Episode 11: (Re)Covering Bad Women– From Ithaka to Whitechapel

Episode 11: (Re)Covering Bad Women– From Ithaka to Whitechapel

This episode is the second in “(Re)Covering Bad Women,” a podcast miniseries exploring vulnerability, precarity, and victimization in true crime podcasts. This episode is an explanation of my creative podcast episode, (Re)Covering Bad Women: Unruly Slave Girls in the Odyssey. This episode connects the creative sound piece to broader themes from Emily Wilson’s translation of […]

Episode 10: (Re)Covering Bad Women– Unruly Slaves in the Odyssey

This episode of Project PhDcast is part one of (Re)Covering Bad Women, a podcast miniseries exploring vulnerability, precarity, and victimization in true crime podcasting. The first part of (Re)Covering Bad Women is a creative sound piece based on the story of the enslaved girls in Homer’s Odyssey, with passages taken from Emily Wilson’s translation and […]

Episode 09: An Autumn Walk in the Woods

Happy Thanksgiving! It’s a lovely, golden afternoon in October. The woods are fragrant with fallen leaves. A passing thunderstorm has stirred up the waves on Lake Ontario. Birds flit from branch to branch, crickets chirp, and a flock of geese pass overhead. Won’t you join me for an autumn walk in the woods? For optimal […]

Episode 08: Here’s to Punk Podcasting

What does a podcast sound like? What should a podcast sound like? In today’s episode I review three of my recent readings about podcasting sound– an academic text on sonic aesthetics, a news article on AI podcasts, and a blog post on punk rock– and how these are shaping my podcast practice and research. *Contains […]

Episode 07 Theories & Methods: Humanities Podcasting & Public Discourse

This post is an accessible version of my research poster for the HUMA 7P02 poster session held at Brock University on 2 April 2025. Do you remember the last time you sat around a campfire, eating smores and sharing stories? We share campfire stories with an intimate group of trusted friends. The growth of podcasting […]