Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes Welcome to the fourth episode of the On the Job w/ The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative podcast! Hosts Nupoor Ranade and Wilfredo Flores continue the interview series by speaking with Dr. Sara Doan, assistant professor of technical communication at Kennesaw State University. In this interview, Sara talks about her experiences working the first year as a tenure-track faculty member in an R2 university, and what research and teaching looks like in this setting. Sara also discusses her approach to working smarter and not harder and how to maximize the productive interplay…
Author: Wilfredo Flores
Nupoor Ranade, 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.
Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes Welcome to the third episode of the On the Job w/ The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative podcast! In this interview, hosts Nupoor Ranade and Wilfredo Flores continue the conversation about the job market with guest Dr. Jason Tham, who is an assistant professor of technical communication and rhetoric at Texas Tech University. In this interview, Jason talks about switching up workflows when transitioning to a tenure-track faculty position, setting clear expectations when entering into the market, and remembering that the process will take time. Jason also chats a bit about approaches…
Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Show Notes Welcome to the second episode of On the Job w/ The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. In this interview, hosts Nupoor Ranade and Wilfredo Flores talk with Dr. Jack Labriola, Assistant Professor of Technical Communication in the Technical Communication & Interactive Design Department at Kennesaw State University, about his recent experiences on the job market and what came after. Jack also talks about the value of setting a work schedule and dealing with workloads, the balancing act of the first year as a tenure-track professor, and the ins and outs of social media…
Dear DRC Community, These painful past few weeks have called on those of us at the DRC to reaffirm: Black Lives Matter. The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, David McAtee, Nina Pop, and countless others are symptoms of deeply entrenched white supremacy in the United States. Our country and its institutions—including academia—are founded on and sustained by white supremacy. We recognize that these murders are not isolated incidents, but articulations of an ongoing epidemic of violence sustained by anti-Black racism. When we say Black Lives Matter, we condemn not only individual murders, but also the…