Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews

Kirsten Dean is the High Impact Practices Librarian in Teaching and Learning Engagement with the University Libraries at Virginia Tech and is also the curator of the Popular Reading Collection in Newman Library. In this episode, Joe and Kira sat down with Kirsten to discuss the priorities that influence the choices she makes in filling the Popular Reading shelves, as well as how her work aligns with the role an academic library can effectively play in assessing and meeting the needs of VT students. 

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Three: Silent Spring is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Spring 2022.

Kelsey Hammer is the Digital Literacy and Multimedia Production Librarian at Virginia Tech. Joe and Kira sit down with Kelsey to discuss a multitude of topics, including how we engage with others online, the production of different creative projects, and snacks.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Three: Silent Spring is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Spring 2022.

In the first episode of the third season, Joe and Kira welcome Henry Yampolsky, the Assistant Director for Equity, Outreach, and Conflict Resolution in the Office for Equity and Accessibility at Virginia Tech. The three of them discuss Henry's efforts to educate the Virginia Tech community on compliance, civil rights, and communication, how those efforts derive from his philosophy on conflict resolution, and how his role differs from and overlaps those of the Ombuds Officers who appeared on the show last semester. 

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Three: Silent Spring is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Spring 2022.

Max Ofsa is the manager of Prototyping and 3D Scanning Studio at Virginia Tech. Max sits down with Kira and Joe to discuss the process of printing, prototyping, and the exciting ins and outs of the studio design space. 

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Two: The Hopeful Return is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Fall 2020.

Julie Griffin is a Senior Associate Dean of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech and is responsible for Collections and Scholarly Communications. Julie joined Kira and Joe to talk about the importance of providing access to information, data, and resources and providing information services to the community.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Two: The Hopeful Return is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Fall 2020.

Bryan Hanson and Reese Ramos joined Kira and Joe to talk about their respective roles as ombuds officers for the university and the graduate school.

Bryan Hanson is the graduate student Ombudsperson at Virginia Tech. Formed in 2007, his office supports graduate students in negotiating conflict and stress.

Reese Ramos is the director of the university-wide ombuds office at Virginia Tech, also known as the Virginia Tech Office of Interactive Communication & Empowerment (VOICE). In cooperation with Bryan's office, VOICE serves faculty, staff, and undergraduate students. The university-wide ombuds role was created in 2019.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Two: The Hopeful Return is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Fall 2020.

Dr. Kendall Giles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. His teaching and research interests include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data and algorithms, computer systems, the history of computing and the internet, and the field of science, technology, and society.

Kendall is pursuing a second doctorate in the STS program here at Virginia Tech while also hosting Technoslipstream, a podcast in which he takes a deep dive into research, books, news, and articles with a focus on exploring the complex and powerful technologies being developed and released into the world with sometimes beneficial but often unintended consequences. Technoslipstream is produced in affiliation with Virginia Tech Publishing and the Virginia Tech University Libraries Athenaeum.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Two: The Hopeful Return is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Fall 2020.

Dr. Andrea Baldwin, Heidi Henderson, and James Lee joined Kira and Joe to talk about the Posture Portrait project, an interdisciplinary project which examines how bodies have historically been created/made through scientific interventions and surveillance, while simultaneously engaging with the concept of inclusivity of all bodies including those traditionally seen as “Other”.

Dr. Andrea Baldwin is a researcher on the Posture Project. She is an assistant professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana studies at Virginia Tech in the department of sociology. Her scholarship centers on the experiences of Black women globally with a specific focus on Black feminist decoloniality, care, and Anglophone Caribbean women’s migration. Andrea is also a podcaster with Virginia Tech Publishing. She, along with Trichia Cadette, are hosts of Standpoints, a podcast on Black Feminisms.

Heidi Henderson is a choreographer on the Posture Portraits project. She is a professor and Chair of Dance at Connecticut College. She is currently developing and designing a new first year seminar called Quilting: Craft, Poverty, Protest, Reuse. Students will sew while they research the AIDs quilt, the quilts of Gee’s Bend Alabama, sustainability in clothing manufacturing, and artists that use quilting as their means of expression.

James Lee is a researcher and media artist on the Posture Portraits project. He is an associate professor of computer science at Connecticut College. His research interests include computer graphics, visualizations, games, physical computing, and virtual reality. His current research focuses on virtual humans, specifically attempts to design and develop a lifelike computer interface by digitizing a real person’s figure, nature, personality and mannerisms.

The Body Studies Journal article referenced by Dr. Baldwin during the interview can be accessed here.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Two: The Hopeful Return is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Fall 2020.

Dr. Anna Zeide is an Associate Professor in History at Virginia Tech and the founding director of a new Food Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.  Anna joined Kira and Joe to talk about the new program (in which Kira has also been a collaborator) and about her work. She is the author of the 2018 book, Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry (University of California Press), which won a James Beard media award in 2019.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Two: The Hopeful Return is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Fall 2020.

Honora Ankong and Bessie Flores Zaldívar are MFA candidates at Virginia Tech and hosts of the MFAngle podcast. They joined Kira and Joe in the studio to discuss new episodes, their own writing, and the future of the podcast. MFAngle is produced in affiliation with Virginia Tech Publishing and the Virginia Tech University Libraries Athenaeum.

Honora Ankong is a queer Cameroonian American poet, writer, and 2020 Pushcart prize nominee who has been featured by Poetry Daily. Her works exist to complicate and expand narratives of Blackness, immigration, displacement, and queer identity. Her chapbook our gods are hungry for elegies was selected as a winner of the 2021 Glass Poetry Press chapbook contest and will be forthcoming in 2022. Her other words can be found at Lolwe, Mineral Lit, Glass, The Maine Review, storySouth, and elsewhere.

Bessie Flores Zaldívar is a writer and poet from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She is a Tin House YA 2021 alumni and her work has been nominated for Best New Poets and selected for Best of the Net 2020. Bessie’s new chapbook, Rain Revolutions, is out now with Long Day Press. She will be reading from Rain Revolutions around Blacksburg next month including at this event.

Stacks on Stacks: The Interviews is a collection of guest interviews that aired during the regular broadcast of the program on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5pm, over 90.7 FM WUVT, Radio for Everyone.

Season Two: The Hopeful Return is a collection of all the interview segments recorded for live broadcast during the Stacks on Stacks radio program in the Fall 2020.