Can we Engage in Public Scholarship with Feminist and Accessible Communication?
Today\u2019s book is:\xa0Engage in Public Scholarship: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication, by Dr. Alex D. Ketchum. Public scholarship\u2014sharing research with audiences outside of academic settings\u2014has become increasingly necessary to counter the rise of misinformation, fill gaps from cuts to traditional media, and increase the reach of important scholarship. Engaging in these efforts often comes with the risk of harassment and threats\u2014especially for women, people of color, queer communities, and precariously employed workers.\xa0Engage in Public Scholarship\xa0provides guidance on translating research into inclusive public outreach while ensuring that such efforts are safer and more accessible. Dr. Ketchum discusses practices and planning for a range of educational activities from in-person and online events, conferences, and lectures to publishing and working with the media, social media activity, blogging, and podcasting. Using an intersectional feminist lens, this book offers a concise approach to challenges and benefits of feminist and accessible public scholarship.\nOur guest is: Dr. Alex Ketchum, who is the Faculty Lecturer of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies of McGill University. She is the Director of the\xa0Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab.\xa0She is the author of\xa0Engage in Public Scholarship!: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication\xa0(Concordia University Press, 2022), and\xa0Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses (2022). Since 2019, Ketchum has organized the SSHRC-funded Disrupting Disruptions: The Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series. She is also the founder of The Feminist Restaurant Project, and co-founder and editor of The Historical Cooking Project, and the former co-founder of Food, Feminism, and Fermentation. She is published in\xa0Feminist Studies,\xa0Feminist Media Studies, and\xa0Digital Humanities Quarterly. Dr. Ketchum was named one of the\xa0100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics\xa0for 2021, and is involved in feminist, food, and environmental politics. She has worked on organic farms in Ireland and France, and she founded Farm House in Middletown, Connecticut, a living community dedicated to food politics work.\nListeners to this episode may also be interested in:\n\n\nA Primer for Teaching Digital History: 10 Design Principles\xa0by Jennifer Guiliano\n\nRoopika Risam and Jennifer Guiliano, editors,\xa0Reviews in Digital Humanities\n\nThis podcast episode on Hope for the Humanities PhD\n\nThis podcast episode on new ways of launching an online conference\n\nThis episode on exploring public-facing humanities at historic sites\n\n\nWelcome to The Academic Life! Join us here each week, where we learn directly from experts. We embrace the broad definition of what it means to lead an academic life, and are informed and inspired by today\u2019s knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies