Thinking Collectively about Academic Labor
To the readers of Present Tense and listeners of This Rhetorical Life: We’re happy to have the opportunity to contribute to Present Tense on a topic that we think is important for everyone in higher education: academic labor and creating just working conditions. As you’ll hear in this podcast, academic labor is something that greatly concerns us as graduate students, and we think it’s an important concern for both full-time faculty and contingent faculty. That’s why this podcast features the voices of both full-time (Eileen Schell and Tony Scott are both Associate Professors of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University) and contingent faculty (Jeff Simmons is a Professional Writing Instructor at Syracuse University).
On behalf of the TRL team, thanks for listening!
http://thisrhetoricallife.syr.edu/
Ben Kuebrich
bdkuebri [at] syr.edu
Tamara Issak
tbissak [at] syr.edu
Karrieann Soto
ksoto [at] syr.edu
Allison Hitt
ahhitt [at] syr.edu
Jana Rosinski
jrosinsk [at] syr.edu
Works Cited
- Gillicuddy. “Adventure, Darling.” …Plays Guitar Again. Web. 15 April 2014.
- —. “Multitudes” …Plays Guitar Again. Web. 15 April 2014.
- Johnson, Earchiel. “IFT Local 6456 on strike at UIC.” 18 Feb. 2014. Web. 15 April 2014.
- Springtide. “N-35-40-19-800.” This Is The End. 2013. Web. 15 April 2014.
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About the Authors
This Rhetorical Life is a podcast produced by Syracuse graduate students in the Composition & Cultural Rhetoric program that seeks to create and connect conversations going on (and ongoing) throughout the field—representing the different voices, matters of concern, assertions, debates and questions that continue to develop from disciplinary discussions. It is the mission of the podcast to be accessible for a diverse group of listeners. We hope the program topics serve as a means of navigation for newcomers and a space of provocation for those already situated within the field. Conversations are dynamic; it is our work to reflect the same level of engagement.
Ben Kuebrich studies, writes about, and participates in movements for social justice and focuses on the use of narrative within these movements.
Jana Rosinski is interested in the materiality of the field—both longstanding and ephemeral texts—in relation to methods of creation and curation, and matters of access and connectivity.
Allison Hitt is interested in disability studies and digital literacies, specifically focusing on how we can craft writing pedagogies (and multimodal scholarship!) that are physically and intellectually accessible to diverse student bodies.
Karrieann Soto is determined to explore cultural rhetorics of music media production/consumption and nationalist rhetorics, specifically in the context of Puerto Rico and in the work of other DiaspoRicans.
Tamara Issak is interested in the cultural rhetorics of Muslims and Arabs in America.
