Spring, 2023: Resilience
When people are subjected to deep and sustained stress, they can respond with anger, with aggression, with avoidance, or with withdraw. Or they can be …
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Fall, 2022: Teaching Leave in the Archives
Thanks to the generosity of Oxford College’s Academic Affairs, I have leave from teaching this fall. I miss the classroom but am grateful for the …
Summer, 2022: Rare Book School
For a week in June, I studied how to teach the history of the book with Professor Michael Suarez, SJ at Rare Book School. Prof. …
Spring, 2022: Shakespeare, Gender, and the Brain
Emory’s “sidecar” courses bring together two professors from different disciplines—like behavioral biology and Shakespeare—to find points of connection with their shared students. I look forward …
Fall, 2021: Endurance
In this our fourth pandemic semester, I’ve been thinking about what it takes to endure. Fortunately, I have a lifelong friend, college roommate, and college …
Summer, 2021: Screenless Summer
Simone Weil writes that “attention is the purest form of generosity.” As a way to be more attentive to people around me, and in celebration …
Spring, 2021: Studies in Shakespeare, Focusing on Hamlet
I’m honored to be teaching alongside my friend Brian Kurlander this semester, approaching Hamlet from many perspectives.
Summer, 2020: Hamlet with Emeritus Faculty
As I followed my Emeritus College colleagues reading Hamlet, I was moved by their presence. Each of these colleagues personalized the play for me — made …
Spring, 2020: From Archives to Zoom
Our semester began in a familiar pattern of socratic classes, poetry readings, faculty meetings, writing, theater productions, and events — with a special emphasis on …
Fall, 2019: Human Rights and Human Dignity
Join us for a conversation with two Atlanta visionaries who have transformed their communities: October 3, 2019, 7:30 p.m. in Williams Hall. Special guest Judge …