PhD Talk
A podcast in which we discuss PhD life, research mechanics, and the tools for doing research.
PhD Talk
Interview with Dr. Jamiella Brooks - Ep. 61
In today's episode, we interview Dr. Jamiella Brooks , a Black mother-scholar, the first person in her immediate family to learn a new language and pursue a doctoral degree, who occupies the multiplicitous spaces of wife, daughter, and descendant. She has a PhD in Francophone Literature in 2018, and is now at the University of Pennsylvania, where she focuses on programming and support for equitable and inclusive teaching practices. She teaches alternating years in the Linguistics and French departments.
In this episode, we learn about her research and her work on inclusive teaching practices, her academic parenting story, and how we can move towards (social) justice on campus. We also learn about her best advice for PhD candidates, what a day in the life looks like for her, how COVID-19 impacted her work and daily tasks, and how she sets boundaries to work.
References:
- Find Jamiella on Twitter
- “Dissertating while Parenting—Not a Contradiction”
- “Academia Is Violence-Generatives from a First Generation, Low-Income PhD Mother of Color
- Academia is violence book - table of contents
- Anticolonial Pedagogy
- Dr. Sarah Perrault
- Written Unwritten - The unwritten rules of academia
- Black Academics Guide to Winning Tenure Without Losing Your Soul
- So what question
- Prose poem “the pandemic is a portal”
- University of Pennsylvania Center for Teaching and Learning
- Academia doesn’t support parents at any level: twitter thread
- The institution will not love you back: twitter thread