
Teaching Braiding Sweetgrass
In this episode, Assistant Director of the Purdue English Big Read, C.J. Tenniswood, speaks with Dr. Stephanie Masta (College of Education), Dr. Michael Johnston (College of Liberal Arts), and Juanita Crider—PhD candidat

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Hosted by Purdue University's English Department · EN · 12 episodes
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Welcome to the Purdue English Department’s Big Read Podcast! Our Big Read program is designed to enrich Greater Lafayette through the shared experience of literature. On this podcast, we invite guests to discuss great books and why we can’t get enough of them. To learn more about our program, visit: https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/the-big-read/index.html . (All opinions belong to individual speakers and are not representative of Purdue University.)
Purdue University's English Department hosts The Purdue English Big Read Podcast, a arts show with 12 episodes published.

In this episode, Assistant Director of the Purdue English Big Read, C.J. Tenniswood, speaks with Dr. Stephanie Masta (College of Education), Dr. Michael Johnston (College of Liberal Arts), and Juanita Crider—PhD candidat

In this episode, Assistant Director of the Purdue English Big Read, C.J. Tenniswood, sits down with Dr. Matt Morgenstern and PhD candidate, Rochel Bergman, to explore how Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass invites

In this episode (hosted by Emily Pearson), guests Debora Borba and Matt Morgenstern discuss cozy mysteries and how Ovidia Yu's Aunty Lee's Delights fits into the genre.

In this episode (hosted by Emily Pearson), guests Sarah Jaran and Dr. Mindy Tan discuss Singaporean food culture and it's role in Ovidia Yu's Aunty Lee's Delights.

In this episode (hosted by Alex Anderson), guests Benjamin Lathrop, Chenchen Lu, and Emily Pearson discuss best practices for teaching Julia Lovell's adaptation of Monkey King: Journey to the West.

In this episode, host Alex Anderson and guests Veronica Ahmed, Narim Kim, and Frankie Knuckles discuss how Silvia Moreno-Garcia's novel Mexican Gothic (2020) nuances the literary genre of the Female Gothic.

In this episode, host Alex Anderson and guests Débora Borba, Jehu Laniog, and Marybeth Perdomo discuss colonialism's haunting presence in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's novel Mexican Gothic (2020).

Host Erika Gotfredson and guests Alex Anderson and Ane Costa discuss the nuanced roles of space, place, and community in Nnedi Okorafor's Binti trilogy.

Tune in as host Erika Gotfredson and guests Jason Abad and Emily Pearson discuss how names, language, and storytelling function as magic in Naomi Novik's novel Spinning Silver (2018).

In this episode, host Erika Gotfredson and guests Juanita Crider and Malik Raymond explore Africanfuturism, character development, and the collision of STEM and literature in Nnedi Okorafor's trilogy Binti.

In the very first episode of the Purdue English Big Read podcast, host Erika Gotfredson and guests Narim Kim and Vanessa Iacocca discuss the evolution of Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver (2018) from short story to novel.

On this episode of the Purdue English Big Read podcast (hosted by Alex Anderson), Jianfen Chen, Devan Lindey, and Fiona Wang discuss Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese, Kelvin Yu's series adaptation of
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Alex Anderson
Pet Talk with Alex
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C.J. Tenniswood
Purdue English Big Read
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Dr. Michael Johnston
College of Liberal Arts
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Dr. Stephanie Masta
College of Education
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Juanita Crider
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