lisadickson2May 264 minThe Sun RisingJust 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...
lisadickson2Jan 252 minThe Better Housekeeping Guide to Hosting a Party While Sharks are Eating Your Legs--Lisa DicksonThe 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...
Jessica RiddellJan 95 minGrace is the Antidote to Shame in Covidian TimesOr, "Coming out of the Covid Closet with a little help from my friends Julian of Norwich, Susan Sontag, and King Lear." Jessica Riddell...
lisadickson2Dec 29, 202111 minMisreading Hell: The Pedagogy of LuciferBy Lisa Dickson Throughout the six-season run of Lucifer (Fox/Netflix, 2016-2021), the Prince of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis)...
lisadickson2Nov 29, 202111 minWhy 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?...
lisadickson2Oct 28, 202111 minConjuring Witches and Wonder: Leadership from the EdgesI have witches on the brain. With Halloween fast approaching, witches are lurking at the edges of my imagination, and they are demanding...
lisadickson2Oct 19, 20215 minGuest 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...
lisadickson2Oct 6, 202110 minConsent in the Time of COVID: What King Lear's Cordelia teaches us about consentIn 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...
lisadickson2Jun 25, 20217 minSir 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...
lisadickson2Jun 18, 20216 minBuilding on the Premisesprem·ise /ˈpreməs/ an assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work or theory. prem·is·es /ˈpreməsəz/ a house or building,...
lisadickson2May 10, 20216 minPrecarious Care: Critical Empathy and the Stories We AreIn his book, Radical Hope, Kevin Gannon observes that time spent in college did not educate away the racist and anti-Semitic impulses of...
lisadickson2Apr 19, 20215 minCrossing 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...
lisadickson2Mar 29, 20215 minWayfinding in Learning SpacesI have what is known as Developmental Topographic Disorientation (DTD), which is, basically, a more extreme case of “no sense of...
lisadickson2Mar 19, 20213 min“Yearly, on the vigil”: Why Universities Need to Take Time to GrieveWe’ve just passed the anniversary of my dear sister’s death. Each year, that anniversary hits differently – sometimes softly, sometimes...
lisadickson2Mar 11, 20213 minHopes and Wyrd Dreams: Welcome to The Wyrd HouseEver 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...