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Teaching With MagicAndor and Abolition: with Kristi RileyKristine Riley is a PhD candidate in the sociology program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her studies focus on critical criminology, feminist theory, social justice, public policy, and popular culture. Her dissertation, currently titled “Breaking Glass, Making Prison: How carceral feminism shapes the prison nation,” examines the gendered political economy of the criminal legal system in the contemporary era of reform. She holds B.A.s in psychology and community studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Master’s of Science in conflict resolution from the University of Oregon Law School, and a Master’s of Philos...2025-05-081h 12

Tolkien on TapOf The Meade Episode (Part 2)TJ continues their conversation with Elise, Jen, and Guia. The Meade starts to affect TJ, Jen discusses her Roman Empire, small acts of merchandising, the LOTR musical, beautiful Lloyd Owen, the Harfoots (Harfeet?) and so much more are discussed. Grab a drink and enjoy. Almien!Elise Trudel Cedeño - https://linktr.ee/TeachingW.Magic?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYWgwiIngydf0shYpEGeQ6Bq8CA2wDhhbuHziEUjxiDR8prcRKtdCizQOg_aem_e54gw3vcB9DbUrell8IE8QJen-https://www.instagram.com/elvish_groves/Guia-https://www.instagram.com/guiamonster/2025-03-081h 14

Tolkien on TapOf The Meade Episode (Part 1)Guia, Jen, and Elise join TJ to talk about Ents, Fantasy as a never ending story, and the beauty of the Ainulindalë. Be witness to the birth of Bill the Pony, who has a Tolkien tramp stamp, and learn how Treebeard is a gateway drug. Grab a drink and enjoy. Almien.Elise Trudel Cedeño - https://linktr.ee/TeachingW.Magic?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYWgwiIngydf0shYpEGeQ6Bq8CA2wDhhbuHziEUjxiDR8prcRKtdCizQOg_aem_e54gw3vcB9DbUrell8IE8QJen-https://www.instagram.com/elvish_groves/Guia-https://www.instagram.com/guiamonster/2025-03-011h 05

Teaching With MagicPart of a LegacyThe recent release of Ahsoka in live-action has been a delight to fans of The Clone Wars series, the Prequel films, and Star Wars: Rebels. But, while this show has captivated audiences everywhere, it has also emphasized a gradual change in a beloved character. The episode "Shadow Warrior" was an emotional flashback to Ahsoka's participation in the Clone Wars, and the live-action filmmaking has changed what was once an entertaining story to an examination of the gritty, traumatic memories of a child in war. Research has shown that the brain, particularly the adolescent brain, drastically changes in t...2025-02-2524 min

Teaching With MagicProfessor Binns and the Lost Art of Lecturing: with Dr. Katy McDanielFor Witch and Wizard School Stories, visit https://tinyurl.com/H5B-hpalt For resources on reading Harry Potter after 2020, visit https://hpafter2020.com/ Today's guest is Dr. Katy McDaniel, co-host of Potterversity: A Potter Studies Podcast. Katy is an Andrew U. Thomas Professor of History at Marietta College in Marietta Ohio. While she specializes in early modern British history, she teaches various courses in World History, Modern European History, the history of science, and historiography. She is the author and editor of several Harry Potter chapters, essays, and books...2025-01-261h 36

Teaching With MagicProfessor Binns and the Lost Art of Lecturing: with Dr. Katy McDanielFor books about witches and wizards for young adults, visit https://tinyurl.com/H5B-hpalt For Sci-Fi and Fantasy books by Queer authors, visit https://tinyurl.com/H5B-scifi For Sci-Fi and Fantasy books with Black Protagonists, visit https://tinyurl.com/H5B-blackscifi Today's guest is Dr. Katy McDaniel, co-host of Potterversity: A Potter Studies Podcast. Katy is an Andrew U. Thomas Professor of History at Marietta College in Marietta Ohio. While she specializes in early modern British history, she teaches various courses in World History, Modern European History, the history of science, and historiography. She is the author...2025-01-211h 30

Teaching With MagicThe Core of the OriginalHappy Holidays from Teaching with Magic! The holidays are here, and there are some days when the students (and teachers!) want to just kick back and watch a movie. If you're watching a film adaptation of the class novel, then this episode will help you consider the language of adaptation theory and ways that you can inspire your students to think creatively about the text, critique and analyze adaptations, and enjoy the differences in a medium's representation of our favorite stories... especially if it includes puppetry. Dr. Maggie Parke is a professor and Director of...2024-12-171h 15

Teaching With MagicI Wisely Started with a Map: with Dr. Stentor DanielsonToday's guest is Dr. Stentor Danielson of Slippery Rock University. Stentor specializes in Cultural Geography, Environmental Ethics and Justice, and Wildfire Management. Their research interests often merge their love of cultural geography and J.R.R. Tolkien, with peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of Tolkien Research and some new publications on the way! 2024-11-121h 37

Teaching With MagicMoons and Maths: Teaching Fantastic Math and Science with Dr. Kristine LarsenHello and welcome back to another episode and a new "Teaching With Magic" season! Our first guest is the incredible Dr. Kristine Larsen, astronomy and physics professor and pop culture extraordinaire. Kristine teaches courses at Central Connecticut State University. She is heavily involved in science outreach and serves on the Board of Advisors and as co-leader of the Solar Observing Section of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO). Kristine frequently publishes works on Tolkien, Lewis, and other fantasy and science fiction stories in the Journal of Tolkien Studies, and has a chapter in...2024-09-0342 min

Teaching With MagicSeason 1 Finale: The Teachers with Magic Panel DiscussionHello all, and THANK YOU for your unwavering support of the Teaching With Magic Project! I am so pleased to introduce the season one finale, a panel discussion with several friends of the Podcast who share their perspectives on the current state of teaching. We talk about the joys and the hardships of teaching and teaching fantasy, and we talk about some of the images and tropes that have contributed to some of the difficulties that teachers face. How much do pop culture, the media, and their depictions of teachers influence how real-world teachers are treated? Listen up, and...2024-04-012h 12

Teaching With MagicThe Meta Episode- Podcasting and Learning with Dr. Corey OlsenToday's episode is all about podcasting! How do podcasting and audio make learning accessible? What do podcasts, streaming, and J.R.R. Tolkien have in common? Learn the answers to these questions and more as Teaching with Magic discusses the beginnings of Signum University, the Mythgard Institute, and the Tolkien Professor with Signum University President Dr. Corey Olsen! Dr. Corey Olsen is the President of Signum University and Mythgard Institute. In addition to teaching classes on J.R.R. Tolkien, Chaucer, and modern fantasy literature for Signum, Dr. Olsen has extended the concept of the digital classroom...2024-02-2652 min

Teaching With MagicReading and ReflectingIt's a New Year, which means that we have some new updates! This episode is an announcement and a call to action- we have lots of fun projects ahead of us, but we need your help to achieve them! First: The Teaching With Magic Discord is open to listeners. To join, click this link. If it expires, send us an email at contact@teachingwithmagic.blog for a new link! Second: We need your help! There are lots of projects in store, but they cost time and money. Teaching With...2024-01-1612 min

Teaching With MagicMischief Managed: with Dr. Lana WhitedMeet Teacher with Magic Dr. Lana Whited! Lana edited the first collection of essays on the Harry Potter series, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter (Missouri, 2002), as well as Critical Insights series volumes on the Harry Potter novels (2015, with M. Katherine Grimes) and the Hunger Games trilogy (2016). Dr. Whited is the director of the Boone Honors Program and professor of English at Ferrum College in Virginia and earned degrees at Emory & Henry College (BA), College of William & Mary (MA), Hollins (MA), and UNC Greensboro (Ph.D.). She has received the Exemplary Teaching Award from the Council of Higher Education...2023-12-1154 min

Teaching With MagicHow Do You Solve a Problem Like Grendel's Mother? Teaching Beowulf with Dr. Larry SwainBeowulf has been on the shelves and graced many a high school and university English syllabus... but why is it taught, and why should we continue to teach it? This episode features Dr. Larry Swain, coeditor of the upcoming "Teaching Beowulf: Practical Approaches" from Medieval Institute Publications. As any true teacher would, Larry turned the questions and concerns that his students raised and turned them into a helpful resource. And as always, Teaching with Magic includes the resources and reading list discussed in the episode. You can go to our Bookshop.org link here, or go to the individual links...2023-11-131h 08

Teaching With MagicThe Science of Reading: A Fantastic Pedagogical PerspectiveThis episode is the quick and dirty minilesson on the Science of Reading, the Science of Reading Movement, and how it relates to fantasy and Tolkien studies. What do brain science, biology, and Gandalf all have in common? Find out on this episode!2023-10-3122 min

Teaching With MagicA Not So Secret Vice: With Dr. Andy HigginsWelcome to a very special episode! Here, you'll learn all about learning with language invention. How can we use a cultural love of words, language, and fandom to help our students enjoy learning to read and reading to learn? Our special guest is Dr. Andrew Higgins, a Tolkien Scholar who received his Ph.D. through Cardiff Metropolitan University on 'The Genesis of Tolkien's Mythology' and co-edited with Professor Dimitra Fimi "A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Language Invention," written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published by HarperCollins. He has also published on invented languages in the Star Trek and...2023-10-301h 08

Teaching With MagicObi Wan KenobiEmily Strand comes back to talk about Obi Wan Kenobi! In this episode, Emily and I chatted about the fundamentals of the Jedi Order, the Clone Wars, and the ways that Obi-Wan Kenobi's teaching has changed throughout the cycles of Star Wars stories. We do have one note of correction- When we get to the question of the lightsaber training session between Obi-Wan and Anakin in Episode 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Emily references the various forms of lightsaber dueling as told in The Jedi Path by Daniel Wallace. She says that she incorrectly identified Anakin's favorite move as Form 4, but it i...2023-09-041h 21

Teaching With MagicBecause They Must: Dr. Luke SheltonThis episode's Teacher With Magic is Dr. Luke Shelton! We how magical reading can be for kids as we dive into reception theory, teaching philosophies, and the Lord of the Rings. Dr. Luke Shelton holds a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic. His dissertation, “Small Hands Do Them Because They Must” focuses on the reception of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings by young readers. Currently, Luke serves as the Editor in Chief for Mallorn: A Journal of the Tolkien Society. He is also the creator...2023-08-211h 07

Teaching With MagicThe Magic of Soundscape with Jordan RannellsToday’s magical guest is Jordan Rannells, the technical editor for the Prancing Pony Podcast and the brains behind A Long Expected Soundscape. Jordan’s wizardry with soundscapes provides an immersive audio experience to listen to alongside the Lord of the Rings books. He’s also produced a podcast called The Music of Middle Earth in which he analyzed Howard Shore’s score to the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films. As for his teaching, Jordan is a professor of Music Industry Arts at Algonquin College in Ontario. He also teaches guitar, piano, and drums. I first ha...2023-08-071h 09 $Today\'s Tolkien Times$ Today's Tolkien TimesWeek 10 - Fandom Friday: Teaching With MagicThe Man of the West is joined by Elise Trudel Cedeño from Teaching With Magic, who has cleverly found a way to use Tolkien — and other fantasy literature — as a teaching tool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 2023-08-0415 min

Teaching With MagicQui-Gon Jinn- with Dr. Amy SturgisWe're flying off into the Star Wars Universe in today's episode: all about Qui-Gon Jinn, the Jedi Master we all know and love. What qualities, attitudes, and actions make Qui-Gon the cool teacher-I mean Jedi Master- that every Padawan wants? How does the Master/Apprentice relationship work in Star Wars, and what can we teachers on Earth learn from Qui-Gon and emulate in our own classrooms? My cohost today is Dr. Amy H. Sturgis, genre history and fandom studies expert. Amy H. Sturgis holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and focuses on the i...2023-07-241h 05

Teaching With MagicTeaching in the Potterverse: with Potterversity Hosts Dr. Katy McDaniel and Emily StrandIn this episode, the hosts of the Potterversity podcast, Dr. Katy McDaniel and Emily Strand, join the Teaching With Magic podcast to talk about their own teaching, their favorite fantasy and science fiction texts, and their experiences while exploring the Harry Potter series as aca-fans. Potterversity is a Potter Studies Podcast that explores the Harry Potter series and the wider wizarding world from a critical academic perspective with scholars from a variety of fields, including but not limited to psychology, gender studies, queer studies, comparative literature, and medieval studies. You can listen to Potterversity on your favorite podcast feed...2023-07-101h 24

Teaching With MagicGandalf: The First Teacher FeatureWhat makes Gandalf a good teacher? In this episode, I use narrative inquiry to take a look at Gandalf's key speeches and actions throughout the text that demonstrate what it means to be a quality teacher. 2023-06-2924 min

Teaching With MagicRebecca Davis: Teacher with MagicWelcome to our first Interview Episode! In Teaching With Magic, we're all about learning from other teachers, both in the Primary and Secondary world! I'm joined by Rebecca Davis, more commonly known in the Tolkien Community as BarliBecca, Queen of Puns. In addition to serving as Barliman for the Prancing Pony Podcast, Rebecca is a first year writing instructor at Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma and a Ph.D. student at the University of Swansea and University of Central Oklahoma. Along with first-year writing courses, she teaches Introduction to Folklore, Introduction to Literature...2023-06-1242 min

Teaching With MagicAll About Teaching With MagicWelcome to the Teaching With Magic Podcast! This episode is all about what you can expect from the Teaching With Magic Podcast, and to welcome you to the community. It's sure to be a fun time for us all. Are you a teacher who enjoys teaching and using fantasy texts in the classroom? Then this is the podcast for you. You'll hear interviews with other teachers, analyses of mentor teachers in fantasy texts, and my thoughts and analyses of educational and literacy practices in the 21st century- and how all of these ideas...2023-05-2917 min

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The Signum SceneThesis Theater: Elise Trudel Cedeño ~ "Examining the Structure of the Modern Fantasy Epic"This recording from January 5th, 2022. Signum master’s student Elise Trudel Cedeño will present her thesis “Series Theory: Examining the Structure of the Modern Fantasy Epic” and respond to questions from the audience in an interactive Thesis Theater. The discussion will be facilitated by Elise’s supervisor, Professor Kris Swank. Abstract: Series Theory is a new, critical approach to examining Modern Fantasy in a serial context. There are two disparate methods when analyzing fantasy series texts- either by way of their fantastic content or by discussing how the overall structure of the series co...2022-01-091h 01

Potterversity: A Potter Studies PodcastEpisode 31: Books! And Cleverness! The Harry Potter Academic Conference at Chestnut Hill CollegeEavesdrop on our conference conversation recorded at Chestnut Hill College! This episode showcases both the new and enduring trends in Harry Potter scholarship, as seen at the Harry Potter Academic Conference at Chestnut Hill College in October 2019. Katy and Emily talk with a panel of scholars who organized, attended, and/or presented at the conference: Laurie Beckoff, Lauren Camacci, Elise Trudel Cedeño, Louise Freeman, Patrick McCauley, Kat Sas, Karen Wendling, and Lana Whited. We talk about the ways presenters found new insights in character studies (of Professor McGonagall, Luna Lovegood, Dolores Umbridge) and thematic studies (models o...2019-11-111h 05