When I began a kind of “pedagogic” journal at the start of this academic term, I envisioned its pages slowly expanding as I filled it with my amateur drawings, written [...]
My screen was split into twelve little squares. Eight or nine little faces stared at me as some of my students tuned in from kitchens, bedrooms, and dining rooms across [...]
Have you heard the coronavirus? It turns out that the structure of the novel coronavirus’s spike protein, when set to music, is beautiful (Figure 1). MIT scientists have used a [...]
Both the seminars I’m teaching this spring were already concerned with tracking histories of the political present, but their themes have become even more salient as the semester and our [...]
Tomorrow will be my first day of classes in the Spring Quarter term at Kalamazoo College. Like most of the academic world, I will be teaching online. I have never [...]
For nearly a decade, I have been a faculty member at San Jose State, a large university located in the heart of Silicon Valley—just blocks away from tech companies like [...]
Opening Note: This is one of the most defeating pieces I’ve ever sat down to write. I do not intend it as further demoralization in a sea of ubiquitous bad [...]
It happened fast. The announcement came on the second Saturday of March. We had two days to shift our courses online. It was not ideal, but I was grateful for [...]
Emplacement & Disarray (Laura Roe) A feeling of dull surprise – this is what I say I felt, when I was told to vacate my home during the pandemic. Although it [...]
Sinophobia, the coronavirus’s ominous companion, has been the newest—although expected—topic of discussion in my class “Images of Asian Women: Dragon Ladies and Lotus Blossoms.” From the beginning of the spring [...]
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