November 16:

Interview: Max Ofsa is the manager of Prototyping and 3D Scanning Studio at Virginia Tech. In our last episode of the season, Max sits down with Kira and Joe to discuss the process of printing, prototyping, and the exciting ins and outs of the studio design space. To listen to Max's episode, click here. 

November 9:

Interview: Julie Griffin is a Senior Associate Dean of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech and is responsible for Collections and Scholarly Communications. Julie joined Kira and Joe to talk about the importance of providing access to information, data, and resources and providing information services to the community. To listen to Julie's episode, click here. 

November 2:

Interview: Bryan Hanson and Reese Ramos joined Kira and Joe to talk about their respective roles as ombuds officers for the university and the graduate school. To listen to their episode, click here. 

Bryan Hanson is the graduate student Ombudsperson at Virginia Tech.  Formed in 2007, his office supports graduate students in negotiating conflict and stress.

Reese Ramos is the director of the university-wide ombuds office at Virginia Tech, also known as the Virginia Tech Office of Interactive Communication & Empowerment (VOICE).  In cooperation with Bryan's office, VOICE serves faculty, staff, and undergraduate students.  The university-wide ombuds role was created in 2019. 

October 26:

This week is Radiothon, so no interview! We're just playing music and asking for donations. In honor of Halloween week, our show will feature music with song titles or artist names inspired by fears or phobias, specifically where the objects of these are commonplace things or circumstances. Tune in to listen to us play songs relating to fear of paper, standing upright, technology, and more!

To donate, click here.

October 19:

Interview: Dr. Kendall Giles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. His teaching and research interests include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data and algorithms, computer systems, the history of computing and the internet, and the field of science, technology, and society.

Kendall is pursuing a second doctorate in the STS program here at Virginia Tech while also hosting Technoslipstream, a podcast in which he takes a deep dive into research, books, news, and articles with a focus on exploring the complex and powerful technologies being developed and released into the world with sometimes beneficial but often unintended consequences. Technoslipstream is produced in affiliation with Virginia Tech Publishing and the Virginia Tech University Libraries Athenaeum. To listen to Kendall's episode, click here. 

Here is Kendall's website.

October 12: 

Interview: Dr. Andrea Baldwin, Heidi Henderson, and James Lee joined Kira and Joe to talk about the Posture Portrait project, an interdisciplinary project which examines how bodies have historically been created/made through scientific interventions and surveillance, while simultaneously engaging with the concept of inclusivity of all bodies including those traditionally seen as “Other.” To listen to this episode, click here.

Dr. Andrea Baldwin is a researcher on the Posture Project. She is an assistant professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana studies at Virginia Tech in the department of sociology. Her scholarship centers on the experiences of Black women globally with a specific focus on Black feminist decoloniality, care, and Anglophone Caribbean women’s migration. Andrea is also a podcaster with Virginia Tech Publishing. She, along with Trichia Cadette, are hosts of Standpoints, a podcast on Black Feminisms. 

Heidi Henderson is a choreographer on the Posture Portraits project. She is a professor and Chair of Dance at Connecticut College. She is currently developing and designing a new first year seminar called Quilting: Craft, Poverty, Protest, Reuse. Students will sew while they research the AIDs quilt, the quilts of Gee’s Bend Alabama, sustainability in clothing manufacturing, and artists that use quilting as their means of expression.

James Lee is a researcher and media artist on the Posture Portraits project. He is an associate professor of computer science at Connecticut College. His research interests include computer graphics, visualizations, games, physical computing, and virtual reality. His current research focuses on virtual humans, specifically attempts to design and develop a lifelike computer interface by digitizing a real person’s figure, nature, personality, and mannerisms.

The Body Studies Journal article referenced by Dr. Baldwin during the interview can be accessed here.

October 5:

Interview: Dr. Anna Zeide is an Associate Professor in History at Virginia Tech and the founding director of a new Food Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Anna joined Kira and Joe to talk about the new program (in which Kira has also been a collaborator) and about her work. She is the author of the 2018 book, Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry (University of California Press), which won a James Beard media award in 2019. To listen to Anna's interview, click here.

September 28:

Interview: Honora Ankong and Bessie Flores Zaldívar are MFA candidates at Virginia Tech and hosts of the MFAngle podcast. They joined Kira and Joe in the studio to discuss new episodes, their own writing, and the future of the podcast. MFAngle is produced in affiliation with Virginia Tech Publishing and the Virginia Tech University Libraries Athenaeum. To listen to this episode, click here. 

Honora Ankong is a queer Cameroonian American poet, writer, and 2020 Pushcart prize nominee who has been featured by Poetry Daily. Her works exist to complicate and expand narratives of Blackness, immigration, displacement, and queer identity. Her chapbook our gods are hungry for elegies was selected as a winner of the 2021 Glass Poetry Press chapbook contest and will be forthcoming in 2022. Her other words can be found at Lolwe, Mineral Lit, Glass, The Maine Review, storySouth, and elsewhere. 

Bessie Flores Zaldívar is a writer and poet from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She is a Tin House YA 2021 alumni and her work has been nominated for Best New Poets and selected for Best of the Net 2020. Bessie’s new chapbook, Rain Revolutions, is out now with Long Day Press. She will be reading from Rain Revolutions around Blacksburg next month including at this event.  

September 21:

Interview: Jason Higgins is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and Oral History for the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech.  Jason sat with Kira and Joe to talk about his work recording and studying oral history narrative given by military veterans, and about how this will inform his research and pedagogy while in residence. To listen to Jason's interview, click here. 

September 14: 

Interview: Sylvester Johnson is the director of the Virginia Tech Center for Humanities. He is a nationally recognized humanities scholar specializing in the study of technology, race, religion, and national security.  He is also assistant vice provost for the humanities at Virginia Tech and executive director of the university’s Tech for Humanity initiative. Sylvester joined Joe in the studio to discuss Vox Humanities, his podcast focusing on the advancement of human centered knowledge. Vox Humanities is produced in affiliation with Virginia Tech Publishing and the Virginia Tech University Libraries Athenaeum. To listen to Sylvester's episode, click here. 

September 7:

Interview: Bill Ingram is the Assistant Dean and Director of Information Technologies in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.  He spoke with Kira and Joe about the importance of IT in the development of academic libraries, and about the way in which technological developments have effect workflows and organizational strategies throughout the Libraries. This conversation with Bill continues a series on Libraries Administration that Stacks on Stacks hosts have been producing throughout the year. To listen to Bill's episode, click here. 

August 31:

Interview: Lee Vinsel is an Associate Professor in the department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.  He is the Author of The Innovation Delusion (2020, with Andrew L. Russel) and Moving Violations (2019).  Lee joins Kira and Joe in the studio to preview Peoples & Things, his new podcast about human life with technology.  Peoples & Things is produced in affiliation with Virginia Tech Publishing and the Virginia Tech University Libraries Athenaeum. To listen to Lee's interview, click here.

August 24: 

Interview: Tyler Walters is the Dean of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.  In an attempt to open a window onto the arc of evolution for academic libraries in general, and the strategic vision for Virginia Tech Libraries specifically, Kira and Joe sat down to talk with the big boss himself.  The conversation with Tyler continues a series on Libraries Administration begun during Season One: The Pandemic Tapes. To listen to Tyler's episode, click here.