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American Campus PodcastThe 2010s, safe spaces, and trigger warnings with Kendall GerdesKendell Gerdes unpacks popular depictions of "sensitive" students throughout the 2010s. She tackles safe spaces, trigger warnings, #BlackOnCampus, and other student calls for accessibility over the last few years, showing how these matters are not in opposition to faculty academic freedom.Links mentioned in the episode:Kendall Gerdes. 2024. Sensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism. University of Pittsburgh Press. (Use code 29GERDES30 for 30% off)Follow Kendall Gerdes on BlueSkyBradford Vivian. 2022. Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education. Oxford University Press. Bradford Vivian’s Substack, Campus InformationBrowse the American Cam...
2025-02-0626 min
The Big Rhetorical Podcast170: Dr. Kendall GerdesKeywords: Sensitive Rhetorics, Academic Freedom, Rhetorical Theory, Campus Activism, Rhetoric. University of Pittsburgh Press Discount Code 29GERDES for Sensitive Rhetorics active until 12/18/24. Kendall Gerdes is associate professor of writing and rhetoric studies at the University of Utah. Kendall is coeditor of Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies and a lifetime member of the Rhetoric Society of America. Kendall is also the president of her university's AAUP chapter and a member of the U's Queer Alliance for Faculty and Staff. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.
2024-11-2646 min
Humanities RadioSensitive Rhetorics Academic Freedom And Campus ActivismKendall Gerdes, assistant professor of writing and rhetoric studies, discusses her book, “Sensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism” explores sensitivity as a term of art in rhetoric.
2024-03-1514 min
Extra PrepExtra Prep || Paxton-Buckley-Loda FootballJoey Wright and Matt Daniels sit down with Paxton-Buckley-Loda seniors O'Quinn Gerdes, Kayden Snelling and Kendall Swanson ahead of the Panthers' home game against Prairie Central in a grapple for Illini Prairie Conference supremacy.
PBL head coach Josh Pritchard also joins the program, plus the latest from around the area preps sports scene.
2022-09-2935 min
West Texas WondersWhy Do Texans Put Saguaro Cacti On Everything When They Don’t Grow Here?By Sally Beauvais
You may know the iconic species of cactus by its towering physical stature -- its crooked arms, many ribs, and spiny flesh.
Or, you may be more intimately familiar with its cartoonish likeness, appearing on countless postcards, motel signs, murals, Tex-Mex menus (and, yes, even radio station logos) associated with Texas and the American West.
The saguaro cactus.
The problem? The sagauro is native only to the Sonoran Desert, which does not include Texas.
That's why Kendall Gerdes, a professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, asked West Texas Wonders: Why do Texans use saguaro cacti as...
2019-05-2300 min
RhetoricityThe Exemplary Sharon CrowleyThis episode features an interview with Dr. Sharon Crowley, an accomplished rhetoric scholar and winner of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's 2015 Exemplar Award. Dr. Crowley is the author of Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays, Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism, and coauthor of the rhetoric textbook Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. In this episode, special guest interviewer Kendall Gerdes talks with Crowley about the recent history of rhetoric as a discipline, her advice for rhetoric graduate students, and what she's been reading lately. They even take a moment to talk about t...
2015-04-0921 min