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Podcasting for Humanities Faculty and Staff: Storytelling for a Modern Audience
National Humanities Center Virtual Institute for University Faculty and Staff
June 10–14, 2024
Podcasting has become a common form of storytelling and scholarly communication in the digital age. This five-day virtual institute provided hands-on, immersive training for faculty and staff in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to translate research, commentary, and community-engaged narratives into podcast episodes.
Working in cross-disciplinary and intra-university teams, participants learned how to storyboard an idea, to create and collect audio content, and to edit narratives into entertaining, powerful podcasts. Participants heard from leading scholarly podcasting experts, learned the technical components of recording and editing audio, and explored ways to incorporate podcasting into their pedagogy.
Please visit our 2023 Podcasting the Humanities: Creating Digital Stories for the Public page to listen to sample podcasts from previous institute participants.
Goals
The program sought to:
- Encourage humanists to embrace a sense of responsibility for sharing stories of the human experience with diverse American publics.
- Foster new models of expertise that are responsive both to the traditional authority-based credentialing systems of the professional humanities and to the emerging concerns of university-based and public constituencies.
- Grow capacity for collaborative—team, interdisciplinary, cross-university—scholarship.
- Expand humanities professionals’ capabilities for curating humanities materials in a way that adds depth and understanding to contemporary public affairs and cultural conversations.
Participants:
- Forged new intellectual connections between public life, humanities research, and responsive digital media.
- Deepened collaborative inquiry and project management skills.
- Honed their ability to communicate humanities expertise in accessible and publicly-responsive formats.
- Acquired conceptual and technical skills to create, revise, and publish broadcast-ready podcasts.
- Developed skills and networks valuable within and beyond the university.
Speakers and Facilitators
Joanna Brooks
Associate Vice President of Faculty Advancement, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University
Pamella Lach
Digital Humanities Librarian and Digital Humanities Center Director, San Diego State University
Barry Lam
Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside; creator of Hi-Phi Nation
Hannah MacGregor
Associate Professor of Publishing, Simon Fraser University