In Spring 2020, Beth McCoy taught “Expulsion and the Housing Crisis,” a SUNY Geneseo literature course contemplating narratives flowing into and out of the 2008 global financial crisis.
The course’s final assignment asked students to consider Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower alongside episodes of L.A. Podcast they’d been listening to all semester.
The podcast’s host, Hayes Davenport, mentioned Dr. McCoy’s students individually by name because of their essays here: https://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2020/05/15/sower-what-about-l-a-podcast/
Here’s the podcast clip cued up: https://simplecast.com/s/6351e2e4?t=1h8m10s
Here’s the whole episode: https://thelapod.com/episode/go-mask-alice/