Peter Astris
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Hi, my name is Peter Astris and welcome to the New Books Network.
Today we're speaking with Dr. Veronica House about her book, Local Organic, Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact, published by the University Press of Colorado.
Dr. House is an associate professor of English and directs the Writing Center at Boston College.
Before that, she spent over a decade at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she pioneered community-engaged writing programs that brought students into collaboration with farmers, activists, government agencies, and food literacy advocates.
She's won an award for excellence in innovation in teaching and several other accolades.
In her book, she shows how writing can help community members create their own meaningful definitions of local food.
Instead of pushing a single answer, the book emphasizes listening, relationships, shared inquiry, and action across an entire community.
Veronica, it's wonderful to have you with us.
Is there anything you'd like to add about your background or your current work right now?
One of the things about your book is it really touches upon the importance of place.
And you craft it beautifully.
You start with this opening scene at your home desk.
You even have a note about your dog.
It is seven years that went into this book, and it is evident.
It is more than theory, but lived experience.
One of the things that you talk about is this sense of social responsibility as scholars.
We move to different areas, we bring our backgrounds, and in some ways, reading between the lines, we force our backgrounds into where we go.
Can you talk more about your insights about this social responsibility of scholarships and the communities that we join today?
You also had an interesting discovery when you moved there about your great-great-grandmother.
And it was such a wonderful addition to the book because it shows once a place becomes relevant to us, how important it is and how excited we get about it.
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