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Words Do Things Podcast

Welcome to Word Do Things: a podcast with Dr. Sørina Higgins and guests on the powers and limits of language. Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words… can really hurt you. Join me and my guests to think about the powers and limits of language. Are words magical? Can they actually effect change? Why do people weaponize them? Can we shift our use of public rhetoric? What have great authors believed about the relationship between writing and the divine? How can you become a more powerful and effective writer? Subscribe through your favorite podcast platform:
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Right now, the show is in Series Two :

1619 & 1776

Series One consisted of reruns from my old show, which originally aired in 2022-2023. In that podcast, I interviewed members of the clergy about political partisanship in American churches.

Bad Words

In Series Two, I'm asking my guests about the power of words in public rhetoric. What can words accomplish? Should we be using uncivil language? We do we dehumanize one another?

Tolkien about Words

In Series Three, I'll have on expert guests to talk about author J. R. R. Tolkien's theories of language and what he believed words could do.

The Host

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Your Host

Editor ⧫ Author ⧫ Teacher ⧫ Podcaster
Dr. Higgins is a scholar of British & Irish Modernism and the Inklings, an experienced public speaker, and an English professor with two decades of teaching adventures in a wide vareity of settings. She brings her knowledge of literature, academic writing, creative writing, rhetoric, theology, philosophy, history, and more to this multi-faceted podcast.