“How are we in the world”: Teaching, Writing and Radical Generosity

Authors

  • Lynn Caldwell University of Saskatchewan / Advisory Board
  • Carrianne Leung University of Guelph

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i3.70814

Keywords:

creative writing, engaged scholarship, creative teaching, radical generosity

Abstract

In the following exchange, Lynn Caldwell (member of the Engaged Scholar Journal Advisory Board, professor of theological ethics at St. Andrew’s College and sessional lecturer in Educational Foundations, Women’s and Gender Studies, at the University of Saskatchewan), and Carrianne Leung, Assistant Professor in creative writing, at the University of Guelph and writer of fiction, discuss radical generosity in the context of teaching in the Fine Arts. They remind us of how as engaged scholars, we carefully nurture generosity of thought, relations, and sharing in our work. They take that ethic one step further to show how radical generosity in the classroom rewards us with a well-informed society, and community of educators, activists, and change-makers. 

Author Biographies

Lynn Caldwell, University of Saskatchewan / Advisory Board

has been a member of the Engaged Scholar Journal Advisory Board since 2018, is professor of theological ethics with St. Andrew’s College, an affiliated college of the University of Saskatchewan, and serves as Academic Dean of the Saskatoon Theological Union. Lynn is co-editor with Carrianne Leung and Darryl Leroux of Critical Inquiries: A Reader in Studies of Canada (Fernwood, 2013). She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, from OISE/UT in Toronto. Born in Meadow Lake, with family origins in Northern Ireland, Lilac, and England, Lynn has lived most of her life in Treaty 6 and the homelands of the Métis. 

Carrianne Leung, University of Guelph

is a fiction writer and assistant professor at the University of Guelph in Creative Writing. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education from OISE/University of Toronto. She is the co-editor with Lynn Caldwell and Darryl Leroux of Critical Inquiries: A Reader in Studies of Canada. Her debut novel, The Wondrous Woo, published by Inanna Publications was shortlisted for the 2014 Toronto Book Awards. Her collection of linked stories, That Time I Loved You, was released in 2018 by HarperCollins and in 2019 in the US by Liveright Publishing. It received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, named as one of the Best Books of 2018 by CBC, That Time I Loved You was awarded the Danuta Gleed Literary Award 2019, shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards 2019 and long listed for Canada Reads 2019. Leung’s work has also been appeared in The Puritan, Ricepaper, The Globe and Mail, Room Magazine, Prairie Fire and Open Book Ontario. She is currently working on a new novel, titled The After due to be released in 2024 by Harper Collins Canada. 

References

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Hoffman, A. J. (2021). The engaged scholar: Expanding the impact of academic research in today’s world. Stanford University Press.

Mirvis, P. H., Albers Mohrman, S., & Worley, C. G. (2021). How to Do Relevant Research: From the Ivory Tower to the Real World. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Kashani, A. (2019). Radical generosity: resisting xenophobia, considering cosmopolitanism. Rowman & Littlefield.

Mirvis, P. H., Albers Mohrman, S., & Worley, C. G. (2021). How to do relevant research: From the ivory tower to the real world. Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Published

2022-12-22

How to Cite

Caldwell, L., & Leung, C. . (2022). “How are we in the world”: Teaching, Writing and Radical Generosity. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 8(3), 67–76. https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i3.70814

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 3 (2022): Summer 2022

Section

Exchanges

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