The English Department is pleased to announce that several of our faculty have created publicly accessible educational modules for the CSSH Pandemic Teaching Initiative. Each module consists of a week’s worth of content for an academic course, each exploring the multifaceted ways in which the pandemic has disrupted our lives and provided a lens through which we can deepen our self-understanding and reimagine how our society could be. All modules are freely available on the College of Social Sciences and Humanities’ website and in Canvas.
English is represented via the following modules:
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The Stories We Tell about Epidemics and Why They Matter
Sari Altschuler
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Present Plagues of the Past: Lessons from Medieval & Early Modern Literature and Visual Art
Erika Boeckeler & Kathleen Kelly
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Online Learning is Dead; Long Live Online Learning
Carolin Fuchs & Laurie Nardone
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The Tiger King, the GOAT, and the Celebrity Next Door: Viral Viewing as Panic Mediation
Kelly Garneau & Laurie Nardone
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Writing and Responding to Trauma in a Time of Pandemic
Laurie Edwards & Mya Poe
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Building Service-Learning and Community Engagement Projects in Online Environments
Sarah Finn & Emily Avery-Miller
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Mark Doty’s Heaven’s Coast and the AIDS Pandemic in America
Bret Keeling
