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The Office Hour, Chapter 11: “What We’re Reading”
In our final episode of 2016, Toby and I discuss the books we’re currently obsessed with, which include (but are definitely not limited to): James Gleick’s Time Travel: A History and The Information:...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 12: “Refusing to Read”
In our first episode of 2017, Toby and I debate Amy Hungerford’s Chronicle of Higher Education editorial, “On Not Reading.” Along the way, Toby shares some of his expertise about Mary Shelley’s...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 13: “Protest”
This week we talk to Brittain Fellow Ruthie Yow about a topic on the mind of many Americans at the moment: protesting. Ruthie’s book, Students of the Dream: Race and Inequality in the Resegregating...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 14: “Hobby-Horse”
This week, we begin with a discussion of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, which ultimately reveals itself as a sly attempt by Toby to get me to talk about my...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 15: “Public School”
On the occasion of Betsy DeVos’s confirmation as U.S. Secretary of Education, Toby takes over the microphone to school me on the history of public education....
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The Office Hour, Chapter 16: “Poetry”
This week, Toby and I read and discuss some of our favorite poems: William Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven,” Frank O’Hara’s “Having a Coke with You,” Lucille Clifton’s “shapeshifter poems,” and George...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 17: The New Yorker
This week on the podcast, Toby and I talk about The New Yorker magazine––which I happen to be teaching an English 1102 course about this semester. Along the way, Toby shares a cartoon by Tom Toro and...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 18: Britt History 1 (The Future)
Toby takes over the podcast this week, in the first installment of a three-part series in which we address the past, present, and future of the Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship. In this...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 19: April Is the Cruellest Month
In honor of National Poetry Month, Brittain Fellow Jeff Fallis returns to the podcast to discuss what may be literature’s most ill-defined, misunderstood, and maligned genre. As recipients of...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 20: Britt History II (The Present)
In this episode, the second of a three-part series on the history of the Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship, Toby and I talk to former Brittain Fellow and current Associate Director of the...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 21: Britt History III (The Past)
Part three of our series on the history of the Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship (the finale of The Office Hour‘s first season), finds Toby and I talking to Lisa Yaszek, Professor and...
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Flash Readings, Episode 4: “When I Talk to Siri”
Photograph by Chris Yunker, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In the fourth Flash Reading, Brittain Fellow Halcyon Lawrence talks about why her Samsung phone won’t take her where she wants to go....
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The Office Hour, Chapter 22: “The Culture Wars”
For the first episode of our second season, Toby, Andrew, and our new co-host Nick Sturm discuss the “culture wars,” a hot button term that has been making its way back into the media and into our...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 23: “Crisis!”
In this episode, Toby draws on his professorial pedigree and Nick on his experience in the creative writing world in an attempt to find the source of the current crisis in the humanities. Have the...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 24: “Realpolitik”
In this episode, Toby draws on the knowledge (and German-language skills) of former Brittain Fellow Ian Afflerbach (2016-17), currently Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of...
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Flash Readings, Episode 5: “The Moment John Roberts’s Words Cease to Matter”
Photograph by Ruthie Yow. Logo by Yongmin Kim. In Flash Reading 5, former Brittain Fellow Ruthie Yow (2015-17) takes Chief Justice John Roberts to task for his majority opinion in the landmark Supreme...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 25: “Alt-Ac”
In The Office Hour‘s 25th episode, Dr. Ruthie Yow––former Brittain Fellow (2015-17), current Service Learning and Partnerships Specialist for Serve Learn Sustain at Georgia Tech, regular TECHStyle...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 26: “The Big Machines That Are Coming To Take Our Jobs”
Image via Pexels. In this episode, we talk to Brittain Fellow, TECHStyle co-editor, and frequent Office Hour guest Anna Ioanes in order to dispel some myths about online and hybrid teaching. Are EdTech...
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Flash Readings, Episode 6: “Colson Whitehead Will Break You, Too”
Harriet Tubman (left), with rescued family and neighbors, circa 1887, at her home in Auburn, New York. From left: Gertie Davis; Nelson Davis; Lee Chaney; “Pop” John Alexander; Walter Green; Blind...
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The Office Hour, “Fixing the Academic Conference”
Photo credit: Brian Herzog Is the academic conference an important place for sharing and developing knowledge or an increasingly boring relic of a bygone era? Given the cost of attending, the...
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