Anthony K. Webster, professor in the Department of Anthropology, shares his journey early interests in representation, language, and literature to Navajo poetics. Along the way we learn about linguistic anthropology, processes of attunement, lingual life histories, intergenerational poetic practices, hip hop, and healing of word-arts.
Poetry
Into the COLAverse – Episode 3: Deborah Beck
Deborah Beck, professor in the department of Classics, shares her journey from her childhood filled with reading Greek myths to her studies of speech and aesthetics in Greek poetry today, especially enriching understanding about how different storytelling devices that shape say the Homeric epic cue and trigger different emotion and thought processes in specifically directed ways.