Culture Study Podcast - February 23, 2026


[PREVIEW] SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE： Wuthering Heights Teenage Feeling Edition

A Very Funny Episode About Being a ＂Childless Freak＂ The Sociology of Baby Names

Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

172.8

Word count

224

Sentence count

8

Harmful content

Toxicity

1

sentences flagged


Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
00:00:00.000 Hi, everyone. This is a special bonus episode of the Culture Study Podcast, and I'm Anne Helen
00:00:05.520 Peterson. And I'm Margaret H. Willison. And I'm Melody Rowell. Margaret, can we just say first,
00:00:11.740 like my bona fides of like being part of this podcast is that it's my podcast. I read Wuthering
00:00:17.400 Heights when I was 20. I have a master's in English, but never studied Wuthering Heights
00:00:25.400 in an academic class what about the rest of you i studied weathering heights in an academic class
00:00:32.320 with um a professor of victorian literature who favored psychoanalytic readings yeah but this was
00:00:41.000 also 24 years ago i don't really remember anything about our time with weathering heights but i do
00:00:45.180 remember that the spontaneous combustion scene in bleak house is apparently about charles dickens's
00:00:51.360 fear of vaginas and it does feel pertinent uh the psychosexual reading of this work is certainly
00:00:58.460 oh yeah in the adaptation we've all recently consumed I majored in English and I honestly 0.92
00:01:03.680 I would say that my best credential is that I did tell my favorite 19th century literature professor
00:01:08.880 like we were chatting about it on Instagram and I told her my take and she said that take is
00:01:13.340 perfect oh it's the best thing that's happened to me since I found out we have the same pajamas