The Parlor

Timothy Oleksiak on Queer Worldbuilding and Slow Peer Review


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General Summary: Professor Timothy Oleksiak talks about queer theory and his beliefs about queer rhetoric should guide peer review. Several undergraduate students from the University of Texas at Austin reflect on Oleksiak’s research, receive clarification of his overall message and call to action, and discuss the positive impact queer rhetoric could have on students' experiences with, as well as the improvement of, peer review all together.
Detailed Summary: Oleksiak’s introduction to queer theory and explanation of sources that influenced his research processes (00.47-02.27); Oleksiak’s opinion on how early children should be introduced to queer theory (02.27-05.40); Oleksiak’s summary of his own article in three sentences (05.40-07.20); Oleksiak detailing the term “worldmaking” and clarifying what an example of that would be (07.20-09.40); Oleksiak detailing how to create queerness as a possible subject in terms of worldmaking, and how slow peer review does this efficiently(09.40-13.20); Clarification of the term rhetorical listening, and how it relates to slow peer review (13.20-16.30); How to overcome fast learning, and efficiency based learning objectives(16.30-20.15); The practical application of the slow peer review process, and how to get away from only making subjective-based commentary on feedback (20.15-26.30).
Scholarly Article Informing this Production: Oleksiak, Timothy. “A Queer Praxis for Peer Review.” College Composition and Communication 72.2 (2020): 306-32. Print.
Credits: This podcast was created by Caroline Henderson, Sarah Handley, Jack Leist, and Michael DiCecco with resources and assistance provided by the Digital Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. It features the voices of Caroline Henderson, Jack Leist, and guest Professor Timothy Oleksiak. The music featured in this podcast is titled “commonGround,” and was created by airtone and has been repurposed here under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial license 3.0. Additionally, conversation.wav was adapted and incorporated under the Creative Commons 1.0 license.
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