A podcast by and for the Writing Program at Saint Louis University. We interview instructors about how and why they use multimodal approaches to the teaching of rhetoric and composition. We also have instructors interview other instructors about the nuts and bolts of particular tools and assignments.
11.1 Tips and Tricks for Surviving the End of The Semester (or the World)
Released 27 Mar 2025
In this recording from our Practical Pedagogy roundtable series, three instructors from SLU's writing program (Geoff Brewer, Lexie Broemmer, and Brook Shatto) discuss their tact...
Episode 10.1: Legos
Released 26 Sep 2024
Welcome back! In our first episode of the fall, Sheila Coursey sits down with Lauren Terbrock Elmestad and Byron Gilman-Hernandez to discuss their use of legos as tools of multi...
Episode 9.1: Transnational Identity in the Classroom
Released 28 Sep 2022
Welcome back! After a brief hiatus last spring, we have an exciting new lineup of episodes this fall. Our first episode features Katie Gutiérrez-Glik in conversation with Meha G...
Episode 8.1: Diversifying the Curriculum & Decentering the Literary Canon
Released 14 Apr 2022
Welcome back! In this week's episode, Katie Gutiérrez-Glik sits down with fellow SLU graduate instructors Lexie Broemmer and Sal DiBono to discuss how and why they seek to diver...
Episode 7.4: Fanfiction
Released 6 Dec 2021
In this week's episode, we have a brief and temporary Michigan invasion! Sheila Coursey interviews friend and former colleague Anne-Charlotte Mecklenburg about her work on ser...
Episode 7.3: Medical Humanities
Released 11 Nov 2021
In this week's episode, Lauren Terbrock-Elmestad sits down with Dr. Amanda Barton to discuss Amanda’s recent transition from teaching for the Writing Program to a new position w...
Episode 7.2: Roundtable on ADHD Advocacy and Social Media
Released 28 Oct 2021
This week's episode is a recording of the Lab's virtual roundtable on ADHD Advocacy and Social Media, organized and hosted by SLU Graduate Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate Carol H...
Episode 7.1: The Space Jam
Released 14 Oct 2021
Our first episode of Season Seven is not about the classic 1996 basketball film starring Michael Jordan (perhaps next season). We are, however, featuring three SLU English instr...
Episode 6.5: Pius Library and "The Great Pivot"
Released 11 Jun 2021
In our final COVID-themed episode of this season, Sheila Coursey sits down with Martha Allen, a librarian at Pius Library who liaises with Writing Program courses. They discuss ...
Episode 6.4: Spy Writing with Andy Harper
Released 7 May 2021
In this week's episode, Sheila talks with Assistant Professor of English Andy Harper about his Fall 2021 course, Spies and Secret Societies in American Literature. They discuss...
Episode 6.3: Stealing: 2 Fast 2 Furious
Released 25 Mar 2021
This week, Byron Gilman-Hernandez and Lauren Terbrock- Elmestad are reprising an episode they recorded in Fall 2018 that addressed ‘stealing’ in the context of pedagogy. They re...
6.2: ADHD and Higher Ed
Released 11 Mar 2021
In today’s episode, Sheila Coursey sits down with Anessa Kemna and Carol Hogan-Downey to talk about their journeys in getting diagnosed with ADHD. Carol and Anessa share particu...
6.1: Instructor Identity in the Classroom
Released 4 Mar 2021
In our first episode of season six, Sheila Coursey interviews Katie Gutiérrez about what it means to her to be a visibly queer instructor. They talk about two texts that have in...
5.7: Navigating Feedback
Released 11 Feb 2021
In this final episode of Season Five, Sheila Coursey sits down with Colten Biro and Laura Hardin Marshall to discuss giving feedback to and receiving feedback from students in o...
5.6: The Call is Coming from Inside the Lab!
Released 15 Dec 2020
In this week's episode, Sheila Coursey sits down with four undergraduate staff members from the Compass Lab: Clayton Hill, Eva France, Lydia Estrada, and Wes Ragland. They discu...
5.5: Digital Pedagogy
Released 20 Nov 2020
In this week's episode, Sharee Langenstein interviews third-year Ph.D. student Rachel Shields about how research in the medieval digital humanities shapes her approaches to teac...
5.4: Interview with Nicholas Gomez
Released 6 Nov 2020
In this week's episode, Sharee Langenstein sits down with third-year Ph.D. student Nicholas Gomez to discuss his experience as a first-generation college student. Nicholas refle...
Episode 5.3: Creative Writing and Pedagogy
Released 16 Oct 2020
In this episode, Lindsay Adams and Rachel Shields discuss how their backgrounds in creative writing shape their approaches to teaching rhetoric and composition.
Episode 5.2: Pandemic Pedagogy
Released 1 Oct 2020
For today's episode, Sheila Coursey interviews Katie Eck about her experiences as both an instructor and a student during the Spring 2020 and Fall 2020 semesters. Sheila and Kat...
Episode 5.1: The Compass Lab and the Writing Program: New Directions
Released 18 Sep 2020
In this first episode of EPEM Season Five, Lauren Terbrock-Elmestad, Nathaniel Rivers, and Sheila Coursey explore the Compass Lab's longstanding relationship with the writing pr...
Episode 4.7: Articulating the Writing Program
Released 15 May 2019
For our final episode of the season, we have a conversation between our outgoing and incoming Writing Program Administrators, Paul Lynch and Nathaniel Rivers, on their aims and ...
Episode 4.x
Released 3 May 2019
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Episode 4.6: High School Teaching
Released 17 Apr 2019
For today’s episode, Byron Gilman-Hernandez spoke with two of Saint Louis University’s newest instructors, Abbey Jarvis and Katie Eck, about how their experience teaching in a H...
Episode 4.5: Theatre and Pedagogy
Released 3 Apr 2019
Today’s episode features a dialogue between Lindsay Adams, author of “River Like Sin” and winner of the 2016 Judith Barlow Prize, and Alicen Moser, co-founder of Poor Monsters a...
Episode 4.4: Immigrant Teaching
Released 21 Mar 2019
This episode of Eloquentia Perfecta features a discussion of the English Major, refugees, and the immigrant experience, with Joya Uraizee, Professor of Postcolonial Literature a...
Episode 4.3: There Will Be No Visual Aids
Released 27 Feb 2019
In this episode, Amy Nelson interviews Anessa Kemna about her experiences as a blind teacher and graduate student. They discuss adapting materials for accessibility, the interse...
Episode 4.2: Gender, Ethos, and Teaching
Released 14 Feb 2019
In this episode, Natalie Whitaker and Kathryn Polizzi discuss with Byron Gilman-Hernandez their experiences establishing ethos in the classroom. They discuss how gender and age ...
Episode 4.1: The Belle da Costa Greene Conference
Released 31 Jan 2019
For our first episode of Season 4, Dr. Tarrell Campbell, lead organizer of the 2018 Belle da Costa Greene Conference, discusses his experience with planning and developing a con...
Episode 3.7: Service Learning Part 2
Released 19 Dec 2018
Following our previous episode, Anessa Kemna and Byron Gilman-Hernandez further developed an Intro to Rhetoric course built around Service Learning. In this episode, they discus...
Episode 3.6: Service Learning Part 1
Released 28 Nov 2018
In this episode, looking to share her experiences using service learning in the composition classroom, Anessa Kemna sits down with Colten Biro to talk about how she structured h...
Episode 3.5: The Vatican Film Library
Released 13 Nov 2018
Looking to learn more about the Vatican Film Library, Carol Hogan-Downey sits down with Amy Nelson to talk about her role working with The Metascripta Project, biblioclasms, and...
Episode 3.4: The (Witch)Craft of Writing: Rituals
Released 31 Oct 2018
In our final episode of the (Witch)Craft of Writing, a Pentacle of perspectives from Amy Nelson, Anessa Kemna, Natalie Whitaker, Carol Hogan-Downey, and Byron Gilman-Hernandez i...
Episode 3.3: The (Witch)Craft of Writing: Magic as Language
Released 25 Oct 2018
In our second episode of The (Witch)Craft of Writing, Byron Gilman-Hernandez has a conversation with Natalie Whitaker about magic as a language act and what assumptions that bri...
Episode 3.2: The (Witch)Craft of Writing: Conjuration and Composition
Released 12 Oct 2018
In our first episode of our October series, "The (Witch)Craft of Writing," Byron Gilman-Hernandez has a conversation with Carol Hogan-Downey on The Hermetic Order of the Golden ...
Episode 3.1: Social Media in the Classroom
Released 26 Sep 2018
For our first episode of Season 3, Carol Hogan Downey and Natalie Whitaker enjoy a brief discussion on the use of incorporating social media into the classroom and rhetoric assi...
Episode 2.8: LARPing to Write, Part 2
Released 2 May 2018
In this episode, Matt Holder and Dr. Toby Benis continue their conversation about the Reacting to the Past pedagogy in an English 1900 context. For part two, they turn to discus...
Episode 2.7: LARPing to Write, Part 1
Released 26 Apr 2018
In this episode, Matt Holder sits down with Dr. Toby Benis to discuss her use of the Reacting to the Past curriculum in her English 1900 course. During Part 1, Dr. Benis describ...
Episode 2.6: Interview with Colten Biro, S.J.
Released 4 Apr 2018
The English Department's Resident Jesuit, Colten Biro, S.J., sits down with Byron Gilman-Hernandez to discuss his work writing for the Jesuit Post—and developing their web conte...
Episode 2.5: Interview with Tim Youd
Released 21 Mar 2018
In this episode, Lauren Terbrock returns to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis to interview Tim Youd (http://timyoud.com/) about his exhibition St. Louis: Retyped (http://cam...
Episode 2.4: Student Conferences
Released 14 Feb 2018
In this episode, Byron Gilman-Hernandez schedules a quick conference with Natalie Monzyk to discuss conferencing. Natalie shares how she's made use of early-semester student con...
Episode 2.3: Interview with Misa Jeffereis
Released 7 Feb 2018
In this episode, Lauren Terbrock interviews Misa Jeffereis, Assistant Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, about the exhibition Tim Youd: St. Louis Retyped. Lauren ...
Episode 2.2: Student Audio Essays
Released 1 Feb 2018
On this episode, we share two student media projects from the Fall 2017 semester. While not ready for prime time, these strong audio productions amply demonstrate how students c...
Episode 2.1: Technology, Media and Rhetoric Workshop
Released 17 Jan 2018
In this episode, Byron Gilman-Hernandez sits down with Laura Hardin-Marshall and Carrie Nelson to discuss and workshop their syllabi for teaching Technology, Media, and Rhetoric...
End of Season One
Released 6 Dec 2017
Thanks for listening! We will back in January with a new season for a new semester.
Episode Twelve: Interview with Carrie Nelson
Released 29 Nov 2017
In episode twelve, Byron Gilman-Hernandez returns for an interview with first-year Ph.D. student Carrie Nelson. Carrie discusses teaching her first class this semester, with ref...
Episode Eleven: Language Communities
Released 8 Nov 2017
With episode 11 we bring you a short audio essay on teaching (with) language communities by Eloquentia Perfect Ex Machine contributor Byron Gilman-Hernandez. Byron describes and...
Episode Ten: Dissoi Logoi Round Table Part Two
Released 1 Nov 2017
With episode ten we share the exciting conclusion of our round table on the dissoi logoi project. As part of our department's regular brown bag workshops on teaching, faculty an...
Episode Nine: Dissoi Logoi Round Table Part One
Released 25 Oct 2017
Our ninth episode is the first part of a two part round table discussion of the dissoi logoi project as discussed on previous episodes. As part of our department's regular brown...
Episode Eight: Field Recording
Released 18 Oct 2017
In our eighth episode, Dr. Nathaniel Rivers (Coordinator of the Computer Assisted Instruction Lab) sits down with himself to briefly discuss Field Recording. For examples of aud...
Episode Seven: Abigail Lambke's "The Oral Aural Walter Ong"
Released 11 Oct 2017
With our seventh episode, we are pleased to rebroadcast an audio essay composed and performed by SLU's own Abigail Lambke (Assistant Professor of English at Avila University) fo...
Episode Six: Stealing
Released 4 Oct 2017
In our sixth episode Lauren Terbrock (a doctoral student in rhetoric and composition) sits down with Byron Gilman-Hernandez (a doctoral student in rhetoric and composition) to d...
Bonus Episode: The Frankensong
Released 1 Oct 2017
We are pleased to present, in its entirety, "The Frankensong," which written, produced and performed by a student in one of Christina Hildebrandt's 2000-level literature courses...
Episode Five: An Interview with Christina Hildebrandt
Released 27 Sep 2017
In our fifth episode, Dr. Nathaniel Rivers sits down with Christina Hildebrandt to discuss how Christina uses multimodal projects in both literature and composition courses. Thi...
Episode Four: Teaching with Tumblr
Released 20 Sep 2017
In our forth episode, Dr. Nathaniel Rivers (Coordinator of the Computer Assisted Instruction Lab) sits down with himself to discuss using Tumblr to organize his ENGL 1900 course...
Episode Three: Podcasting the Dissoi Logoi Project
Released 14 Sep 2017
In our third episode, Lauren Terbrock (a doctoral student in rhetoric and composition) sits back down with Dr. Heather Bozant Witcher (Assistant Professor of English) to discuss...
Episode Two: An Interview with Heather Bozant Witcher
Released 7 Sep 2017
In our second episode, Lauren Terbrock (a doctoral student in rhetoric and composition) sits down with Dr. Heather Bozant Witcher (Assistant Professor of English) to discuss Hea...
Episode One: An Interview with Paul Lynch
Released 30 Aug 2017
In our first episode, Dr. Nathaniel Rivers (Coordinator of the Computer Assisted Instruction Lab) interviews Dr. Paul Lynch (Coordinator of the Writing Program) about his approa...