This week our guest shares her unusual path to her doctorate and her unique approach to teaching/mentorship. Click here for the episode notes (featuring many book recommendations): https://docs.google.com/document/d/13GLWKN3mC3A4ilFa0yj4kBmzOTFZ6v8ojloQxOTSz2k/edit?usp=sharing

This week's guest, Joe Labriola's interests may seem unrelated, but as you'll learn, they make sense once you get to know him. Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v1tNGt1JWDDV1-FhL7uHsoP4dQgZO9vaDJZGfBXsVik/edit?usp=sharing

Dr. Basaldua-Sun is an independent scholar of Comparative Literature. Click here for the glossary and bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Lrq6TP5VPkHKyn6ciexKMbRAg61Mijlj8IZotKfIN4/edit?usp=drivesdk

Andrew's former director, Renee Chambers Liciaga is a professional dancer, choreographer, and performing arts educator who speaks to how to approach the performing arts during the pandemic. She discusses how she choreographed Disney's Tarzan outside at the Elmwood Zoo in Norristown, PA. For access to her photos and videos please use this link: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1NV6OlPu50SyedivD195Ua_vfx9llReJW

The Ivory Tower Boiler Room welcomes our fourth guest, Shweta Krishnan, PhD candidate in Anthropology at George Washington University. Shweta is doing her field work on the revival movement surrounding DonyiPolo, a religion centered in the Northeast-Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. She also talks more generally about how bafflingly difficult it can be to do anthropological research in a way that is respectful towards the people you are writing about.

Below, you will find a glossary of terms and a bibliography; this is a new feature which, we are pleased to announce, will henceforth be part of our offering each week. We are aware of the fact that each specialized field has its own vocabulary and we hope that listing some of the terms we use in the course of the podcast will make it easier for non-specialists to follow along, and to explore further if they so choose. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nRFIR5SPapwLc6F3zS4wtyqRlFEk9XgjDOiPy4UF5I0/edit?usp=sharing

Stephanie’s research explores how culture grows out of shared spaces, and in particular how queer and gender-nonconforming people have been excluded from those spaces. Join us from the Ivory Tower Boiler Room with Stephanie Bonvissuto, a scholar from Stony Brook's Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Check out Stephanie's next virtual discussion at the Gender Conference in NYC (October 22 and October 23, gender conference.nyc).

PhD wisdom says don't change your dissertation committee. Shruti from Stony Brook's Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has changed hers. Twice. Join us in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room to hear her story and learn how frustrating it is for an international student in an American PhD program. For more information about the following authors referenced please check out these links: bell hooks: http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com/ Jasbir Puar: https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty/143-jasbir-puar Jennifer Nash: https://scholars.duke.edu/person/Jennifer.Nash

Join us in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room as we welcome Ignacio Choi, a scholar of Comparative Literature.

Join Andrew Rimby and Adam Katz as they explore their PhD process from the boiler room. Helene Meyers' "Public Scholar, Beware" https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/04/11/risks-and-rewards-engaging-public-scholarship-opinion

In the ivory tower, the elevator is broken. The staircases are locked. And we are broadcasting from the basement.