The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 20: Emerging Scholar Series: Jason Markins

In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks with Jason Markins, a Ph.D. candidate at Syracuse University. Jason has recently joined Colgate University in Hamilton, NY where he will teach for the 2019-2020 year as a Visiting Instructor. He will commute to Hamilton from Syracuse where he is wrapping up his graduate work in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric. His dissertation is titled “The Head and the Hand: A Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of Craft and Technology in The Craftsman (1901-1916) and Make: (2005-2019).” His dissertation chair is Dr. Krista Kennedy. Jason’s teaching specialties include composition and rhetoric, writing studies, digital humanities, and critical making. His research interests include looking at traditional craft practices, such as woodworking, crocheting, or ceramics, alongside high-tech innovations such as 3-D printing, computer coding, and robotics to see how various craftspersons discuss both how they learned their craft and the unique rhetorical ecologies surrounding what it means to be a craftsperson. He does this, in an effort to draw from these different communities to better understand what it means to be a writer-as-craftsperson at a time when technology is drastically affecting how our students compose texts. Hobbies/Interests: Hiking and backpacking in the Adirondacks, baking bread and brewing beer, and collecting and tinkering with older or historic pieces of technology.