Eloquentia Perfecta Ex Machina
by SLU New Media Writing
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.
Episodes
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11.1 Tips and Tricks for Surviving the End of The Semester (or the World)
In this recording from our Practical Pedagogy roundtable series, three instructors from SLU's writing program (Geoff Brewer, Lexie Broemmer, and Brook Shatto) discuss their tactics for surviving the end of the semester, from scaffolding syllabi to composing dopamine-inducing lists.
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Episode 10.1: Legos
Welcome back! In our first episode of the fall, Sheila Coursey sits down with Lauren Terbrock Elmestad and Byron Gilman-Hernandez to discuss their use of legos as tools of multimodal composition. Our thanks to Byron and his students for recording their real-time reactions to the LEGO activity...
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Episode 9.1: Transnational Identity in the Classroom
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 transnational identity in the classroom. During her first semester teaching English 1900, Meha reflects on…
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Episode 8.1: Diversifying the Curriculum & Decentering the Literary Canon
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 and decenter the literary canon in their 1900 and 2000-level courses at SLU.
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Episode 7.4: Fanfiction
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 Victorian novels to contemporary pop concert tours, and the way that seriality shapes fan writing and...
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Episode 7.3: Medical Humanities
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' First Chapter Program. They spend time thinking about their academic interest in the medical...
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Episode 7.2: Roundtable on ADHD Advocacy and Social Media
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 invited Jennifer Parker and Michael Ruffin to discuss their work creating peer advocacy networks on...
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Episode 7.1: The Space Jam
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 the role of space in their courses, assignments, and research projects: Jonathan Sawday and the space…
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Episode 6.5: Pius Library and "The Great Pivot"
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 worked with "The Great Pivot" of March 2020 as well as hybrid research resources and practices we...
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Episode 6.4: Spy Writing with Andy Harper
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, Harriet Tubman's role as a spy, early American secret societies, and rhetorical techniques of...
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Episode 6.3: Stealing: 2 Fast 2 Furious
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 conversation to explore what has changed about networks of stealing after a year of virtual and hybrid...
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6.2: ADHD and Higher Ed
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 support structures that have been valuable to them as both students and instructors, and they discuss...
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6.1: Instructor Identity in the Classroom
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 pedagogical practices, particularly in courses like "Gender, Identity, and Rhetoric" that center...
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5.7: Navigating Feedback
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 courses this past semester.
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5.6: The Call is Coming from Inside the Lab!
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 work in the Writing Program and Lab and reflect on the last two semesters from a student perspective.
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5.5: Digital Pedagogy
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 writing. They discuss what it means to be a digital native, techniques for introducing students to the...
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5.4: Interview with Nicholas Gomez
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 educational background has shaped his pedagogy, especially when it comes to showing and receiving...
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Episode 5.3: Creative Writing and Pedagogy
In this episode, Lindsay Adams and Rachel Shields discuss how their backgrounds in creative writing shape their approaches to teaching rhetoric and composition.
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Episode 5.2: Pandemic Pedagogy
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 techniques for online and hybrid teaching, the importance of centering student access, and the…
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Episode 5.1: The Compass Lab and the Writing Program: New Directions
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 evolution of the lab amidst COVID-19 as we reimagine multi-modal education and composition.
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Episode 4.7: Articulating the Writing Program
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 Writing Program at St. Louis University.
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Episode 4.x
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Episode 4.6: High School Teaching
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 informs their teaching in the University. In this episode, we discuss the difference between both...
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Episode 4.5: Theatre and Pedagogy
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 “Useful and Necessary Ingredients,” on applying their backgrounds in theatre and playwriting in the...
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Episode 4.4: Immigrant Teaching
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 Award-winner, Haris Fazlić, a Bosnian-American graduate student. In the episode, they discuss St.…
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Episode 4.3: There Will Be No Visual Aids
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-normative mental and physical conditions, and the concept of inspiration porn. Anessa Kemna’s blog, The...
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Episode 4.2: Gender, Ethos, and Teaching
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 of their classrooms, and particularly comment on how this might be relevant for new teachers.
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Episode 4.1: The Belle da Costa Greene Conference
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 Medievalists of Color. In particular, Tarrell charts the process of collaborating with multiple individuals...
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Episode 3.7: Service Learning Part 2
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 with the class, ranging from the process and benefits of co-development, making use of new ideas…
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Episode 3.6: Service Learning Part 1
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 her biggest successes, and her goals to further this work in the class she’s teaching this semester…
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Episode 3.5: The Vatican Film Library
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...
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Episode 3.4: The (Witch)Craft of Writing: Rituals
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…
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Episode 3.3: The (Witch)Craft of Writing: Magic as Language
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...
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Episode 3.2: The (Witch)Craft of Writing: Conjuration and Composition
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...
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Episode 3.1: Social Media in the Classroom
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...
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Episode 2.8: LARPing to Write, Part 2
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…
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Episode 2.7: LARPing to Write, Part 1
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…
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Episode 2.6: Interview with Colten Biro, S.J.
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....
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Episode 2.5: Interview with Tim Youd
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...
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Episode 2.4: Student Conferences
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…
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Episode 2.3: Interview with Misa Jeffereis
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...
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Episode 2.2: Student Audio Essays
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...
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Episode 2.1: Technology, Media and Rhetoric Workshop
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…
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End of Season One
Thanks for listening! We will back in January with a new season for a new semester.
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Episode Twelve: Interview with Carrie Nelson
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.
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Episode Eleven: Language Communities
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.
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Episode Ten: Dissoi Logoi Round Table Part Two
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...
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Episode Nine: Dissoi Logoi Round Table Part One
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…
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Episode Eight: Field Recording
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/).
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Episode Seven: Abigail Lambke's "The Oral Aural Walter Ong"
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...
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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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