Uncited: An English Lit Podcast
Episodes
And As Always, Works Cited Unavailable
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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?
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 TH...
Uncited's Finest Hour ft. Scott Pilgrim (and Ben)
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
A Good Egg
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Amy is joined by Sam who tries, and succeeds, to convince her to watch A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, by introducing her to Dunk and Egg.
Diary Like a Nobody's Watching
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
A Stuart McLean, Mean, Storytelling Machine
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
That Son of a Bysshe, Ozymandias
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Remember when Frankenstein read Ozymandias? Yeah, us too. We're talking about Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley! (And........Horace Smith?)
Frankenstein: Reanimated (2025 Movie Edition)
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 form...
Out of the Tom Jones Woods (Part 4)
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, i...
WAHHH! WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT? (Tom Jones Part 3)
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
He's Tom Jonesin' to Get This Girl Pregnant
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 wo...
It's Not Unusual for Tom Jones to Get the Short End of the Stick
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about Amy's favourite book, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding! Infants are abandoned! Women get called ter...
I'll Make a M(ul)an Out of You: The Ballad (or Ode) of Mulan
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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)
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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!
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yes! It's the funny literature break we've been promising! We're talking about comedy poetry legend Ogden Nash, wordplay, and perhaps a ne...
Mad Regeneration: Ghost Road
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
There's No "I" in Adore (The Eye in the Door)
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Talkin' Bout My Regeneration
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 liter...
Deception, Disgrace
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Scott Pilgrim Fades Out (Volume 5)
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're back talking about Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe (Volume 5 in the series)! Featuring linguistics, comic book-specific literary techniques, ...
I'm Getting PAID to SPY on my Friend... AITA?
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 g...
Room in the Classroom: Children's Lit Part 2
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The long-awaited second part of our children's lit episode, four years after the original! Thank you to everyone who submitted audience recommendation...
Walking on Broken Glass Hotel
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel! This Canadian book by an Uncited alumnus author delves into murder accusations, investme...
Billy Bishop Goes to War, but It Didn't Seem Like War at All
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Scott Pilgrim Sort of Gets It Together (Volume 4)
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Pilgr...
It Takes Two Dark Moons to Tango
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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: Wha...
The Handmaid's Tale: Don’t Let the Podcast Grind You Down
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's another epistolary novel, which means we're once again joined by special guest Jamie Anderson (jamienerdgirl on Bluesky) to talk about Th...
Half-Blood Blues are Just Full-Blood Purples
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Kappa Child is So Good, No Kappa
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child! Featuring Japanese folklore, Little House on the Prairie, a mysterious pregnancy,...
Wordy, Thirty, and Thriving: Delicious in Dungeon Volume 2
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 pa...
Well Excuse Me, Princess Bride (Part 2)
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Here Comes The Princess Bride
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
The Snow Ho Ho Queen
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Froz...
Can AI Tell Me a Story? (No)
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
In Flanders Field Guide
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 wi...
Stephen, King of Time Travel: 11/22/63
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
You Are What You Eat: Delicious in Dungeon Volume 1
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 1 by Ryoko Kui! In which walking mushrooms, screaming roots, and carnivorous plants are...
Here Comes the Half of a Yellow Sun
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. Conten...
Scott Pilgrim's Woe Tale Recall (Volume 3)
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're back in the Scott Pilgrim series with Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness! Plus, we're having something of an infinite sadness oursel...
Tell Me a Story (Iambic Pentathlon Part 2)
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Iambic Pentathlon: Can You Bulls*** Like an English Major?
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in honour of our 100th episode, we're playing a game with some of our podcast friends! Check out Jamie @UnabashedJames, Colin @ColinMPar...
On the Twelfth Night of Shakespeare
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, stage productions and adaptations, and Bard on the Beach in Vancouver! What does Wi...
Chantelle is a Swiftie (The Tortured Poets Department Part 2)
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're finishing up The Tortured Poets Department section from Taylor Swift's Eras tour set. Songs covered are Down Bad, Fortnight, T...
Taylor Swift: The Poets Will Continue To Be Tortured Until Society Improves
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 De...
"I Think Emily Dickinson's a Lesbian." "Partial Credit."
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about Emily Dickinson's poems and letters to her lifelong gal pal Susan Gilbert. References are mostly from Emily Dick...
Bridgerton Book 1: The D*** and I
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 is...
Beowulf's Party Cost an Arm and a Head
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're finally talking about Beowulf, the epic poem written for 300 years that could have ended about four times! Incoming intertextuality (?) with...
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World vs. the Knives vs. the Gunfight (Volume 2)
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Episode (Volume 1)
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 va...
A Christmas Carol with Ebenuzzle Scrooge
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Pulling Himself Through Time By His Bootstraps
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 parado...
Special Episode: Blind Date with a Book Changer
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Cupid's Arrow of God
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
And Another Thing Falls Apart
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, stor...
Sherlocking Lips With Your Holmies (Scandalously)
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
What If... Our Magik (z)Act was a Marvel?
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk about Marvel comic What If... Magik Became the Sorcerer Supreme? Illyana Rasputin kicks butt, becomes an apprentice to Dr. Strange, ...
Back on our Bullsh**: Original Poetry: Part 3?
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with original poems from reddit's r/OCPoetry and our beloved community! Thank you to Beesarecool, Marvellous_Loki, James Russell, Mayura/ce...
Watermelon Episode
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we take a serious moment to talk about the genocide in Gaza. For more information, follow these creators: @ahmedhijazee (Twitter, Instagra...
"It's Not Bunny Ha Ha" -Harvey
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 talk...
A Tell-Tale Heart Decom-Poe-sing Under the Floorboards
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, a...
The Haunting of Chill House Beats to Relax/Study To
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House with special guest Ethan! We talk spooky ghosts, femme friendships,...
A Modest Proposal to Eat Your Young
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Coun...
Toit Nups
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amy is getting married! We're celebrating by reading love poems including Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Mountain Song by Tophou...
Henriadstravaganza Epilogue: Henry VIII
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're wrapping up (the main part of) Shakespeare's Henriad with our collective favourite history play, Richard III! We talk villain moti...
Henriadstravaganza: Henry VI Part 3
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with the second installment of the Henry VI trilogy, AKA Seventeen-Year-Old Gets Messy! Featuring prophecies, witches, murder, and no i...
Henriadstravaganza: Henry VI Part 1
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Henriadstravaganza: War of the Roses Historlude
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ros...
Henriadstravaganza: Henry V
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Henriadstravaganza: Henry IV Part 2
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
Henriadstravaganza: Richard II
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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)
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 nobo...
What Rhymes with the Ancient Mariner?
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, we talk about Lord Alfred Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, plus wall repair and artificial intelligence.
We Recommend #IndianLovePoems
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we recommend and have a short preview of #IndianLovePoems by Tenille Campbell (edited by Garry Thomas Morse, Signature Editions, 2017)! You ...
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Who is in Therapy
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our longest episode ever, we're joined by the illustrious James Anderson (@UnabashedJames) to discuss Stephen Chbosky's coming-of-age classic, Perk...
Meet Your Match, Girl
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk about Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl, then go off the rails about our school year experiences. Wild rides abound. C...
What's Your New Year's Restoration?
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For this first episode of the year, we go in with no plan, and come out with a reasonably cohesive comparative analysis of The Disabled Debauchee and ...
The One Where We Get Blitzened
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special holiday episode, we try to talk about Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman and things go off the rails real quick.
Where Are You Going, Where HAVE! YOU? BEEN?
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates, and it is rough! Content warning for sexual assault, implied murder, and ...
Nothing Really Mathers
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hop over from an English class to a history class! We're wrapping up our series on the Salem witch trials with Cotton Mather's primary source text, On...
The Nice and Accurate Biography of Tituba
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're staying with the Salem witch trials and reading Moi, Tituba on the internet's least reliable FRENCH literature podcast this week! Amy maintains ...
The Crucible Doesn't Leave Us Hanging
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's Halloween! And Uncited's second anniversary! And Amy is engaged! To celebrate, we're talking about witches and communism in Arthur Miller's The C...
Can't (er) Bury These Tales
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're heading back to Medieval England with Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales! We learn that the Knight and the Wife of Bath have very different routes t...
Sandman, Bring Me Another Guest Episode
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our official Sandman correspondent Zach is back for another special guest episode! This time, we're covering the Netflix adaptation and how it compare...
Special Episode: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're reading An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce for the first time! Thank you to Uncanny Robot Podcast for suggesting the ...
50th Episode!: Station Eleven
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wow, we made it through fifty episodes! And we picked... the saddest book to celebrate. We talk about YOUR best and worst books from school, plus Stat...
"It's Not Funny Ha Ha" -Chekhov
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat about Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, including: what it means to be a comedy, hypocritical characters, and what the heck happen...
Hey Now, You're The Name of the Star
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back on our YA with Maureen Johnson's The Name of the Star, which one of us has read! Featuring classic Uncited hits like Ghosts are Real, Roman...
Porphyria's L(over it)
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about how Porphyria's Lover, a very weird Victorian poem named after a disease that turns your pee purple, is actually a feminist masterpiece....
We Built This City of Bones
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to YA week! We talk about Cassandra Clare's City of Bones from The Mortal Instruments series. Special mention goes to my brother, Alec.
On Pride Months We Read Equal Rites
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back to our ally extraordinaire homeboy, Terry Pratchett! Amy and special guest Sam talk about Equal Rites from the Discworld series.
Romeo and Juliet's Favourite Fruit is Can't-elope
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by very special guests, Glen and Gertie Nuzzles to talk about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet! We queer read some characters, ju...
A.S.S.: Auden, Shelley, Shakespeare
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Did Auden write autobiographically? Was Percy Shelley really that bad? Would Shakespeare have been Instagram famous? These are our ponderings as we di...