Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNigel A. Caplan, "Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Episode 47
Listen to this interview of Nigel Caplan, Associate Professor at the English Language Institute, University of Delaware. We talk generically.
Nigel Ca…
4 years, 5 months ago
Navigating the Two-Body Problem
Episode 85
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
What the two-body problem is Dr. Kelly Baker’s experience on the academic job market…4 years, 5 months ago
A Conversation with Bijal Shah: Chief Experience Officer, Guild Education
Episode 42
Bijal Shah shares story of the meteoric rise of Guild Education, the Denver-based ed tech firm that has quickly emerged as the leading marketplace fo…
4 years, 5 months ago
Marshall Poe: The Founder and Editor of the New Books Network
Episode 47
This interview was recorded and first published in early 2020 when the NBN had about a million downloads a month. Since then the downloads have incre…
4 years, 5 months ago
Eric D. Loepp et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Political Research Pedagogy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Episode 571
Political Scientists Daniel Mallinson (Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg), Julia Marin Hellwege (University of South Dakota), and Eric Loepp (…
4 years, 5 months ago
Michael Newall, "A Philosophy of the Art School" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 82
If one were to devise a motto for the art school of today, the choice between 'you too are an artist' and 'abandon all hope you who enter here' would…
4 years, 5 months ago
A Conversation about Teaching While Nerdy
Episode 82
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
The hidden curriculum of transforming yourself from student to teacher Accepting and…4 years, 5 months ago
How World Events are Changing Education
Episode 58
Formal education became widespread only as recently as the end of the 19th century, as a way to train people for jobs created by the boom in industri…
4 years, 5 months ago
Being Well in Academia: A Candid Conversation About Challenges and Connection
Episode 81
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
The other hidden curriculum: the support and care strategies necessary for being wel…4 years, 5 months ago
Yuka Hiruma Kishida, "Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Episode 64
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire (Bloomsbury, 2019) by Yuka Kiruma Kishida makes a fresh contr…
4 years, 5 months ago