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Adam and Ralph reunite after a year and a half hiatus to fire up the ol’ podcast.

Spencer Brayton is Library Manager at Waubonsee Community College (Sugar Grove, IL and Aurora, IL). His research interests focus on the convergence of media literacy and information literacy. Together with Natasha Casey, he has co-authored several articles in this area. He has presented at and/or served in various capacities for the following organizations: National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), Canadian Association of Academic Librarians (CAPAL), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL), United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), International Critical Media Literacy Conference, International Media Literacy Research Symposium, and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). He maintains a website and blog, “Converging Spaces,” at https://spencerbrayton.wordpress.com/ Natasha Casey is associate professor of communications at Blackburn College (Carlinville, Illinois) where she teaches media and information literacy, communication theory and other courses in the English and Communications department. She holds a Ph.D. in communication studies from McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). Her research interests include critical race theory and critical media and information literacy. She currently serves on the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Media Literacy Education. Read her media and information literacy blog, “No Silos” at www.natashacasey.com Belinha S. De Abreu, Ph.D., is a global media literacy educator. She served as an International Expert to the Forum on Media & Information Literacy for UNESCO’s Communication & Information Section. Her research interests include media and information literacy education, educational technology, global perspectives, critical thinking, privacy & big data, young adults, and teacher training. Dr. De Abreu serves as the Vice President for the National Telemedia Council (NTC), and is the founder of the International Media Literacy Research Symposium which has been held in the USA and Portugal. She is the author of Teaching Media Literacy (ALA: Neal-Schuman, 2019), Mobile Learning through Digital Media Literacy (Peter Lang, 2017), author/co-editor of the International Handbook of Media Literacy Education (Routledge, 2017)

Today’s guest are Anna Kornbluh and Daniela Garofalo. Anna Kornbluh’s research and teaching interests center on Victorian literature and Critical Theory, with a special emphasis in formalism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and theory of the novel. She is the author of The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space (University of Chicago 2019), Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club (Bloomsbury “Film Theory in Practice” series, 2019), and Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form (Fordham UP 2014). Her current research concerns impersonality, objectivity, mediation, and abstraction as residual faculties of the literary in privatized urgent times. She is the founding facilitator of two scholarly cooperatives: V21 Collective and InterCcECT. Daniela Garofalo specializes in British Romantic literature with an interest in the early British Victorian period and Lacanian theory. Her first book, Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature(SUNY, 2008), focuses on political theory and gender studies. Her second book, Women, Love, and Commodity Culture in British Romanticism (Ashgate, 2012), considers connections between economic theory, gender studies, and Lacanian theory. She is also the co-editor, with David Sigler, of Lacan and Romanticism (SUNY 2019). Prof. Garofalo has published essays on Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Thomas Carlyle, William Godwin, John Keats, and Emily Brontë. She teaches courses on Romantic and Victorian literature, and critical theory. Prof. Garofalo served as chair of the English department from May 2014 to June 2019.

This episode’s guest is Rick Dunham is co-director of the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was Washington bureau chief of the Houston Chronicle from 2007-13 and also served as Hearst Newspapers Washington bureau chief from 2009 to 2012.

to find the links for the “Indians for Indians” archive, go to: https://libraries.ou.edu/content/native-voices-over-airwaves-exhibition-recordings-available-nov-14

Adam and Ralph are joined by Keegan Long-Wheeler to discuss Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Mandalorian, and all things Star Wars.

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Eric Stover is Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. Stover has built the Human Rights Center into a premier interdisciplinary research and policy center that is highly regarded nationally and internationally. He is a pioneer in utilizing empirical research methods to address emerging issues in human rights and international humanitarian law.