As the year and semester draws to a close, we get real on this week’s episode and talk about work, burnout, volunteer labor, and how podcasting is not immune to the everyday stressors and challenges that we are all feeling right about now! Two of our favorite scholars, Jennifer Lynn Stoever and Hannah McGregor, join us to lend their perspectives on the work of podcasting and sound studies. We touch on the often-under acknowledged labor behind this work, discuss ways to create personal boundaries around work expectations, and learn about the concept of “hope labor.” Jennifer Lynn Stoever is an Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog, and the author of The Sonic Color Line. Hannah McGregor is Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University as well as co-director of the Amplify Podcast Network and co-creator of Witch, Please, a feminist podcast on the world of Harry Potter.

• Jennifer Stoever’s website
• Sounding Out! is a scholarly publication and podcast focused on sound studies
• Jennifer Stoever’s book: The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening
• Hannah McGregor’s website
• Amplify Podcast Network
• Witch, Please podcast
• SpokenWeb Podcast
• Secret Feminist Agenda podcast
• Previous Radio Survivor episodes with Jennifer Stoever and Hannah McGregor
  • Podcast #132: Sounding Out on the Cultural Politics of Sound & Listening (Jennifer Stoever)
  • Podcast #275: Making Scholarly Podcasts Count (Hannah McGregor)
  • Podcast #284: SpokenWeb and Literary Sound (Hannah McGregor)
  • Podcast # 289: Celebrating Women in Sound (Jenny Stoever and Jennifer Hyland Wang)
• Digital Sound Studies book
• Not Sorry podcasting network
• Patreon
• Podcast #321: The Long Sordid History of Broadcast Indecency Enforcement
• Journal of Popular Music Studies
• Sounding Out! on Twitter
• Sounding Out! Podcast #63: The Sonic Landcapes of Unwelcome: Women of Color, Sonic Harassment, and Public Space
• Locatora Radio

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