true-crime
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Episode 11: (Re)Covering Bad Women– From Ithaka to Whitechapel
This episode is the second in “(Re)Covering Bad Women,” a podcast miniseries exploring vulnerability, precarity, and victimization in true crime podcasts. This episode is an explanation of my creative podcast episode, (Re)Covering Bad Women: Unruly Slave Girls in the Odyssey. This episode connects the creative sound piece to broader themes from Emily Wilson’s translation of Continue reading
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Episode 06: Recent Reading on True Crime
Welcome back to another episode of Project PhDcast, an audio research diary. This episode I share some thoughts on some recent reading. Joy Wiltenburg’s 2004 article on “True Crime: The Origins of Modern Sensationalism” discusses how sensational crime stories from 16th and 17th century Germany functioned in their societal and religious contexts. I share my Continue reading
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Police Podcasts and the Erosion of Public Trust
Presented at “Power and Responsibility” 19th Annual Communication Graduate Caucus Conference, Carleton University, March 14-15, 2024. Police in Canada are adopting true crime podcasting to influence public perceptions of policing and police work in response to increased scrutiny by activists and calls for transparency and accountability. However, their podcasts bypass an important element of ethical Continue reading
About Me
-PhD student in Interdisciplinary Humanities researching podcast ethics and knowledge mobilization under the supervision of Dr. Aaron Mauro at Brock University
-Host and producer of Foreword
-Producer of Eve, Intersected
-Cohost and producer of MythTake
-MA in Classics from Brock University (2013)
-BA in Classics from McMaster University (2009)
-BA in History & Linguistics from Glendon College, York University (2003)
Podcasting and researching from the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples in modern-day Canada.
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