Teaching
A decade ago, when Duke University teamed up with Apple to bring iPods into the classroom, I was one of the first in line. Through an Instructional Technology Fellowship, I developed a course on Old Time Radio. Able to playback radio shows and record audio, the iPod became our textbook as well as a content creation tool. Eager to expand what and how we study, as well as to extend student impact beyond the university, this class is a paradigm for how I teach.
Whether it’s radio theater at the Peabody Institute, opera at Penn, Greek literature at Chicago, or getting drama up on its feet at Duke, I work to blend music, literature, and drama, to give old texts a new life, and to inspire students through my research.
