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The intimate viewfinder: poetic ekphrasis of photographs and the illusion of the real New Writing Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton
As digital photography proliferates in the contemporary world, theorists and creative writers continue to debate what photographs signify and how the poetic ekphrasis of photographs should be under...
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An Agreeable Crest: The New Writing 20th Anniversary Year New Writing Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Graeme Harper
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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New Writing 20th Anniversary interviews: Sir Andrew Motion New Writing Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Graeme Harper
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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A pedagogy of liminality: towards visual poetry as a practice in decolonising creative writing pedagogy New Writing Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Marisa Tirado, Megan Davis Roberts
This article explores what we perceive as a lack of visual poetry studies in creative writing classrooms, largely due to its characteristic incompatibility to familiar literary devices, analytical ...
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‘Fixation cross’ New Writing Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Julia Prendergast
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Reading writing breathing New Writing Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Tim Stephens
This article addresses how breath is intra-active with reading and writing. The two meditation methods I used for concentrating on and writing the breath-experience were ‘attention on the breath’ a...
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‘Becoming’ and POET literary placemaking as creative methodology for writing character and place in biofiction New Writing Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Eloise Faichney
Biofiction, a genre that produces ‘literature that names its protagonist after an actual biographical figure’ [Lackey, M. 2016. The American Biographical Novel. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 1] pr...
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Normativity and other poems New Writing Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Kathryn Hummel
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Arrivals and departures New Writing Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Michael Campbell
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Léon’s feet: a story of remembering New Writing Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Peter Vermeersch
This submission is a piece of creative nonfiction that is partly memoir and partly a story about war memories in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
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Flash fiction as a distinct literary form: some thoughts on time, space, and context New Writing Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Shelley Roche-Jacques
This article combines a craft-focused approach with a stylistics perspective to consider the ways in which flash fiction may be said to operate as a unique literary form. In the opening section fla...
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Truth recovery: an interview with Lance Olsen New Writing Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Rupert Loydell
Lance Olsen is author of more than 30 books of and about innovative writing, including, most recently, the novels Skin Elegies [Olsen, Lance. 2021. Skin Elegies. Ann Arbour, MI: Dzanc] and Always C...
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The Penny Arcade New Writing Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Heidi Colthup
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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Snake Season New Writing Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Graeme Harper
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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‘A shared commitment … not to be miserable’: a Posthuman Artists’ Laboratory to explore writing collaborative climate fiction New Writing Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Rachel Hennessy, Alex Cothren, Amy Matthews
ABSTRACT This paper continues ongoing research, by the three authors, into possible ways to write climate fiction, a subgenre of literature that focuses on depictions of climate change. Curious as to whether climate fiction has become fixed as a negative genre, most frequently mired in dystopian landscapes, we posited that writing fiction collaboratively might be one method to help us imagine a future
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Special reality: Malcolm Lowry’s last notebook New Writing Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Helen Tookey
How does it feel to encounter a writer through his or her archive? In this piece of creative non-fiction, I explore my encounter with Malcolm Lowry through his archive at the University of British ...
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What’s your number? New Writing Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Graeme Harper
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 3, 2023)
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Green encounters: critically creative inter/actions with-and-in ecologies of crisis New Writing Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Shannon Sandford, Chloe Cannell, Stefanija Rozitis, Anneliese Abela, Dante DeBono, Lyndal Hordacre Kobayashi, Simon-Peter Telford, Heather McGinn, Belinda Lees, Aden Burg, Evan Jarrett, Lily Roberts, Eugene Tabios, Alex Dunkin, Amelia Walker
This article contributes to ongoing dialogues in creative writing research relating to three areas of inquiry: writing as a way of knowing; collaboration and communities of practice; and writing in...
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A machine in the loop: the peculiar intervention of artificial intelligence in writer’s block New Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Iona Gilburt
Generative artificial intelligence is changing how we can choose to resolve writing challenges. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are readily accessible to generate text effortlessly. This ...
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Enacting and exploring ideas in fiction: The Overstory and The Portable Veblen New Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Donald Nordberg
Philosophically engaged fiction often employs ideas in ways that reflect the exploitation-exploration dilemma in developmental psychology: by exploiting well articulated theories by enacting their ...
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What are you doing it for? Realist writing – the riddled boundary that divides fiction and reality New Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Julia Prendergast
In this essay, I respond to Australian author Charmian Clift’s question about writing: ‘what are you doing it for?’ (Wheatley 2022, 291). This question is the title of one of Clift’s essays, from a...
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For and against the workshop: book review and discussion New Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Michelene Wandor
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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Interview with Tim Mayers New Writing Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Tim Mayers
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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New types of intelligence relevant to creative writers New Writing Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Graeme Harper
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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The Favored Knight New Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Jim Goar
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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Is creative teaching behaviours’ effect on English creative writing multi-mediated by writing and creative self-efficacy? New Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Yujie Hu, Jieun Choi
English Writing as a second language learner faces more cognitive, social, and emotional challenges. Students can improve their writing skills through creative writing. From this perspective, this ...
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Chords baited over covert bridges: jamming alive a collaborative multiverse New Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Mags Webster, Ravi Shankar
Jamming is one of those Janus-faced words that is its own contronym. Just as cleaving can refer to splitting things apart or uniting them together, to jam in jazz is to perform improvisational piec...
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De-boning the fish: Indexing Routledge’s Teaching Creative Writing in Asia as abecedarian memoir New Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Darryl Whetter
This essay of creative nonfiction tells the story – one intellectual, professional, personal, and cultural – of the author having recently edited a ground-breaking anthology of Creative Writing ped...
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Learning from invention and collaboration in the fiction writing classroom New Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Brandi Reissenweber
Collaborative learning—beyond the workshop model—has great potential for the fiction writing classroom. Leveraging a variety of social actions can facilitate meaningful learning and broaden the sco...
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From real life to story – and back again: using autobiographical fiction writing to understand self, others and family generations New Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Alberta Natasia Adji
Writing autobiographically includes complicated responsibilities to the subjects involved: to family members, friends, colleagues, and even cultural communities. This article explores creative deve...
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Before the flood New Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Guibing Qin
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 4, 2023)
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Automobile versus slot car versus the autonomous vehicle New Writing Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Graeme Harper
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2023)
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The matter of form: an interview with Will Kostakis New Writing Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Tom Ue
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 3, 2023)
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Alexis Wright’s story words and story-worlds out of the shadows: the politics of reading and writing Carpentaria New Writing Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Jean-François Vernay
ABSTRACT Drawing on Alexis Wright’s interviews and essays on the creative writing process, this article gives insight into how the Waanyi novelist conceived Carpentaria (2006) and the philosophy she holds for literature and storytelling. In the first two sections, notions of truth, modal thought, reference, simulation, imagination and reality will be discussed in relation to Lubomír Doležel’s propounded
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Archives, moraines and excavatory poetics New Writing Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Richard Skelton
ABSTRACT This article explores the ideas and processes of an ‘excavatory’ poetics and its interrelation with archaeological fieldwork, archives and exhibitions. I first focus on notions of authorial intent in the collage poetics of Susan Howe, suggesting that her interrogation of archives has an excavatory quality which reveals a concern with the articulation of provenance. I argue that Howe’s work
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Liminality, border zones, and fractured identities: a postcolonial study of N. Scott Momaday’s Three Plays New Writing Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Farkhanda Shahid Khan
ABSTRACT This research work scrutinises the liminality, borders, and the concept of frontier in the lives of Native American dislocated people, the deterioration of their culture in the process of the westward expansion of America, and the ruthless experience of their detachment from roots through N. Scott Momaday’s Three Plays (2007). The study uses the postcolonial lens of liminality and Communitas
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The case for trauma-informed creative writing teaching New Writing Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Meera Atkinson
ABSTRACT This article argues for the critical need for trauma-informed teaching and learning strategies within creative writing programmes. Drawing on a range of clinical trauma studies, it makes an interdisciplinary case for trauma-informed training across the whole programme based on the prevalence of trauma and post-traumatic conditions in the broader and university communities and the specific
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Resisting monolingualism in the creative writing classroom: adapting Yoko Tawada’s ‘surface translation’ and ‘microscopic readings’ of script New Writing Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Jennifer Quist
ABSTRACT With an interplay between Japanese, German, and to a lesser extent, English, Yoko Tawada’s oeuvre defies monolingualism. Her Japanese-English poem ‘Hamlet No See’ uses a staple of English literature, Shakespeare’s ‘To be, or not to be’ soliloquy as a treatment of the 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. By foregrounding homophony, the poem can be understood on
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How critical is Creative Writing? Malcolm Bradbury and the ‘serious’ writer New Writing Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Joseph Williams
ABSTRACT Recent reappraisals of the origins of the MA in Creative Writing at UEA by Kathryn Holeywell (2009) and Lise Jaillant (2016) have brought Malcolm Bradbury’s contribution into question. This article identifies that contribution as a greater emphasis on literary criticism and theory, which Bradbury maintained from the beginning of the MA until his retirement from teaching. Despite the arch treatment
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The encounter: a handbook of poetic practice New Writing Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Michael Theune
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 3, 2023)
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Chris Bigsby and the art of being improbable New Writing Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Graeme Harper
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2022)
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Faux Pas New Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DeWitt Henry
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 3, 2023)
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The ignorant tallerista: toward a community of practice in the representation of the literary workshop in the Southern Cone New Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Magdalena Palacios Bianchi, Gonzalo Maier Cruz
ABSTRACT This study reflects on the idea of community of practice in a corpus of contemporary Latin American texts that address literary workshops as a learning space. Thus, it is intended to demonstrate how the idea of community of practice, such as that of pedagogical identity or repertoire, appears in contemporary texts as an established, recognisable practice and, in general, linked to the idea
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The oppressions of ‘creativity’? Equity and power in emergent global discourses of the Creative Writing (SL) field New Writing Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Dan Disney
ABSTRACT In previous papers, I have sought to usher Creative Writing in English into Literary Studies contexts in Korea by responding to rhetorical questions, such as “[h]ow to begin to feel like ourselves in a language we do not quite feel at home in?” (Disney 2011: 7) and, erroneously, “how might [students] do something materially akin to [western] canonical texts set before them” (Disney 2014: 3)
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Destructive writing: breaking texts to build texts New Writing Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Ashley Bullen-Cutting
ABSTRACT Uncreativity and plagiarism have long been stinging words that can end careers, but are there ways to ethically use and not abuse the work of others? Destructive Writing is a writing strategy that acknowledges the friction and freedom of this practice, a practice that exalts in the fact that words have weight and attempts to shoulder this burden to new and unfamiliar heights. To the Destructive
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Autobiography matters: on swallowing kerosene and school bullying in Lebanon New Writing Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Sleiman El Hajj
ABSTRACT This critically informed autobiographical essay draws on its author’s experiences of youth bullying to frame its discussion of the role of patriarchy in spawning new generations of bullies in Lebanon, and in shaping the queer perceptions that portend, and foment, the dynamics of bullying as a long-standing practice in Lebanese schools. I show how ‘queer’ in this context is a contingency not
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Workshopping failure pedagogy for creative writing studies New Writing Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Wally Suphap
Abstract This article explores how creative writing studies might draw from elements of writing studies' pedagogy to better understand and improve how failure is conceived of and taught. The author identifies significant magnifiers of failure encounters under the traditional workshop model (as compared to a typical composition course) and proposes a series of zones of mediation aimed at neutralizing
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Forms of illumination New Writing Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Graeme Harper
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 19, No. 3, 2022)
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Fear New Writing Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Haris C. Adhikari
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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Writing creatively to re-story the experience of waiting New Writing Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Joanne Yoo
ABSTRACT Memories call out to us from our subconscious, revealing the stories that have yet to be told. This paper explores the memories of stories that resonate with the experience of waiting in middle age. It is written as a personal essay to capture the complex and nuanced emotions evoked by the aging process. Middle age can be felt as a vacuous space since many of life’s major milestones have already
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Helix: fantasia on a theme of possibility New Writing Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Philip Emery
ABSTRACT An essay, part retrospective part prospectus, focusing on a production of an experimental stage drama using and innovating techniques of dramaturgical improvisation conflating drama and music. The essay uses extracts from the play to analyse and demonstrate the techniques discussed. Reviews of the play and its adaptation into prose, and reminiscences from participants also help contextualise
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Feeling into empathic poetry … through the prison poems of Mahvash Sabet New Writing Pub Date : 2022-06-06 April-Rose Geers
ABSTRACT In this essay, I offer a response to conclusions in affect theory that empathy inspired by the reading of a text is unlikely to result in direct action for change. I balance my understanding of empathy and activism in poetry with Lévinasian theories of ethical relationality and moral responsibility. I discuss the unique quality of a collection of prison poems by Persian poet and Bahá'í leader
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Unbound potential: identity as a process understood through creative writing New Writing Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Eleni Duret, Shana Pies
ABSTRACT The identity transition from high school student to high school graduate holds particular uncertainties for students. The purpose of this narrative research study, co-constructed by a high school Creative Writing teacher and doctoral candidate, is to better understand how high school students engage creatively with their own identity and then communicate such engagement through creative writing
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A stolen bird New Writing Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Graeme Harper
(2022). A stolen bird. New Writing: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 127-128.
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Fields of departing dreams New Writing Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Jeffrey B. Javier
Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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The motivations that improve the creative writing process: what they might be and why we should study them New Writing Pub Date : 2022-03-21 C. Connor Syrewicz
ABSTRACT Which knowledge and skills would help creative writing students to improve their writing? Writing is a complicated activity that involves the mingling of a great number of social, cognitive, behavioural, environmental, and bodily factors, and an incredible number of these factors have been shown to affect the writing process. One cognitive factor which has significant effects upon the writing
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Re-membering oceans, bodies, rhythms and breath: a collective reflection on life/work as we walk-write from different shorelines New Writing Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Amelia Walker, Debra Wain, Ali Black, Elena Spasovska
ABSTRACT This paper is a collaborative reflection by four academic women using our creative writings about oceans and shorelines to think and reflect. We write from discrete locations along the Southern and Eastern coastlines of the invaded continent contemporarily known as Australia. Our methodology incorporates walking and creative writing. This walking-writing methodology has connected us to entangled
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Dandelion futures: creative anxiety and making art in the digital age New Writing Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Cailean Alexander McBride
ABSTRACT The Internet and other rapidly changing digital technologies have had a revolutionary effect on how we make and consume art. In this essay, I map how these changes have been translated into an increased level of creative anxiety in creative artists as they are forced to engage with the prospect of dwindling revenues and income streams, how it has led to debates around ‘dandelion futures’ for
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The breathing story: fiction as a tool for living New Writing Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Jacob White
ABSTRACT Fiction writers are always scanning for stimuli – laughter from an open window, the crime section, a paraglider over skyscrapers. What’s the story there? we ask, rarely stopping to ask what’s the story here. What’s with me? Sometimes the story’s not up there with the paraglider but down here in our trying to make sense of it within our own confusing pockets of existence. For at the bottom
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Utilising K-culture for Korean college students writing identity essays: online class cases New Writing Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Hyunju Woo
ABSTRACT This research, conducted in the particular space–time of university classes transitioning online due to a global pandemic, describes a kairotic moment particularly concerned with the accessibility of learning resources, pedagogical interaction, and students’ mental health. Our research was conducted with a focus on online general education electives delivered across all undergraduate years