Sep 18, 2023
Welcome to Season 3, Episode 36. Today’s
conversation is with the amazing Professor Elise
Wang. We’re fascinated by conspiracy theories and how
people twist themselves into logical knots to believe them. This
led us to Dr. Wang’s very informative and engaging
TEDx Talk on
Why Some Conspiracy Theories Just Won’t Die.
She is an Assistant Professor at Cal State Fullerton with focus
areas that include literatures of late medieval England; Piers
Plowman; legal history; punishment theory; premodern race and
critical race theory; conspiracy narratives; and early global
literatures. Elise’s first book, The
Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English
Literature, explores the theorization of guilt
through how the literature of that day wrote about felony law.
She’s also working on her second book already,
Evidence as Style, in which she
traces the internal logic of conspiracy theories. In our
conversation, we talk about her professional journey, the logic of
conspiracy theorists, the impact of the internet on conspiracy
theories, her upcoming books, what conspiracy theories the API
community should worry about, awkward moments caused by her
research, and more. We highly recommend watching her TEDx Talk and
her interview about Pizzagate
on Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy. For previous episodes and
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