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What is literary journalism and why is it important? How does literary journalism engage with social justice issues? How do we navigate the rise of "fake news" and the decline of local journalism? How does a professor teach immersive journalism during a pandemic lockdown?\xa0\nTo answer these questions, our guest this episode is Rob Alexander, an Associate Professor with the Department of English Language and Literature. He specializes in the areas of rhetoric and composition and journalism studies. His research looks at how journalistic subjectivity expresses itself in literary journalism. \xa0\nRob\u2019s\xa0scholarly\xa0work has appeared in\xa0various journals and edited books. He has\xa0written about literary journalism and\xa0ecocriticism for\xa0The Routledge Companion to American Journalism\xa0(2019)\xa0and\xa0most recently published\xa0Fear and Loathing Worldwide: Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson,\xa0edited with Christine\xa0Isager\xa0of the University of Copenhagen.\xa0His fiction work has appeared in\xa0Wild Rose Country\xa0and\xa0Prairie Fire.\xa0\nTranscript available online at\xa0brocku.ca/humanities.\xa0\n\xa0\nLinks\nDr. Robert Alexander, faculty bio\nDepartment of English Language and Literature, Brock University\nWriting, Rhetoric, and Discourse Studies program, Department of English, Brock University\nInternational Association for Literary Journalism Studies\nInternational Association for Literary Journalism Studies Journal\nRobert Alexander and Willa McDonald "Social Justice and Literary Journalism" (forthcoming)\nJohn Richardson "Ballad of the Sad Climatologists" (Esquire, August 2015)\nMaggie Berg and Barbara Seeber "The Slow Professor" (University of Toronto Press, 2016)\nRob Nixon "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor" (Harvard University Press, 2013)\n\xa0\nCredits\nThank you to listening to Foreword.\xa0\nFind our footnotes, links\xa0to\xa0more information,\xa0transcripts,\xa0and past episodes on our website\xa0brocku.ca/humanities.\xa0\nWe love to hear from our listeners! Join us on\xa0Twitter,\xa0Facebook, and\xa0Instagram\xa0@brockhumanities.\xa0\nPlease subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app\xa0so you don\u2019t miss an episode.\xa0\nForeword\xa0is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.\xa0\nOur sound design and editing is by Nicole Arnt. Theme music is by Khalid Imam.\xa0\nSpecial thanks to Brock University\u2019s\xa0MakerSpace\xa0and Brock University Marketing and Communications for\xa0studio and web support.\xa0\nThis podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.