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The Post-Pandemic University: Storying Possibilities book cover

1st Edition

The Post-Pandemic University Storying Possibilities

Edited By Alysia Kolentsis, Katherine R. Larson Copyright 2027
210 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Post-Pandemic University: Storying Possibilities explores what higher education might become in the aftermath of Covid-19. Challenging narratives of a simple “return to normal,” this collection argues that the pandemic exposed deep inequities and vulnerabilities within universities while also creating opportunities to imagine different futures. Bringing together scholars, educators,... Read more

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Alysia Kolentsis and Katherine R. Larson

1. Sustaining Collaborations in the Post-Pandemic University
Kristina Fagan Bidwell and Sophie McCall

2. Glossary of a Caregiver
Alysia Kolentsis

3. Diving into the Cracks: On Resisting Being Re / Made Through Logics of Modernity and Neoliberalism in Higher Education
Vidya Shah

4. You Need a Group Chat (a manifesto)
Brenna Clarke Gray, Lucia Lorenzi, and Hannah McGregor

5. The Pandemic Continues: Black Women Professors on Canadian Universities
Camille Isaacs, Kristin Moriah, and Karina Vernon

6. Reclaiming Our Joy: Investigations into Faculty Identity Narratives and Burnout Resistance
Eileen Kogl Camfield

7. “Fear Is a Vital and Necessary Part of Love”: A Covid-19 Daybook
Mairead Case

8. Cyborg Pedagogies: Refusal of “Normal” in the Post-Pandemic University
Rua M. Williams

9. Brilliant Silence: Hybridity and the Invitation to Create
Daniella Vinitski Mooney

10. Teaching Through the Pandemic: Re-modulating for Hope and Student Learning
William Thompson

11. Turn and Face the Strange: Writing the Weird and Eerie in the Post-Pandemic Classroom
Kathryn Franklin

12. A (Post-) Pandemic Lyric from a Former Administrator of Colour
Anonymous Academic

13. Global Allyship as Survival in the Aftermath of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Fighting Anti-Asian Racism
Lily Cho

14. Enacting Hope through “Drastic” Change: The Example of the Working Circle at the University of Toronto Scarborough
Katherine R. Larson

15. “Seeing better”: Wyrd Leadership in Higher Education Amid Collapse
Jessica Riddell

Index

Biography

Alysia Kolentsis is Associate Professor of English at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is the author of Shakespeare’s Common Language (2020) and co-editor of Shakespeare on Stage and Off (with Kenneth Graham; 2019). Her research covers a diverse range of topics, including Shakespeare’s language, women’s writing in medieval, early modern and nineteenth-century contexts, and examinations of genre.

 

Katherine R. Larson is Professor of English at the University of Toronto and Vice-Dean, Teaching, Learning, and Undergraduate Programs at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. Through scholarship bridging early modern literature, gender studies, and music and through academic leadership, her work explores how attention to voice, embodiment, and relational practice can illuminate histories of exclusion and reshape established structures. Her publications include Early Modern Women in Conversation (2011) and The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air (2019).

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