Pedagogy of the Depressed

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This book is one English professor’s assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warnings to learning management systems and the COVID pandemic, Christopher Schaberg reflects on the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education. Adopting an interdisciplinary public humanities approach, Schaberg considers the frequently exhausting and depressing realities of college today. Yet in these meditations he also finds hope: collaboration, mentoring, less grading, surface reading, and other pedagogical strategies open up opportunities to reinvigorate teaching and learning in the current turbulent decade. Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Prologue: No Place Like Home Introduction: The Depressed Chapter 1: We’re All Screens Chapter 2: Early Warnings Chapter 3: Learning Management Chapter 4: Against Sheep Chapter 5: Trigger U. Chapter 6: Ecophobia Chapter 7: Environmental Humanities? Chapter 8: Public Humanities? Chapter 9: Skimming the Surface Chapter 10: Autotheory Chapter 11: Beginnings Chapter 12: Chance Meeting Chapter 13: Theory Today Chapter 14: End Meeting for All Chapter 15: Night Writing Chapter 16: Less Grading Chapter 17: Tenure Chapter 18: Exhaustion Chapter 19: Well-Rounded Chapter 20: Turning Kids into Capital Chapter 21: Writing Together Chapter 22: Adjusting Chapter 23: First-Year Seminar Chapter 24: Pitt’s Law Chapter 25: Into the Unknown Reprint Acknowledgments Bibliography Films and Television Web Resources Index