Professor, Department for the Study of Religions Are you reading anything that’s giving you insight or useful and usable distraction at this point? To understand more about these emerging diseases, I just had to read Osterholm and Olshaker’s Deadliest Enemy. Who knew that MERS was […]
Associate Professor of Sociology Are you reading anything that’s giving you insight or useful and usable distraction at this point? I return to old favorites to ground me in a different frame of mind. I have an ancient paperback copy of The Portable Dorothy Parker, […]
Associate Professor of History Are you reading anything that’s giving you insight or useful and usable distraction at this point? It’s funny that Emily Austin turned to Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, because just a few days ago, my 5 year […]
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English Are you reading anything that’s giving you insight or useful and usable distraction at this point? At first I had a hard time concentrating on reading books while tracking news and university developments constantly, which felt like yet […]
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Bitove Family Faculty Fellow Are you reading anything that’s giving you insight or useful and usable distraction at this point? Like a lot of people, I’ve revisited Love in the Time of Cholera. So many marvelous sentences and yet almost nothing […]
Humanities Institute Assistant Director Are you reading anything that’s giving you insight or useful and usable distraction at this point? Three books I’ve just finished: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. A Christian missionary travels to another planet to minister to an […]
Humanities Institute Director and Professor of English Are you reading anything that’s giving you insight or useful and usable distraction at this point? William James, for pluralism, Moby Dick for Ishmael’s equanimity, Deleuze (the book on Bergson) for slowing down time, and Arendt and Gramsci […]
Associate Professor of English Are you reading anything that’s giving you insight or useful and usable distraction at this point? Before I answer this, I feel like I need to say that my wife is a nurse and has already looked after several COVID-positive patients. […]
