Nuclear and Environmental
Max Fisher, “As Russia Digs In, What’s the Risk of Nuclear War? ‘It’s Not Zero.’”
William J. Broad, “How America Watches for a Nuclear Strike.”
Rod Buntzen, “This Is What It’s Like to Witness a Nuclear Explosion.”
Cara Buckley, “‘OK Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late.”
Brad Plumer and Raymond Zhong, “Stopping Climate Change Is Doable, but Time Is Short, UN Panel Warns.”
Henry Fountain, “In a First, an Ice Shelf Collapses in East Antarctica.”
Ukraine
Jane Burbank, “The Grand Theory Driving Putin to War.”
Malachy Browne, David Botti, and Haley Willis, “Satellite Images Show Bodies Lay in Bucha for Weeks, Despite Russian Claims.”
“‘At Night I Dream of Mariupol’: Nine Accounts of Surviving a Russian Siege.” Continue reading
This spring semester at Hartwick College, I’m teaching two classes, ENGL 213 Introduction to Creative Writing, as usual, and a brand new course, ENGL 352 Critical Game Studies. I’m especially excited about the latter, as this was a course I developed at the University of Pittsburgh in AY 2015-16 with the aid of a course development grant but that I have not had a chance to teach until now.
Hartwick College’s unique January Term (J-Term; my first!) is again starting off unconventionally, but I’m excited to be teaching an intensive month-long course on feminist poetry and poetics. The syllabus: 
