I’m excited to be getting back into the classroom in August and September 2022! I’ll be teaching Rhetoric and Popular Culture as part of UW’s new Path to UW program designed to introduce community college students to the University of Washington. As a first generation college student who transferred to a four year school from a community college many years ago, I look forward to meeting these students and exploring and learning together!

Thank you to Michael Goodger and his students in the Building Arts Programme at the Prince’s Foundation in Cumnock, Scotland for inviting me to speak with them about Things Worth Keeping. This amazing program brings together artists, craftspeople, designers, and makers to focus on building sustainable and holistic built environments and handmade objects. I was inspired by the conversation and the work they’re doing at Dumfries House.

Thank you to Laurie Taylor, host of the BBC’s Thinking Allowed program for a great conversation on The Value of Things.

Thank you, Natalie Guyette and Rob Ferrett of Wisconsin Public Radio for having me back on Central Time to discuss people’s most cherished objects.  So many great stories from callers!

I loved getting a chance to talk with Nicole Seymour, about my book Things Worth Keeping and her wonderful book Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age. Thank you to Nicole and Maggie Sattler of University of Minnesota Press for inviting us onto the podcast! Waste More, Want More: the case for taking objects seriously.

Thanks so much to Chris Richardson for having me on his wonderful This is Not a Pipe podcast. It was a great discussion!  I’ll post the link here once it’s published.  Check it out–so many great interviews with critical scholars, here.  I’m honored to join them.

Thank you to Ray Guins, for inviting me to speak as part of Indiana University’s Voices in Cultural Studies lecture series.  I really enjoyed the conversation with Ray and his colleagues.  Hope to visit you in person one day!