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    The Sun Rising
    lisadickson2
    • May 26
    • 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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    The Better Housekeeping Guide to Hosting a Party While Sharks are Eating Your Legs--Lisa Dickson
    lisadickson2
    • Jan 25
    • 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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    Grace is the Antidote to Shame in Covidian Times
    Jessica Riddell
    • Jan 9
    • 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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    Misreading Hell: The Pedagogy of Lucifer
    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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    Why are Transformative Leaders Sometimes Bad Bosses? Hope University and the Need to Boss-Up
    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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    Conjuring Witches and Wonder: Leadership from the Edges
    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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    Guest Post: ADHD From the Inside, by Sam Wandio
    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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    Consent in the Time of COVID: What King Lear's Cordelia teaches us about consent
    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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    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Idea of the "Fragile Perfect"
    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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    Building on the Premises
    lisadickson2
    • Jun 18, 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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    Precarious Care: Critical Empathy and the Stories We Are
    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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    Crossing the COVID Threshold: How Have We Changed? How Do We Know?
    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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    Wayfinding in Learning Spaces
    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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    “Yearly, on the vigil”: Why Universities Need to Take Time to Grieve
    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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    Hopes and Wyrd Dreams: Welcome to The Wyrd House
    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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