About Me

I am currently the producer of The Ezra Klein Show, a podcast housed in the Opinion department of the New York Times. So far I have helped produce episodes on music, politics, intellectual history, LGBTQ history, education, philosophy, and more. I also had the honor and pleasure of guest-hosting an episode with the marvelous musician and public intellectual Allison Russell about what music does to us, how she has found “survivor’s joy” after generational and personal trauma, and so much more. The episode also features 4 live songs performed by Allison and her band, which were a joy to include and produce.

Previously I was a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow and the associate editor and podcast producer at Public Books, an online magazine of ideas, scholarship, and the arts. My career has combined teaching, academic research, arts journalism, and now editing and podcasting. My work tends to be guided by my passion for making academic knowledge and complex ideas engaging to a broad public.

At Public Books, I co-created, produced, and hosted the magazine’s public-scholarship podcast, Public Books 101. You can listen here (or in your favorite podcast app), learn more here, and find an accompanying reading list and set of discussion questions here.

I also covered music for about a decade at Paste Magazine, as well as music, books, and theater for publications including the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Washington City Paper, PopMatters, and Slant Magazine. You can find selected clips under “Culture Writing.”

My academic work has focused on contemporary global fiction, violence, critical theory, and visual media. I’ve taught college-level courses on gender and global literature, expository writing, writing about pop music, feminist theory, and global cultural studies. I’ve also spent a fair amount of time studying and teaching Irish literature and culture. I hold a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia and an M.Phil. in Irish Writing from Trinity College Dublin.

UVa Today, UVa’s publication, wrote a profile on my double life as an academic and music journalist. If you’d like to see how I see these pursuits as related, then please check it out! I also received coverage in UVa Today upon winning a Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens and Scholars in 2016.

Last thing: before having kids, I volunteered for five years with the Trevor Project, a national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide-prevention services to LGBTQ+ youth. You can learn more about their mission here.

You can reach me @anniehgalvin on Twitter or anne.galvin@gmail.com.

(photo: Dan Addison)