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Ivory Tower Boiler Room
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Poetry and Healing During the COVID Crisis with Dr. Susan Scheckel
Dr. Susan Scheckel's talk explores why readers are turning, now more than ever, to Whitman's poetry in the 21st century. And asks why does Whitman's Spirit…
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Balancing Academics and Motherhood in a Time of Protest
(Part Two) We continue our discussion with Dr. Shi Huiwen as she describes balancing academics and motherhood while face to face with protests…
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Dr. Shi's Reflections and Illuminations on Organization, Academics, Motherhood, and Civil Unrest
(Part One) We welcome Dr. Shi Huiwen to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room where we take a journey together through theory and discuss Seamus Heaney, Walter Benjamin…
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Showing Up for Your Community with Lisa Aamodt
Lisa Aamodt is the Limud Education Director at Congregation Tifereth Israel. In this episode, we discuss Lisa's innovative strategies for connecting the…
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Growing up in a Hamlet (with Dr. Bente Videbaek)
This week our guest shares her unusual path to her doctorate and her unique approach to teaching/mentorship. Click here for the episode notes (featuring many…
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Writing Books and Cleaning Beaches with Joe Labriola
This week's guest, Joe Labriola's interests may seem unrelated, but as you'll learn, they make sense once you get to know him. Show Notes…
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What's the difference between "urban" and "metropolitan"? Let's ask Dr. Sophia Basaldua-Sun.
Dr. Basaldua-Sun is an independent scholar of Comparative Literature. Click here for the glossary and bibliography…
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(Special Episode) The Performing Arts During a Pandemic (with Renee Chambers Liciaga)
Andrew's former director, Renee Chambers Liciaga is a professional dancer, choreographer, and performing arts educator who speaks to how to approach the…
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If It's Not Awkward, It's Not Anthropology with Shweta Krishnan
The Ivory Tower Boiler Room welcomes our fourth guest, Shweta Krishnan, PhD candidate in Anthropology at George Washington University. Shweta is doing her…
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Queer People in Shared Spaces with Stephanie Bonvissuto
Stephanie’s research explores how culture grows out of shared spaces, and in particular how queer and gender-nonconforming people have been excluded from those…
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Surviving a PhD Program in the U.S. with Shruti Mukherjee
PhD wisdom says don't change your dissertation committee. Shruti from Stony Brook's Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has changed hers…
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Literary History from a Non-European Perspective with Ignacio Choi
Join us in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room as we welcome Ignacio Choi, a scholar of Comparative Literature.
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Welcome to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room
Join Andrew Rimby and Adam Katz as they explore their PhD process from the boiler room. Helene Meyers' "Public Scholar, Beware"…