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MythTakeA fresh take on ancient myth. Author: Alison Innes & Darrin Sunstrum
A fresh take on ancient myth.Our podcast is a little different from other myth podcasts out there. Rather than telling the stories, we focus on analyzing the literary material where those stories come from. Sometimes we choose a particular figure or theme from mythology and examine texts relating to it. Other times, we choose a passage from a play or poem and discuss its themes and ideas. We also explore modern links to Greek and Roman mythology, whether we're talking about the solar system or Wonder Woman.Our podcast is unscripted, so anything can happen! We keep it realwe want you to feel like youre sitting down and having a conversation with us. We also welcome your inputquestions, thoughts, suggestions, ideas.Hosts Alison Innes and Darrin Sunstrum have well over two decades combined experience teaching and studying Greek and Roman myth at a university level.MythTake is created, hosted, and produced by Darrin Sunstrum and Alison Innes.Support the show with a TeePublic purchase. Check out Alison's newest show, Project PhDcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Language: en Genres: Education, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode 32: An Interview with John Bracey
Episode 23
Monday, 29 June, 2020
Welcome to a special episode of MythTake! Rather than bring you our usual format of myth analysis, we're doing something a little different. We're giving this episode over to talk about race in classics. The Black Lives Matter movement has been gaining renewed momentum, and hashtags like #shutdownacademia and #blackintheivory are highlighting the experiences of Black people in academia. Classics itself is a predominately white whose area of research gets co-opted for white supremacist causes. To push back against this, and to help elevate Black voices in Classics, we put out a Twitter call for Black classicists to use our platform to share their stories. Today, we're pleased to bring you this interview with John Bracey. John Bracey, aka @magisterbracey on Twitter, is a Latin teacher in Massachusetts teaching Latin using the Comprehensible Input technique.. He has an MA in Classics from Boston College and in 2016 he was named Latin Teacher of the Year by the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association. He leads workshops for teachers around the US on language teaching. He has written in Eidolon about his experience trying to get hired as a Black Latin teacher and why students of color don’t take Latin. Find John online at https://magisterbracey.com. This episode is kindly sponsored by Our Voices in Classics, a not-for-profit organization that proactively seeks to amplify and uplift the voices of students and scholars at all levels whom the field of Classics has traditionally marginalized, ignored, or silenced. Links Find our growing collection of links to resources on talking about race and on race and racism in academia on Wakelet. We want to hear from you! Join us on Twitter @InnesAlison and @darrinsunstrum or @MythtakePodcast. Give us a like, let us know what you think, and follow along on Facebook at MythTake. Subscribe on iTunes or Google Play so you don’t miss an episode! Find our RSS on Podbean. We’re a part of the #HumanitiesPodcasts podcasting community. Check out the hashtag and follow @HumCommCasters to find many more engaging and knowledgeable podcasts. This week’s theme music: “Super Hero” by King Louie’s Missing Monuments from the album “Live at WFMU” (2011). Used under Creative Commons license and available from Free Music Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
