Resources for Teachers and Students

We are pleased to offer the following online resources to encourage teachers and students to enhance their engagement with the Lowell Humanities Series. We encourage you to adopt our speakers' most recent book as well as shorter essays and contextual material as part of your syllabi. Additionally, the resources below can be paired or used separately to fit a single class or a longer unit. These links allowstudents to watch a Youtube video, orread a short essayor interview, before or after one of our events. Teachers might also consider usingtheseresources in conjunction with evening reflection activities,or opportunities for reviews/reports during or beyond class-time. For speakers book titles, please see theirbios. Articles in academic journals are available to members of the ϱ community through thelibrary webpage.

Rita Duffy

Rita Duffy

“You Can’t Hope for a Better Past”
September 25, 2024
7:00 p.m. | Gasson Hall 100


Interviews:

  • INNATE: Moving from Injustice to Generating Alternatives: An Interview with Rita Duffy
  • Bϱ Two (video): Rita Duffy: Portrait of an Artist

Reviews:

  • Ireland and the North: Severance: Rita Duffy’s Paintings and the Affective Arctic
  • Review of Irish Studies in Europe: Reknitting Communities: Rita Duffy’s Vital Gestures
Amy Stanley

Amy Stanley

“Stranger in the Shogun’s City:From the Archive to the Page”
September 11, 2024
7:00 p.m. | Gasson Hall 100

Interviews

  • The Meiji at 150 Project (podcast): Episode 25 – Dr. Amy Stanley (Northwestern)
  • Asian Review of Books (podcast): Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and her World

Reviews

  • The Guardian: A Woman's Life in 19th-Century Japan
  • The Washington Post: A Headstrong Woman, a Dazzling City and the Fate of Feudal Japan

Articles

  • Slate: Writing the History of Sexual Assault in the Age of #MeToo
Rita Duffy

Rita Duffy

“You Can’t Hope for a Better Past”
September 25, 2024
7:00 p.m. | Gasson Hall 100


Interviews:

  • INNATE: Moving from Injustice to Generating Alternatives: An Interview with Rita Duffy
  • Bϱ Two (video): Rita Duffy: Portrait of an Artist

Reviews:

  • Ireland and the North: Severance: Rita Duffy’s Paintings and the Affective Arctic
  • Review of Irish Studies in Europe: Reknitting Communities: Rita Duffy’s Vital Gestures
Camille Dungy

Camille Dungy

“Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden”
October 9, 2024
7:00 p.m. | Gasson Hall 100


Interviews:

  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Camille Dungy on Gardening as a Political Act
  • The Rumpus: Broadening the Scope of the Environmental Canon: An Interview with Camille T. Dungy
  • Orion: Radiant Thinking: A Conversation between Pam Houston and Camille T. Dungy
  • Terrain: Radical Communion: An Interview with Camille T. Dungy
  • The Nation: Camille Dungy on the Bewildering Wonder of Rewilding
  • Literary Hub: Camille T. Dungy: Against the Isolated Nature Writer

Reviews:

  • The Nation: The Pleasure and Peril of Gardening While Black
  • Terrain: Lessons in Quotidian Honesty: A Review of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
  • The Brooklyn Rail: Camille T. Dungy’s Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
  • Good River Review: Naming Who's Related in the Garden: A Review of SOIL by Camille T. Dungy

Articles:

  • The Atlantic: Housekeeping is Part of the Wild World Too
  • Literary Hub: The Small Mercies of Traveling With a Baby
  • Literary Hub: On Alabama’s Dark History of Brutalizing Black Women’s Bodies

Excerpts:

  • The Colorado Sun: In “Soil,” the Broad Biodiversity of the Author’s Garden Takes Root
  • Emergence: From Dirt
  • Orion: Dirt: A Love Story
  • The Nation: Remembering a honeymoon hike near Drakes Bay, California, while I cook our dinner at the feet of Colorado’s Front Range
  • Literary Hub: “This’ll hurt me more”: A Poem by Camille T. Dungy
Orna Guralnik

Orna Guralnik

"Love and Ideology”
October 16, 2024
7:00 p.m. | Gasson Hall 100


Interviews:

  • Interview Magazine: Orna Guralnik of Couples Therapy on Her Valentine’s Day Do’s and Don’ts
  • Elle: Couples Therapy's Dr. Orna Guralnik Knows You're Watching Her
  • Variety (video): ‘Couples Therapy’ Psychologist Orna Guralnik on Shifting to a ‘Political Agenda’ in the New Season

Reviews:

  • The New Yorker: The Therapist Remaking Our Love Lives on TV
  • The New York Times: On ‘Couples Therapy,’ Domestic Angst Is Raw and Delicious
  • Vanity Fair: In Its Next Act, Couples Therapy Takes On Modern, Messy Love
  • The Atlantic: Therapy Voyeurism Really Might Be Doing Some Good
  • The Guardian: I’ve Seen Everything as a Counsellor. But Couples Therapy Still Has Me Gripped

Articles:

  • The New York Times Magazine: I’m a Couples Therapist. Something New Is Happening in Relationships.
Reuben Jonathan Miller

Reuben Jonathan Miller

“Mass Incarceration, Voting Rights, and Citizenship”
November 13, 2024
7:00 p.m. | Gasson Hall 100


Interviews:

  • Fresh Air: Out Of Prison But Still Trapped: Examining The 'Afterlife' Of Incarceration
  • Marketplace: Transforming the Post-Incarceration Experience

Reviews:

  • The Washington Post: For 20 Million Felons, the Punishment Never Stops
  • The New York Times: Nearly 20 Million Americans Have a Felony Record. What Happens After They’ve Served Their Time?

Articles:

  • Politico Magazine: How Thousands of American Laws Keep People ‘Imprisoned’ Long After They’re Released

Excerpts:

  • Time: You Have One Minute Remaining.’ Why I’ll Always Drop Everything to Answer My Brother’s Calls From Prison
Sy Montgomery

Sy Montgomery

“Secrets of the Octopus”
November 20, 2024
7:00 p.m. | Gasson Hall 100


Interviews:

  • Boston Public Radio: ‘Secrets of the Octopus’ Demystifies the Surprisingly Social Undersea Creatures

Reviews:

  • The Wall Street Journal: ‘Secrets of the Octopus’ Review: Nat Geo’s Tentacle Spectacle
  • The New York Times: What Can Writers Learn From Turtles
  • NPR: In 'Soul Of An Octopus,' An Invertebrate Steals Our Hearts
  • The Guardian: A Fond Study of the Elusive ‘Alien’
  • Yankee: The World of Sy Montgomery

Articles:

  • Orion: Deep Intellect

Excerpts:

  • Literary Hub: Familiar Yet Strange: Why Turtles Are Worth Saving
  • Literary Hub: What Animals Can Show Us About More Meaningfully Encountering the Wider World