Teachin' Books
A podcast all about the ways people teach, learn, and work with literature -- aaaand all sorts of other cultural bits and bobs, like video games, theatrical performances, Dungeons and Dragons, and more! Host Jessica McDonald talks about teachin' books in undergraduate classrooms, and she interviews folks to learn more about what cool work is happening in other other teaching and learning contexts.
Teachin' Books
1.2 Interview with Joanne Leow / David Chariandy's Brother
In this episode of Teachin’ Books, host Jessica McDonald talks to Dr. Joanne Leow, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, about teaching David Chariandy's novel Brother.
- Find out more about David Chariandy’s novel Brother.
- You can find Karina Vernon’s edited anthology The Black Prairie Archives at Wilfrid Laurier University Press. And you can find her U Winnipeg English talk “Changing the Prairie Story: Reading Black & Black-Indigenous Writers in the Prairie Archive” here on YouTube.
- Go here to listen to Nina Simone sing “Ne Me Quitte Pas.”
- Some of the texts Joanne refers to include: “mihkokwaniy” by Joshua Whitehead; “This is America” by Childish Gambino; “Harlem” by Langston Hughes; “Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys; the play Reasonable Doubt (created by Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight, and Yvette Nolan); the play Consecrated Ground by George Boyd; the Unteachable documentary.
The podcast music is by Dyalla Swain, whose work you can find here. The podcast graphics are by @muskrathands.
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**Read the transcript for this episode here.**