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Literary Listening

Hosts & Producers

Jason Camlot

Katherine McLeod

Supervising Producer

Emily Stuchbery

Sound Designers

TJ MacPherson

Lou Raskin

Transcription

Yara Ajeeb

The Literary Listening Podcast is a new series from the SpokenWeb network dedicated to the history of listening and sounding in literature and beyond. Listen along as we explore audile approaches and techniques throughout time and across disciplines. We’ll ask questions such as: what do different listening and sounding practices do? What is the history of these practices? How do they change our perception? What happens when we incorporate them into our lives and research disciplines? Has literary study, as it developed into a discipline of knowledge, had discernible audile techniques?

Episodes are contributed by guest producers, from students, scholars, artists, and makers across disciplines and backgrounds, with the help and support of the Literary Listening team. Using a wide range of audio formats, producers take differing approaches to exploring the Podcast’s guiding questions, addressing the thread between listeners and sounders, and to asking big questions about the history of the aural.

The Literary Listening Podcast targets a general audience interested in sound history, literary sound, cultures of listening, and scholarly analysis.

To learn more about the Podcast, or how to pitch an episode, visit [LINK PITCH US PAGE].

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Literary Listening Episode 3

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December 10, 2025

Listening to Fire Knowledges in and around the Okanagan Valley Presents “Challenging, beautiful bioregion”

This crossover features an episode from producer Judith Burr’s master’s thesis podcast about fire knowledges in the Okanagan Valley.

Literary Listening Episode 2

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December 3, 2025

Genuine Conversation

SpokenWeb RA Frances Grace Fyfe thinks about the literary concept of the dialogue—about conversations—by having conversations of her own.

Literary Listening Episode 1

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November 28, 2025

As It Is or As It Was: Translating “The Ruin” Poem

Ghislaine Comeau brings us along on her quest to translate the “The Ruin” – a famously ruined Old English poem from the 10th century manuscript known as the Exeter Book.

Literary Listening Credits

Jason Camlot (host and producer) brings extensive experience in the development and management of interdisciplinary, collaborative research teams, expertise in literary sound recordings, and has developed digital artifacts including a sound archive, digital poetry installations, and mobile media apps. He will guide the vision of the program, foster productive working relationships among network participants, help shape and articulate the goals of projects as they are pursued by working groups, facilitate collaboration across institutions, disciplines and communities, advocate for the project in all contexts, and ensure productive and rewarding experiences for students and emerging scholars.

Katherine McLeod (host and producer) researches archives, performance, and poetry. She has co-edited the collection CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (with Jason Camlot, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019). She is writing a monograph (under contract with Wilfrid Laurier University Press) that is a feminist listening to recordings of women poets reading on CBC Radio. She is an affiliated researcher with SpokenWeb and she is the 2020-2021 Researcher-in-Residence at the Concordia University Library.

Emily Stuchberry (supervising producer) holds a BA in Cultural Studies from McGill University and spent several years working in communications before returning to school to pursue graduate studies. Currently, she is an MA student in English Literature at Concordia University where she researches whimsy as a literary affect in contemporary and Victorian literature. In addition to pursuing her MA, she is also a playwright, free lance stage manager, and avid podcast listener.

Thomas “TJ” MacPherson (sound designer) received his MA in English at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He is currently enrolled in the English PhD program at Concordia University. His main research interest is in media archeology. Most of his projects such as trying to 3D print a replica of a typewriter from 1910 or creating a podcast and website about celebrating material collections start with the question “what makes this thing so cool?” In his free time he can be found trying to buy fountain pens he will never write with, instruments he can’t play, or cameras he will never shoot with.

Lou Raskin (sound designer) BIO NEEDED

Yara Ajeeb (transcriber) is a Montréal-based writer and artist. With a background in English literature and French studies from Concordia University, she thrives on creative expression and exploration. Born and raised in Syria, Yara enjoys incorporating her culture into everything she does. She is driven by curiosity and a love for storytelling.