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Story Garage

Welcome to Story Garage. This podcast is a production of the Storytelling Program at East Tennessee State University.

Here in the Garage, we pop the hood and kick the tires, exploring the ways that story, storytelling, and narrative function in the world. Our contributors are students, faculty, and alumni, of ETSU’s Department of Communication & Performance.

Apr 15, 2023

Welcome to Story Garage. This podcast is a production of the Storytelling Program at East Tennessee State University.

Here in the Garage, we pop the hood and kick the tires, exploring how story, storytelling, and narrative impact human lives. Our contributors are students, faculty, and alumni of ETSU’s Department of...


Mar 15, 2023

The quest is an essential element of storytelling. Joseph Campbell frames the entire concept around ‘the heroes journey’, or the idea that every character has to travel a great distance, whether literally, like Odysseus’ adventure to return home, or figuratively, as Nora, the protagonist in Henrick Ibsen’s A...


Feb 16, 2023

The stories we tell ourselves, who we think we are, what we believe we are capable of may be one of the biggest influences on how we behave, who we become, and what we can accomplish.

In this episode, we explore the way personal narratives affect the shape of our real-world footprints. Up first, storyteller and graduate...


Dec 16, 2022

Welcome to Story Garage. This podcast is a production of the Storytelling Program at East Tennessee State University.

Here in the Garage, we pop the hood and kick the tires, exploring how Story, storytelling, and narrative function in the world. Our contributors are students, faculty, and alumni of ETSU’s Department...


Nov 16, 2022

Thank you for joining us for episode three. If calling something the first is optimistic, and the second is a sign of tenacity, then the third is the charm. In many cultures, three is a magic number. Three little pigs, three tasks to be done, three wishes given. Well, we’re happy to be here for episode number three.