This has been held in The Ivory Tower Boiler Room’s vault since February, and Adam and Andrew had such a wonderful time chatting with Dr. Natalie Morse, founder of For the Love of Grad, on a wintery Saturday night. Natalie discusses why she founded her academic consulting business and how to navigate problems faced in graduateContinue reading “(Podcast Release) Should You Go to Grad School? A Discussion with Dr. Natalie Morse”
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Podcast Preview: With the Weekend Approaching…
Many people have Monday off, so it’s an extra long weekend to spend time with family. But if you need to go for a walk by yourself, please feel free to take a look at our newest episode–or at some of the back-catalogue. In the mean time, here’s what our team has been paying attentionContinue reading “Podcast Preview: With the Weekend Approaching…”
Andrew’s Big Think #2, Part 2: “I am not the boy next door”
Reflecting on the end of Pride 2021 By Andrew Rimby In the first part of my Pride month Big Think, I ended with a desire to ponder why Whitman’s “Song of Myself” spoke to my queerness so profoundly, and why it spurred the question “who is picking this text up and finding themselves reflected back?”Continue reading “Andrew’s Big Think #2, Part 2: “I am not the boy next door””
June Wrap Up: The First Pride was a Riot: Looking back at ITBR’s Month of Pride
It’s hard to imagine a more exciting month for our little team. At this time last year, The Ivory Tower Boiler Room was just some idea that Andrew and Adam were batting back and forth. Andrew and Mary had known each other since elementary school, but had not collaborated on anything since high school theater.Continue reading “June Wrap Up: The First Pride was a Riot: Looking back at ITBR’s Month of Pride”
(Podcast Release) Broadview Press and The Closet in the Library
Adam and Andrew sit down with editors Jason Rudy and Kate Flint to discuss the upcoming release (July 13) of Broadview Press’ Victorian Era anthology. We discuss how this new edition amplifies queer, BIPOC, Jewish, and female voices. Jason and Kate engage with all different readers of this anthology including educators, students, Victorian Lit. enthusiasts,Continue reading “(Podcast Release) Broadview Press and The Closet in the Library”
Podcast Preview: The Closet in the Library
The Editors of the forthcoming Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Volume 5, 3rd Edition This week’s podcast episode is four people talking about the subject they love most. Books, of course. But also: why do we read certain books and not others? All too often, the answer is: the books we have easiest access toContinue reading “Podcast Preview: The Closet in the Library”
(Podcast Episode) This Saturday is Seriously Sapphic
(Erika Grumet on behalf of the Ivory Tower Boiler Room team) This episode (“Two Writers are Better Than One: Ula and Kathryn Klein talk LGBTQ+ Academic and Creative Writing”) is a true Stony Brook English department reunion. Adam and Andrew are joined by two PhD alums, Ula and Kathryn Klein who talk all things LGBTQ+Continue reading “(Podcast Episode) This Saturday is Seriously Sapphic”
Four Seawolves on a Zoom
(Erika, for the Ivory Tower Boiler Room team) It’s the weekend again and we’ve got a great episode for you to listen to. Three of this week’s four podcast participants are Stony Brook alumni, and the fourth is still there. This week, from the Boiler Room, we bring you a little something new–a new questionnaireContinue reading “Four Seawolves on a Zoom”
(Podcast Episode) A Postscript to our Writers’ Round Table on Queerness and Allyship
As Andrew and I listened to the playback for parts I and II of this month’s Writers’ Round Table about queerness and allyship we both found ourselves exhausted from the emotional labor that we’ve been doing this month. We were both unprepared for the things we felt-trauma, disappointment, frustration, and for the homophobia we wouldContinue reading “(Podcast Episode) A Postscript to our Writers’ Round Table on Queerness and Allyship”
(Podcast Episode)Pride 2021: Queerness and Allyship- An Ivory Tower Boiler Room Round Table Part II
You couldn’t wait, right? We left you wondering more about our interaction with LGBTQ+ literature, and you like listening to us in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room so much that you couldn’t wait to come back and listen to the rest of what we had to say about queer literature, Pride, allyship, coming out andContinue reading “(Podcast Episode)Pride 2021: Queerness and Allyship- An Ivory Tower Boiler Room Round Table Part II”