The Critical Lede

We are excited about this one! Take a listen to our discussion with Dr. Ted Striphas, Dr. Raymie McKerrow, and Dr. Joshua Gunn about the in’s and out’s of the review process. We also chat about how we can speed the process up and the potential harms to graduate students and junior faculty.

This is the episode where we spend a lot of time talking about the survey results. Besides that, we discuss Pentzold’s article in New Media and Society, “Imagining the Wikipedia Community: What do Wikipedia Authors Mean When They Write About Their Community?” We have an interesting take on the piece - take a listen to find out.

This week Ben and Des chat about Richie Neil Hao’s recent Text and Performance Quarterly article, “Rethinking Critical Pedagogy: Implications on Silence and Silent Bodies.” Hao gives us a lot to discuss including an excellent explanation of performance pedagogy, silence as performative, and how we can rethink our approach to silence when teaching. We definitely recommend the article, and encourage you to add to the discussion.

Salamon’s book, Assuming a Body, is a provocative read that engages the materiality of non-normatively gendered bodies. In the interview, we discuss how psychoanalysis, phenomenology and queer theory are all ripe places for engaging new understandings of transgender and genderqueer bodies. We also discuss some of the theoretical issues that Salamon has with some transgender/queer work and the social constructionist divide. A must listen for anyone interested in performativity or queer theory!

Check out Bill Eadie’s “Stories We Tell: Fragmentation and Convergence in Communication Disciplinary History”, in the most recent Review of Communication. He gives us a great primer on the origin stories of speech, journalism and communication. It’s a must listen for anyone who is curious about the history of our discipline and the value of that history.

In this episode we interview Dr. Jill Dolan about her recent book, Theatre & Sexuality. There is lots to talk about with this thin volume!

Also, check out her blog The Feminist Spectator.

Happy summer! As TCL goes on a brief hiatus we though you’d enjoy checking out our interview with Jeffery Bennett. He offers us insight into his book, Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance.

In this episode we discuss D. Travers Scott’s critical ethnography: Contested Kicks: Sneakers and Gay Masculinity, 1964-2008.

Scott marks the relationship between North American gay men and sneakers through articulating three ways that gay men have historically embraced sneakers.

This week we discuss Peeple’s article, Downwinder: Articulation and Appropriation in Social Movement Discourse. Her case study focuses on a Waste to Energy (WTE) facility in Spokane, Washington and the use of appropriation and articulation to combat the building of the facility.

This week we are featuring our interview with Dr. David Wiles, author of “Theater and Citizenship: The History of a Practice.” Wiles traces the influence and ideas of citizenship through key eras of theatrical history.

Take a listen, and let us know what you think.