Join Dan Oppenheimer of the latest “Into the COLAverse: Office Hours” who talks with Professor Aldama about his comic book odyssey, including his recently published Pyroclast and forthcoming Through Fences, The Absolutely (Almost) True Adventures of Max Rodriguez, and The Steampunkera Chronicles.
Storytelling
Into the COLAverse – Episode 26: Jo Hsu
Jo Hsu, professor in the Rhetoric and Writing, shares their journey from a love of storytelling and fiction reading as a child to an MFA in writing and PhD in Rhetoric at Penn State. Along the way we learn of the power of story to open us to new ways of seeing and experiencing the world—to “constellating homes”—and to the transformative possibilities of language.
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.