Episode 37: Jim Phelan & Aaron Oforlea — James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man”

In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Aaron Oforlea discuss James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man,” published in Baldwin’s 1965 short story collection of the same title. Aaron Oforlea is an Associate Professor of English at Washington State University and is an alumnus of the Ohio State University. Oforlea has cultivated significant expertise in the domains of African American literature, folklore, and rhetoric, as well as in narrative theory, medical humanities, film studies, and masculinity studies. In 2017, Oforlea published James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity, which was honored in 2018 with the College Language Association’s Award for Creative Scholarship. In addition, Oforlea has contributed scholarly articles in the fields of folklore, rhetoric, and literature.