How do we create scholarship that’s beyond the page - and, what can we learn by bringing music and learning together?

On this episode of the ABC Podcast we welcome the author and producer of Curriculum of the Mind, Stevie, Dr. View Johnson. Assistant Professor of Creative Practice in Popular Music at The Ohio State University. Published by University of Michigan Press

Curriculum of the Mind is a groundbreaking hip-hop album that transforms the boundaries of scholarship, sound, and storytelling. Part collective memoir, part mixtape, and part political manifesto, the writing and music invites readers and listeners alike into a world where turntables become textbooks and samples act as archives of Black life.

The work features Black students, parents, creatives, and prospective college-goers who rarely see themselves reflected in academia. It challenges educators, librarians, and institutions to rethink what learning looks and sounds like in the 21st century.

Special Episode! I want to write a book, now what? Interview with Laura Portwood-Stacer.

On this special episode of ABC, we speak to Laura Portwood-Stacer, publishing consultant and developmental editor for academic authors, and author of The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors and Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers.

Laura is an expert in taking ideas and turning them into

Drawing on a decade of experience working with academic authors, she shares advice for new and aspiring authors.

In this week’s episode, Dr. Ed Simon talks about his latest book Writing During the Apocalypse Reflections on the Great Unraveling (Bloomsbury).

Rising authoritarianism. Covid. Inflation. Wealth disparity. War. Climate change. While every time period is marked by apocalyptic fears, it certainly seems like our current anxieties aren't ill placed. And yet, art and literature persist. In his new book, Ed grapples with the notion that writers and their work ought to distract readers from our currently dire situation. Ed argues that to craft imaginative spaces through the magic of words isn't superfluous. Instead it exists at the core of human experience – as it always has and always will.

What is it like to write during what could be the last decades of human civilization?