Welcome to the Writing & Literacies SIG podcast series "Scholarship Spotlight"! This episode, titled “Writing Across Modalities and Communities,” is an interview with Dr. Eve Ewing. Dr. Ewing discusses how her work engages different genres and audiences as well as advice for younger scholars about navigating academia. She concludes the interview by citing writers and scholars of color who continue to inform her thinking and with a description of her recently released comic book "Outlawed."

Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. She is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection 1919 and the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side. Her first book, the poetry collection Electric Arches, received awards from the American Library Association and the Poetry Society of America and was named one of the year's best books by NPR and the Chicago Tribune. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. She also currently writes the Champions series for Marvel Comics and previously wrote the acclaimed Ironheart series, as well as other projects. Ewing is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues. Her first book for young readers, Maya and the Robot, will be published by Kokila Books in summer 2021. Currently she is working on her next book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, which will be published by One World. 

This Scholarship Spotlight Series is brought to you by the The W&L Graduate Board Podcast Team: Karis Jones at New York University, Gemma Cooper-Novack at Syracuse University, Alex Corbitt at Boston College, Jessica Lough at West Virginia University and April Camping at Arizona State University. Special thanks to Alex Corbitt for his leadership and Karis Jones and Gemma Cooper-Novack for their audio editing work on this episode!

Music credit: Mouvements Libres by Tryphème (https://linktr.ee/trypheme). This music is used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License.