The Dylantantes Podcast

What Is It about Bob Dylan?Dr. Robert Reginio is our guest on The Dylantantes podcast.Rob Reginio is a professor English at Alfred University in Western New York. He is the editor of and contributor to the collection Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art. He has published and presented widely on modernism and memory and has published pieces on Dylan and race and Dylan and Emmanuel Levinas. He is a member of the editorial board of The Dylan Review. He serves as the Hagar Professor of the Humanities at

What Is It about Bob Dylan?Dr. Graley Herren is our guest on The Dylantantes podcast.Graley is Professor and Chair of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He is the author of Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s Time Out of Mind, published by Anthem Press in 2021 and now available in paperback.He is also the author of books on Samuel Beckett and Don DeLillo, and many articles and book chapters, including several on Dylan. Each year he teaches a first-year seminar on Dylan, and he is currently

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For all of my life, I have not met Bob Dylan. In fact, not meeting Bob Dylan is a big part of my day-to-day. I can honestly say that my close, personal relationship with Bob Dylan, established when I was a teen and more deeply developed over subsequent decades, only exists to the extent that it has not happened yet. Sure, there was that time recently when my car almost collided with Dylan’s tour bus behind the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York, but my wife, who is an excellent driver, deftly

What Is It about Bob Dylan?Dr. Court Carney is our second guest on The Dylantantes podcast.Court is a history professor at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. He is  the author of Cutting Up: How Early Jazz Got America’s Ear and is currently finishing a manuscript on the public memory and image of the infamous rat-b*****d Nathan Bedford Forrest. For fun, he is a member of a teaching/research group centered on Woodie Guthrie and is co-editing — along with our inaugural guest,

Welcome to our numerous early subscribers! As we fill this site with content, we invite you to participate in the community by offering comments and suggestions.You want to talk to meGo ahead and talkWhatever you got to say to meWon’t come as any shockI must be guilty of somethingYou just whisper it into my earAlso, feel free to share the material widely.Thanks for sailing with us!What Is It about Bob Dylan?This interview with Dr. Erin Callahan constitutes the inaugural podcast of The Dylantantes