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Listen "Getting Over Imposter's Syndrome: The Material Dimension of Writing, Tackling Writer's Block, and Writing Alongside AI"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode, Cydney Alexis and Tony have a wide-ranging conversation about tackling writer's block, the ways our material surroundings help define our writing processes, and how to approach chatbot use in universities today. Alexis is an Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University and has authored the following texts, among others: –Cydney Alexis and Hannah Rule, Ed., The Material Culture of Writing, Utah State University Press, Fall 2022 –Cydney Alexis and Eric Leake, "The Stylized Portrayal of the Writing Life in Spike Jonze's Her." Style and the Future of Composition Studies, Edited by Star Vanguri, Brian Ray, and Paul Butler. Utah State University Press, Nov. 2020. –Cydney Alexis, "Creative Writing is a Unique Category." Bad Ideas about Writing. Ed. Drew M. Loewe and Cheryl E. Ball. Morgantown: West Virginia University Digital Publishing Institute (2017). This essay was published in Inside Higher Education (1/3/16) and reprinted in Slate (1/6/17)
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