This episode's guest is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Margaret H. Ordoubadian University Writing Center, Dr. Erica Cirillo-McCarthy. Erica teaches undergraduate classes in First Year Writing, Research & Argumentation, and Tutoring Writing and graduate classes in Archival Research Methods and Directed Reading on Oral History in Rhetoric and Composition. Her scholarship has been published in Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, the Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, and other edited collections. She earned her PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the teaching of English from the University of Arizona and earned her BA and MA in English at Florida Atlantic University.

Books, articles, and authors mentioned

• Erica's website 
• Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death
• Rebecca Tuvel. "In Defense of Transracialism.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (2017), 32 (2): 263-278. 
• Erica Cirillo-McCarthy, Elise Versoza-Hurley & Amanda Wray. “Rhetorics of Interruption: Navigating Sexism in the Academy.” Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership. Eds. Holly Hassell and Kirsti Cole. New York: Routledge, 2017. 

Music: "Wild Thing" by Tone Loc. This constitutes a fair use of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US copyright law.