Looking to learn more about the Vatican Film Library, Carol Hogan-Downey sits down with Amy Nelson to talk about her role working with The Metascripta Project, biblioclasms, and very large, very old books. Bridging media technologies of the 21st, 20th, and much, much earlier centuries, Amy shows how an often-overlooked library resource can be valuable to multiple disciplines.
In our final episode of the (Witch)Craft of Writing, a Pentacle of perspectives from Amy Nelson, Anessa Kemna, Natalie Whitaker, Carol Hogan-Downey, and Byron Gilman-Hernandez is brought together around a fire on a chilly October night to discuss the power and practices of rituals. As the finale of our series, this episode ranges from mystical cults of Missouri, the rituals of essay writing in Freshman composition, expressions of grief, and mystic practices to defeat Hitler.
In our second episode of The (Witch)Craft of Writing, Byron Gilman-Hernandez has a conversation with Natalie Whitaker about magic as a language act and what assumptions that brings of an able body. In her experiences teaching contemporary Young Adult authors like Nnedi Okafor, Tomi Adeyemi, and J.K. Rowling, as well as historical attitudes towards witchcraft, Natalie looks to how magic, even as a liberating force, can reinforce assumptions of the Other.
In our first episode of our October series, "The (Witch)Craft of Writing," Byron Gilman-Hernandez has a conversation with Carol Hogan-Downey on The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's influence on Irish theatre in in the 19th Century. Their discussion looks at the Order's mystical practices of tarot and word vibration in philosophy, theatre, and Irish nationalism, and how rhetoricians from Gorgias to Kenneth Burke understood the relationship between Rhetoric and Magic.
For our first episode of Season 3, Carol Hogan Downey and Natalie Whitaker enjoy a brief discussion on the use of incorporating social media into the classroom and rhetoric assignments. They cover the opportunities and potential pitfalls associated with discussions from audience awareness in the composition of a text message to the language choices of dating profiles created for hypothetical characters.
In this episode, Matt Holder and Dr. Toby Benis continue their conversation about the Reacting to the Past pedagogy in an English 1900 context. For part two, they turn to discussing the specific assignments and rhetorical principles at play in the game, its strengths and limitations, and potential adaptations for future classes. Dr. Benis closes by providing some useful resources for any instructors looking to incorporate the games into their own courses.
In this episode, Matt Holder sits down with Dr. Toby Benis to discuss her use of the Reacting to the Past curriculum in her English 1900 course. During Part 1, Dr. Benis describes her inspiration for choosing the method and presents an overview of the specific game played by her students, including the typical prep, scaffolding, and time requirements, and provides examples of the ways in which her students embraced the role-playing experience.
The English Department's Resident Jesuit, Colten Biro, S.J., sits down with Byron Gilman-Hernandez to discuss his work writing for the Jesuit Post—and developing their web content, engaging the community across multiple platforms, moderating discussion, and using his own writing in the classroom. In this episode, Colten discusses his experiences with composition in an internet-mediated dialogue with his audience.
In this episode, Lauren Terbrock returns to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis to interview Tim Youd (http://timyoud.com/) about his exhibition St. Louis: Retyped (http://camstl.org/exhibitions/front-room/tim-youd-st-louis-retyped/). Lauren talks with Tim about the ways machines, sound, and video transform his process, as well as the necessary physicality of reading and writing.
In this episode, Byron Gilman-Hernandez schedules a quick conference with Natalie Monzyk to discuss conferencing. Natalie shares how she's made use of early-semester student conferences in teaching her Literature and Rhetoric classes, as well as some tips and best practices she's picked up from her experience.
In this episode, Lauren Terbrock interviews Misa Jeffereis, Assistant Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, about the exhibition Tim Youd: St. Louis Retyped. Lauren and Misa talk about Youd's project and make connections to the SLU writing program: blurring reading and writing processes; public practices; and the importance of his medium, the typewriter.
On this episode, we share two student media projects from the Fall 2017 semester. While not ready for prime time, these strong audio productions amply demonstrate how students can compose "traditional" first-year writing fare in other ways that don't replace or even supplement but rather work alongside as yet an other mode of composition.
In this episode, Byron Gilman-Hernandez sits down with Laura Hardin-Marshall and Carrie Nelson to discuss and workshop their syllabi for teaching Technology, Media, and Rhetoric. Topics covered include how to work with different media for student Rhetoric projects, resolving technological hiccups, and using Classical media technology in the classroom.
Thanks for listening! We will back in January with a new season for a new semester.
In episode twelve, Byron Gilman-Hernandez returns for an interview with first-year Ph.D. student Carrie Nelson. Carrie discusses teaching her first class this semester, with reflections and discussion on attendance policies, teaching different types of media, and making plans for the next semester.
With episode 11 we bring you a short audio essay on teaching (with) language communities by Eloquentia Perfect Ex Machine contributor Byron Gilman-Hernandez. Byron describes and reflects upon his use of language communities in the first-year rhetoric and writing classroom.
With episode ten we share the exciting conclusion of our round table on the dissoi logoi project. As part of our department's regular brown bag workshops on teaching, faculty and instructors gathered together to discuss the venerable rhetorical tradition of the dissoi logoi. The round table speakers are, in order of appearance, Paul Lynch, Jen Rust, Nathaniel Rivers, Joya Uraizee, Anne Stiles, Colten Biro, and Nicole Ramer.
Our ninth episode is the first part of a two part round table discussion of the dissoi logoi project as discussed on previous episodes. As part of our department's regular brown bag workshops on teaching, faculty and instructors gathered together to discuss the venerable rhetorical tradition of the dissoi logoi. The round table speakers are, in order of appearance, Paul Lynch, Jen Rust, Joya Uraizee, Nathaniel Rivers, Anne Stiles, and Colten Biro.
In our eighth episode, Dr. Nathaniel Rivers (Coordinator of the Computer Assisted Instruction Lab) sits down with himself to briefly discuss Field Recording. For examples of audio productions using field recording check out our sister-site Saint Louis Stories (http://saintlouisstories.com/).
With our seventh episode, we are pleased to rebroadcast an audio essay composed and performed by SLU's own Abigail Lambke (Assistant Professor of English at Avila University) for the journal Harlot (http://harlotofthearts.org/). Of this audio essay, she writes, "Many of us are familiar with the name Walter Ong, and some of us have read him, either pieces of his famous Orality and Literacy, or the often anthologized “The Writer’s Audience is Always a Fiction.” Ong’s scholarship was concerned with...
In our sixth episode Lauren Terbrock (a doctoral student in rhetoric and composition) sits down with Byron Gilman-Hernandez (a doctoral student in rhetoric and composition) to discuss his exploration of "stealing" in the context of pedagogy, which involved Byron interviewing several writing program instructors.
We are pleased to present, in its entirety, "The Frankensong," which written, produced and performed by a student in one of Christina Hildebrandt's 2000-level literature courses. This song was discussed in Episode Five ("An Interview with Christina Hildebrandt"). https://www.eloquentiaexmachina.com
In our fifth episode, Dr. Nathaniel Rivers sits down with Christina Hildebrandt to discuss how Christina uses multimodal projects in both literature and composition courses. This episode also focuses on non-digital projects that resonate with particular course themes.
In our forth episode, Dr. Nathaniel Rivers (Coordinator of the Computer Assisted Instruction Lab) sits down with himself to discuss using Tumblr to organize his ENGL 1900 courses. For examples of courses using Tumblr visit https://techmediarhet.tumblr.com (ENGL 1900) and https://slulmt.tumblr.com (ENGL 2650).
In our third episode, Lauren Terbrock (a doctoral student in rhetoric and composition) sits back down with Dr. Heather Bozant Witcher (Assistant Professor of English) to discuss a specific project Heather has assigned in ENGL 1900: a podcast version of the Dissoi Logoi project discussed in Episode One.
In our second episode, Lauren Terbrock (a doctoral student in rhetoric and composition) sits down with Dr. Heather Bozant Witcher (Assistant Professor of English) to discuss Heather's approach to teaching with new media technologies. In particular, Heather describes the role of new media in cultivating collaboration and creativity.
In our first episode, Dr. Nathaniel Rivers (Coordinator of the Computer Assisted Instruction Lab) interviews Dr. Paul Lynch (Coordinator of the Writing Program) about his approach to running the writing program and teaching as well as how multimodal composition is part and parcel of the Jesuit rhetorical tradition, which is alive and well at Saint Louis University.
