Eloquentia Perfecta Ex Machina

In this episode, Amy Nelson interviews Anessa Kemna about her experiences as a blind teacher and graduate student. They discuss adapting materials for accessibility, the intersections of non-normative mental and physical conditions, and the concept of inspiration porn. Anessa Kemna’s blog, The Adjunct in the Dark, can be found here (https://adjunctinthedark.com).

In this episode, Natalie Whitaker and Kathryn Polizzi discuss with Byron Gilman-Hernandez their experiences establishing ethos in the classroom. They discuss how gender and age affect the dynamic of their classrooms, and particularly comment on how this might be relevant for new teachers.

For our first episode of Season 4, Dr. Tarrell Campbell, lead organizer of the 2018 Belle da Costa Greene Conference, discusses his experience with planning and developing a conference for Medievalists of Color. In particular, Tarrell charts the process of collaborating with multiple individuals and organizations, the impact of video recording and social media on conferences, and the importance of...

Following our previous episode, Anessa Kemna and Byron Gilman-Hernandez further developed an Intro to Rhetoric course built around Service Learning. In this episode, they discuss their experiences with the class, ranging from the process and benefits of co-development, making use of new ideas, like the Field Journals or the Service Map of the city, and considerations they’re making for the coming...

In this episode, looking to share her experiences using service learning in the composition classroom, Anessa Kemna sits down with Colten Biro to talk about how she structured her course, some of her biggest successes, and her goals to further this work in the class she’s teaching this semester, as well as how others can incorporate service learning into their own classes.

Looking to learn more about the Vatican Film Library, Carol Hogan-Downey sits down with Amy Nelson to talk about her role working with The Metascripta Project, biblioclasms, and very large, very old books. Bridging media technologies of the 21st, 20th, and much, much earlier centuries, Amy shows how an often-overlooked library resource can be valuable to multiple disciplines.

In our final episode of the (Witch)Craft of Writing, a Pentacle of perspectives from Amy Nelson, Anessa Kemna, Natalie Whitaker, Carol Hogan-Downey, and Byron Gilman-Hernandez is brought together around a fire on a chilly October night to discuss the power and practices of rituals. As the finale of our series, this episode ranges from mystical cults of Missouri, the rituals of essay writing in Fre...

In our second episode of The (Witch)Craft of Writing, Byron Gilman-Hernandez has a conversation with Natalie Whitaker about magic as a language act and what assumptions that brings of an able body. In her experiences teaching contemporary Young Adult authors like Nnedi Okafor, Tomi Adeyemi, and J.K. Rowling, as well as historical attitudes towards witchcraft, Natalie looks to how magic, even as a...

In our first episode of our October series, "The (Witch)Craft of Writing," Byron Gilman-Hernandez has a conversation with Carol Hogan-Downey on The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's influence on Irish theatre in in the 19th Century. Their discussion looks at the Order's mystical practices of tarot and word vibration in philosophy, theatre, and Irish nationalism, and how rhetoricians from Gorgias...

For our first episode of Season 3, Carol Hogan Downey and Natalie Whitaker enjoy a brief discussion on the use of incorporating social media into the classroom and rhetoric assignments. They cover the opportunities and potential pitfalls associated with discussions from audience awareness in the composition of a text message to the language choices of dating profiles created for hypothetical chara...

In this episode, Matt Holder and Dr. Toby Benis continue their conversation about the Reacting to the Past pedagogy in an English 1900 context. For part two, they turn to discussing the specific assignments and rhetorical principles at play in the game, its strengths and limitations, and potential adaptations for future classes. Dr. Benis closes by providing some useful resources for any instructo...

In this episode, Matt Holder sits down with Dr. Toby Benis to discuss her use of the Reacting to the Past curriculum in her English 1900 course. During Part 1, Dr. Benis describes her inspiration for choosing the method and presents an overview of the specific game played by her students, including the typical prep, scaffolding, and time requirements, and provides examples of the ways in which her...

The English Department's Resident Jesuit, Colten Biro, S.J., sits down with Byron Gilman-Hernandez to discuss his work writing for the Jesuit Post—and developing their web content, engaging the community across multiple platforms, moderating discussion, and using his own writing in the classroom. In this episode, Colten discusses his experiences with composition in an internet-mediated dialogue wi...

In this episode, Lauren Terbrock returns to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis to interview Tim Youd (http://timyoud.com/) about his exhibition St. Louis: Retyped (http://camstl.org/exhibitions/front-room/tim-youd-st-louis-retyped/). Lauren talks with Tim about the ways machines, sound, and video transform his process, as well as the necessary physicality of reading and writing.

In this episode, Byron Gilman-Hernandez schedules a quick conference with Natalie Monzyk to discuss conferencing. Natalie shares how she's made use of early-semester student conferences in teaching her Literature and Rhetoric classes, as well as some tips and best practices she's picked up from her experience.

In this episode, Lauren Terbrock interviews Misa Jeffereis, Assistant Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, about the exhibition Tim Youd: St. Louis Retyped. Lauren and Misa talk about Youd's project and make connections to the SLU writing program: blurring reading and writing processes; public practices; and the importance of his medium, the typewriter.

On this episode, we share two student media projects from the Fall 2017 semester. While not ready for prime time, these strong audio productions amply demonstrate how students can compose "traditional" first-year writing fare in other ways that don't replace or even supplement but rather work alongside as yet an other mode of composition.

In this episode, Byron Gilman-Hernandez sits down with Laura Hardin-Marshall and Carrie Nelson to discuss and workshop their syllabi for teaching Technology, Media, and Rhetoric. Topics covered include how to work with different media for student Rhetoric projects, resolving technological hiccups, and using Classical media technology in the classroom.

Thanks for listening! We will back in January with a new season for a new semester.

In episode twelve, Byron Gilman-Hernandez returns for an interview with first-year Ph. D. student Carrie Nelson. Carrie discusses teaching her first class this semester, with reflections and discussion on attendance policies, teaching different types of media, and making plans for the next semester.

With episode 11 we bring you a short audio essay on teaching (with) language communities by Eloquentia Perfect Ex Machine contributor Byron Gilman-Hernandez. Byron describes and reflects upon his use of language communities in the first-year rhetoric and writing classroom.

With episode ten we share the exciting conclusion of our round table on the dissoi logoi project. As part of our department's regular brown bag workshops on teaching, faculty and instructors gathered together to discuss the venerable rhetorical tradition of the dissoi logoi. The round table speakers are, in order of appearance, Paul Lynch, Jen Rust, Nathaniel Rivers, Joya Uraizee, Anne Stiles, Col...

Our ninth episode is the first part of a two part round table discussion of the dissoi logoi project as discussed on previous episodes. As part of our department's regular brown bag workshops on teaching, faculty and instructors gathered together to discuss the venerable rhetorical tradition of the dissoi logoi. The round table speakers are, in order of appearance, Paul Lynch, Jen Rust, Joya Uraiz...

In our eighth episode, Dr. Nathaniel Rivers (Coordinator of the Computer Assisted Instruction Lab) sits down with himself to briefly discuss Field Recording. For examples of audio productions using field recording check out our sister-site Saint Louis Stories (http://saintlouisstories.com/).

With our seventh episode, we are pleased to rebroadcast an audio essay composed and performed by SLU's own Abigail Lambke (Assistant Professor of English at Avila University) for the journal Harlot (http://harlotofthearts.org/). Of this audio essay, she writes, "Many of us are familiar with the name Walter Ong, and some of us have read him, either pieces of his famous Orality and Literacy, or the...