Jun 8, 2017
In this episode your host, Tony D'Angelo, interviews Dr.Davis Schneiderman of Lake Forest College.
Currently Davis serves as the Associate Dean of the Faculty and Director of the Center for Chicago Programs, as well as Professor of English and Director of Lake Forest College Press/ &NOW Books at Lake Forest College. He directs the Digital Chicago grant, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and his portfolio includes responsibility for Lake Forest College’s Chicago engagement and academic summer school, along with leadership of the Student Symposium committee and other duties. He has recently taught courses on the Grateful Dead and American Culture, Selfies and Drones, and Podcasting. He is the author or editor of 10 books, including the blank novel BLANK, the appropriation novel [SIC], and the ink-smeared novel INK., as well as the ecological dystopia novel Drain (Northwestern).
He co-edited the collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto 2004, RealityStudio.com 2014), The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game(Nebraska, 2009); He blogs for The Huffington Post, and has interviewed Sherry Turkle, John Waters, Regina Taylor, and David Shields, among others. He is currently working on 168 Chicago Democratic Convention performance for a September conference in Paris.