May
21
2026
SMT-Pod has debuted its fifth season! A new episode will be released every week.
A new episode is released every Thursday, beginning April 10, 2025.
| Episode | Date | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | April 23 | SMT-Pod Student Seminar Series: Gender and Contemporary Opera (Introduction) | Rachel Lumsden |
| 5.2 | April 30 | Trauma and Vocal Utterances in Ellen Reid's p r i s m (2018) | Aaron D'Zurilla |
| 5.3 | May 7 | The Two Harriets in Thea Musgrave's Harriet, The Woman Called Moses | Isabel Milbourn |
| 5.4 | May 14 | Power and Captivity in Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots | Zachary Simonds |
| 5.5 | May 21 | Texture, Timbre, and Instrumentation in Laura Kaminsky's As One: A Trans Narrative | Brandon D. Scribner |
| 5.6 | May 28 | Gender and the Death Trope in Judith Weir's The Black Spider | Luis Matos-Tovar |
| 5.7 | June 4 | Is It Over? How Silence Frames Musical Beginnings and Endings in Arvo Pärt's 'Ludus' | Hang Ki Choi |
| 5.8 | June 11 | One Block to Rule Them All: The Single-Block Form in African Music | Alice (Bai) Xue |
| 5.9 | June 18 | Swan Lake: How the Classical Ballet Became a Political Mosh | Sasha Drozzina |
| 5.10 | June 25 | How Anime Opening Credits Hook You and Tell You a Story | Tan Nazare |