Working with the Media: A How-To for Faculty, with Essayist Heather Radke

In this luchtime session, sponsored by the Jesse B. Mack Lecture Series and the Gertrude B. Lemle Center for Teaching an Scholarship, essayist, journalist, and Radiolab reporter Heather Radke will lead a conversation between faculty about the generative possibilities of a more direct conversation between media outlets, public venues, and academic scholarship. Some of the questions that will guide the session are: Why should scholars talk to mainstream media? What does scholarly expertise entail in that context? How to position the long-term research projects scholars dedicate themselves to within the fast moving environment of public-facing intellectual and cultural production?

Heather Radke is a contributing editor and reporter at Radiolab, and writes essays, criticism, and reported pieces for The Paris Review Daily, The Believer, Guernica, Topic, Longreads, The White Review, and others. Radke is the author of Butts: A Backstory (2022).

RSVP by e-mailing Polly Bratton, administrative assistant of the Gertrudge B. Lemle Center for Teaching and Scholarship, at pbratton@oberlin.edu.