{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew-books-in-higher-education.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fnight-of-the-living-rez-aCpsRbQ1","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Night of the Living Rez","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/8e40fd63-083d-4b15-bc17-db5f44fce69c/993692a7-c50d-479f-902d-16eacde57685/2d5a12325f02b41866081a58d8d7827a.png","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"How does identity and experience inform your writing? This episode explores:\n\nProfessor Talty’s journey from community college student to college professor.\n\nThe importance of supportive mentors and professors.\n\nUsing identity and experience ethically in fiction and nonfiction.\n\nWhy finding the right form for your story matters.\n\nA discussion of the book Night of the Living Rez.\n\n\nOur guest is: Professor Morgan Talty, who is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation where he grew up. He is the author of the story collection Night of the Living Rez from Tin House Books, and his work has appeared in Granta, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Narrative Magazine, LitHub, and elsewhere. A winner of the 2021 Narrative Prize, Talty’s work has been supported by the Elizabeth George Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts (2022). Talty is an Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. Professor Talty is also a Prose Editor at The Massachusetts Review. He lives in Levant, Maine.\nOur host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender.\nListeners to this episode may also be interested in:\n\n\nA Calm and Normal Heart by Chelsea T. Hicks\n\n\nThe Removed by Brandon Hobson\n\n\nThere There by Tommy Orange\n\n\nHeart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot\n\n\nThe Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp\n\n\nWelcome to The Academic Life! We reach across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish that project to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Here on the Academic Life channel, we embrace a broad definition of what it means to be an academic and to lead an academic life. We view education as a transformative human endeavor and are inspired by today’s knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy. Wish we’d bring on an expert about something? DMs us on Twitter: @AcademicLifeNBN."}