Meet Father Rivers intimately explores the life and legacy of Black Catholic priest, liturgist, composer and scholar Fr. Clarence Rivers (1931-2004), both on the individuals who knew him and on Catholic worship in North America. The podcast seeks to introduce Fr. Rivers to Catholics who have never heard of Rivers or the profound impact he made on the way Catholic worship looks and sounds today. It is co-hosted by Emily Strand and Eric T. Styles, writer and Rector at the University of Notre Dame.
Potterversity: a Potter Studies Podcast, co-hosted by Emily Strand and Dr. Katy McDaniel of Marietta College. Emily and her band The Town provided the podcast music for Potterversity (see the music page to listen to their podcast theme song, “Hedwig’s Funky Feathers”).
Emily was a regular guest and then co-host of the podcast Reading, Writing, Rowling, the successor to MuggleNet: Academia. Click here to listen to one of its 46 episodes. Favorites: Episodes 26 and 27 on humor in Harry Potter and Episode 22: Transfiguring Adoption. Emily collaborated with Emma Nicholson and Travis Prinzi to provide the theme song for the podcast.
Emily made several appearances on the podcast Mugglenet: Academia, hosted by John Granger and Keith Hawk. Most memorable were Episode 40: The Wizarding War Was Won on the Quidditch Pitch of Hogwarts, which featured Emily’s work on the symbolic nature of Quidditch in the Harry Potter series and Episode 41: Lightsabres and Wands, featuring Emily together with her teacher and friend, noted scholar Amy H. Sturgis, discussing the commonalities and cross-influences between the Harry Potter and Star Wars franchises.
Emily Strand co-hosted (with Bob Wurzelbacher) and produced the podcast Beyond the Words, a catechetical podcast on the changes to the words of the Catholic Mass that came into effect in November 2011 with the third edition of the Roman Missal. The podcast was sponsored jointly by the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the University of Dayton. The 14-episode series helps Catholics who attend Mass understand the power of words in the liturgy, the reason for the new words we pray, the context behind the changes and particular ways the changes have impacted Catholic ritual music.