The Write In: Grad Student Narratives
The Write In: Grad Student Narratives
Podcast Description
Welcome to The Write In: Grad Student Narratives, a podcast featuring the stories of Yale PhD students who take us on their journey and offer strategies for writing—and being—in graduate school. I am your host, Dr. Julia Istomina, and I get to work (and chat) with Yale grad students in my role as the Associate Director of the Graduate Writing Lab at The Poorvu Center. Each episode features a specific theme or question based on the conversation and story of our guest. Guests include Grad Writing Lab Fellows who are either in the later stages of their PhD Program or have just earned their degree. The scope of each conversation steers toward reflecting on their overall time spent at Yale while focusing a lens on the ways they managed a particular challenge or opportunity in their process.
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The podcast focuses on themes such as personal growth in graduate school, navigating challenges, and building a writing process. Episodes delve into topics like finding value in academic-adjacent roles, leveraging interdisciplinary skills in environmental studies, and designing writing practices that promote student wellness, with examples including Dana Hayward's pivot in her dissertation project and Chihiro Larissa's holistic approach to writing.
Welcome to The Write In: Grad Student Narratives, a podcast featuring the stories of Yale PhD students who take us on their journey and offer strategies for writing—and being—in graduate school. I am your host, Dr. Julia Istomina, and I get to work (and chat) with Yale grad students in my role as the Associate Director of the Graduate Writing Lab at The Poorvu Center. Each episode features a specific theme or question based on the conversation and story of our guest. Guests include Grad Writing Lab Fellows who are either in the later stages of their PhD Program or have just earned their degree. The scope of each conversation steers toward reflecting on their overall time spent at Yale while focusing a lens on the ways they managed a particular challenge or opportunity in their process.
In today’s episode, I talk with a truly special group of scholars, Candace Borders, Alison Kibe, and Jeania Ree Moore. They met as Graduate Writing Fellows and connected by giving each other feedback on their writing. While they share academic fields and methodologies, their ethics of care and investment in each other’s work allowed them to try out a new form of peer-review group, as “group consultations.” Conjoining the structure and duration of a peer-review writing group with the feedback process of an individual consultation, their group offers a unique model that can be formed by grad students who share a department and discipline. Sharing a discipline or department can have its’ challenges with respect to going “too deep” into the content, possible competition, and uneven experiences with working with advisors and gaining access to resources. Our guests offer a pathway based on Black feminist writing practices and theory that can mediate these challenges to offer a truly collaborative, compassionate, and accountable group writing and feedback model.
Jeania Ree Moore is a writer, clergyperson, and interdisciplinary scholar of theology, religion, and African American studies. She is a PhD candidate in African American Studies and Religious Studies at Yale University, where her research draws on theology, ethics, and related disciplines to engage a range of sites in Black history and culture.
Alison H Kibbe is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the College of Charleston. She is a scholar, multidisciplinary artist, and cultural organizer. In her scholarly work, Alison specializes in critical food studies, Black geographies and Black mobilities, and cultural production across the Caribbean and African Diaspora.
Candace Borders is an interdisciplinary scholar, educator, and curator. Her research explores the intersections of race, gender, class, and the urban Midwest, with particular attention to role of Black women’s activism in shaping the urban landscape. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis and received her PhD in American Studies and African American Studies from Yale University.
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