Transcripts are now created by Substack. You can access them by clicking the transcript icon just above this message.
The quality remains inconsistent. This is the BETA version of Substack transcription and promises to improve over time.
The prime advantage to the Substack transcripts over our previous provider is that they are synchronized with episode audio, so you can check the text against the recording simply by clicking on the play button to the left of each paragraph. I considered this feature imperative given that I have not been able to find time to edit transcriptions before they post.
My warning from previous posts remains applicable…
These transcriptions are computer-generated. Transcription software has been known to make basic errors, even confusing homonymic antonyms, like adequate and inadequate. While I hope such errors are rare, if you are going to quote from an episode of The American Vandal (which I encourage!), please review the associated recording (or have a colleague do so), as that is the proper source of record.
A sometimes uncanny Halloween week exploration of the EdTech griftopia. Who’s monetizing our data? How is EdTech being used to bust unions [8:00]? How does EdTech reveal the interdependence of teaching and research, and the horror of their unbundling [36:00]? How does being a union member effect literary studies research [61:00]? Is AI the end of literary criticism [81:00]?
Cast:
Bryan Alexander is Senior Scholar at Georgetown University, the author of Universities on Fire (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023) and host of The Future Trends Forum.
Sarah Brouillette is Professor of English at Carleton University and the author of Literature & The Creative Economy (Stanford UP, 2014), UNESCO & The Fate of The Literary (Stanford UP, 2019), Underdevelopment & African Literature (Cambridge, 2020).
Max Chapnick is a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English at Northeastern University and the co-producer of the C19 Podcast episode, “PhDs Who Union.” He has also been a Quarry Farm Fellow, a Park Church Lecturer, and presented “Mark Twain vs. Christian Science & Empire” at the 2023 Quarry Farm Symposium on Invention, Technology, & Science Fiction.
Francesca Colonese is a Graduate Student & Predoctoral Instructor at University of Washington and appears on the C19 Podcast episode, “PhDs Who Union.”
Brian Deyo is Associate Professor of English at Grand Valley State University.
Annie McClanahan is Associate Professor of English at University of California, Irvine. She is also the author of Dead Pledges: Debt, Crises, & 21st-Century Culture (Stanford UP, 2016) and co-author of the “Ed-Tech” chapter in University Keywords (Johns Hopkins UP, TBD).
Louise McCune is a Graduate Student in English at University of California, Irvine and the co-author of the “Ed-Tech” chapter in University Keywords (Johns Hopkins UP, TBD).
Lawrence Lorraine Mullen is a Graduate Student in English at University of Buffalo, Instructor at Schenectady County Community College, and co-producer of the C19 Podcast episode, “PhDs Who Union.”
Ted Underwood is Professor of English and Information Science at University of Illinois, the author of Distant Horizons (U. Chicago, 2019), and the blog The Stone & The Shell.
Matt Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, resident scholar at the Center For Mark Twain Studies, and executive producer of The American Vandal Podcast. He’s also co-editor (with Michelle Chihara) of The Routledge Companion to Literature & Economics (2018) and the author of “Jason Wingard’s EdTech Griftopia.”
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