Desdemona Does Dallas
Like everyone delivering CONTENT during these “unprecedented times” I too have a podcast, but I/ve been lagging in editing the episodes. Here is one we just did on Award Acceptance Speeches, a little appreciated genre. This is really Patrick’s thing, they are the star and I’m kind of the sidekick and mastermind, two roles I actually prefer. But they explain it best here:
I'd like to share with you something that Robin and I been working on for a while. "Alt Ack!" is a comedy podcast we engage with Digital Humanities, Cultural Studies, and Performance studies scholarship with a light tone of irreverence and fun. Its a nice look behind the scenes of academia from two people on the bottom of the food chain with nothing left to lose. Its a lot of fun. We just hit our 10th episode. This week, and the subsequent two episodes are our best work yet, and I'm really proud of the thing that Robin and I have begun to build.
Here’s the latest ep, (also on Spotify and Apple) and some of the speeches we discuss.
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What to look forward to:
Academia shenanigans
More Showgirls, the novelization
Recommendations of culture to consume at home
Various recaps
Possibly some fiction…?