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Save the date! Excited to announce that Kali Fajardo-Anstine (@kalimaja), author of the prize-winning short story collection Sabrina & Corina, will be giving a virtual reading for the Williams community on Oct 8, 7:30pm EST. Will include a convo with our own Jim Shepard about the short story form. Stay tuned for details.
Hey, this is Bernie. I recently read this blog post on Zoom Apnea (which I'd never heard of btw) and discovered that I suffered from it! Basically it refers to the way many people (like up to 80%) unconsciously hold their breath when they are doing stuff on screens, like Zooming, emailing, texting, and umm, even using Instagram! Right now: is your breath moving freely or can you sense a holding or constriction of your own breath? I was shocked to discover that I did this when I was emailing and zooming and learning about this tendency has been transformative. I now consciously bring my awareness to my breath when I use screens and it's helped bring my stress levels down. Give this a read if you think you might be an email/screen/Zoom apneac too! This fall semester we're going to be spending a ton of time on screens. Breathing more fully while being on screens could help the wellbeing of our minds and our bodies. Link: www.tinyurl.com/ZoomApnea
Link to my college webpage (which includes contact info) can be found here: @bernierhie
Important info for rising juniors and seniors about the advising and major declaration process. Please visit our COVID-19 info page (link in bio) for department news and updates, including updates about advising and pre-registration. Rising juniors: the online sign up form for major declaration advising is now live. For more info, visit the COVID info page. Advising will take place August 3-13, pre-registration from August 10-17. Coming up fast!
Thrilled to announce that Prof. Ricardo Wilson, who is the newest member of the English Department, has just published his first book! *The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness* is now out from Northwestern University Press. Hooray! Cornell University's Society for the Humanities, where Prof. Wilson was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies from 2016-2018, has published a nice blog post about the book. Check it out at www.tinyurl.com/WilliamsLitWilson. Also check out the courses Prof. Wilson is teaching this year: "The Remix: Adaptation and Revelation", "The 19th Century and Its Shadow", and "Race and the Zombie Apocalypse." Huge congrats, Ricardo!
Heartbreaking new poem in The Yale Review by the English Department's Margaret Bundy Scott Visiting Professor of English, Rowan Ricardo Phillips.
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