Episode 37: Dr. Jennifer Rhodes on the Importance of Community within the Humanities

Welcome back to Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree! Join Cal Poly Humboldt Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and higher education as a personal and public good. As always, please subscribe to the show, and listen and share the podcast with your circles and beyond. This week's guest is Dr. Jennifer Rhodes, a scholar and translator whose work explores the relationship between text, music, and the visual arts. She holds a PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature, and her current book project traces the influence of opera on the modern novel. Jennifer is a faculty member at Columbia University, where she teaches literature and experimental arts. Jennifer and Jeff jump into a conversation about the importance of the Core Curriculum at Columbia and what it has meant to Jennifer as a student and as a faculty member. She shares about her love for opera, learning foreign languages and being in community with others when processing texts and ideas. This is the sixth (of seven) episodes that we are releasing over the course of the coming weeks featuring interviews that were conducted while we were on campus at Columbia University in early April of 2024. We spoke with a range of faculty and some students about their experience working and learning within the storied core curriculum at Columbia College. Check out our first four episodes from this series with ⁠Dr. Richard John⁠, ⁠Dr. Meredith Gamer⁠, ⁠Dr. Clémence Boulouque⁠⁠, and students Avi Adler and Marwan Kanafani and Mrinalini Wadhwa⁠. Follow the show on X ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@JobLiberalArts⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and on Instagram @LiberalArtsJobPod ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson