<p>In this month&#8217;s episode, Karen Winstead and Jim Phelan read and discuss two excerpts from Thomas Malory&#8217;s Le Morte d&#8217;Arthur, &#8220;How Arthur was Born&#8221; and &#8220;The Knight with the Two Swords.&#8221; Karen Winstead is Professor of English and Core Faculty Member of Project Narrative at the Ohio State University.  She is a Distinguished Teacher, repeat winner of various teaching awards, and is the author of four monographs. </p>

Episode 7: Julia Watson & Jim Phelan — Alice’s Walker’s “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”

The Project Narrative podcast is built on the idea that storytelling is one of humanity’s greatest inventions, a way in which we both seek to understand the world and to change it. The podcast features scholars of narrative in conversation about short narratives that engage in that work of knowing and intervening. In each episode, a scholar reads a narrative aloud and then discusses it with the host of the podcast, Jim Phelan, the director of Project Narrative. The conversations range across a wide array of topics: the guest’s reasons for selecting it; the sources of its appeal, including the pleasures it offers and the challenges it presents; the claims it makes about understanding some part of the world and about doing something as a result.