Dr. Andrew Rimby

Ivory Tower Boiler Room

Arts EN ↓ 507 episodes

ITBR is an arts and culture podcast where we discuss all things literature, pop culture, and True Crime! Subscribe now for ad-free episodes: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ivorytowerboilerroom/subscribe

Author

Dr. Andrew Rimby

Episodes

What's the difference between "urban" and "metropolitan"? Let's ask Dr. Sophia Basaldua-Sun. 15.10.2020 1:37:16

Dr. Basaldua-Sun is an independent scholar of Comparative Literature. Click here for the glossary and bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Lrq6TP5VPkHKyn6ciexKMbRAg61Mijlj8IZotKfIN4/edit?usp=drivesdk

(Special Episode) The Performing Arts During a Pandemic (with Renee Chambers Liciaga) 08.10.2020 1:02:21

Andrew's former director, Renee Chambers Liciaga is a professional dancer, choreographer, and performing arts educator who speaks to how to approach the performing arts during the pandemic. She discusses how she choreographed Disney's Tarzan outside at the Elmwood Zoo in Norristown, PA. For access to her photos and videos please use this link: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1NV6OlPu50Syedi...

If It's Not Awkward, It's Not Anthropology with Shweta Krishnan 01.10.2020 1:34:36

The Ivory Tower Boiler Room welcomes our fourth guest, Shweta Krishnan, PhD candidate in Anthropology at George Washington University. Shweta is doing her field work on the revival movement surrounding DonyiPolo, a religion centered in the Northeast-Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. She also talks more generally about how bafflingly difficult it can be to do anthropological research in...

Queer People in Shared Spaces with Stephanie Bonvissuto 23.09.2020 1:35:24

Stephanie’s research explores how culture grows out of shared spaces, and in particular how queer and gender-nonconforming people have been excluded from those spaces. Join us from the Ivory Tower Boiler Room with Stephanie Bonvissuto, a scholar from Stony Brook's Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Check out Stephanie's next virtual discussion at the Gender Conference in NYC (Oc...

Surviving a PhD Program in the U.S. with Shruti Mukherjee 16.09.2020 1:21:09

PhD wisdom says don't change your dissertation committee. Shruti from Stony Brook's Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has changed hers. Twice. Join us in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room to hear her story and learn how frustrating it is for an international student in an American PhD program. For more information about the following authors referenced please check out these links: be...

Literary History from a Non-European Perspective with Ignacio Choi 09.09.2020 1:05:50

Join us in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room as we welcome Ignacio Choi, a scholar of Comparative Literature.

Welcome to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room 14.08.2020 58:05

Join Andrew Rimby and Adam Katz as they explore their PhD process from the boiler room. Helene Meyers' "Public Scholar, Beware" https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/04/11/risks-and-rewards-engaging-public-scholarship-opinion