Welcome to your brain on writing. The podcast where we unpack the experience of reading and writing and try to understand what it does to our brains.  This podcast was produced by Professor Inger Mewburn from The Australian National University and Associate Professor Paul Magee from the University of Canberra. Paul and Inger write books and teach writing. They also share a fascination with way words on a page can become images in our minds, or ideas in our hearts.  This podcast series was...

Welcome to your brain on writing. The podcast where we unpack the experience of reading and writing and try to understand what it does to our brains.  This podcast was produced by Professor Inger Mewburn from The Australian National University and Associate Professor Paul Magee from the University of Canberra. Paul and Inger write books and teach writing. They also share a fascination with way words on a page can become images in our minds, or ideas in our hearts.  This podcast series was...

Welcome to your brain on writing. The podcast where we unpack the experience of reading and writing and try to understand what it does to our brains.  This podcast was produced by Professor Inger Mewburn from The Australian National University and Associate Professor Paul Magee from the University of Canberra. Paul and Inger write books and teach writing. They also share a fascination with way words on a page can become images in our minds, or ideas in our hearts.  This podcast series was...

What is your brain on writing? Anitra, Narelle and Megan have gone off on other projects, leaving Inger in charge of the podcast feed. She got bored, so she made a new podcast with Paul Magee, who teaches  poetry and research at the University of Canberra, unpick the science of reading and writing with the help of Rosie, Isaac and Tara, undergraduates at the Centre for Public Awareness of Science at the ANU. We’ll look at how boredom works and how writers sometimes use it to their advantage....

Inger, Megan, Anitra and Narelle continue their episode by episode forensic  examination of 'The Chair'. This time we're examining the last episode - The Chair. In the last episode, unresolved sexual tension (UST) is resolved (sort of). Punishment is delivered (kind of) and, as is the way in almost every contemporary romance novel, every one is Happy For Now (HFN). Warning - this episode contains Megan's utter disgust about The Kiss amongst other salacious details. BUT we got all our sound...

Inger, Megan, Anitra and Narelle continue their episode by episode forensic  examination of 'The Chair'. This time we're examining episode four: 'The last bus in town'. We're joined, again, for this episode by Dr Bertha Chin, senior lecturer from the Swinburne University of Technology in Sarawak, Malaysia. Bertha ups our intellectual heft as a scholar of fan studies and Fandom - and huge David Duchovny fan (he even inspired her to do a PhD in the first place!).  Ji Yoon solves an almost...

Inger, Megan, Anitra and Narelle continue their episode by episode forensic  examination of 'The Chair'. This time we're examining episode four: 'Don't Kill Bill'. We're joined for this episode by Dr Bertha Chin, senior lecturer from the Swinburne University of Technology in Sarawak, Malaysia. Bertha ups our intellectual heft as a scholar of fan studies and Fandom - and huge David Duchovny fan (he even inspired her to do a PhD in the first place!).  We enjoy a lot of Bill and Ju Ju time in...

Inger, Megan, Anitra and Narelle continue their episode by episode forensic  examination of 'The Chair'. This time we're examining episode three: The Town Hall. Once again we're joined for this episode by Professor Pauline Reynolds who is a legitimate expert on representations of academics in popular culture. She's even written books and stuff! You can find out about Pauline's research here. This might be our favourite episode of The Chair and not just because of Joan setting fire to her...

Inger, Megan, Anitra and Narelle continue their episode by episode forensic  examination of 'The Chair'. This time we're examining episode two: the faculty party. We are joined for this episode by Professor Pauline Reynolds who is a legitimate expert on representations of academics in popular culture. She's even written books and stuff! You can find out about Pauline's research here. This is a romantic episode, but at least one of us remains unmoved by the relationship development between...

It feels like every academic in the world has a hot take on the new Netflix show 'The Chair'. Opinions are divided, and, in that academic way we know and love, everyone thinks they're right. We’re a bunch of academics in lockdown here in Australia and we're bored, so we decided to make a podcast about The Chair because, well, why not? We're taking our cue from projects like ‘Doctors watch Grays Anatomy'. In this podcast we compare our experience and knowledge of how a profession works with...