Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShyam Sharma, "Writing Support for International Graduate Students" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 8
Listen to this interview of Shyam Sharma, author of Writing Support for International Graduate Students: Enhancing Transition and Success (Routledge,…
5 years, 7 months ago
Helen Sword, "Stylish Academic Writing" (Harvard UP, 2012)
Episode 9
Listen to this interview of Helen Sword, author of Stylish Academic Writing (Harvard UP, 2012). We talk about bad writing, but a lot more about how t…
5 years, 7 months ago
Jo Mackiewicz, "Writing Center Talk over Time: A Mixed-Method Study" (Routledge, 2018)
Episode 6
Listen to this interview of Jo Mackiewicz, author of Writing Center Talk over Time: A Mixed-Method Study (Routledge 2018). We talk about talk, tutor …
5 years, 7 months ago
Should I Quit My Ph.D. Program?
Episode 2
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our own mentor networks t…
5 years, 7 months ago
Kelly Underman, "Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training" (NYU Press, 2020)
Episode 99
The pelvic exam is considered a fundamental procedure for medical students to learn; it is also often the one of the first times where medical studen…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Work and Value of University Presses
Episode 7
What do university presses do? And how do they contributed to public discourse?
November 9 is the beginning of University Press Week, and today I had …
5 years, 7 months ago
Jamie Merisotis, "Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines" (RosettaBooks, 2020)
Episode 27
Are robots going to be our overlords? In Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines (RosettaBooks, 2020), Jamie Merisotis says they don't have to be. We…
5 years, 7 months ago
Introduction to 'The Academic Life' Podcast
Episode 1
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you’re not an island, and neither are we. So, we are reaching across our own contacts – …
5 years, 7 months ago
Jennifer S. Light, "States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 14
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and …
5 years, 7 months ago
Scholarly Communication: Kit Nicholls on the Writing Center and the University
Episode 5
Listen to this interview of Kit Nicholls, Director of Cooper Union Center for Writing. We talk about writing, thinking, the university, and what ever…
5 years, 7 months ago