“The New Academy” podcast* will feature a discussion with one of our NTT colleagues on their creative, research, and/or community work.
Let’s Hear from Our Colleagues in China
Are you curious about the Rhet program at our sister school, Zhejiang University? Dave Morris and John Claborn sat down over Zoom to talk to our colleagues teaching in Haining, China.
ZJU Instructors Share Their Experiences
Mary went on a field trip with the Chinese Teachers’ Union to Xitang, an ancient river town.
And here we meet Michael Shetina, Michael VanCalbergh, Audrey Johnson, and Josh Canipe.
After a long hiatus, a new episode has dropped! Come and meet our new colleagues, Dani, Curtis, Hilary, and Bess.
Here is the long-awaited podcast featuring Dave Morris. We recorded this discussion with Dave Morris about his forthcoming book, Public Religions in the Future World: Post-Secularism and Utopia in late January 2020, but several technological, medical, and global disasters prevented its timely release. It’s a bit long and more than a little rough, but it was a lively conversation with Mary, John, Dave, and guest host Patrick Fadely.
For our April guest, we combined John Dudek’s reading with our conversation on Zoom to practice solidarity spacing:
Here it is on Soundcloud: New Academy Conversation with John Dudek
Pallabi Gupta: Charlotte Bronte’s exploration of women’s self-hood and spaces
Mary, Dave, and John talk with Pallabi ahead of her talk: “Homes and Anti-Homes: Where Does Jane Eyre Live?
https://soundcloud.com/new-academy/dave-mary-discuss-jane-eyre-with-pallabi-gupta
Mary Rose Cottingham: On Acting and Teaching
Next up in our lecture series is Mary Rose Cottingham. Dave, John, and Mary sat down to chat with Mary Rose about her work in community theater, in the classroom, and how it all goes together.
*Note that the new podcasts are now hosted on Soundcloud. Click the link to listen.
MEET THE NEW NTT FACULTY
We sat down with our new colleagues for a short conversation about their background, interests, teaching, and academic work.
Special thanks to John Claborn, who put this podcast together and added music.
Please Welcome:
- Pallabi Gupta
- Patrick Fadely
- Daniel Roche
- John Dudek
- Kate Norcross
Get to know them here:
For the next installment of our series The New Academy, Heather McLeer will present some of her explorations of Irish modernism and ongoing research on cosmopolitanism and national belonging in Irish modernism.
Heather, Mary, and Dave in the library after Heather’s presentation.
Heather McLeer is Lecturer in English here at UI, and like many of us she teaches BTW, Rhetoric, and occasionally literature.Heather graduated from the University of Illinois with a PhD in English in 2017. Her research explores issues of genre and national identity formation in late- and post-colonial Irish literature.
This month’s podcast features Dave and Mary discussing with Heather her paper on Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North.
Kyle Garton-Gundling will be our presenter for our March 1st New Academy reading. He will discuss his book, Enlightened Individualism: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from the Beats to the Present (OSU Press). In it, Kyle argues that even though works by Kerouac, Walker, Kingston, and others wrestle with issues of exoticism and appropriation, their characters are also meaningfully challenged and changed by Asian faiths.
John, Kyle, and Dave in the Journals room after recording our latest podcast.
Mary, Dave, and John talk with Kyle Garton-Gundling about his new book and reminisce about the English Building of their youth (which is much the same of the English Building of today).
Kinzy with Cat
Mary and Dave talk with Dana Kinzy about her creative work, her scholarly research, her teaching, and her love for cats.
John Claborn, Mary Lucille Hays, and Dave Morris.
A Conversation with John Claborn: New Academy hosts, Mary Lucille Hays and Dave Morris talk with John about his research, his new book, his teaching, and how it all fits together.
John is a Lecturer in English, teacher of our rhetoric, btw, film, and literature courses, and scholar of ecocriticism and African-American literature. He will be discussing his book, Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941 (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017).
Today on The New Academy, Dave and Mary talk with Andy Bowman of the GEO (Graduate Employee Organization and Shawn Gilmore of the NTFC (Non Tenure-track Faculty Coalition) about the recent GEO strike.
Dave and Guest Co-Host, Dana Kinzy talk to Mary about her fiction, her methods, and how she juggles teaching and writing.
We could only do audio for this conversation, but here we are.
Talking with Mary Lucille Hays
Talking with Amanda Bales
In our inaugural podcast Amanda talks with Mary and Dave about her use of second person in her fiction and non-fiction. She also talks about how she balances her creative and scholarly work with her life as an adjunct.
Amanda read her work on February 2, at 3 PM in the Literatures and Languages Library (200 Main Library).