Episode 6: Humanities Majors Are People Too
The Episode Sometimes when you tell people you’re a humanities major, they look at you like you just said you have 6 months to live. Is life with a hu...
Professors Are People Too
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Professors Are People Too is a show hosted by an English major looking to find the person behind the Ph.D. Trying to rebuild the professor-student relationship, host Ali Oshinskie takes us on a tour of the professors who transformed her learning experience from lecture-hall lost to office-hour happy. In collaboration with University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Department and WHUS, UConn’s Sound Alternative, this podcast ventures off the syllabus into lessons that can’t be graded.
Episode 5: Victoria Ford Smith
The Episode For Ali, the nights before the school resumes bring stress, lack of sleep, and counting of sheep. And the summer before senior year was th...
Episode 4: Dwight Codr
The Episode Professor Dwight Codr is the typical English professor, nice wool suit, tortoise-rimmed glasses, and loves himself some good British Liter...
Season Two: Introduction, How to Get a Job
The Season In May, Ali’s out of here. That’s right, she’s graduating and it’s time to find a job with her English degree. This season, Ali’s hitting o...
Episode 3: Sean Forbes
The Episode So here’s the big reveal, Ali’s not the only one behind Professors Are People Too! Sean Forbes, an Assistant Professor-in-Residence and t...
Episode 2: Cathy Schlund-Vials
The Episode On the first day of class, Professor Schlund-Vials does something unheard of. Impressed by this teaching tactic, Ali develops an “office-h...
Episode 1: Gina Barreca
The Episode Ali keeps hearing all these lovely things about someone named “Gina Barreca.” But when she enrolls in Professor Barreca’s Creative Writing...
Professors Are People Too, Introduction
Host Ali Oshinskie loves school. But in her sophomore year, she took a lecture hall class that changed everything: the distance between the professor ...