# Lori Beckstead

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Open Door Listening, with Brandon LaBelle at Errant Bodies Press

ShortCuts as a series on The SpokenWeb Podcast feed is coming to an end. For the past five seasons, ShortCuts producer Katherine McLeod has been bringing you deep dives into the archives. Through this process, ShortCuts has asked the question of what it means to listen closely and carefully to shor…

Podcasting in Academia: A critical look at its potential and discussing a new book, Podcast Studies

The Authority File is no stranger to discussing podcasts. Despite the Spider-Man meme of it all, podcasting works as an effective tool to talk through the medium’s pedagogical, cultural, and academic applications. Our guests for November’s series—podcast hosts and producers themselves—are familiar …

Defining Podcast Studies: Challenging the traditional principles of scholarly communication

In the second episode of this four-part series, podcaster and academic Dario Llinares and Lori Beckstead, Associate Professor of sound media in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, explore how scholarly podcasting can challenge the traditional principles of academic research.…

Academic Podcasting in Action: Pedagogical practices and appeal to general audiences

In the third episode of this four-part series, our guests, the coeditors of Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory, discuss academic podcasting in action, talking through pedagogical practices and podcasting’s appeal to general audiences. First, Lori Beckstead, Associate Professor of sound media in …

How Our Sonic Sausage Gets Made

This episode, we take you behind the scenes of Phantom Power. Producer/host Mack Hagood was invited by Dario Llinares and Lori Beckstead to be a guest on their show, The Podcast Studies Podcast. As you may or may not know, there are a lot of academics out there not only making podcast themselves bu…

The Future of Academic Podcasting: Establishing its importance and uses in scholarly communication

In the final episode of this four-part series, Lori Beckstead and Dario Llinares, coeditors of the forthcoming Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory, look ahead to the future of scholarly podcasting. First, Lori underscores podcasting’s ability to center marginalized voices by spotlighting lived ex…

Live from the LTC: Conversations from TMU's 2025 Learning and Teaching Conference

In this special edition of Podagogies, Chelsea and Curtis sit down with faculty, contract lecturers, and staff attending Toronto Metropolitan University’s 2025 Learning and Teaching Conference. The conference has been a tradition every May at TMU for over thirty years. From considering the impacts …

Re-Issue: Podcast or Perish Ian Cook, Lori Beckstead, and Hannah McGregor

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, we're re-issuing a gem from the archives, where Stacey Copeland sits down with podcast scholars Ian M Cook, Lori Beckstead, and Hannah McGregor to unpack the…

TMU event sparks debate amid external investigation

March 27, 2026 — Kinza Zafar speaks with Lori Beckstead and Gur Tsabar about a TMU event involving Israeli soldiers, and how the University is responding. Then, Elliot Kelly reports from a rally at Queen’s Park, where advocates are calling on the Ford government to increase education funding for ch…