Peterson and John MacLachlan Gray! Have you ever wanted to talk about World War I but make it fun and quirky and then make it very very sad? Fly on over.
Scott Pilgrim Sort of Gets It Together (Volume 4)
We're welcoming back our good friend Az (calscalzones on Bluesky) to talk about Bryan Lee O'Malley's Volume 4 of the Scott Pilgrim series, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together! We're talking allll the L words.
It Takes Two Dark Moons to Tango
We're reviewing one of Chantelle's top five favourite books ever, Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver! It's a queer YA fantasy that looks at: What if astrology was a main component of culture? How do we define our role in society? What if a lizard was real big?
The Handmaid's Tale: Don’t Let the Podcast Grind You Down
It's another epistolary novel, which means we're once again joined by special guest Jamie Anderson (jamienerdgirl on Bluesky) to talk about The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood! It's... oof.
Half-Blood Blues are Just Full-Blood Purples
We're talking about Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan! About taking a nice trip through the Polish countryside because of a music festival and—oh wait—no, it's about the Holocaust. Content warning for genocide, racism, and violence.
The Kappa Child is So Good, No Kappa
This week we're talking about Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child! Featuring Japanese folklore, Little House on the Prairie, a mysterious pregnancy, and so many cucumbers. Keep listening for more Canadian lit coming your way.
Wordy, Thirty, and Thriving: Delicious in Dungeon Volume 2
We're talking about Delicious in Dungeons, Volume 2 by Ryoko Kui! The gang is back at it again with giant chia pets, kelpie friends, and non-edible paintings.
Well Excuse Me, Princess Bride (Part 2)
We're talking about The Princess Bride again! We wrap up the main story then cover some hot takes from our lovely listeners. Buttercup's Baby coming soon (we swear).
Here Comes The Princess Bride
We're talking about Chantelle's favourite book, The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern by William Goldman! If you've seen the movie, buckle up because it's entirely the same yet completely different.
The Snow Ho Ho Queen
It's our last episode of the year and we're talking about Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen! How much does it have in common with Disney's Frozen? And how much does it have in common with The Secret, that 2006 manifestation book?
Can AI Tell Me a Story? (No)
Today we're reading THAT story. The story that pops up when you give ChatGPT the prompt "Tell me a story". Can it do it? (Spoiler: No, it can't.)
We Read Modern Folklore and We Want Modern FolkMORE
This week we're talking about Daniel Perry's Modern Folklore, a book about the things that haunt us: our regrets, our vices, the mysterious figure of a woman with long dark hair, rental units.
In Flanders Field Guide
This week, we talk about In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, along with other World War I poems in honour of Remembrance Day.
Don't Cage Your Little Sapling: Amy Fangirls Over The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy
This week Amy is sharing A Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy, her new book recommendation with a signed copy and a lending copy. This story on trans witchcraft talks about earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention, and we talk about cool witch s***.
Stephen, King of Time Travel: 11/22/63
This week we're welcoming back Jamie Anderson (@UnabashedJames) to talk about Stephen King's 11/22/63! Much like the book, we talk about the Kennedy assassination, sure. But mostly other things.
You Are What You Eat: Delicious in Dungeon Volume 1
This week we're talking about Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 1 by Ryoko Kui! In which walking mushrooms, screaming roots, and carnivorous plants are on the menu (along with friendship!)
Here Comes the Half of a Yellow Sun
We're talking about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun! This was a standout book and a hearty recommendation, but boy is it rough. Content warnings for genocide, violence, sexual assault, and murder of a pregnant woman.
Scott Pilgrim's Woe Tale Recall (Volume 3)
We're back in the Scott Pilgrim series with Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness! Plus, we're having something of an infinite sadness ourselves. But in a fun, chill way, you know?
Tell Me a Story (Iambic Pentathlon Part 2)
We're back with a group storytelling game! And it gets wild. Check out Glen and Gertie Nuzzles from Nuzzle House and Ben and Nate from Words About Books!
Iambic Pentathlon: Can You Bulls*** Like an English Major?
This week in honour of our 100th episode, we're playing a game with some of our podcast friends! Check out Jamie @UnabashedJames, Colin @ColinMParker, and Az @Cals_Calzones on Twitter!
On the Twelfth Night of Shakespeare
This week we're talking about William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, stage productions and adaptations, and Bard on the Beach in Vancouver! What does Willy do when he's scared? Willy Shakes.
Chantelle is a Swiftie (The Tortured Poets Department Part 2)
This week we're finishing up The Tortured Poets Department section from Taylor Swift's Eras tour set. Songs covered are Down Bad, Fortnight, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, and I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.
Taylor Swift: The Poets Will Continue To Be Tortured Until Society Improves
Is Chantelle... a Swiftie? In honour of the 18th birthday of Taylor Swift's music career, we're talking about songs from The Tortured Poets Department section of the Eras tour set: But Daddy I Love Him, So High School, and Who's Afraid of Little Old Me.
"I Think Emily Dickinson's a Lesbian." "Partial Credit."
This week we're talking about Emily Dickinson's poems and letters to her lifelong gal pal Susan Gilbert. References are mostly from Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert by Maria Popova. Happy Pride!
P.S. The world's oldest queer book store, Glad Day, needs help keeping its doors open as one of the city's core safe spaces! Can you help save Glad Day Bookshop? ht
Bridgerton Book 1: The D*** and I
In honour of the release of Bridgerton Season 3, we're tackling the first book in Julia Quinn's series, The Duke and I! We chat about daddy issues, "The Talk", and swimming in the River Thames. Content warning for sexual assault.
Beowulf's Party Cost an Arm and a Head
We're finally talking about Beowulf, the epic poem written for 300 years that could have ended about four times! Incoming intertextuality (?) with Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, The Fast and the Furious, James Bond, and Disney.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World vs. the Knives vs. the Gunfight (Volume 2)
This week we're talking about Volume 2 of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World! Scott finally makes the right choice, outsmarts Chris Evans on a skateboard, and has a breakdown about his ex.
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Episode (Volume 1)
This week we're talking about Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Volume 1 of the series)! We chat about the various adaptations of the series and Scott's single brain cell.
A Christmas Carol with Ebenuzzle Scrooge
This week we have Glen and Gertie Nuzzles to talk about A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens! We chat about ghost stories, Christmas in the Victorian era, old timey entertainment, and Muppet oppression. Find Glen and Gertie's podcast, Gestating the Curious Mind, under the Nuzzle House umbrella @HouseNuzzle.
Pulling Himself Through Time By His Bootstraps
This week we're talking about the 1941 sci fi short story By His Bootstraps by Robert A. Heinlein! Buckle up in the time gate to chat about paradoxes, capitalist propaganda, and Doctor Who.
Special Episode: Blind Date with a Book Changer
This week we're playing a new game courtesy Amy and ChatGPT! Chantelle is guessing books based on riddles. Will she live up to her English degree or will those book spines crack under the pressure?
Cupid's Arrow of God
This week we're rounding out Chinua Achebe's African Trilogy with Arrow of God! This episode memorializes Professor Pius Adesanmi, who made Amy love the book.
https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/carleton-mourns-loss-of-professor-pius-adesanmi/
https://youtu.be/fsxGJj6YsB8?si=ctSOFkLpW6N1_ZKP
And Another Thing Falls Apart
This week we're talking about Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, toxic masculinity, the insidiousness of colonialism, and yams.
This Ain't a Consolation Prize
This week we're taking a trip down memory lane to the city where it all began! Our chat on Consolation by Michael Redhill delves into memory, stories, history, and a whole lotta red tape. Content warning: suicide.
Sherlocking Lips With Your Holmies (Scandalously)
This week we're talking about Arthur Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia featuring your boy Sherlock Holmes! We chat feminism with Irene Adler (who is not like other girls) and how heart eyes can make you an unreliable narrator.
What If... Our Magik (z)Act was a Marvel?
This week we talk about Marvel comic What If... Magik Became the Sorcerer Supreme? Illyana Rasputin kicks butt, becomes an apprentice to Dr. Strange, and takes a nice little beach vacation.
Back on our Bullsh**: Original Poetry: Part 3?
We're back with original poems from reddit's r/OCPoetry and our beloved community! Thank you to Beesarecool, Marvellous_Loki, James Russell, Mayura/cenaplec, Peyton, James Teller of the If You Want the Gravy blog, Gertie from Nuzzle House, and Jamie from Timeline Scavengers for letting us share your poems!
Watermelon Episode
This week, we take a serious moment to talk about the genocide in Gaza. For more information, follow these creators:
@ahmedhijazee (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok)
@mahmoudzuaiter (TikTok) or @mahmoudabuzaiter (Instagram)
@motaz_azaiza (Instagram)
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@joegaza93 (Twitter, Instagram)
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"It's Not Bunny Ha Ha" -Harvey
This week we welcome Az (@Cals_Calzones) to talk about Harvey by Mary Chase, a play that explores the love between a man and his invisible 6 foot talking rabbit. We chat mental health, imaginary friends, and ghosts!
A Tell-Tale Heart Decom-Poe-sing Under the Floorboards
This week, Ben and Nate from Words About Books join us to talk about Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. We also discuss werewolves, anxiety, and Shakira. Follow wordsaboutbookspodcast on Instagram and Threads!
The Haunting of Chill House Beats to Relax/Study To
This week we're talking about Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House with special guest Ethan! We talk spooky ghosts, femme friendships, and "roommates".
A Modest Proposal to Eat Your Young
This week we talk about Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, a nice normal essay. Also, unrelated, Hozier's Eat Your Young.
Toit Nups
Amy is getting married! We're celebrating by reading love poems including Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Mountain Song by Tophouse, and a surprise sonnet.
Henriadstravaganza Epilogue: Henry VIII
In this very last episode of Shakespeare's histories, Amy brings us Henry VIII, which has less murder than you would expect and might be a eulogy!
Henriadstravaganza: Richard III
Today we're wrapping up (the main part of) Shakespeare's Henriad with our collective favourite history play, Richard III! We talk villain motivations, royal propaganda, and woman power in Medieval England.
Henriadstravaganza: Henry VI Part 3
We are finally finished with Shakespeare's Henry VI! Margaret goes nuclear, everyone dies, and our boy Richard III makes an appearance.
Henriadstravaganza: Henry VI Part 2
We're back with the second installment of the Henry VI trilogy, AKA Seventeen-Year-Old Gets Messy! Featuring prophecies, witches, murder, and no it's not Macbeth.
Henriadstravaganza: Henry VI Part 1
We are back with a healthy dose of Shakespearean history! This week we venture back into France, where things are going awry and the women (gasp) are doing WAR THINGS (GASP)! Featuring a special appearance by Joan of Arc.
Henriadstravaganza: War of the Roses Historlude
This week we take a break from Shakespeare's sparkling wit and charm to enjoy Amy's as she gives us a history background on the War of the Roses.
Henriadstravaganza: Henry V
We are about halfway through Shakespeare's Henriad with Henry V! We mosey on over to France for a fourteen year war that could have been avoided with foresight and a Zoom call.
Henriadstravaganza: Henry IV Part 2
We're back with the ending of Henry IV's story! Is this play good? Or could it have been an email? (Nice.)
Henriadstravaganza: Henry IV Part 1
We're still talking about rebellions, royals, and wars in Shakespeare's Henriad! This week, we talk about Henry IV Part 1, where everyone is named Henry and we meet the most aggro character of the Shakespeare canon.
Henriadstravaganza: Richard II
Years in the making, we're finally covering Shakespeare's Henriad in a new series! We begin with Richard II, who was indeed a Dick 2 everyone.
English Major Gets PRANKED (Gone Right)
In this episode recorded on April Fools Day (ish), we return to our dear old friend, Reddit OC Poetry... with a twist.
Dorian Gray Jokes Never Get Old
This week we're talking about Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray! In which everyone is in love with the same person and nobody wins. Content warning for suicide.
What Rhymes with the Ancient Mariner?
This week we talk about Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with a bad guy narrator.
You Ask Shalott of Questions
In this week's episode, we talk about Lord Alfred Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, plus wall repair and artificial intelligence.
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