Reading for lockdown

During lockdown, teaching and having meetings online has kept me pretty busy. Our students have been brilliant - understanding, flexible, and accommodating. I'm spending a lot of the day online and have become surprising comfortable with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Panopto, and so on, but I noticed that there were a lot of requests for reading suggestions on social media, so I asked my lovely communications and events colleagues if we could host a 'literary clinic', and they made it happen. I receive the enquiries and answer by email. So far I've had requests for crime novels with no gore, intelligent romances, armchair travel, novels about the sea, non-linear novels with a different perspective, stories about Canada from two hundred years ago, and many more. https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/about/literary-clinic

People have been asking me to recommend works about the arts surviving a global disaster, and for works that will help them to get through the pandemic. We've been thinking about the place and function and value of the Humanities in recent years, and I hope that that in the future people will continue to do that.

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Oxford

Sandie Byrne