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 PandemicPart 1: (EN)COUNTERING INTENSIFYING HOSTILITIES1. Forming a Motherscholar Research Collaborative2. Research, Missed Meaning, and Makinga Pandemic History3. Resisting Anti-Asian Racism in Public-Facing Work and Teaching4. Teaching German in the Settler Colonial UniversityPart 2: NEW PEDAGOGIES AND STRATEGIES5. A Chicana Pedagogy for Digital Pen Pals6. Pandemic Community Engagement7. Promoting Equity and Inclusion through Critical Resilience Pedagogy8. Searching for Ōtium and Finding a Pedagogy of Escapism9. Performing Black LivesPart 3: LOSSES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS10. Community Engaged Migration Research11. Performing Connectedness across Publicand Digital Spaces12. Negotiating and Rebuilding Civic Engagement through LossEpilogue: Learning from Our Grief