DJ Lee discusses "Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots" /6
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English - July 29, 2020 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBEducation Health & Fitness Mental Health mental health disability accessibility higher education teaching learning college students graduate student undergraduates Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, we discuss
DJ Lee’s book Remote: Finding Home In the Bitterroots. How does “place” function as an archive? How is writing also a spiritual experience? What were mental hospitals like in the 40s and 50s? What does it mean to write through shame? How is mental illness in some ways un-boundaried like the wilderness?
Highlights include:
The process of writing the book through finding her grandmother’s memoir box (2:54)Place as archive (6:36)Writing the memoir alongside exploring grandmother’s memoirs (11:03)Grandmother struggle with mental health and experience in mental hospitals (16:00)Writing through shame (20:23)The wilderness and bipolar disorder as un-boundaried (22:33)What is so beautiful and healing about the wilderness (24:13)What are instructors and universities doing for students with mental health issues (33:06)Gathering up the courage to ask for help (37:02)How we are all connected (38:38)Resources Mentioned
DJ Lee’s Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots (Oregon State University Press, 2020): https://amzn.to/2WZ6t2DAbout DJ Lee
DJ Lee is Regents Professor of literature and creative writing at Washington State University. Her creative work includes over thirty non-fiction pieces in magazines and anthologies. She has published eight books on literature, history, and the environment, including the collection The Land Speaks (Oxford 2017) and the hybrid memoir Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots (Oregon State, 2020). Lee is director of the Selway- Bitterroot Wilderness History Project and a scholar-fellow at the Black Earth Institute.