relevate: (OED) "the act of elevating, or lifting up (a person or thing) literally or figuratively."
This podcast aims to do just that, to find those things that have been lost to time, ignored, or simply under-analyzed, and bring them back into the discourse.
015 How to Publish a Book! The Difference between Self and Traditional Publishing with Autumn Kepley and Brooke Burris
Autumn Kepley and Brooke Burris, co-authors of 'In a Field of Flowers,' share their journey of creative collaboration, traditional and self-publishing, and the benefits of embracing one's creative voice.
25 Nov 2024
014 Anlie Williams on the Material History of Little Women, Evocative Ephemera, the Genius of Greta Gerwig, and Challenging the Literary Canon
Anlie Williams, a graduate student at UNCW, examines the material history of Little Women and its varied adaptations, revealing how ownership and property intersect in the publishing marketplace and culture.
18 Nov 2024
013 Dr. Colleen Reilly on How Technology Affects the Way We Learn, Teach, and Communicate, Analyzing Cybersecurity as a Humanist, and Teaching Scientists to Write for a Public Audience
The world of print media has been ever evolving since its inception in the fifteenth century. Woodblock printing gave way to the Gutenberg press, which gave way to the Rotary press, which gave way to the internet. In just the last few decades, online media has catalyzed the largest change in the discourse of public literacy since the very invention of mass printing. Globalization has given us the ability to share ideas with one another at lightspeed; do art or literature or business in seamle...
11 Nov 2024
012 Jessica Schafer on What is Lost and Gained Through the Act of Translation
When a book comes out—if it’s successful—a couple of things can happen. That book can make it on lists, like the New York Times Best-Sellers, or Goodreads Listopia. It can win awards like the Booker, the Hugo, or the Pulitzer. Or it can be translated into other languages—reprinted for audiences all over the world. There are some famous examples of this. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, was originally published in Portuguese. Tolstoy’s Anna Kerinina, was of course, authored in Russian. But ...
4 Nov 2024
011 Rachel Merritt Jones on the Diaspora of African Food Traditions, Necropolitics, and Food as an Act of Protest
Food. Food is so many things. It is nourishment, sustenance, it fuels our bodies as we work, live, and play. It’s something that motivates us, a symbol of survival. But it is also so much more. Food is capable of satisfying not just our biological needs, but our spiritual ones too. Food brings people together, through both process and product. It’s the thing that gathers families around the table in celebration, and in memorial. It’s the centerpiece of romance, the fertilizer for budding rela...
28 Oct 2024
010 Aidan Healey on the Death of the Monoculture, the Rise of True Crime, and Truman Capote's Infamous 'Nonfiction Novel'
We live in a content saturated media landscape. Since the birth of Netflix's streaming service in 2007, there has been a steady exponential explosion of online media and media platforms. It seems that every month we have a new streaming app, and every app offers dozens to hundreds of brand new original series and movies. Society has gone from being at the receiving end of a monocultural conveyor belt, to scavengers in a wasteland of varied and disparate small scale and blockbuster offerings. ...
21 Oct 2024
009 Dr. Alessandro Porco on Wilmington's Forgotten 20th Century Poet, Publisher, and Aspiring President: Gertrude Perry West
In 1925, right here in Wilmington North Carolina, Gertrude Perry West founded her little magazine, Poetic Thrills. It was the first of its kind in the state, and West had big plans. The magazine prided itself in its “national scope and international hope.” There were hundreds of poetry periodicals popping up around the country at this time, but Poetic Thrills was different. Commonly, little magazines like this would relish in the rebellious — they would push back against the popular movements...
14 Oct 2024
008 Dr. Alessandro Porco on Black Mountain College, Radical Pedagogies, and the Fight Against Classroom Homogeneity
In the Fall of 1933, John Andrew Rice and and a half dozen ex-Rollins professors set out into the unknown. Spurned by their previous employers, sick and tired of the American higher education system, they took to the wilderness—setting up camp in the North Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains. There, they did what any rag-tag ensemble of renegade college professors would do: they built a school. They attempted to build a new kind of educational facility: one that cared not about classicism, canonize...
7 Oct 2024
007 Autumn Kepley and Rachel Hendrix on Building Community, Writing a Mystery, BAMA, and What You Really Can Do with an English Degree
Acclaimed American novelist Kurt Vonnegut once said, that “The most daring thing (a person can do,) is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” I started going to college in the heart of the COVID pandemic. It wasn’t until my third semester that I actually started going to classes in person; and, those classrooms were not at all what I expected. They were awkward, silent, uncomfortable. Nobody looked at each other, nobody spoke, and nobody w...
30 Sept 2024
006 Savannah Jones on Louisa May Alcott's Slow Embrace of Sentimentalism, The Staying Power of Little Women, and the Paradigm-Shifting Power of an English Degree
Circa 1867, Louisa May Alcott was yearning for success. Despite being featured in a number of periodicals, writing consistently for serials, and even putting out a few books, she hadn’t yet broken through to the realm of real popularity. She tried seemingly everything, even writing salacious tales of seduction and murder — under pseudonyms, of course, but nothing ever really stuck. She just couldn’t break through to the masses. Discouraged and indignant, Alcott frequently did verbal batt...
23 Sept 2024
005 Dr. Nicholas Laudadio on the Musicality of Science Fiction, the Cyberpunk Resurgence, and the Sound of Plants Dying
We like to categorize things—put them in neat little boxes with defined walls, with simple labels, and expect that nothing will ever challenge or break free of those molds. We do this with people, with media, and clothing, we even do it with tools. We assign something, anything, a function, and we rarely think about the ways in which it might work outside of those parameters. Take the computer for example. We have expectations for our computers. We want them to be good at math and proces...
16 Sept 2024
004 Rachel Williamson on Why You Don't Have to Move to New York, Our Complicated Relationship with Place, and Everything you Need to Know about Alice Corbin Henderson
Alice Corbin Henderson did not want to leave Chicago. The mid-west born and raised poet and editor had everything that she needed right there in the city. She was in with the hot and happening poets of the day, she was the co-editor of the most popular and influential of the city’s poetry magazines, and she was receiving considerable acclaim as a rising poet herself. When her husband told her that he was moving the family to Sante Fe, she felt that her world was ending. Yet, it didn’t en...
9 Sept 2024
003 Meg Giuliano on the State of Feminism in Contemporary Media, Micro-Oppressions, and the Infamous 'Cool Girl' Monologue
In the 2014 film, “Gone Girl”, which was adapted from the novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn, scorned wife Amy Dunne delivers a legendary monologue. If you haven’t seen the movie, or read the book; It’s a thriller about a couple who seem perfectly happy on the outside, but are rotten to the core within. When Amy fakes her own murder—fed up with her miserable marriage to a man she despises—she leaves a trial of incriminating breadcrumbs right to her semi-innocent husband. For Nick, t...
2 Sept 2024
002 Dr. Jeremy Tirrell on the Gothic Horror Rhetoric of Nutritional Advertising, The Appeal of the Professional Writing Degree, and how Capitalism is Ruining the College Experience
Food-hacks. Supplements. Fad diets. Nootropics. In the expansive landscape of online marketing campaigns, social media, and algorithms, it feels like half of all that you read or hear online boasts some form of posthuman biological optimization. These products promise a gambit of health benefits and biological improvements to the human body. Some claim to help your brain function at a faster speed or capacity. Some claim to regulate your gut—to make your input and output as efficient as a hyb...
26 Aug 2024
001 Professor Andrew Tolhurst on Surfing, Relevance, and the Necessity of English Composition
Laird Hamilton once said, “If you don't understand the wave, you can't respect it. And if you don't have respect, it's only a matter of time before the ocean teaches you to get some.” I find that often, the same can be said of our work in the Humanities. To properly respect a novel, a poem, or even an essay, it helps to have a basic understanding of the forms and structures—the work that it took to get a piece from a genesis to a final presentation. In the dojo of writer’s craft, there i...
19 Aug 2024
relevate Intro
“What is it that you do in the English Department?”“What can you actually do with an English Degree?”“Don’t you all just end up as high school teachers?”These questions are ones that all English majors endure every time they dare talk about their studies. For decades, the Humanities have been the punch line of any joke regarding liberal arts education. It’s something that has always been taken in stride and brushed off. But recently, the perception of the nation’s Humanities departments has g...
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