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Podcasts of my lectures for English and writing courses. I am in Toronto.
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Feb 1, 2021
Feb 1, 2021
10 min
Lecture on the short story "This world is made for monsters" by M. Rickert. Aliens: xenophobia and xenophilia, suspense and conflict in fiction, and imagery of children, animals, paradise, and hell. [10 mins]
Feb 1, 2021
Feb 1, 2021
8 min
What are Level 3 questions? I discuss 3 articles that were assigned in ENG106: Binge breakers, the Wired article on The death of FOMO, and the Michael Tubbs TED talk. I also discuss why we focus on nonfiction in the course.
Jan 28, 2021
Jan 28, 2021
4 min
Storytelling, human connection, and how Zoom is the false hero of our epic struggle against Covid-19. I discuss Timothy Caulfield's "Sound of science" and Sam Benstead's "If sex survived AIDS..." - 4.32 mins
Jan 25, 2021
Jan 25, 2021
3 min
Jerry Oltion's article "Net up/Net down" discusses how important science actually is in science fiction. I comment on his example of The Lord of the Flies.
Jan 25, 2021
Jan 25, 2021
5 min
How should we solve the problem of cheating? Science fiction should offer answers to the problems we face in society, says Jerry Oltion. In this podcast I consider how Gregor Hartmann’s story “The Man from X” tries to solve the problem of cheating.
Jan 25, 2021
Jan 25, 2021
7 min
What is satire, and how is Gregor Hartmann's short story "The Man from X" a kind of satire? What kind of science fiction is this short story? Lecture 1 for Week 3 of EAC234 (Jan 2021). Transcript available on BlackBoard.