Inventio in 5 with Shantam Goyal
Channel: Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
Date: 2023-08-07

In this interview, Shantam Goyal reflects on approaches to review writing for journalistic and scholarly contexts. Goyal composed a review of Derek Ford’s book Politics and Pedagogy in the ‘Post-Truth’ Era: Insurgent Philosophy and Praxis for issue 27.1 of Kairos. He considers how he constructs a reviewing identity, positioning himself carefully as an early-career academic, choosing words that have an appropriately grounded tone. 

Shantam Goyal studies English Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo for his PhD. Based out of New Delhi before this, he was a school teacher after which he spent two years teaching at Ashoka University. He completed his M.Phil in 2018 from the University of Delhi with a dissertation titled “Listen Ulysses: Joyce and Sound.” He hopes to continue this thread for his doctoral research on Finnegans Wake and mishearing. Besides Joyce Studies and Sound Studies, he works on Poetics and Jazz Studies, and is also attempting to translate parts of Ulysses into Hindi as a personal project. His reviews, articles, and creative work have appeared in The Print, The Hindu Business Line, Vayavya, ColdNoon, Daath Voyage, and Café Dissensus among other publications.

About This Series

Inventio in 5 is a series in which recently published Kairos authors discuss their composing processes in videos of about 5 minutes. This season was produced in collaboration with Leah Ciani and Chante Douglas, recent graduates from York University’s Professional Writing program. Season one is available now on our YouTube channel and on our website. A big thanks to authors Shantam Goyal, Stacey Copeland, Richard Holeton, Nancy Small, and Stephen Paur for participating in season one. We’re excited about the future of this series.

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