Speakers: Brynn Fitzsimmons, Sarah Kugler, Yee-Lum Mak, Faith Scheidemantle, and Pritha Prasad (respondent) (all affiliated with the University of Kansas) Overview A commonplace of graduate students is that we are crafty—and we’re even craftier when we work together. This truism underpins the project that the panelists of Developing a Digital Commonplace for Research Methods in a COVID Climate presented during their talk: a born-digital repository of resources pertinent to research methods and methodology born from identified need in response to COVID-19. As the panelists stated plainly, graduate students have contended with shifting research scapes and approaches given the isolation of current…
Author: Wilfredo Flores
Wilfredo Flores
Wilfredo Flores is a fourth-year PhD candidate at Michigan State University in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department. His research interests include digital material rhetorics, online queer and trans communities, sexual health communication, digital research methods, and cultural rhetorics.
As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2019-2020 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. This year has presented numerous crises and challenges, and it has also highlighted the many ways that digital rhetoric can respond with an eye toward a more just society. We are grateful to the 2019-2020 Fellows for their presence, dedication, and insight. Nupoor Ranade A big thanks to the DRC team Jathan, Naomi, Anne, Simone, and to the wonderful fellows in my cohort for not just enriching my academic community experience through…
Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes Although the final interview has taken place, On the Job has one last episode for you! In this final, reflective episode, host Nupoor Ranade and Wilfredo Flores speak with … themselves! That’s right, as the title suggests, Nupoor and Wilfredo review some of the advice shared in the past nine episodes, talk about how they adapted some of the advice for their own preparation, and chat about how to convert some of the advice for a pandemic job market. They also end with some extra nitty gritty tips on doing Zoom…
Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes The final episode of On the Job has finally arrived! In this last episode, hosts Nupoor Ranade and Wilfredo Flores speak with Dr. Allison Hutchison, Senior Lecturer in the Engineering Communications Program at Cornell University. In this episode, Allison speaks about tailoring job searches, knowing what you’re capable of and qualified for, using LaTeX and Overleaf for job materials, and making a website in GitHub. Allison also talks about transferring dissertation research into the work she does as Senior Lecturer, offering ways such work can take place in a job talk. Feel free…