In our second episode, we talk to Professors Emily Artiano and Ben Pack about working with community partners, deconstructing hierarchies in the classroom, and experiencing things alongside their students. You can learn more about Emily here and Ben here.
Our theme song is “4 am” by Makaih Beats. You can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher and follow us on Twitter @writingremixpod.
Texts mentioned in the episode
- Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference by Nedra Reynolds
- Service Learning as a Pedagogy of Whiteness by Tania Mitchell, David Donahue, & Courtney Young-Law
- Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing edited by Steve Parks
- #StayWoke: The Language and Literacies of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement by Elaine Richardson and Alice Ragland
- From Candy Girls to Cyber Sista-Cipher: Narrating Black Females’ Color Consciousness and Counterstories in and out of School by Carmen Kynard
- Teaching While Black by Carmen Kynard
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Links
- The Truth Will Set You Free: Reflections on the Rhetoric of Insight, Responsibility, and Remorse for the Board of Parole Hearings by Emily Artiano, Ben Pack, Stephanie Bower, Raymond P., and William M.
- “Revisiting USC’s Old ‘University Village’ as Gentrification Spreads Around Campus” by Rachel Will
- USC Writing Program Community Engagement page
- Miracle Messages
- Francisco Homes: 48th St Anthology: Stories of the Truly Free
- 826LA: Through the Same Halls & Sounds of Freedom
“[Rewriting the prompt to be more inclusive] seems to have had a really great effect on the way that students feel like they can write about their differences at USC. One thing I know I’m going to be much better about in the future is not gearing the class toward an assumption about what students would consider different.“
Emily Artiano
“We move through the world in so many different ways and so many different spaces, and so if the class can begin to open up and dissect the information that’s being privileged so we get more diverse voices then I think that actually does a lot for [students’] critical thinking skills…It shows them how they can pull ideas from anywhere.”
Ben Pack
“I think that there is value to students seeing you experience something with them.”
Emily Artiano
“My favorite moments as a teacher now absolutely happen outside the classroom.”
Ben Pack
