UIndy’s Potluck Podcast: Season 2
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UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 2 – Episode 1 – Ella Frances Sanders
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, English major Tayah Johnson and Social Work major Tylyn Johnson interview essayist Ella Frances Sanders, winner of the 2019 Whirling Prize in Prose, which is an annual international literary prize that recognizes books of distinction in response to a theme selected by students. The 2019 theme was Space. Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing out podcasts Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio.
New York Times bestselling author Ella Frances Sanders is the writer and illustrator of two previous books, Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World and The Illustrated Book of Sayings: Curious Expressions from Around the World, which have both been translated into eight languages.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 2 – Episode 2 – Jessica Rae Bergamino
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, English major Lindsey Henderson interviews poet Jessica Rae Bergamino, winner of the 2019 Whirling Prize in Poetry, which is an annual international literary prize that recognizes books of distinction in response to a theme selected by students. The 2019 theme was Space. Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing out podcasts Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major John Miley for editing this episode’s audio.
Jessica Rae Bergamino is the author of Unmanned, winner of Noemi Press’ 2017 Poetry Prize, as well as the chapbooks The Desiring Object or Voyager Two explains to the Gathering of the Stars How She Came to Glow Among Them (Sundress Publications), The Mermaid, Singing (dancing girl press), and Blue in All Things: a Ghost Story (dancing girl publications). Individual poems have appeared in publications such as Third Coast, Black Warrior Review, The Journal, and Gulf Coast. She is a doctoral candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah, and lives in Seattle, WA.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 2 – Episode 3 – Mira T. Lee
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where Undy hosts conversations about the arts, creative writing majors Bre Nunn and Tayah Eakle interview novelist Mira T. Lee, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Landen Howell for editing this episode’s audio.
Mira T. Lee’s debut novel, Everything Here is Beautiful, was selected as a Top 10 Debut by the American Booksellers Association, and named a Best Fiction title of 2018 by Amazon, O Magazine, Real Simple, and the Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. It is also the 2018 Indy Whirling Prize winner. Lee’s stories and essays have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Tin House, Real Simple, the Southern Review, Missouri Review, and Harvard Review. Lee works as a graphic designer, and in her previous lives, has also been known as a pop-country drummer, a salsa dancing fanatic, and a biology graduate student.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 2 – Episode 4 – Maurice Broaddus
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where Undy hosts conversations about the arts, English majors Savannah Harris and Dakota Kennebrew interview fiction writer Maurice Broaddus, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman.for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio.
Maurice Broaddus’ work has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Uncanny Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, with some of his stories having been collected in The Voices of Martyrs. His books include Buffalo Soldier, Pimp My Airship, and The Usual Suspects.
Learn more at MauriceBroaddus.com.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 2 – Episode 5 – Jim Williams, Molly Martin, Chad Martin
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where Undy hosts conversations about the arts, Professor Jen Camden talks with Dr. Jim Williams, Dr. Molly Martin, and Dr. Chad Martin about their lecture “Jews, Templars, and Saxons: Ivanhoe’s Imaginary Past,” This interdisciplinary panel of experts, guests Communiversity, a free, online class, reflect on Ivanhoe, which students, faculty, staff, alumni and the broader community were invited to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott’s romance together. Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio.
Jen Camden is the Beverley J Pitts Distinguished Professor of the Ron and Laura Strain Honors College and Professor and Associate Chair of English. She coordinates the Communiversity course and the lecture and performance series that accompanies the course.
Jim Williams is the Executive Director of the Strain Honors College and Associate Professor of History, specializing in medieval history.
Molly Martin is Professor and Chair of English, specializing in Medieval Literature and Culture.
Chad Martin is Associate Professor of History, specializing in modern Britain.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 2 – Episode 6 – Samuel Baker
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, Lauren Wilkinson, an English Literature and Secondary Education major with a minor in History, talks with guest of Communiversity, Samuel Baker, an associate professor of English at the University of Texas–Austin. They discuss Ivanhoe and Baker’s lecture “Ivanhoe, Scotland, and Brittan.” Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio.
2019 marked the 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, a book Mark Twain blamed for starting the American Civil War! To celebrate this milestone, UIndy hosted Communiversity, a free, online class. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and the broader community were invited to explore this classic detective novel.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 2 – Episode 7 – Jonathan Evans
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, Lauren Wilkinson, an English Literature and Secondary Education major with a minor in History, talks with guest of Communiversity, Jonathan Evans, a professor of Philosophy at UIndy. They discuss Ivanhoe and Evan’s lecture “Ivanhoe and Integrity.” Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio.
2019 marked the 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, a book Mark Twain blamed for starting the American Civil War! To celebrate this milestone, UINDY hosted Communiversity, a free, online class. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and the broader community were invited to explore this classic detective novel.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 2 – Episode 8 – Leah Milne, Rick Marshall
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, Lauren Wilkinson, an English Literature and Secondary Education major, talks with guests of Communiversity, UIndy English professors Leah Milne and Rick Marshall: They discuss Ivanhoe and Milne and Marshall’s lecture “Chivalry and Romance.” Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio.
2019 marked the 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, a book Mark Twain blamed for starting the American Civil War! To celebrate this milestone, UIndy hosted Communiversity, a free, online class. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and the broader community were invited to explore this classic detective novel.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 2 – Episode 9 – Paige Lewis
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where Undy hosts conversations about the arts, English majors and minors Jessica Marvel, Bre Nunn, and Moira Himes interview poet Paige Lewis, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings.
Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio.
Paige Lewis is the author of Space Struck and multiple other titles. Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Best New Poets 2017, Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Paige currently lives and teaches in Indiana.
We thank you for listening to UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy’s Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.
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