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Scholarly Communication February 24, 2021

Writing in Disciplines

A Discussion with Shyam Sharma

Shyam Sharma

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Shyam Sharma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University. We talk about how mutually appreciative …

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Academic Life January 7, 2021

On Writing Well for Trade

A Conversation with author and scholar Donna Freitas

Donna Freitas

Hosted by Dana Malone
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Academic Life December 24, 2020

The Other Side of the Desk with a UP Editor

A Discussion with Kim Guinta

Kim Guinta

Hosted by Dana Malone
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
History December 18, 2020

Burning the Books

A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

Richard Ovenden

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Living in an age awash with information can sometimes obscure its extraordinary fragility. Indeed, as Richard Ovenden demonstrates in Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge …
Scholarly Communication December 7, 2020

Scholarly Communications

A Discussion with Elisa De Ranieri, Editor-in-Chief of 'Nature Communications'

Elisa De Ranieri

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Elisa De Ranieri, Editor-in-Chief of Nature Communications. We talk about knowing the research you have done, but communicating the message you want said. Interviewer: "When …
Scholarly Communication November 20, 2020

Writing Support for International Graduate Students

Enhancing Transition and Success

Shyam Sharma

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Shyam Sharma, author of Writing Support for International Graduate Students: Enhancing Transition and Success (Routledge, 2020). We talk about international students and rhetoric, international students …
Scholarly Communication November 18, 2020

Stylish Academic Writing

Helen Sword

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Helen Sword, author of Stylish Academic Writing (Harvard UP, 2012). We talk about bad writing, but a lot more about how to make it good …
Scholarly Communication November 13, 2020

Writing Center Talk over Time

A Mixed-Method Study

Jo Mackiewicz

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Jo Mackiewicz, author of Writing Center Talk over Time: A Mixed-Method Study (Routledge, 2018). We talk about talk, tutor talk, student talk, spoken written-language, and …
Scholarly Communication November 9, 2020

The Work and Value of University Presses

A Discussion with Niko Pfund

Niko Pfund

Hosted by Marshall Poe
What do university presses do? And how do they contributed to public discourse? November 9 is the beginning of University Press Week, and today I had the honor of talking …
Literary Studies October 30, 2020

Scholarly Communication

Kit Nicholls on the Writing Center and the University

Kit Nicholls

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Kit Nicholls, Director of Cooper Union Center for Writing. We talk about writing, thinking, the university, and what everyone cares about. Interviewer : "That's the …
Literary Studies October 29, 2020

Transforming Ethos

Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing

Rosanne Carlo

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing (Utah State UP, 2020) approaches writing studies from the rhetorical flank, the flank which, for many, is the only flank …
Literary Studies October 23, 2020

Getting it Published

A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (3rd Edition)

William Germano

Hosted by Daniel Shea
When I put down Getting it Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (University of Chicago Press, 2016), I looked up and began to wonder …
Communications October 14, 2020

Scholarly Communication

An Interview with Joerg Heber of PLOS

Joerg Heber

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Open Access is spelled with a capital O and a capital A at the Public Library of Science (or PLOS, for short), a nonprofit Open Access publisher. Among PLOS's suite …
Communications September 29, 2020

Scholarly Communications

An Interview with Helen Pearson of 'Nature'

Helen Pearson

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Nature is the premier weekly journal of science, the journal where specialists go to read and publish primary research in their fields. But Nature is also a science magazine, a …
Communications November 4, 2019

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

Kathryn Conrad

Hosted by Marshall Poe
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trade books in that …
Communications March 19, 2019

Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

Hosted by Felipe Gonzalez Santos
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic. How can publishers and authors contribute to …