Connect, Listen, and Respect: Lessons from the Pandemic
I started my teaching career in the pandemic, specifically in Fall 2020. As a result, my “new normal”…
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Reconsidering One-on-One Writing Conferencing in a Zoom Class
Photo by Dan Barrett on Unsplash “The one-on-one sections were definitely my favorite to do because I was…
Call for Blog Carnival Contributions: The “New Normal”
Editors: Sarah Hughes and Nupoor Ranade For our latest Blog Carnival, we are seeking submissions from the computers…
“Editor’s Outro: Reflecting on the Continued Need for Empathy as Students, Researchers, Teachers, and Human Beings as We Look Ahead to a Post-Pandemic Future”
Acknowledgements We are grateful for each of the contributors of Blog Carnival 18. Thank you for devoting time…
Nobody to Share the Burden: The Importance of Empathy for Single Moms
“I just need 30-minutes to work, and then I’ll play with you.” I tell my 7-year old, as…
Vulnerability is a Topos for Rhetorical Empathy
The Fall 2020 semester saw Composition programs across academic institutions struggling to adjust to the multiplied limitations brought…
Against Digitally Mediated Empathy: Empathy as a Vector for Viral Rhetorics
Like many humanists, when I graduated with my bachelor’s in English, I started searching for a way to…
Radical Empathy and Compassion in FYW
Engaging in social justice work is often explained as heart or love work because of the connection to…
Developing a Rhetorical Empathy in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Advocacy Project
In the early days of the pandemic, fear and uncertainty were felt across many sectors. The material impact…
Stepping into Personas: Empathy as a Mode of Inquiry
From Mette Køstner / Unsplash.ocm When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, I was teaching my Document Design…
We get by with a little help from our friends: Extending empathy throughout, and beyond, the pandemic
In March 2020 we began teaching, learning, and researching from home. We felt unilateral uncertainty and set aside…
The Role of Empathy in and after the Pandemic
Editors: Jianfen Chen and Danielle Koepke The spread of COVID-19 across the nation and the globe has posed…
Editors’ Outro: Transnational Conversations, Personal and Pedagogical Perspectives, and Critical Rhetorical Analysis in the Time of COVID-19
Acknowledgment We thank all contributors of the 17th Blog Carnival for their insightful perspectives, discussions, and examples of…
Embodied Vernacularity Through Virtual Recreational Running
With the advent of COVID-19 and subsequent running event postponements and cancellations, there has been a rise in…
What Ethos Can Tell Us About Conspiracy Theories
On April 4, 2020, I read an article from the BBC which reported that 5G towers in the…
Post/humanizing with Quaranzines
On March 15, as the CDC advised against gatherings of 50 people or more and states like Illinois…