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plainstate: The Podcast
by UNL Department of English
A podcast about the humanities on the Great Plains and beyond featuring interviews, stories, people, and places.
Episodes
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Episode 24: Gabrielle Owen and Timothy Schaffert
Gabrielle Owen discusses her recently published book, A Queer History of Adolescence: Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures, with colleague Timothy Schaffert. This episode is taken from a March 23, 2021 virtual event celebrating the new book.
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Episode 23: Saddiq Dzukogi and Jessica Poli
Saddiq Dzukogi, Nigerian-born poet and Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, talks with friend and fellow poet Jessica Poli about his new book, YOUR CRIB, MY QIBLA. Published by the University of Nebraska Press in March 2021, YOUR CRIB, MY QIBLA is a collection of poems dedicated…
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Episode 22: Writing the River: Nebraska Writing Project and Niobrara Scenic River Partnership
This episode explores the most recent collaboration between the National Park Service and the Nebraska Writing Project: a planned river float for area high school students to allow them to experience the Niobrara River in a way they may not have before.
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Episode 21: Bare Bones: Place-Based Teaching Through Stories of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
A partnership between the Nebraska Writing Project and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument has developed the park's paleontological, geological, and early history of the plains stories into a series of workshops designed for teachers. In this episode, teacher-participants share how the workshop...
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Episode 20: Place-Conscious Experiential Writing for Students and Teachers
The Nebraska Writing Project and Homestead National Monument have partnered together to host the Prairie Visions Writing Festival, and annual workshop for middle and high schoolers. In this episode, educators and rangers discuss using place-based writing to give students a greater appreciation of...
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Episode 19: Blending Place-Based Education and C3WP in Rural Nebraska: A Focus on Civil Discourse
In this episode, Pierce High School English teacher Melissa Legate and professor Robert Brooke illustrate how place-conscious education can blend with an emphasis on civic engagement and understanding issues from multiple perspectives.
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Episode 18: We Are All Immigrants
In this episode, doctoral candidate Cara Morgenson and professor Robert Brooke discuss an extensive project connecting high school English learners, UNL college students, and park rangers at Homestead National Monument.
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Episode 17: Being Heard: Students Presenting Live to State Senators on Local Issues
The Husker Writers Program brings high school and college students together to research local issues and present advocacy writing to local legislators. In this episode, UNL assistant professor Rachael Shah and North Star high school teacher Jessica Meyers discuss this approach to argument…
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Episode 16: Basics of Place-Conscious Education: The Nebraska Experience
In this episode, professor and Nebraska Writing Project director Robert Brooke introduces the basic concepts of place-conscious education and how the project is promoting place-conscious education across the state.
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Episode 15: Marianne Kunkel and Susan Martens
In this episode, Marianne Kunkel and Susan Martens, two English PhD graduates, continue their conversation about their time at UNL and specifically Susan Marten's ongoing career at Missouri Western State University.
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Episode 14: Susan Martens and Marianne Kunkel
In this episode, Susan Martens interviews Marianne Kunkel, two English PhD graduates, about her time at UNL and her ongoing career at Missouri Western State University.
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Episode 13: Literature and the Environment
In this episode, Cory Willard and some of his students discuss their experience in English 317: Literature and the Environment, which took place in western Nebraska in the summer of 2019. (Note: This course will be taught again during the summer of 2020, though it will be moved online.)
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Episode 12: James Gunn Interview (Part 2)
In this episode, Michael Page continues his interview with celebrated author and scholar James Gunn beginning with his recollections about Robert Heinlein. Music for plainstate by Shadows on a River.
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Episode 11: James Gunn Interview (Part 1)
In this Episode, Michael Page sits down with James Gunn, who, at age 96, continues to be a publishing author of Science Fiction as well as a leading scholar in that field. Gunn discusses his forthcoming publication projects as well as his past encounters with notable Science Fiction scholars such...
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Episode 10: The Cather Letters (Part 2)
In this episode, students, staff, and faculty continue their discussion about their work on The Complete Letters of Willa Cather, a scholarly edition and digital archive. Music for plainstate by Shadows on a River.
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Episode 9: The Cather Letters (Part 1)
In this episode, students, staff, and faculty discuss their work on The Complete Letters of Willa Cather, a scholarly edition and digital archive. Music for plainstate by Shadows on a River.
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Episode 8: English Student Advisory Board
In this episode, members of the English Student Advisory Board discuss life, the universe, and everything. Music for plainstate by Shadows on a River.
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Episode 7: Slam Poets (Part 2)
Members of UNL's Slam Poetry team continue their conversation from Episode 5. Music for this episode by Shadows on a River.
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Episode 6: Nebraska in Opera
Dr. Laura White, Professor of English, has written the libretto for the new opera, The Gambler's Son, which premiers in Lincoln on November 15, 2019. In this episode, she discusses converting the original source material to an opera and collaborating with husband Tyler Goodrich White. She also...
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Episode 5: Slam Poets (Part 1)
In this episode, four members of UNL’s Slam Poetry Team – Bianca Swift, Celie Knudsen, Celine Haynes, and Jack Buchanan – sit down to discuss their writing process, how they perform their work, and how that work is influenced by personal experiences and cultural events.
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Episode 4: Woman Forever
In this episode, three women of color—Linda Garcia Merchant, Jamaica Baldwin, and Claire Jimenez—share creative work and offer context for that work before engaging in a frank conversation about being both transplants to Nebraska and graduate students. For this episode, Linda Garcia Merchant also...
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Episode 3: Swift and Cohen
In this episode, Professor Matt Cohen talks with poet, digital humanitarian, and English undergraduate extraordinaire Bianca Swift. Music for this episode by Shadows on a River.
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Episode 2: Crucet and Wabuke
Jennine Capó Crucet discusses her recently published collection of essays, My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, with her colleague and fellow author Hope Wabuke. They discuss the writing process, collegiality, and how their lived experiences inform their writing. Music…
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Episode 1: Obioma and Reynolds
Chigozie Obioma's most recent novel, An Orchestra of Minorities, is a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes awarded to books written in the English language. In this episode, he sits down with Guy Reynolds to discuss the novel and how his personal experiences have...
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