Here is a podcast, recorded on 20 February 2014, that includes my readings of three poems from Tony Harrison's The School of Eloquence: "On Not Being Milton," "The Rhubarbarians," and "Marked with D." It was made as a supplement for English 462F, a class on contemporary poetry.
This is an audio capture of the first part of a review class (for English 462) on Sylvia Plath's poetry, in which I discuss concepts of her (fractured) line and voice. The class took place on Wednesday February 12, 2014, at the University of British Columbia. What followed was a class exercise for which each student selected a favourite -- or particularly resonant -- line from Plath's Collected Poems, and we collectively tried to establish key concerns and formal tactics in her writing.
This is an audio capture of a review lecture (for English 228) on Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men and Bruce Springsteen's songs, using Pete Seeger's "We Shall Overcome" as an anchor point. I also refer to Beyonce's version of "Halo" during the "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon in January 2010. The class took place at the University of British Columbia on 12 February 2014.
This is an audio capture of my second class on Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, which took place on Wednesday 5 February 2014 at the University of British Columbia, as part of English 228, a second-year undergraduate course on the poetics of popular song. I discuss the form of the blues and the practice of signifyinÕ in African-American culture. I also gesture at a comparison between Hurston and Beyonce.
This is an audio capture of my third lecture on Roddy Doyle's novel The Commitments, presented on Friday 31 January 2014 at the University of British Columbia. I discuss the African diaspora and Black cultural history, and try to establish a reading of the novel based on its dialogic style.
Here is an edited audio capture of about two-thirds of my third class on Lavinia Greenlaw's disco-punk memoir, The Importance of Music to Girls. We focus on representations of listening in the book. The class too place on Friday, 24 January 2014, at the University of British Columbia.
Audio of (not quite) the first half of a class on "Bruce Springsteen and Cultural Pedagogy," in which I set up a discussion of Springsteen's song "The Streets of Philadelphia" by introducing concepts from the work of Henry Giroux and Paolo Freire. The class -- part of English 228B -- took place on Friday, 17 January 2014, at the University of British Columbia.
Audio of the first part of a lecture on Seamus Heaney's "bog people" poems, focusing in particular on "The Grauballe Man" -- this was for English 462F, and the class took place on Wednesday, 15 January 2014, at the University of British Columbia.
Here is an audio capture of the first part of a lecture on Kathleen Jamie's poem "Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead" and Seamus Heaney's "Digging." The class -- part of English 462F -- took place on Wednesday January 8, 2014 at the University of British Columbia.
Here is an audio capture of a "brief lecture" I gave to start off a class on popular music, this time discussing Carly Rae Jepson's song "Call Me Maybe." The class was part of English 228B, and took place on Wednesday January 8, 2014 at the University of British Columbia.
This is an audio capture of the second lecture I gave on Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, for English 111, "Dislocations," an introduction to prose non-fiction, on Wednesday November 13, 2013 at the University of British Columbia. The written text of the lecture can be found on my blog, here: http://frankstyles.blogspot.ca/2013/11/ngugi-wa-thiongo-memoir-as-self.html.
This is an audio capture of the second lecture on Diamond Grill by Fred Wah, for English 111, "Dislocations," a first-year introduction to prose non-fiction. It took place on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at the University of British Columbia. Two graduate student Teaching Assistants, Dallas Hunt and Carol Lai, had given the first lecture on Diamond Grill on Monday, and I refer to some of the issues they raised.
This is an audio capture of a lecture I gave on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 for my English 409 class, which was an introduction to Cultural Studies. I used the Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Simon During, as my course text, and I refer to essays by Gayatri Spivak ("The New Subaltern") and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri ("Postmodernization") from that text. I also mention work by Dick Hebdige and Antonio Gramsci.
This is an audio capture of my third lecture on Out of Africa (by Karen Blixen-Isak Dinesen) for my English 111 class, "Dislocations," an introduction to prose non-fiction. I delivered it on Wednesday 30 October 2013 at the University of British Columbia.
This is an audio capture of my second lecture on Out of Africa (by Karen Blixen) for my English 111 class, "Dislocations," an introduction to prose non-fiction. I delivered it on Wednesday 23 October 2013 at the University of British Columbia.
This is an audio capture of the first lecture I gave on Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir Persepolis for English 111, "Dislocations," an introductory course on prose non-fiction, at the University of British Columbia on Monday, 23 September 2013.
This is an audio capture of the second lecture I gave on Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir Persepolis for English 111, "Dislocations," an introductory course on prose non-fiction, at the University of British Columbia on Wednesday, 25 September 2013.
Here is an audio podcast I made for English 220 in 2009, reading John Donne's "Elegy XIX: On His Mistress Going to Bed." I seem to have been experimenting with editing, so the podcast has a slightly rushed, breathless quality to it. But it does go over a version of a reading of the poem to which I have returned in my recent section of English 220.
Here is audio of my part of a colloquium session on "Teaching Literature in the Time of the MOOC," co-presented with Jon Beasley-Murray, for the Department of English Faculty Research Series at UBC on Friday, October 18, 2013. (The text of the presentation can be found here.)
An audio capture of my lecture (delivered on Wednesday, October 16, 2013) on Kathleen Jamie's essays "Fever" and "Surgeons' Hall," from her collection Findings (2005), which I am using to create a set of anchor-points on essay composition and structure for my section of English 111, a first-year introduction to the study of non-fictional prose.
Audio (recorded in October 2013) extending and supplementing my foreshortened lecture on Kathleen Jamie's essay "Sabbath," from her collection Findings (2005). This podcast is intended for use by students of English 111.
Arts One Revision Podcast, April 2013: a discussion with Jon Beasley-Murray about Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Daisy Dolls by Felisberto Hernandez.
Arts One Revision Podcast, April 2013: a discussion with Jill Fellows about Friedrich Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.
Arts One Revision Podcast, April 2013: a discussion with Jon Beasley-Murray about J. M. Coetzee's novel Foe and T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land.
Supplemental audio recorded after my lecture on Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf for Arts One, October 2012.
The first "Briefings" podcast from September 2009, recorded as an audio supplement for my lectures in English 220.
The second "Briefings" podcast from September 2009, a reading of John Milton's poem "On Shakespeare. 1630," recorded as an audio supplement for my lectures in English 220.