This podcast episode performs a sound-media meditation on a live event launching the triple-issue of English Studies in Canada (ESC)'s “New Sonic Approaches in Literary Studies” in May 2023.

A proprioception-enthusiast and a thespian walk into a podcast booth. Together, they engage with scholars from three different fields outside of those traditionally working with and through the sense of proprioception.

In this episode, from Season 2, Episode 1 of the SoundBox Signals Podcast, University of Exeter undergraduates Sofie Drew and Emily Chircop carry out a close listening of a 1980 recording of Sharon Thesen reading.

From medieval itineraries to modern livestreams, Christian pilgrimage is often, if not always experienced through an imaginative transposal from a physical reality to a spiritual truth. In this episode, hosts Lindsay Pereira and Ella Jando-Saul explore the concept of virtual pilgrimage through conversations with two guests: Michael Van Dussen and Simon Coleman.

Andrew Whiteman invites listeners to step into an arena of collaboration between poetry and sound.

The SpokenWeb Podcast is back for season 6!

For this final ShortCuts, we listen with Brandon LaBelle in a conversation recorded on-site at Errant Bodies Press in Berlin.

In this live episode recorded during June's 2024 SpokenWeb Symposium, producers Nicholas Beauchesne and Chelsea Miya venture into the roots and future directions of algorithmic art.

In this month’s episode of The SpokenWeb Podcast, ShortCuts is taking over the airwaves with a special edition episode.

In this conversation, Xiaoxuan Huang talks about hybrid poetics (and more) with then-supervising producer Kate Moffatt.

For most people, the “poetry reading” conjures stuffy intonation styles, cheap wine in plastic cups, and polite clapping. But for a riotous underground scene in 1980s Montreal, the poetry reading was the site for radical experimentation in artistic performance

As April is the month of poetry, we’ve taken a pause in this year’s ShortCuts Live conversations to listen back to one of the first episodes of ShortCuts.

In this podcast, Adam Hammond asks if computers can help us to decide which readers are best at “doing” the voices in T. S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land.

This ShortCuts presents one of the ShortCuts Live! conversations recorded at the University of Alberta as part of the 2023 SpokenWeb Symposium. What will we hear? And where will these sounds take us?

Michelle Levy and Maya Schwartz revisit the early history of Caedmon records.

This month, the SpokenWeb Podcast presents a crossover episode. This audio is part of  literature professor Linda M. Morra's podcast, Getting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature Podcast, hosted and written by Linda, produced by Linda and Marco Timpano.

This ShortCuts presents the first of many conversations recorded at the University of Alberta as part of the 2023 SpokenWeb Symposium. What will we hear? And where will these sounds take us? Join us for this ShortCuts Live in which a conversation with Jennifer Waits that takes us on a magical audio tour into the sounds of campus radio stations.

In this audio essay, Nadège Paquette adopts a posture of not-knowing as an alternative to the Western drive toward knowledge accumulation. Nadège asks: can not-knowing help us learn to live and die more justly in compromised worlds?

Welcome to Season 5 of ShortCuts.  ShortCuts host and producer Katherine McLeod would take you on a deep dive into the SpokenWeb archives through a short ‘cut’ of audio. What did it feel like to hear archival audio? And how could we carefully unarchive its sound? These questions evolved into conversations, and thus emerged ShortCuts, Live!

How do we represent textually and perform orally the missing pieces from damaged medieval manuscripts? In this episode, Ghislaine Comeau, Concordia PhD student studying early medieval literature, brings us along on her quest to translate the “The Ruin” – a famously ruined Old English poem from the 10th century manuscript known as the Exeter Book. In conversation with medievalists Dr. Stephen Yeager and Dr. Stephen Powell, she discusses sounds in Old English texts, exploring how these may have been read and/or performed and how they may now be translated, represented, and performed. Quest fulfilled; the episode ends with Ghislaine’s reading of her translation of “The Ruin.”