Podcasts by Eloquentia Perfecta Ex Machina
A podcast by and for the Writing Program at Saint Louis University. We interview instructors about how and why they use multimodal approaches to the teaching of rhetoric and composition. We also have instructors interview other instructors about the nuts and bolts of particular tools and assignments.
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Episode 9.1: Transnational Identity in the Classroom from 2022-09-28T18:49:27
Welcome back! After a brief hiatus last spring, we have an exciting new lineup of episodes this fall. Our first episode features Katie Gutiérrez-Glik in conversation with Meha Gupta about transnati...
ListenEpisode 8.1: Diversifying the Curriculum&Decentering the Literary Canon from 2022-04-14T21:06:16
Welcome back! In this week's episode, Katie Gutiérrez-Glik sits down with fellow SLU graduate instructors Lexie Broemmer and Sal DiBono to discuss how and why they seek to diversify the curriculum ...
ListenEpisode 7.4: Fanfiction from 2021-12-06T16:19:27
In this week's episode, we have a brief and temporary Michigan invasion! Sheila Coursey interviews friend and former colleague Anne-Charlotte Mecklenburg about her work on serial narratives, from V...
ListenEpisode 7.3: Medical Humanities from 2021-11-11T22:18:10
In this week's episode, Lauren Terbrock-Elmestad sits down with Dr. Amanda Barton to discuss Amanda’s recent transition from teaching for the Writing Program to a new position with the Billikens' F...
ListenEpisode 7.2: Roundtable on ADHD Advocacy and Social Media from 2021-10-28T20:32:40
This week's episode is a recording of the Lab's virtual roundtable on ADHD Advocacy and Social Media, organized and hosted by SLU Graduate Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate Carol Hogan-Downey. Carol i...
ListenEpisode 7.1: The Space Jam from 2021-10-14T04:41:01
Our first episode of Season Seven is not about the classic 1996 basketball film starring Michael Jordan (perhaps next season). We are, however, featuring three SLU English instructors discussing th...
ListenEpisode 6.5: Pius Library and "The Great Pivot" from 2021-06-11T19:24:35
In our final COVID-themed episode of this season, Sheila Coursey sits down with Martha Allen, a librarian at Pius Library who liaises with Writing Program courses. They discuss how Pius Library has...
ListenEpisode 6.4: Spy Writing with Andy Harper from 2021-05-07T20:43:44
In this week's episode, Sheila talks with Assistant Professor of English Andy Harper about his Fall 2021 course, Spies and Secret Societies in American Literature. They discuss, among other things...
ListenEpisode 6.3: Stealing: 2 Fast 2 Furious from 2021-03-25T20:33:06
This week, Byron Gilman-Hernandez and Lauren Terbrock- Elmestad are reprising an episode they recorded in Fall 2018 that addressed ‘stealing’ in the context of pedagogy. They returned to this conve...
Listen6.2: ADHD and Higher Ed from 2021-03-11T00:00
In today’s episode, Sheila Coursey sits down with Anessa Kemna and Carol Hogan-Downey to talk about their journeys in getting diagnosed with ADHD. Carol and Anessa share particular techniques or su...
Listen6.1: Instructor Identity in the Classroom from 2021-03-04T22:47:22
In our first episode of season six, Sheila Coursey interviews Katie Gutiérrez about what it means to her to be a visibly queer instructor. They talk about two texts that have influenced Katie’s ped...
Listen5.7: Navigating Feedback from 2021-02-11T16:49:32
In this final episode of Season Five, Sheila Coursey sits down with Colten Biro and Laura Hardin Marshall to discuss giving feedback to and receiving feedback from students in online or hybrid cour...
Listen5.6: The Call is Coming from Inside the Lab! from 2020-12-15T20:50
In this week's episode, Sheila Coursey sits down with four undergraduate staff members from the Compass Lab: Clayton Hill, Eva France, Lydia Estrada, and Wes Ragland. They discuss past and present ...
Listen5.5: Digital Pedagogy from 2020-11-20T00:00
In this week's episode, Sharee Langenstein interviews third-year Ph.D. student Rachel Shields about how research in the medieval digital humanities shapes her approaches to teaching first-year writ...
Listen5.4: Interview with Nicholas Gomez from 2020-11-06T00:00
In this week's episode, Sharee Langenstein sits down with third-year Ph.D. student Nicholas Gomez to discuss his experience as a first-generation college student. Nicholas reflects on how his educa...
ListenEpisode 5.3: Creative Writing and Pedagogy from 2020-10-16T00:00
In this episode, Lindsay Adams and Rachel Shields discuss how their backgrounds in creative writing shape their approaches to teaching rhetoric and composition.
ListenEpisode 5.2: Pandemic Pedagogy from 2020-10-01T00:00
For today's episode, Sheila Coursey interviews Katie Eck about her experiences as both an instructor and a student during the Spring 2020 and Fall 2020 semesters. Sheila and Katie discuss their tec...
ListenEpisode 5.1: The Compass Lab and the Writing Program: New Directions from 2020-09-18T00:00
In this first episode of EPEM Season Five, Lauren Terbrock-Elmestad, Nathaniel Rivers, and Sheila Coursey explore the Compass Lab's longstanding relationship with the writing program and the rapid ...
ListenEpisode 4.7: Articulating the Writing Program from 2019-05-15T16:33:43
For our final episode of the season, we have a conversation between our outgoing and incoming Writing Program Administrators, Paul Lynch and Nathaniel Rivers, on their aims and agendas with the Wri...
ListenEpisode 4.x from 2019-05-03T00:00
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ListenEpisode 4.6: High School Teaching from 2019-04-17T17:15:24
For today’s episode, Byron Gilman-Hernandez spoke with two of Saint Louis University’s newest instructors, Abbey Jarvis and Katie Eck, about how their experience teaching in a High School setting i...
ListenEpisode 4.5: Theatre and Pedagogy from 2019-04-03T00:00
Today’s episode features a dialogue between Lindsay Adams, author of “River Like Sin” and winner of the 2016 Judith Barlow Prize, and Alicen Moser, co-founder of Poor Monsters and co-author of “Use...
ListenEpisode 4.4: Immigrant Teaching from 2019-03-21T14:02:08
This episode of Eloquentia Perfecta features a discussion of the English Major, refugees, and the immigrant experience, with Joya Uraizee, Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Regional Emmy Awa...
ListenEpisode 4.3: There Will Be No Visual Aids from 2019-02-27T18:45:19
In this episode, Amy Nelson interviews Anessa Kemna about her experiences as a blind teacher and graduate student. They discuss adapting materials for accessibility, the intersections of non-normat...
ListenEpisode 4.2: Gender, Ethos, and Teaching from 2019-02-14T17:05:57
In this episode, Natalie Whitaker and Kathryn Polizzi discuss with Byron Gilman-Hernandez their experiences establishing ethos in the classroom. They discuss how gender and age affect the dynamic o...
ListenEpisode 4.1: The Belle da Costa Greene Conference from 2019-01-31T18:02:25
For our first episode of Season 4, Dr. Tarrell Campbell, lead organizer of the 2018 Belle da Costa Greene Conference, discusses his experience with planning and developing a conference for Medieval...
ListenEpisode 3.7: Service Learning Part 2 from 2018-12-19T17:23:17
Following our previous episode, Anessa Kemna and Byron Gilman-Hernandez further developed an Intro to Rhetoric course built around Service Learning. In this episode, they discuss their experiences ...
ListenEpisode 3.6: Service Learning Part 1 from 2018-11-28T00:00
In this episode, looking to share her experiences using service learning in the composition classroom, Anessa Kemna sits down with Colten Biro to talk about how she structured her course, some of h...
ListenEpisode 3.5: The Vatican Film Library from 2018-11-13T16:35:23
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 ol...
ListenEpisode 3.4: The (Witch)Craft of Writing: Rituals from 2018-10-31T20:44:04
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 a...
ListenEpisode 3.3: The (Witch)Craft of Writing: Magic as Language from 2018-10-25T15:24:42
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....
ListenEpisode 3.2: The (Witch)Craft of Writing: Conjuration and Composition from 2018-10-12T17:40:11
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 ...
ListenEpisode 3.1: Social Media in the Classroom from 2018-09-26T16:17:16
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 ...
ListenEpisode 2.8: LARPing to Write, Part 2 from 2018-05-02T14:08:09
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 as...
ListenEpisode 2.7: LARPing to Write, Part 1 from 2018-04-26T14:31:43
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 f...
ListenEpisode 2.6: Interview with Colten Biro, S.J. from 2018-04-04T16:26:11
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 com...
ListenEpisode 2.5: Interview with Tim Youd from 2018-03-21T16:33:15
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/...
ListenEpisode 2.4: Student Conferences from 2018-02-14T00:00
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...
ListenEpisode 2.3: Interview with Misa Jeffereis from 2018-02-07T00:00
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 ...
ListenEpisode 2.2: Student Audio Essays from 2018-02-01T22:33:02
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 "traditio...
ListenEpisode 2.1: Technology, Media and Rhetoric Workshop from 2018-01-17T14:29:53
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 inc...
ListenEnd of Season One from 2017-12-06T15:24:06
Thanks for listening! We will back in January with a new season for a new semester.
ListenEpisode Twelve: Interview with Carrie Nelson from 2017-11-29T14:33:10
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 discuss...
ListenEpisode Eleven: Language Communities from 2017-11-08T00:00
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 u...
ListenEpisode Ten: Dissoi Logoi Round Table Part Two from 2017-11-01T15:19:31
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 gather...
ListenEpisode Nine: Dissoi Logoi Round Table Part One from 2017-10-25T00:00
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 te...
ListenEpisode Eight: Field Recording from 2017-10-18T13:22:52
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...
ListenEpisode Seven: Abigail Lambke's "The Oral Aural Walter Ong" from 2017-10-11T00:00
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...
ListenEpisode Six: Stealing from 2017-10-04T14:13:24
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 explorati...
ListenBonus Episode: The Frankensong from 2017-10-01T00:00
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 disc...
ListenEpisode Five: An Interview with Christina Hildebrandt from 2017-09-27T00:00
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 focus...
ListenEpisode Four: Teaching with Tumblr from 2017-09-20T03:32:04
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 c...
ListenEpisode Three: Podcasting the Dissoi Logoi Project from 2017-09-14T01:26:15
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 ...
ListenEpisode Two: An Interview with Heather Bozant Witcher from 2017-09-07T01:00:53
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 t...
ListenEpisode One: An Interview with Paul Lynch from 2017-08-30T21:47:55
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 wr...
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