(Watch our video interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65141616)

The Ivory Tower Boiler Room is so happy to celebrate National Poetry Month, and we're pleased to welcome Dr. Susan Holbrook who discusses her second edition of How to Read (and Write About) Poetry (published by Broadview Press). 

Dr. Holbrook, Andrew, and guest co-host, Dr. Kim Coates explore why the general public is nervous around poetry and how to overcome this anxiety. Dr. Holbrook explains what it means for her to balance being a poet, devoted poetry reader, and professor of poetry. 

Head here to purchase How to Read (and Write About) Poetry and use IvoryTower for an exclusive 20% off: https://broadviewpress.com/product/how-to-read-and-write-about-poetry-second-edition/#tab-description

To learn more about Dr. Holbrook make sure to look at her website: https://www.uwindsor.ca/english/337/susan-holbrook

While you're at it why not follow Broadview Press on IG and Twitter, @broadviewpress. 

Thanks to Kim for being such an excellent guest co-host and definitely follow her literary and art review on IG and Twitter, @evocationsreview, and you can find her on Twitter, @kjcoates. 

Follow Ivory Tower Boiler Room on Facebook, @ivorytowerboilerroom, Instagram, @ivorytowerboilerroom, TikTok, @ivorytowerboilerroom, and Twitter, @IvoryBoilerRoom! Email us at [email protected]. We love hearing from you about the podcast and are always interested in interview suggestions.

Many thanks to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast team:

Andrew Rimby, Executive Director; Mary DiPipi, Chief Contributor; Ceren Usta, Marketing Director

Podcast Interns: Nicole Arguello and Kimberly Dallas

Thanks to Anne Sophie Andersen and Meghan Ames for our theme song, "Loverman."

(Watch our video interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65103076)

We welcome Helana back again to The Ivory Tower Boiler Room for our first ever Book Corner episode!

Dr. Helana Darwin sits down with Andrew to discuss her new book Redoing Gender: How Nonbinary Gender Contributes Toward Social Change. Helana is an author who has written about gender, religion, Body Positivity, craft beer culture, and sexual abuse in the academy. 

Redoing Gender: How Nonbinary Gender Contributes toward Social Change illuminates the everyday labor that gender nonbinary people perform in order to achieve social recognition. In keeping with the famous “doing gender” sociological model, Dr. Darwin analyzes this process at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and institutional levels, through in-depth interviews with 47 nonbinary people.

To order Redoing Gender head on over to Springer Link or Amazon: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-83617-7 https://www.amazon.com/Redoing-Gender_-How-Nonbinary-Gender-Contributes-Toward-Social-Change/dp/3030836169

To learn more about Helana, head on over to her website: https://helanadarwin.com/

Make sure to follow Helana on Twitter, @HelanaDarwin. 

Follow Ivory Tower Boiler Room on Facebook, @ivorytowerboilerroom, Instagram, @ivorytowerboilerroom, TikTok, @ivorytowerboilerroom, and Twitter, @IvoryBoilerRoom! Email us at [email protected]. We love hearing from you about the podcast and are always interested in interview suggestions.

Many thanks to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast team:

Andrew Rimby, Executive Director; Mary DiPipi, Chief Contributor; Ceren Usta, Marketing Director

Podcast Interns: Nicole Arguello and Kimberly Dallas

Thanks to Anne Sophie Andersen and Meghan Ames for our theme song, "Loverman."

Hey, true crime friends! This week on True Crime in Academia, Mary breaks down the murder of University of North Carolina student, Faith Hedgepeth. 

Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram. 

Become a patron by clicking here. 

Sources:

Who Killed the Co-Ed series on Discovery +

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Faith_Hedgepeth

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/us/faith-hedgepeth-unc-murder-arrest/index.html

https://abc11.com/faith-hedgepeth-unc-student-murder-miguel-enrique-salguero-olivares-arrest/11505546/

Andrew is so thrilled to be reunited and joined by his Kean University undergraduate mentor, Dr. Jan Balakian.

Jan talks about her new play Dreams on Fire which will have a Zoom reading on April 27th at 5pm. 

Use this link to watch the reading: https://kean-edu.zoom.us/j/93693342238

Dreams on Fire tells the story of the Armenian Genocide and the traumatic effects on future generations. When Jan was a PhD student at Cornell, she won a Cornell playwriting prize for her play in 1989; this achievement sparked the creation of Dreams on Fire.

Dreams follow the events of an Armenian-American college student who has a nervous breakdown during a 2016 exam week. While his grandmother and a classmate helped him recover, he began to link his condition to the Armenian Genocide. The connection explores the transmission of trauma across generations and the impact the Armenian Genocide has on the past, present, and future.

Projections from 1915, The Palisades of NJ, Arshile Gorky, Facing History's text, NY Times headlines, the Turkish Coup of 2016 are part of the production, along with the melancholy sound of the duduk (Armenian wind instrument), and Katie Melua's Dreams on Fire sung by Aram.

To read more about Jan, please head here: https://newplayexchange.org/users/64237/jan-balakian

And while you're at it, make sure to follow Jan and Kean University on Twitter, @BalakianJan, @KeanUniversity. 

Follow Ivory Tower Boiler Room on Facebook, @ivorytowerboilerroom, Instagram, @ivorytowerboilerroom, TikTok, @ivorytowerboilerroom, and Twitter, @IvoryBoilerRoom! Email us at [email protected]. We love hearing from you about the podcast and are always interested in interview suggestions.

Many thanks to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast team:

Andrew Rimby, Executive Director; Mary DiPipi, Chief Contributor; Ceren Usta, Marketing Director

Podcast Interns: Nicole Arguello and Kimberly Dallas

Thanks to Anne Sophie Andersen and Meghan Ames for our theme song, "Loverman."

(Watch the video version on our Patreon for free! https://www.patreon.com/posts/spring-22-bonus-64715737) 

This week is National Library Week so we thought why not bring you all a special bonus episode! Andrew is joined with librarians, Emily Ostrander and Darla Salva Cruz, and the three all discuss their favorite library memories and the importance of literature in their life. 

Make sure to follow our favorite libraries and bookstores including @emmaclarklibrary, @livebrary, @suffolkys, @portjefflibrary, @sbulibraries, @hegganpl, @pwpllocalhistory, @chplnj, @gnlibrary, @nypl, @freelibrary, @unionpubliclibrarynj, @bryantlibrary, @mcnallyjackson, @wordsmatterbookstore, and @strandbookstore.  

And please tag your favorite library and bookstore in the comment section!

Follow Ivory Tower Boiler Room on Facebook, @ivorytowerboilerroom, Instagram, @ivorytowerboilerroom, TikTok, @ivorytowerboilerroom, and Twitter, @IvoryBoilerRoom! Email us at [email protected]. We love hearing from you about the podcast and are always interested in interview suggestions.

Many thanks to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast team:

Andrew Rimby, Executive Director; Mary DiPipi, Chief Contributor; Ceren Usta, Marketing Director

Podcast Interns: Nicole Arguello and Kimberly Dallas

Hey, true crime friends! This week on True Crime in Academia Mary interviews writer and producer Paul Haynes. Paul worked with the late author Michelle McNamara on her best-selling true crime novel I'll Be Gone in The Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. 

Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram. 

To become a patron of Ivory Tower Boiler Room and its podcasts, click here. 

CW: sexual assault and trauma 

(Watch our video version here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64672155)

We talk to Mona Awad about her 2021 novel All's Well and discuss how she turned to Shakespeare for literary inspiration. Then, Mona discusses how her own personal journey with chronic pain made its way into her novel. And, she explains how Miranda Fitch, her protagonist struggles with academic pressure and chronic pain while trying to direct and stage All's Well That Ends Well. Mona explains the similarity between All's Well and Bunny (her 2019 award winning novel). If you are a fan of psychological thrillers, then this is a must listen!

Make sure to follow Mona Awad on Instagram, @misss_read. 

You can purchase All's Well by Mona Awad here: https://bookshop.org/books/all-s-well-9780735241206/9781982169664

Listen to Sophie Amoss read All's Well on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Alls-Well-Audiobook/1797126091

Follow Ivory Tower Boiler Room on Facebook, @ivorytowerboilerroom, Instagram, @ivorytowerboilerroom, TikTok, @ivorytowerboilerroom, and Twitter, @IvoryBoilerRoom! Email us at [email protected]. We love hearing from you about the podcast and are always interested in interview suggestions.

Many thanks to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast team:

Andrew Rimby, Executive Director; Mary DiPipi, Chief Contributor; Ceren Usta, Marketing Director

Podcast Interns: Nicole Arguello and Kimberly Dallas

Thanks to Anne Sophie Andersen, @anne_sophie_andersen, for "Capricorn"!

(Part 2 of our interview with Taylor Ferber)

(Watch the video version here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64300670)

We're ecstatic to feature Taylor Ferber, pop culture provocateur and host of the "Cancel Me, Baby" podcast. She discusses her thoughts on #CancelCulture, the #MeToo movement in reference to her interview with Joe Francis (creator of "Girls Gone Wild"), and we do a deep dive of "Pam and Tommy," "And Just Like That," and "Euphoria." These TV shows lead us all to an exciting and intense discussion of Porn and Media studies.

Definitely follow Taylor on Instagram, @talktometaylor and Twitter, @TaylorFerber.

Taylor's "Talk to Me Taylor" website featuring her podcast, red carpet interviews, and writing: https://talktometaylor.com/

"Cancel Me, Baby" Podcast: https://anchor.fm/taylor-ferber

Taylor's merchandise: https://cancel-me-baby.myshopify.com/

Follow Ivory Tower Boiler Room on Facebook, @ivorytowerboilerroom, Instagram, @ivorytowerboilerroom, TikTok, @ivorytowerboilerroom, and Twitter, @IvoryBoilerRoom! Email us at [email protected]. We love hearing from you about the podcast and are always interested in interview suggestions.

Many thanks to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast team:

Andrew Rimby, Executive Director; Mary DiPipi, Chief Contributor; Ceren Usta, Marketing Director

Podcast Interns: Nicole Arguello and Kimberly Dallas

Hey, true crime friends! Welcome back to season 2 of True Crime in Academia. This week Mary is breaking down the murder of Lauren Gidding, a law student at Mercer University. 

Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram. 

To become a patron, click here. 

Sources: 

Redhanded Podcast: Episode 217 Stephen McDaniel: The Killer with a Key

https://casocriminal.org/en/brutal-cases/lauren-giddings-brutally-murdered-by-her-neighbor/?msclkid=2da8c079ac4011ec9f18f51d86a7b3fe

https://allthatsinteresting.com/stephen-mcdaniel?msclkid=027af46cac4011ecbbe77328f28602f5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIroLgiCyP8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwhTruYrjT0

https://www.wikicelebs.com/stephen-mcdaniel/?msclkid=24ddf22baeb811eca3167ebf601de8fd#BiographyWiki

https://www.ghbase.com/stephen-mcdaniel-case-confession-lauren-giddings-murder-update/?msclkid=24df0211aeb811ecbe2a216436221883

(Watch the video version here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64300670)

What an episode to kickoff our Spring 22 season! 

We're ecstatic to feature Taylor Ferber, pop culture provocateur and host of the "Cancel Me, Baby" podcast. She discusses her thoughts on #CancelCulture, the #MeToo movement in reference to her interview with Joe Francis (creator of "Girls Gone Wild"), and we do a deep dive of "Pam and Tommy," "And Just Like That," and "Euphoria." These TV shows lead us all to an exciting and intense discussion of Porn and Media studies. 

Definitely follow Taylor on Instagram, @talktometaylor and Twitter, @TaylorFerber.  

Taylor's "Talk to Me Taylor" website featuring her podcast, red carpet interviews, and writing: https://talktometaylor.com/

"Cancel Me, Baby" Podcast: https://anchor.fm/taylor-ferber

Taylor's merchandise: https://cancel-me-baby.myshopify.com/

Follow Ivory Tower Boiler Room on Facebook, @ivorytowerboilerroom, Instagram, @ivorytowerboilerroom, TikTok, @ivorytowerboilerroom, and Twitter, @IvoryBoilerRoom! Email us at [email protected]. We love hearing from you about the podcast and are always interested in interview suggestions.

Many thanks to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast team:

Andrew Rimby, Executive Director; Mary DiPipi, Chief Contributor; Ceren Usta, Marketing Director

Podcast Interns: Nicole Arguello and Kimberly Dallas

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Thanks to J Records for Jamie Foxx and T-Pain's "Blame It (On the Alcohol)."