plainstate: The Podcast

Episode 24: Gabrielle Owen and Timothy Schaffert

Gabrielle Owen discusses her recently published book, A Queer History of Adolescence: Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures, with colleague Timothy Schaffert. This episode is taken from a March 23, 2021 virtual event celebrating the new book.

Episode 23: Saddiq Dzukogi and Jessica Poli

Saddiq Dzukogi, Nigerian-born poet and Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, talks with friend and fellow poet Jessica Poli about his new book, YOUR CRIB, MY QIBLA. Published by the University of Nebraska Press in March 2021, YOUR CRIB, MY QIBLA is a collection of poems dedicated to his daughter, Baha, who passed away only 21 days after her first birthday.

Episode 22: Writing the River: Nebraska Writing Project and Niobrara Scenic River Partnership

This episode explores the most recent collaboration between the National Park Service and the Nebraska Writing Project: a planned river float for area high school students to allow them to experience the Niobrara River in a way they may not have before.

Episode 21: Bare Bones: Place-Based Teaching Through Stories of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

A partnership between the Nebraska Writing Project and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument has developed the park's paleontological, geological, and early history of the plains stories into a series of workshops designed for teachers. In this episode, teacher-participants share how the workshop series evolved and impacted them as place-based writers and educators.

Episode 20: Place-Conscious Experiential Writing for Students and Teachers

The Nebraska Writing Project and Homestead National Monument have partnered together to host the Prairie Visions Writing Festival, and annual workshop for middle and high schoolers. In this episode, educators and rangers discuss using place-based writing to give students a greater appreciation of place, writing, history, and the Homestead Act.

Episode 19: Blending Place-Based Education and C3WP in Rural Nebraska: A Focus on Civil Discourse

In this episode, Pierce High School English teacher Melissa Legate and professor Robert Brooke illustrate how place-conscious education can blend with an emphasis on civic engagement and understanding issues from multiple perspectives.

Episode 18: We Are All Immigrants

In this episode, doctoral candidate Cara Morgenson and professor Robert Brooke discuss an extensive project connecting high school English learners, UNL college students, and park rangers at Homestead National Monument.

Episode 17: Being Heard: Students Presenting Live to State Senators on Local Issues

The Husker Writers Program brings high school and college students together to research local issues and present advocacy writing to local legislators. In this episode, UNL assistant professor Rachael Shah and North Star high school teacher Jessica Meyers discuss this approach to argument writing, and we get to listen in on their students' presentations to state senator Adam Morfeld.

Episode 16: Basics of Place-Conscious Education: The Nebraska Experience

In this episode, professor and Nebraska Writing Project director Robert Brooke introduces the basic concepts of place-conscious education and how the project is promoting place-conscious education across the state.

Episode 15: Marianne Kunkel and Susan Martens

In this episode, Marianne Kunkel and Susan Martens, two English PhD graduates, continue their conversation about their time at UNL and specifically Susan Marten's ongoing career at Missouri Western State University.