The Art of the Review

Robert Cassanello and Yelena Kalinsky, H-Net Podcasts

The Art of the Review will appear regularly on H-Net’s new podcast network, H-Podcast. We hope that the network will become a place for listeners, producers, teachers, and anyone with an interest to discuss the aesthetic, academic, pedagogic, and technical aspects of podcasts and podcasting. In future episodes, we may be referring to H-Net's Reviews Standards, Reviews Guidelines, and Style Sheet. You can find all of these over at the Reviews home page.

  1. 17/08/2016

    Revelry

    In this episode, The Art of the Review takes a field trip to Sanford, Florida to attend Revelry, a poetry event organized by Dr. Stephen Caldwell Wright to honor the life and legacy of poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Robert speaks to Dr. Wright about the review process that goes into judging poetry submissions for Revelry. Anyone who has had experiences with MFA programs will have a sense of the difficulties of evaluating someone's personal creative expression. Dr. Wright provides some valuable insights in how to serve as a reviewer in such a position. Revelry takes place on the first Saturday in June, and 2017 will be the 30th anniversary of the event. To learn more about Revelry, listeners can contact Dr. Stephen Caldwell Wright by telephone at 407-323-7184. More information is available on the website of the Gwendoly Brooks Writers Association of Florida.

    11 min

  2. 13/07/2016

    Introducing H-Law's Legal History Podcast

    In this special summer episode, we take a step back from reviewing to introduce listeners to H-Law's new legal history podcast. Robert interviews H-Law's podcast producer and host Siobhan Barco and we run in full her first episode, an interview with legal scholar Mary Ziegler, author of After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (Harvard University Press, 2015).

    54 min

  3. 09/06/2016

    Art Criticism

    In this episode, Yelena speaks with Natasha Kurchanova, an art historian specializing in the Russian avant-garde, a critic and curator of contemporary art about the connections and differences between art history and art criticism. Natasha received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her Ph.D. the City University of New York, where she studied modern art, photography, and film.

    13 min

  4. 27/05/2016

    Reviewing Games

    In this episode, Robert speaks with Ron Weaver, a game programmer and designer and the Technical Design Director at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy at the University of Central Florida, about game reviewing and specifically reviews of the game That Dragon Cancer.

    21 min

  5. 16/05/2016

    Matthew Friedman Talks Academic Podcasting

    This week, The Art of the Review takes a hiatus from reviewing to feature instead a conversation with historian Matthew Friedman, lecturer of history at Rutgers-Newark and producer of the No Sounds Are Forbidden, about his new show, the state of academic podcasting, and tips for listeners who may be thinking about producing a podcast of their own.

    26 min

  6. 09/05/2016

    Film Festivals

    This week's episode is a little bit off the beaten path of academic book reviewing...but not too far. Robert Cassanello speaks with Dr. Lisa Mills, a documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor of Film at the University of Central Florida, about film festivals. Turns out, film festivals are a form of peer review for new films, a collective review process apart from individual critics' picks. Dr. Mills has attended and judged at many film festivals, and has won a number of laurels at them, including for The Committee, which she and Robert produced as part of an Honors Advanced Documentary Workshop that they co-teach at UCF.

    17 min

  7. 30/04/2016

    Welcome to the Book Channel

    This special episode of The Art of the Review features an interview with Jeremy D.

    22 min

  8. 23/04/2016

    Reviewing Children's Literature

    In this episode, we consider the art of reviewing children's literature with Mark West, Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, book review editor for Children's Literature Association Quarterly and former editor of The Five Owls.

    9 min
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About

The Art of the Review will appear regularly on H-Net’s new podcast network, H-Podcast. We hope that the network will become a place for listeners, producers, teachers, and anyone with an interest to discuss the aesthetic, academic, pedagogic, and technical aspects of podcasts and podcasting. In future episodes, we may be referring to H-Net's Reviews Standards, Reviews Guidelines, and Style Sheet. You can find all of these over at the Reviews home page.

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  • Creator
    Robert Cassanello and Yelena Kalinsky, H-Net Podcasts
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2016
  • Episodes
    33
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Robert Cassanello and Yelena Kalinsky, H-Net Podcasts
  • Show Website
    The Art of the Review