Peter Shipman, a graduate student in the Department of English, has an op-ed featured in the Cornell Daily Sun, "Teaching in a Time of Crisis:"
"The truth is that this pandemic isn’t just an extraordinary event which requires leniency and empathy on behalf of instructors — though it definitely is. It’s an event which has revealed a need to seriously rethink pedagogical practices, and what it means to teach once this pandemic is finally over. For many students, this pandemic’s end will not be the end of crisis; for many students, education is always a time of crisis."
Read the full article here.
Peter Shipman's work rethinks composition pedagogy from specifically working-class, disabled, and queer of color perspectives. He teaches a first-year writing seminar titled “The Queer Art of Memoir.”
