Last year, we debuted a Very Special Episode titled "Riffing," which we then described as collaboration without communication: an audio relay race in which each member of the team worked from a tiny snippet of sound, branching off into something radically new and different -- and it was so much fun, we decided to try it again.

You can stream the episode below; you can also download it via iTunes and LibSyn.

Continuing her interview with Steven LeMieux, Professor Shipka offers some practical advice for implementing her compositional strategies in the classroom. This interview initially appeared at HASTAC in June 2014 with an introduction by Eric Detweiler.

Jody Shipka is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the author of Toward a Composition Made Whole. In this interview, she shares with UT's Steven LeMieux some strategies she has used with students and reflects on the resistance her strategies have engendered among some of her colleagues. This interview initially appeared at HASTAC in June 2014 with an introduction by Eric Detweiler.

In this special summer episode, we talk with Victor Vitanza. Dr. Vitanza talks about Kenneth Burke and Geoffrey Sirc, Immanuel Kant and Internet cats, rhetorics and media old and new, Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, and Clemson University's Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design program.

Zeugma's back with the fourth installment in our 2014 summer interview series, recorded at the Rhetoric Society of America conference in San Antonio, Texas. So far, we've heard from the University of Kentucky's Roxanne Mountford and Jeff Rice, as well as Syracuse University's Collin Brooke. Our final installment, which will arrive in early August, will feature Victor Vitanza of Clemson University's Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design program. For interview #4, I sat down with Joyce Locke Carter.

You can stream the interview via the player below, or you can both stream and download it via this link (to download, just right-click the link and select "Save Link As").

We're back with the third installment in Zeugma's 2014 summer interview series, recorded at the Rhetoric Society of America conference in San Antonio, Texas. For interview #3, we sat down with the University of Kentucky's Jeff Rice. Dr. Rice is a professor in Kentucky's newly formed Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, which you can learn more about in our previous interview with Roxanne Mountford. He's the author of Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network, as well as The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media. You can check out his writing over at his blog, Yellow Dog.

You can stream the interview via the player below, or you can both stream and download it via this link (to download, just right-click the link and select "Save Link As").

For the second installment in our summer interview series, we spoke with Collin Brooke. Dr. Brooke is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing at Syracuse University, and is also part of Syracuse's composition and cultural rhetoric doctoral program. He's the author of Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media, and his work has appeared in such journals as Enculturation, College Composition and Communication, and JAC.

Stream today's interview using the player below, or stream/download it via this link.

Happy June, Zeugmates! While the podcast proper is on hiatus for the summer, we're bringing you a special interview series to bridge the gap.

In May, a number of graduate students from the Digital Writing & Research Lab attended the 2014 Rhetoric Society of America conference in San Antonio, TX. During the conference, lab assistant director and former Zeugma member Eric Detweiler sat down with five scholars who are working at the intersections of rhetoric and technology: from the University of Kentucky, Roxanne Mountford and Jeff Rice; from Syracuse University, Collin Brooke; from Texas Tech University, Joyce Locke Carter; and from Clemson University, Victor Vitanza. All these interviews will be released individually over the course of the summer.

Up first is Eric's conversation with Roxanne Mountford, associate professor and founding director of the University of Kentucky's newly christened Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies (WRD). You can stream the interview below; you can both stream and download it via this link.

This episode of Zeugma is dedicated to poetry. Axel Bohmann explores how technology has shaped and continues to shape the market for poetry but also its form, content, and methods of composition. He interviews poet and UT graduate student Jeff Boruszak about his experience at PennSound and his research on digital poetry. Axel also interviews Ryan Bender-Murphy, author of First Man on Mars and founder/director of Hardly Doughnuts. Finally, we experiment with poetry in the medium of digital sound by remediating two poems: "Bus Ride Somewhere" by Ryan Bender-Murphy and "It Has a Face" by Logan Fry.

You can stream the episode below; you can also download it via iTunes and LibSyn.