The inaugural episode of Stereotype Life drops on May 6, 2020 at 12pm central. In this podcast episode, I interview John Thurgood, a PhD student, teaching assistant and fiction writer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He talks about creative writing, skateboarding, grad school & teaching amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Highlights include:
- A quote from Kyle Minor’s Praying Drunk (1:45)
- Creative writing and skateboarding (7:31)
- Piquing students’ curiosities and getting them invested in composition through researching the communities they live in (13:15)
- How we’re stories within stories (15:11)
- Balancing a rigorous curriculum with teaching and learning amid the coronavirus pandemic (21:10)
- Keeping an open dialogue with students and navigating what it is to be a student right now (27:13)
- How we as instructors can be catalysts for our students (35:57)
To listen to the podcast and/or view show notes, resources mentioned, our guest’s brief biography, and a downloadable, accessible PDF transcript, please visit: http://stereotype.life/?p=697
