Dr. Andrew Rimby

Ivory Tower Boiler Room

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Dr. Andrew Rimby

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Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Should You Go to Grad School? A Discussion with Dr. Natalie Morse 03.07.2021

For more about Dr. Natalie Morse go to https://ivorytowerboilerroom.com/2021/07/03/should-you-go-to-grad-school-a-discussion-with-dr-natalie-morse-podcast-release/. Follow us on Twitter: @ivoryboilerroom, Facebook: The Ivory Tower Boiler Room, and email us at ivorytowerboilerroom@gmail.com.

The Closet in the Library: A Broadview Press Book Launch of the Victorian Era Anthology 26.06.2021

Adam and Andrew sit down with editors Jason Rudy and Kate Flint to discuss the upcoming release (July 13) of Broadview Press' Victorian Era anthology. Go to https://ivorytowerboilerroom.com/2021/06/26/podcast-drop-broadview-press-and-the-closet-in-the-library/ to order the book and to see information about our guests. Remember you can find us on Twitter, @ivoryboilerroom, join our Facebook group,...

Two Writers are Better Than One: Ula and Kathryn Klein talk LGBTQ+ Academic and Creative Writing 19.06.2021

For links to Ula and Kathryn's books, writing, and extra website content go to https://ivorytowerboilerroom.com/2021/06/18/this-saturday-is-seriously-sapphic/. Twitter: @ivoryboilerroom Facebook: The Ivory Tower Boiler Room Email: ivorytowerboilerroom@gmail.com Vital Thought: https://www.vitalthought.org/#/

Pride 2021: Queerness & Allyship, a roundtable 06.06.2021

See our episode notes at https://ivorytowerboilerroom.com/2021/06/05/p/, Twitter: @ivoryboilerroom, Facebook: The Ivory Tower Boiler Room, Email: ivorytowerboilerroom@gmail.com, Vital Thought: https://www.vitalthought.org/#/

Happy Birthday Walt Whitman (a 202nd birthday extravaganza) 29.05.2021

To find out more about the Walt Whitman Initiative go to https://waltwhitmaninitiative.org/. For links and extra content from this episode go to https://ivorytowerboilerroom.com/blog/. Follow us on Twitter: @ivoryboilerroom and Facebook: The Ivory Tower Boiler Room

Inside the Boiler Room: The Writers' Roundtable (Part 2) 22.05.2021

Our first YouTube video: https://youtu.be/P-ejSjpApWs For Adam's short story, our blog space, and information about the podcast team, go to https://ivorytowerboilerroom.com/at-the-sign-of-the-red-lion/. Twitter: @IvoryBoilerRoom Facebook: The Ivory Tower Boiler Room Email: ivorytowerboilerroom@gmail.com

Inside the Boiler Room: The Writers' Roundtable (Part 1) 15.05.2021

For Adam's short story, our blog space, and information about the podcast team, go to https://ivorytowerboilerroom.com/at-the-sign-of-the-red-lion/. Twitter: @IvoryBoilerRoom Facebook: The Ivory Tower Boiler Room Email: ivorytowerboilerroom@gmail.com

Where the STEM and Humanities Meet: Two Humanities Guys and a Physicist Walk into a Zoom 09.05.2021

We welcome Dr. Thomas Videbaek, a Physicist, to The Ivory Tower Boiler Room. Thomas sent us these images of viscous fingering. Img1 Source: https://nagelgroup.uchicago.edu/Nagel-Group/researchdir/instabilities.html This is from my old group's website. Img2 Source: https://www.multiverseseries.org/blog/category/phenomenaofgrowth This is from an art collaboration that a previous postdoc in our group...

The Poetry Playhouse (an inaugural event) 01.05.2021

Welcome to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room's first ever Poetry Playhouse. We're so excited to release our episode at the end of National Poetry Month. For a list of poems please see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uhKhJU8hf_pNfqc7QlPV7lGk0rYs-FSul-h1HMxPoA8/edit?usp=sharing Twitter: @IvoryBoilerRoom Website: ivorytowerboilerroom.com Facebook: The Ivory Tower Boiler Room Email: ivorytowerboilerroo...

(Part Two) Grad School Interrupted: A Discussion of Mental Health in the University in 2 Parts 03.04.2021

(Non-Spotify Version) Content Warning: This episode contains intense discussions about depression, anxiety, trauma, sexual assault, violence, and other mental health issues. See Sexual Assault Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g5emgBqoYtDs2gEFVKdFhfbvHDsMQx8-cCR7MstsnIw/edit?usp=sharing Twitter: @IvoryBoilerRoom Facebook: The Ivory Tower Boiler Room Mary DiPipi: @dipips Erika Grumet:...

(Part One) Grad School Interrupted: A Discussion of Mental Health in the University in 2 Parts 01.04.2021

(Non-Spotify Version) Content Warning: This episode contains intense discussions about depression, anxiety, trauma, sexual assault, violence, and other mental health issues. See this link for a detailed list of mental health resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y287QOm95VqwOk7cfI3YQYXeezLOQifzNgF8Ma6XrAk/edit?usp=sharing "Blackberry Blossom" (Emily O'Brien and Michael O'Brien

Freed Verse: A Conversation on Academia and Public Engagement with Dr. Karen Karbiener 24.03.2021

Dr. Karen Karbiener's Bio: https://liberalstudies.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/liberalstudies/about/faculty-listing/karen-karbiener.html Episode Notes, including texts mentioned, can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/167vvSmF6IC6gQDQsRFnKPzx7f-owPjm0g1f6dhxC3kQ/edit We end the episode with "Allegro in C Major" from one of Whitman's favorite composers, Mozart.

Repurposing Your PhD with Adam Capitanio 17.03.2021

Humanities NY: https://humanitiesny.org/about-us/staff_board/ Adam Capitanio in “The Repurposed Ph. D.”: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/education/edlife/finding-life-after-academia-and-not-feeling-bad-about-it.html Versatile PhD: https://versatilephd.com/ PhDs at Work: https://phdsatwork.com/ Watchung Review: https://watchungreview.omeka.net/ Scholars Beyond the Tower: https://anchor.fm/erin-b...

Pulling Back the Curtain on Writing During the Apocalypse 20.02.2021

Twitter: @IvoryBoilerRoom Facebook: The Ivory Tower Boiler Room Adam Katz, PhD in English adamskatz@gmail.com Facebook: Moreh Avi Kay Andrew Rimby, Academic, Public Scholar https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/english/people/_grad-students/rimby.php https://andrewrimby.wixsite.com/website Twitter: @AndrewDRimby Tiffany Sowa, Writer, Professor of Creative Writing, Education Manager at Arts Partners,...

(Part Two) Starting from Paumanok with Caitlyn Shea 12.02.2021

Caitlyn continues her conversation about adapting to virtual programming at the Whitman Birthplace, discussing Whitman during a period of racial and social justice movements, and her work as a professional artist. https://caitlynshea.com/ Facebook: @CaitlynSheaPainter Instagram: @CaitlynArtist https://www.waltwhitman.org/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9DgJ6frgKbvBhToZsBn64A https://www.waltwhi...

Starting from Paumanok with Caitlyn Shea 01.02.2021

Caitlyn Shea is the Event and Media Director at the Walt Whitman Birthplace. Facebook: @CaitlynSheaPainter Instagram: @CaitlynArtist "The Nanny Reviews": @thenannyreviews (Instagram and Twitter) Show Notes: Compagnia De' Colombari: https://www.colombari.org/more-or-less-i-am Juan Felipe Herrera: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/juan-felipe-herrera "A Child Went Forth": https://whitmanarchive...

(Part Two) Sing We and Chaunt It: Continuing our Conversation with Emily O'Brien 18.01.2021

Emily's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVs255F4L2jYlSyW5citKQw Emily's Website: https://www.emilysdomain.org/Recorderland/ Emily's Suggestion for Looking Up Music: https://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page Side. (Music Credit: "Tant Que Vivray" and "Blackberry Blossom" (Emily O'Brien and Michael O'Brien, you can find these on Emily's album "Songs from Home"). (Adam's humorous note: Andre...

Sing We and Chaunt It: A Conversation with Emily O'Brien (Professional Recorder Player) 06.01.2021

Emily O’Brien is a native of Washington, DC where she played recorder from a young age. She studied recorder and french horn at Boston University, and recorder and Baroque flute at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany. She performs in recorder ensembles and historical chamber music, as well as English Country Dance bands. As a teacher, she works with private students and ensembles in the...

Running AMOC with Matt Aucoin (or Matt and Andrew Geek Out Over Whitman) 22.12.2020

Matthew Aucoin is an American composer, conductor, writer, pianist, and a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. He is Artist in Residence at Los Angeles Opera, and has worked as a composer and conductor with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the American Repertory Theater, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Music Academy of the West. He is co-Artistic Director of the American Modern Opera Company. h...

Poetry and Healing During the COVID Crisis with Dr. Susan Scheckel 15.12.2020

Dr. Susan Scheckel's talk explores why readers are turning, now more than ever, to Whitman's poetry in the 21st century. And asks why does Whitman's Spirit feel so relevant right now in 2020? Dr. Scheckel's Bio: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/english/people/scheckel.php. The PowerPoint Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tVQnKm_K7Ym5LpemIHUFt5PfTptnJsHm/view?usp=drivesdk (A version...

Balancing Academics and Motherhood in a Time of Protest 19.11.2020

(Part Two) We continue our discussion with Dr. Shi Huiwen as she describes balancing academics and motherhood while face to face with protests. https://hongkongfp.com/category/topics/politics-protest/ https://www.scmp.com/topics/hong-kong-protests

Dr. Shi's Reflections and Illuminations on Organization, Academics, Motherhood, and Civil Unrest 12.11.2020

(Part One) We welcome Dr. Shi Huiwen to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room where we take a journey together through theory and discuss Seamus Heaney, Walter Benjamin, and the difficulties of writing a dissertation while pregnant. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1quOZ2kWPc2rrHfA7DMyalCUNQD8aLCQs963xjsXpfU4/edit?usp=sharing

Showing Up for Your Community with Lisa Aamodt 06.11.2020

Lisa Aamodt is the Limud Education Director at Congregation Tifereth Israel. In this episode, we discuss Lisa's innovative strategies for connecting the students at her Hebrew School during the pandemic. This is an important conversation about what we value as educators. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XZzFwJnukpHhOPCKQUX9bAPJMtWpEv4q3Sf8Qn_BjIg/edit?usp=sharing

Growing up in a Hamlet (with Dr. Bente Videbaek) 29.10.2020

This week our guest shares her unusual path to her doctorate and her unique approach to teaching/mentorship. Click here for the episode notes (featuring many book recommendations): https://docs.google.com/document/d/13GLWKN3mC3A4ilFa0yj4kBmzOTFZ6v8ojloQxOTSz2k/edit?usp=sharing

Writing Books and Cleaning Beaches with Joe Labriola 22.10.2020

This week's guest, Joe Labriola's interests may seem unrelated, but as you'll learn, they make sense once you get to know him. Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v1tNGt1JWDDV1-FhL7uHsoP4dQgZO9vaDJZGfBXsVik/edit?usp=sharing

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