Dania Dwyer

Bio

Dr. Dania Dwyer is Professor of English and Assistant Department Chair overseeing Professional Development, Research, and Service in the Composition and Literary Studies Department at Austin Community College, located in Austin, TX.

Contributions

Running Toward Reprieve: One Faculty Member’s Experience with Precarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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It was a Tuesday morning in April of 2020, and I had just seen the news of Ahmaud Arbery , the young African-American male who was shot while jogging through a suburban neighborhood in Georgia. [1] I had been preparing to join my live virtual composition class, as I had every other Tuesday since in-person classes had shuttered and moved online in March. Only today, I struggled to find the words to begin class as usual, as I watched nervously to see whether my husband would make the bend to enter...

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