• Cited: This award-winning audio documentary hosted and produced by Sam Fenn and Gordon Katic has its roots in UBC research and features topical stories on and issues in Canada.

• Recoding Relations: This four-part podcast is produced by Dr. David Gaertner (FNIS), Autumn Schnell, and Melissa Haberl. It discusses “Indigenous new media and the politics and potentials of the digital humanities”.

• Carving Space: An Indigenous Radio Doc Series: produced at UBC’s CiTR by Indigenous and Non-Indigenous students with a focus on Indigenous perspectives that include wellness, feminist, creativity, and navigating Indigenous identity at UBC.

• EMMA Talks: Decolonizing the Roots of Rape Culture: the first Engaging Monologues and Mutual Aid (EMMA) podcast episode features Dr. Sarah Hunt from UBC’s Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Department of Geography.

• New Works in Asian American Literature: Co-hosted by UBC’s Dr. Chris Patterson (GRSJ) who interviews scholars of Asian America about their new publications.

• Global Migration: COVID-19 and Beyond: a designated series from UBC Migration's podcast featuring various experts and researchers discussing topics around the pandemic and its effects on global migration.

• Patchworks: is a monthly podcast series focused on amplifying emerging and established Vancouver-based and international scholars, activists and community organizers. Funding is provided by Green College.

• Between, Across, and Through is the official podcast of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. Hosted by Professor Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Director.

• The Henceforward, co-produced by Dr. Eve Tuck (OISE), looks at the relationship “between Indigenous Peoples and Black Peoples on Turtle Island...[They] investigate what our mutual obligations and possibilities for contingent collaboration are, and much much more.”

• Open Peer Review Podcast is a podcast hosted by Dr. Lori Beckstead at Ryerson University that "demonstrate[s] how a podcast might be used by scholars and researchers as part of the pathway to a peer-reviewed research output, such as a published journal paper."

• PhDivas - hosted by Dr. Xine Yao (UCL) and Dr. Liz Wayne (UNC-Chapel Hill). A podcast that explores "academia, culture, and social justice across the STEM/humanities divide. Dr. Liz Wayne and Dr. Christine ‘Xine’ Yao (former SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at UBC) are two women of color Ivy League PhDs navigating higher education. Biomedical engineer meets literary critic. Both are fans of lipstick.”

• Public Work is a public humanities podcast hosted and produced by Amelia Golcheski and Jim McGrath at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Digital and Public Humanities.

• Research in Action is a podcast about topics and issues in higher education hosted at Oregon State University

• Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine is a podcast co-hosted by husband and wife team Justin and Dr. Sydnee McElroy that focuses on the history of medicine.

• Secret Feminist Agenda Hosted by SFU Publishing’s Dr. Hannah McGregor, SFA is a peer-reviewed “weekly podcast about the insidious, nefarious, insurgent, and mundane ways we enact our feminism in our daily lives.”

• Talk, Paper, Scissors is a graphic communications podcast hosted by Diana Varma who teaches at Ryerson University and has utilized her podcast in her teaching.

• The WPHP Monthly Mercury is a podcast hosted by the Women's Print History Project, which explores the process of recovering women writers and "centres the discovery of women and their work."

• At Your Service is a podcast thesis about digital experience design completed in 2017 by Katie Shelly at Hyper Island.

• My Gothic Dissertation is a literary podcast dissertation completed in May 2019 by Dr. Anna Williams at the University of Iowa. It is "the first-ever doctoral thesis to be produced in podcast form."

• My Master’s Thesis, but it’s a Podcast (about Podcasts) is a SSHRC-funded podcast thesis completed in 2020 by Olivia Trono in the Masters of Communication and Culture at Ryerson University.

ENGL 309: Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (Spring 2021) | Sara Press (PhD Candidate in English and UBC Public Scholar)

Course Description: The Rhetoric of Science and Medicine examines the role of language, argument, and persuasion, and how it affects the production, translation, and circulation of scientific and medical knowledge. Our guiding questions for the course are based on what rhetorician of medicine Judy Segal identifies as the central questions of rhetorical criticism: “Who is persuading whom of what?” and “what are the means of persuasion?” We will read articles from rhetorical theory and criticism, rhetoric of science, science and technology studies, rhetoric of health and medicine, and public news sources to examine the persuasive elements in science and medicine.

We will see how argument is used to “manufacture controversies” regarding issues like vaccination, and observe how metaphors work in science and medicine (genes as maps; the egg and sperm as romance; wars against Covid-19) to communicate concepts of biological processes. We will be attentive to the biased practices in medicine that discriminate against marginalized populations based on race, gender, class, sexuality, age, and ability. We will also examine lived experiences with illness, and the persuasive interactions between patients and physicians. Throughout the course, we will be thinking about how experts communicate to the wider public, and how non-experts interact with science and medicine with their own motivations and vocabularies. Given the prominence of health topics in public discourse, the course will pay special attention to the rhetoric of health and medicine.

For their final assignment, students produced short podcasts on the rhetoric of COVID-19 in relation to a past epidemic (e.g. HIV/AIDS, SARS, the Spanish Flu). Student examples include:

• • • "What's in a Name? A Rhetorical Examination of Disease 'Othering' in COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS," by Lana Hui

    • "Then and Now: The Continued Cycle of Anti-Chinese Racism in the Rhetoric of Disease," by Kailey Tam

    • "The Mystery of Anti-Maskers: Pro- and Anti-Mask Rhetoric During COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu of 1918," by Hannah Madden-Krasnick

ENGL 541: Getting Out the Vote: US Suffrage Literature (Fall 2020) | Dr. Mary Chapman

Course Description: The American suffrage campaign produced a vibrant and complex rhetorical culture that documented new feminist political strategies and generated support for the cause while experimenting with a range of forms and aesthetics, i.e. banners, posters, cartoons, speeches, “voiceless speeches,” parades, films, picketing and hunger strikes. Suffrage literature—fiction, poetry, and drama—was an integral part of what Margaret Finnegan calls "the art of politics" (2), while banners, posters, and periodicals are best understood within a context of circulation and production that involved suffragists in every aspect of print culture—from street-corner distribution of periodicals to professional editing of presses like the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company. Many of these tactics have been updated and used recently by activists in the Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo movements.

This course probes two questions:

1. What can we learn from the suffrage campaign about how one can change someone else’s mind? What tactics can overturn beliefs held for decades or longer?

2. Where does suffrage literature “fit” in US literary history?

This graduate seminar will survey American suffrage activism, focusing particularly on literary activism. It will evaluate the effectiveness of a variety of strategies suffrage writers used to disrupt gender and will also put suffrage activism into context, considering the ways in which contemporary activist practices build on the legacy of suffrage activism. The focus of the assignments is on giving students direct experience with primary research AND on creating resources that can have value outside of the classroom. One student opted to create a podcast episode as their final project.

• "Can Britney Spears Vote?: Mental Disability and Suffrage," by Olivia Dreisinger

• In Depth Out Loud is an academic podcast hosted by The Conversation.

• More or Less: Behind the Stats is an academic podcast "trying to make sense of the statistics that surround us," hosted by Tim Harford at BBC 4 Radio.

• Distillations is a podcast at the intersection of science and the humanities hosted by the Science History Institute.

• The Allusionist is a podcast about language hosted by Helen Zaltzman as part of Radiotopia. Academics from a variety of humanities and social sciences are frequently invited as guest experts.

• Crosscurrents is a podcast hosted by Memorial University's Nexus Centre "to highlight interdisciplinary research initiatives at Memorial University, primarily within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences."

• WB202: The Critical Inquiry Podcast is hosted by the academic journal Critical Inquiry.