Unpack This!

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Unpack This!

  1. Unpacking "It's Coming from Inside the House": On Being Outsiders Within the Academy

    25/06/2022

    Unpacking "It's Coming from Inside the House": On Being Outsiders Within the Academy

    Jo and Constance discuss Constance’s recent article published in Women in Higher Education, which reflects on familial tensions experienced by academics who come from a working class background. Among other things, they also chat about the illegibility of academic work, the work and community that sustain them, and they chat it up about what they’d […]

  2. 12/06/2022

    Unpacking African American Literacies with Dr. E

    Constance and Jo chat with the AMAZING Dr. Elaine Richardson (https://twitter.com/DoctaE1) about everything from hip hop literacies to reclaiming our time. Among other things, Docta E,discusses her current and future research projects, and what she does in her “down” time– in this case, attending a Sy Smith concert in Atlanta.  References from the conversation: Dr. […]

  3. Unpacking Lateral Moves & Constance's New Gig

    03/06/2022

    Unpacking Lateral Moves & Constance's New Gig

    In this episode, Jo and Constance unpack the academic lateral move, and Constance discusses her new appointment. She has accepted a tenure track position at Georgia State University in Atlanta where she’ll be teaching folklore and contemporary African American literature. Constance and Jo also chat it up about the various academic positions they have held […]

  4. Unpacking Amazon Prime's "Master"

    11/04/2022

    Unpacking Amazon Prime's "Master"

    Spoiler Alert: We spoil all of Amazon Prime’s Master, starring Regina Hall, not to be confused with Regina King, which Constance does the entire episode. In addition to spoilers, Jo Hsu (https://www.vjohsu.com) and Constance Bailey (linktr.ee/constancerbailey) chat with special guests Niketa Reed, Executive Director of Arkansas Soul (argotsoul.com) and Professor JL Adolph of Georgia State […]

  5. Unpacking IHE's "Hard Academic 'Truths'"

    02/04/2022

    Unpacking IHE's "Hard Academic 'Truths'"

    In their usual well-modulated voices,  Jo and Constance unpack Jennifer Snodgrass’s Inside Higher Ed article, “Seven Hard Truths and a Few Lies.” They ruminate on imposter syndrome,  time-consuming administrative tasks, and rigid power structures. As usual, they conclude that context and mitigating circumstances affect the applicability of Snodgrass’s insights–so, are the “truths” really true? It’s… […]

  6. Teaching for a World that’s Livable: Queering Pedagogy in the Time of COVID with GPat Patterson

    11/03/2022

    Teaching for a World that’s Livable: Queering Pedagogy in the Time of COVID with GPat Patterson

    Constance and Jo speak with Dr. GPat Patterson, Associate Professor of English at Kent State Tuscarawas about their recent article, “Loving Students in the Time of COVID: a Dispatch from LGBT Studies.” We explore teaching as the cultivation of immersive learning experiences, why the imperative to market our disciplines as job-market training is a trap, […]

  7. Contagion, Contamination, and Containment

    05/03/2022

    Contagion, Contamination, and Containment

    Our fearless hosts discuss Constance’s “Rethinking Literature” course about infectious disease, medical ethics, and pandemics. She also loves a good meme, so those come up too. They also unpack one of Constance’s favorite quotes from Jo’s article, “Containment and Interdependence: Epidemic Logics in Asian American Racialization.”  Jo writes, “I argue that any pursuit of justice […]

  8. Peer Reviewed Hip Hop Album-Say What??? Interview with A.D. Carson

    17/02/2022

    Peer Reviewed Hip Hop Album-Say What??? Interview with A.D. Carson

    In the Season Two preview, Jo and Constance talk with scholar A.D. Carson (aydeethegreat.com) about the peer review process for his dissertation, which took the form of a hip hop album. They also talk about A.D.’s next project, ghosts, ancestor veneration, and Black History Month, among other things. For questions, comments, or suggestions of topics […]

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