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Wild Olive

Wild Olive

By: Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird
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 The Wild Olive Podcast brings you game-changing conversations about literature, culture, and the Bible. With co-hosts Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird, Wild Olive serves up idea-feasts: tasty insights about biblical texts and contemporary (or classic!) literature, with generous side-portions of cultural commentary and hearty laughter. One literature professor + one biblical studies professor = uncontrolled, out-of-bounds, untamed conversation: ideal listening for the post-evangelical, the spiritual-but-not-religious, the Bible-curious secularist, the free-thinking religionist, and the literary-but-not-stodgy! New episodes every other Friday!© 2023 Wild Olive Art Christianity Literary History & Criticism Spirituality
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  • #66: American Lazarus with Joanna Brooks

    #66: American Lazarus with Joanna Brooks
    Feb 13 2026

    Wild Olive is back! Join Jeanne as she talks with literature scholar and Mormon influencer Joanna Brooks about the Lazarus tradition in early American literature.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • #65: The War Within Us with Prof. Liam Corley

    #65: The War Within Us with Prof. Liam Corley
    Nov 14 2025

    Jeanne talks with Liam Corley, a Professor, Scholar, Poet and Solider. Together they discuss his article "The Jouissance" of Belief: Devotional Reading and the (Re)Turn to Religion" as well as how war and prose go hand in hand. Prof. Corley's article can be found here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44314029

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    53 mins
  • #64: Storytelling and Identity with Peggy Sturba

    #64: Storytelling and Identity with Peggy Sturba
    Oct 3 2025

    Jeanne talks with Peggy Sturba, Visiting Asst. Professor of Honors at Coastal Carolina University and author of "‘That Which Remains: Memory, Identity, and Gothic Modernism in McCormack’s Solar Bones".

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    48 mins
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