Scholars in COVID Times

Melissa Castillo Planas is Associate Professor in theof English Department at Lehman College, CUNY. She is the author of A Mexican State of Mind. Debra A. Castillo is the Emerson Hinchliff Chair of Hispanic Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is the author or coeditor of several books, including Centering Borders in Latin American and South Asian Contexts, South of the Future, and The Scholar as Human.

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