Indoor Voices

Andrea Balis, a faculty member in history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Elizabeth Levy, a children's book author, have marshaled their experience working in theater, politics, writing and historical research to produce a book for middle-grade students about the Watergate scandal. Their book is Bringing Down a President: The Watergate Scandal and will be published by Macmillan's Roaring Brook Press in August of 2019.

Nancy K. Miller is a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. She talks about her latest book, My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism (Columbia University Press), with Jason Tougaw, professor of English at Queens College.

Ria Banerjee (Guttman Community College), Megan Behrent (NYC College of Tech), Allison Better (Kingsborough Community College), Sarah Hoiland (Hostos Community College), and Maria Julia Rossi (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) discuss their participation with the CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program and the continuation of their active writing group that came about as a result.

Elizabeth Alsop is an assistant professor and academic director of Communication & Media and Liberal Studies at CUNY's School of Professional Studies and the author of the forthcoming book, Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio State U. Press, 2019). Read more about Elizabeth's work at indoorvoicespodcast.com.

Sarah Hoiland is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hostos Community College in the Behavioral & Social Sciences Department. As a feminist ethnographer, she is researching the historical and contemporary representations of women within the male dominated world of motorcycle club subculture. Visit indoorvoicespodcast.com for a link to her recent article "Impromptu Fiesta" or 'Havoc in Hollister': A Seventy-Year Retrospective" in the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies.

Edgardo Sanabria-Valentín, Ph.D. is the Associate Program Director for PRISM (Program for Research Initiatives in Science and Math) and also the Pre-Health Careers Advisor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the recipient of the ESCMID Young Scientist Award (2007), a Leadership Alliance-Schering Plough Graduate Fellowship (2006), and the NBHS-Frank G. Brooks Award for Excellence in Student Research (2001). He is also a founding member of the NYC-Minority Graduate Student Network and The Leadership Alliance Alumni Association.

Debra Caplan is an Assistant Professor of Theater in the Dept. of Fine and Performing Arts at Baruch College and the author of Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy (U Michigan Press, 2018). She is interviewed by Beth Harpaz, editor of CUNY SUM.

Jason Tougaw is an associate professor in the English department at Queens College and the author of two recent books: The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience (Yale UP 2018) and The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism (Dzanc 2017). This episode title comes from a 2015 journal article he published in Modern Fiction Studies.

Beth Harpaz is the content editor for SUM, a new website showcasing CUNY research. She's also the author of three books and a #recoveringjournalist after 35 years in newsrooms. Her work as travel editor for The Associated Press earned her the 2018 bronze award for travel journalist of the year from the Society of American Travel Writers and another SATW award for a podcast about visiting all 50 states. Follow her on Twitter @literarydj

Bridgett Davis is a journalist, essayist, novelist, memoirist, filmmaker, teacher and director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program at Baruch College. Her newest book, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers (Little, Brown in January 2019) is a compelling and touching tribute to her mother and to the business that supported her family for decades.