Full Description
Scholars in COVID Times documents the new and innovative forms of scholarship, community collaboration, and teaching brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this volume, Melissa Castillo Planas and Debra A. Castillo bring together a diverse range of texts, from research-based studies to self-reflective essays, to reexamine what it means to be a publicly engaged scholar in the era of COVID.
Between social distancing, masking, and remote teaching—along with the devastating physical and emotional tolls on individuals and families—the disruption of COVID-19 in academia has given motivated scholars an opportunity (or necessitated them) to reconsider how they interact with and inspire students, conduct research, and continue collaborative projects. Addressing a broad range of factors, from anti-Asian racism to pedagogies of resilience and escapism, digital pen pals to international performance, the essays are connected by a flexible, creative approach to community engagement as a core aspect of research and teaching. Timely and urgent, but with long-term implications and applications, Scholars in COVID Times offers a heterogeneous vision of scholarly and pedagogical innovation in an era of contestation and crisis.
Contents
Introduction: Considering Meaning for ScholarsDuring the Pandemic
Part 1: (EN)COUNTERING INTENSIFYING HOSTILITIES
1. Forming a Motherscholar Research Collaborative
2. Research, Missed Meaning, and Makinga Pandemic History
3. Resisting Anti-Asian Racism in Public-Facing Work and Teaching
4. Teaching German in the Settler Colonial University
Part 2: NEW PEDAGOGIES AND STRATEGIES
5. A Chicana Pedagogy for Digital Pen Pals
6. Pandemic Community Engagement
7. Promoting Equity and Inclusion through Critical Resilience Pedagogy
8. Searching for Ōtium and Finding a Pedagogy of Escapism
9. Performing Black Lives
Part 3: LOSSES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS
10. Community Engaged Migration Research
11. Performing Connectedness across Publicand Digital Spaces
12. Negotiating and Rebuilding Civic Engagement through Loss
Epilogue: Learning from Our Grief
