Podcasts

Director Adrian Daub, along with Laura Goode and Moira Donegan, hosts two podcasts as independent projects. The Clayman Institute supported the initial launch of these podcasts, which are now funded separately. Please see below for more information. Views expressed on the podcasts are those of the individuals only, and are not identical with the work of the Clayman Institute.

Hosts

Laura Goode

Laura Goode is the author of a collection of poems, Become a Name, and a YA novel, Sister Mischief. With director Meera Menon, she wrote and produced the feature film Farah Goes Bang, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize from Tribeca and Vogue. Her nonfiction writing on intersectional feminism, female friendship, motherhood, gender, and race in culture, TV, film, and literature has appeared in BuzzFeed, New Republic, New York Magazine, Longreads, Elle, Catapult, Refinery29, and elsewhere. 

She received her BA and MFA from Columbia University and currently teaches in the English department and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies program at Stanford University, where she was honored with the 2025 Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford's highest award for excellence in teaching. Goode's latest book, Pitch Craft, draws on her experience to uncover what nobody else will tell you about the business strategy that creates a writing career. 

Moira Donegan

Moira Donegan is writer in residence for the Clayman Institute, where she participates in the intellectual life of the Institute, hosts its artist salon series, teaches a class in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, and mentors students, while continuing her own projects and writing. Her criticism, essays, and commentary, which cover the intersection of gender, politics, and the law, have appeared in places such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and Bookforum. Donegan has been an editor at the New Republic and n+1, and currently she writes a column on gender in America for The Guardian. Her first book, Gone Too Far: #MeToo and the Future of Feminist Politics, is forthcoming from Scribner. 

Adrian Daub

Adrian Daub is the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute, a position he began in 2019. He is the J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of the Humanities and a professor of comparative literature and German studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Daub also has served as director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. His latest book, Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global, was published in September 2024 by Stanford University Press. It compares the cancel culture panic to moral panics past, investigating the powerful hold that the idea of "being cancelled" has on readers around the world. Other recent books include What the Ballad Knows: The Ballad Genre, Memory Culture, and German Nationalism; The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany; and What Tech Calls Thinking, an examination of the intellectual underpinnings of Silicon Valley and the tech industry.