Teaching From Home: Recent Episodes

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In which our host discusses the insanity of teaching Zoom etiquette to a four-year-old, the thirsty people we encounter on screens, and what happens to our identity when our typical feedback loops get interrupted by social distancing.

*You can read "How College Leaders are Planning for the Fall" in The Chronicle of Higher Education here: https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-College-Leaders-Are/248554?cid=cp275

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In which our host wonders if feminism still matters, if people with posh bathrooms still get to complain, and if it's altogether wise to eat chocolate in the bathroom.

*You can read "When Mom's Zoom Meeting Is the One That Has to Wait" from the NYT here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/politics/women-coronavirus-2020.html

**You can read "Crying in Your Car Counts as Self-Care" from the NYT here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/parenting/coronavirus-self-care.html

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In which our host receives an Amazon package, gives a shout-out to Dorothy Day, and ponders the connection between memory and fortune-telling.

*You can read about Dorothy Day on "Poverty and Precarity" in The Sun here: https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/520/poverty-and-precarity

**You can read "Imagining the Future Is Just Another Form of Memory" in The Atlantic here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/imagining-the-future-is-just-another-form-of-memory/542832/

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In which our host attempts to theorize the connection between theatre and pandemics, but is interrupted by her daughter's rage.

*You should buy Sarah Ruhl's book "100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write"

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In which our host discusses the best internet meme on online teaching and what it feels like to deliver a lecture on a sinking ship.