Flash Readings by the Brittain Fellows at Georgia Tech

Lauren Neefe

Created, produced, and edited by Brittain Fellow Lauren Neefe, Flash Readings features Georgia Tech's Brittain Fellows presenting their current research. Each brief episode is organized into five segments—Subject, Object, Logic, Project, Where to Check It Out—that document a conversation between two Fellows, offering a succinct, cogent display of the scholarship driving the experimental pedagogy Georgia Tech's Writing and Communication Program is known for.

Episodes

  1. Episode 6: Matthew Dischinger / Colson Whitehead Will Break You, Too

    03/15/2018

    Episode 6: Matthew Dischinger / Colson Whitehead Will Break You, Too

    Matthew Dischinger, a scholar of literatures of the American and global South, analyzes a scene from the South Carolina chapter of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead’s prize-winning novel set in the antebellum United States. His article, “States of Possibility,” about the novel's use of “speculative satire” is in the current special issue of The Global South, titled Engaging with the Poetics of Peripheralization. Read more at the Georgia Tech Writing and Communication Program's online journal TechSTYLE: b.gatech.edu/1oRln6H

    10 min
  2. Episode 5: Ruthie Yow / When John Roberts's Words Cease to Matter

    11/29/2017

    Episode 5: Ruthie Yow / When John Roberts's Words Cease to Matter

    Ruthie Yow, a historian and ethnographer of student activism and public school integration in the South, takes Chief Justice John Roberts to task for his majority opinion in the landmark Supreme Court case of 2007, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1. Her study of the legacy of the high court's Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision, specifically in Marietta, Georgia, is the subject of her book, Students of the Dream: Resegregation in a Southern City (Harvard UP, 2017). Read more at the Georgia Tech Writing and Communication Program's online journal TechSTYLE: http://b.gatech.edu/2mVRUe6

    11 min
  3. Episode 4: Halcyon Lawrence / When I Talk to Siri

    09/06/2017

    Episode 4: Halcyon Lawrence / When I Talk to Siri

    Halcyon Lawrence, who specializes in speech intelligibility and accent bias in the design of voice-interaction technology, observes that her Samsung phone Galaxy “has no specific answers” for her when she asks how to get to the legendary Atlanta diner The Varsity. According to Lawrence, speech interactions with voice-user technologies are a “boundary . . . for which the rules of engagement are not clear.” Read more at the Georgia Tech Writing and Communication Program's online journal TechSTYLE: http://b.gatech.edu/2jbcU15

    10 min
  4. Episode 3: Sarah Higinbotham / A Safe, Imaginative Space

    02/08/2016

    Episode 3: Sarah Higinbotham / A Safe, Imaginative Space

    Victorianist Ellen Stockstill interviews Sarah Higinbotham, who specializes in early modern literature, law, and violence. Higinbotham argues that Dr. Seuss’s absurd story and illustrations in The Sneetches (1961) offer kids “a safe imaginative space” to think about big issues like human rights, human dignity, and their responsibility for others. Such spaces are the subject of Higinbotham's book Human Rights in Children’s Literature: Imagination and the Narrative of Law (Oxford UP, 2015). Read more at the Georgia Tech Writing and Communication Program's online journal TechSTYLE: http://b.gatech.edu/2mYB8Le

    7 min
  5. Episode 2: Caitlin Kelly / Read as Believers

    01/02/2016

    Episode 2: Caitlin Kelly / Read as Believers

    Caitlin Kelly, who specializes in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century, examines the role of private devotion in Samuel Richardson’s landmark epistolary novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740). Of particular interest is the public performance of Pamela’s adaptation of Psalm 137, best known by its first verse: “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion” (KJV). Read more at the Georgia Tech Writing and Communication Program's online journal: http://b.gatech.edu/2mXxPUz

    9 min
  6. Episode 1: Eric Rettberg / Laughter Worth Reading

    10/14/2015

    Episode 1: Eric Rettberg / Laughter Worth Reading

    Brittain Fellow Eric Rettberg, who specializes in conceptual poetry and the digital humanities, interprets the variants—as editors and textual scholars call them—of William Carlos Williams’s laughter in two public readings of the iconic lyric “This Is Just to Say." Read more at the Georgia Tech Writing and Communication Program's journal TechSTYLE: http://b.gatech.edu/2mXREv3

    5 min
  • 6 Episodes

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Created, produced, and edited by Brittain Fellow Lauren Neefe, Flash Readings features Georgia Tech's Brittain Fellows presenting their current research. Each brief episode is organized into five segments—Subject, Object, Logic, Project, Where to Check It Out—that document a conversation between two Fellows, offering a succinct, cogent display of the scholarship driving the experimental pedagogy Georgia Tech's Writing and Communication Program is known for.

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