COVID-19 has disrupted our lives, our health, our families, our jobs, our education, our travel, our routines, our leisure, and, perhaps most of all, our peace of mind.  Sometime in the 1980s, the term “disruption” acquired a positive connotation, but I’ll follow the lead of the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines it as a “violent …

One night, as social distancing became our new normal, Mary Holland, professor of English, struggled with a bout of insomnia.  Rather than counting an endless procession of fence-jumping sheep, Holland took a dystopian detour, imagining a blindness epidemic and the Black Death, zombies roaming New York City streets, and a father and son navigating a …

In moving her introductory and senior seminar courses in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies online, Assistant Professor Jessica Pabón asked herself:  “How do you empower in the midst of a global pandemic that makes most of us feel powerless?” Pabón’s answer:  weekly “Teaching the Pandemic” discussion prompts that encourage students to reflect on contemporary issues, …

At home and around the world, people are turning to art to express themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty have produced scholarship outlining policy recommendations of global importance, shared their expertise with audiences at home and abroad, and reflected on the pandemic’s impacts from public health, historical and evolutionary perspectives. On January 30, well before the March 13 national declaration …