Retired English Lecturer Founds Lightwood Online Literary Journal

Retired English Department Lecturer Laurence Carr has established an online literary and arts journal titled Lightwood: life and the arts in the 21st century.
Retired English Department Lecturer Laurence Carr has established an online literary and arts journal titled Lightwood: life and the arts in the 21st century.
Congratulations to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty for their notable publications, presentations and honors.
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, …