“To live right now is to live in a state of constant emergency, whether because of the climate crisis, global pandemic, racial and gender violence, or any number of other disasters. The contributors of this volume provide an unflinching examination of what literacy teachers are up against while also offering a way forward. <i>Literacy and Learning in Times of Crisis</i> offers thoughtful and systemic analysis of the impact of these traumas in our classrooms alongside teaching practices to help us develop a necessary praxis for our students and for ourselves with an eye towards survival.”
—Amy J. Wan, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center
“In the first half of 2020, as the onset of Covid converged with Black Lives Matter protests, wildfires, anti-Asian violence, and four years of Trumpist ultra-nationalism, it felt like we were living in an unprecedented state of emergency. <i>Literacy and Learning in Times of Crisis</i> is the story of how teachers responded to this moment of crisis: the emotional labor suddenly called for, the felt need for anti-racist pedagogies, the hidden fault lines in higher education that were revealed, and the resources teachers wish had been available.”
—John Trimbur, Professor Emeritus, Emerson College
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Biographical note
Co-editors Sara P. Alvarez, Yana Kuchirko, Mark McBeth, Meghmala Tarafdar, and Missy Watson bring varying expertise and knowledge about pedagogy to their editorial efforts on this collection. All are faculty members of the City University of New York, instructing a wide diversity of students at CUNY’s many campuses. In the largest public university in the nation, they have each supported students’ learning through dire national emergency events, such as 9/11, Hurricane Sandy, highly publicized police violence as well as other large-and-small-scale crises.