Congratulations are in order for Professor Kristin Hass and all the collaborators for the publication of the edited volume Being Human during COVID, which is now available in paper and as an open-access book from the University of Michigan Press!
The book includes contributions by a wide range of faculty and graduate students such as Sara Blair, Ashley Lucas, David Caron, Donald Lopez, Amal Hassan Fadlalla, William Calvo-Quirós, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Roland Hwang, and Anita González, among others!
"Being Human during COVID documents the first year of the pandemic in real-time, bringing together humanities scholars from the University of Michigan to address what it feels like to be human during the COVID-19 crisis. Over the course of the pandemic, the questions that occupy the humanities—about grieving and publics, the social contract and individual rights, racial formation and xenophobia, ideas of home and conceptions of gender, narrative and representations and power—have become shared life-or-death questions about how human societies work and how culture determines our collective fate. The contributors in this collection draw on scholarly expertise and lived experience to try to make sense of the unfamiliar present in works that range from traditional scholarly essays to personal essays, to visual art projects. The resulting book is shot through with fear, dread, frustration, and prejudice, and, on a few occasions, with a thrilling sense of hope."
Available here: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/br86b5849
Congrats to Kristin and to all of the contributors!
