The wide-ranging disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic altered the experiences of place, technology, time, and school for students. This book explores how students responses to these extraordinary times shaped their identities as learners and writers, as well as their perceptions of education.
Bronwyn T. Williams is a Professor of English and Endowed Chair in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. He writes and teaches on issues of literacy, identity, sustainability, digital media, and writing pedagogy. His previous books include Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Agency: Composing Identities; New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders; Shimmering Literacies: Popular Culture and Reading and Writing Online; and Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education.
Chapter One Introduction: Disruption and Emergence in Extraordinary Times
Interchapter The Timeline of the Pandemic at One University
Chapter Two Affect and Embodiment in Writing During the Pandemic
Chapter Three The Uncertain and Shifting Social Contexts of Emotion and School
Chapter Four Memory, Narrative, and the Shaping of Identities Through the Pandemic
Chapter Five Going to School or Staying Home : Remaking Places and Place
Chapter Six Rethinking Relationships With, and Through, Digital Media
Chapter Seven Writing Out of Time: Temporal Disruptions and Literacy Experiences
Chapter Eight Experiences of Education and Relationships of Learning in the Pandemic
Chapter Nine Conclusion: The Ongoing Ripples from Disruptions for Literacy and Learning