Constance and Jo speak with Dr. GPat Patterson, Associate Professor of English at Kent State Tuscarawas about their recent article, “Loving Students in the Time of COVID: a Dispatch from LGBT Studies.” We explore teaching as the cultivation of immersive learning experiences, why the imperative to market our disciplines as job-market training is a trap, and how to build more supportive environments for liberatory teaching and learning.

Items mentioned in this episode:

GPat’s article, “Loving Students in the Time of COVID” https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/liberalarts/article/view/252632 Cat Pausé’s “Candy Perfume Girl: Colouring in Fat Bodies” https://www.academia.edu/37089428/Paus%C3%A9_C._J._2017_._Candy_perfume_girl_Colouring_fat_bodies._FKW_62_74-86 The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics http://journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space: https://constell8cr.com/Peitho: https://cfshrc.org/peitho-journal/ 

GPat on Twitter: @drgpat https://twitter.com/drgpat