Wyrd: A Specious Etymology, by Lisa Dickson
Something wicked this way comes. Three Wyrd Sisters on the Scottish moor pass between them a skull and caress with their long fingers the...
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lisadickson2
- May 26, 2022
- 4 min
The Sun Rising
Just you make it until morning, and I'll show you something special. Once, a long time ago, far away from here, on a rocky little...
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lisadickson2
- Jan 25, 2022
- 2 min
The Better Housekeeping Guide to Hosting a Party While Sharks are Eating Your Legs--Lisa Dickson
The roof of the Parthenon fell in--or, rather, it blew up and then it fell in--on September 26, 1687 when it was shelled by the Venetian...
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Jessica Riddell
- Jan 9, 2022
- 5 min
Grace is the Antidote to Shame in Covidian Times
Or, "Coming out of the Covid Closet with a little help from my friends Julian of Norwich, Susan Sontag, and King Lear." Jessica Riddell...
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lisadickson2
- Dec 29, 2021
- 11 min
Misreading Hell: The Pedagogy of Lucifer
By Lisa Dickson Throughout the six-season run of Lucifer (Fox/Netflix, 2016-2021), the Prince of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis)...
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lisadickson2
- Nov 29, 2021
- 11 min
Why are Transformative Leaders Sometimes Bad Bosses? Hope University and the Need to Boss-Up
by Jessica Riddell The academy does not train people to be bosses. Scholars? Yes. Educators? Sometimes. Leaders? Sure. But bosses?...
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lisadickson2
- Oct 28, 2021
- 11 min
Conjuring Witches and Wonder: Leadership from the Edges
I have witches on the brain. With Halloween fast approaching, witches are lurking at the edges of my imagination, and they are demanding...
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lisadickson2
- Oct 19, 2021
- 5 min
Guest Post: ADHD From the Inside, by Sam Wandio
You've likely taught students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder already, given that approximately 2.2% of the general...
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lisadickson2
- Oct 6, 2021
- 10 min
Consent in the Time of COVID: What King Lear's Cordelia teaches us about consent
In Quebec we refer to the start of the school year as la rentrée, often translated as “return” or “re-entry.” This year a “return” to...
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lisadickson2
- Jun 25, 2021
- 7 min
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Idea of the "Fragile Perfect"
I adore Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, though I came to it late. A colleague, Jane Magrath, would dance out of her class on this...
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lisadickson2
- Jun 17, 2021
- 6 min
Building on the Premises
prem·ise /ˈpreməs/ an assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work or theory. prem·is·es /ˈpreməsəz/ a house or building,...
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lisadickson2
- May 10, 2021
- 6 min
Precarious Care: Critical Empathy and the Stories We Are
In his book, Radical Hope, Kevin Gannon observes that time spent in college did not educate away the racist and anti-Semitic impulses of...
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lisadickson2
- Apr 19, 2021
- 5 min
Crossing the COVID Threshold: How Have We Changed? How Do We Know?
As we look back on the past three months, we’ve done and experienced (and felt) so many things. Time has been, as Hamlet remarks, “out of...
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lisadickson2
- Mar 29, 2021
- 5 min
Wayfinding in Learning Spaces
I have what is known as Developmental Topographic Disorientation (DTD), which is, basically, a more extreme case of “no sense of...
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lisadickson2
- Mar 19, 2021
- 3 min
“Yearly, on the vigil”: Why Universities Need to Take Time to Grieve
We’ve just passed the anniversary of my dear sister’s death. Each year, that anniversary hits differently – sometimes softly, sometimes...
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lisadickson2
- Mar 11, 2021
- 3 min
Hopes and Wyrd Dreams: Welcome to The Wyrd House
Ever since I fell in love with Hamlet at 16 (and then shortly after with Berowne and Rosalind and Henry V – my tastes are catholic), I...
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