Resources for Teachers and Students

Sarah Coakley

Annual Candlemas Lecture
"For Mine Eyes have Seen Thy Salvation": Spiritual Perception and the Works of Justice in Christian Tradition
February 5, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100

Reviews:

• “On Desiring God: A New Take on Feminist Theology”
  https://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/desiring-god-new-take-feminist-theology/
• “Review of Sarah Coakley, God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’” The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning
  https://jsr.shanti.virginia.edu/back-issues/vol-17-no-1-august-2018-special-issue-on-re-enchantment-and-scriptural-reasoning/review-of-sarah-coakley-god-sexuality-and-the-self-an-essay-on-the-trinity/
• “God, Sexuality and the Self” Syndicate Network
  https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/sarah-coakley-god-sexuality-and-the-self/
• “Sarah Coakley and the Future of Systematic Theology” Reading Religion
  http://readingreligion.org/books/sarah-coakley-and-future-systematic-theology

Interviews:

• “An Interview with Sarah Coakley: Evolutionary Biology, Apologetics, and the Training of Theologians” https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/news/2019/an-interview-with-sarah-coakley--part-one--evolutionary-biology--apologetics--and-the-training-of-theologians
• “Prayer as Divine Propulsion: An Interview with Sarah Coakley, Part I” https://theotherjournal.com/2012/12/20/prayer-as-divine-propulsion-an-interview-with-sarah-coakley/
• “Sarah Coakley: Living prayer and leadership”
  https://faithandleadership.com/qa/sarah-coakley-living-prayer-and-leadership

Videos:

• “Sarah Coakley—Do Religions Complement or Contradict?”
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qxgMpuHcRA
• “Spiritual Perception & Contemporary Theology with Sarah Coakley”
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov0V1bqjf3I
• “Sin and Desire—Sarah Coakley”
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgtHRRRpdcs
• “A Theology of Desire with the Revd Dr Sarah Coakley”
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxkHBKM4hMQ

Amitav Ghosh

Embattled Earth: Commodities, Conflict and Climate Change in the Indian Ocean
February 12, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100

Reviews:

• “Amitav Ghosh: ‘The World of Fact is Outrunning the World of Fiction’” https://www.npr.org/2019/09/16/761257295/amitav-ghosh-the-world-of-fact-is-outrunning-the-world-of-fiction
• “Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh review: climate and culture in crisis”
  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/05/gun-island-amitav-ghosh-review
• “Is Global Warming the 21st Century’s Black Death?”
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/books/review/gun-island-amitav-ghosh.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
• “With ‘Gun Island,’ Amitav Ghosh turns global crises into engaging fiction”
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/with-gun-island-amitav-ghosh-turns-global-crises-into-engaging-fiction/2019/09/08/efe6b35e-d0ce-11e9-b29b-a528dc82154a_story.html
• “Book Review: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh”
  https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2017/07/20/book-review-the-great-derangement-climate-change-and-the-unthinkable-by-amitav-ghosh/

Interviews:

• “Where’s the Great ‘Climate Change Novel’? A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh”
  https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/wheres-the-great-climate-change-novel-a-conversation-with-amitav-ghosh/
• “Amitav Ghosh: ‘There is now a vibrant literary world in India-it all began with Naipaul’
  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/23/amitav-ghosh-vibrant-literary-world-india-naipaul-interview
• “‘My book is not an apocalyptic book at all. I guess I’m leaving hope as a possibility’: Amitav Ghosh”
  https://scroll.in/article/927202/my-book-is-not-an-apocalyptic-book-at-all-i-guess-im-leaving-hope-as-a-possibility-amitav-ghosh
• “On how climate change continues to turn fiction into reality”
  https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-amitav-ghosh-on-how-climate-change-continues-to-turn-fiction-into-reality/

Videos:

• “Amitav Ghosh-A Conversation on The Great Derangement”
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOC-kRxGbhU

Mae Ngai

The Chinese Question, the Gold Rushes and Global Politics
February 26, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100

Interviews/Op-Eds:

• “Immigration’s Border Enforcement Myth”
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/opinion/immigrations-border-enforcement-myth.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
• “Manufacturing illegality: An Interview with Mae Ngai”
  https://fpif.org/manufacturing-illegality-an-interview-with-mae-ngai/

Reviews:

• “The Melting Pot” (Book Review-The Lucky Ones)
  https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/books/review/Tepper-t.html
• “A Mixed Welcome” (Book Review-The Lucky Ones)
  https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703946504575470252150532876

Videos:

• “UO Today with Mae Ngai” Oregon Humanities Center
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJk4QVS6c44
• “Mike Walter Interviews Mae M.  Ngai” CGNT Global Business
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khIEPRzn4Rk

Min Jin Lee

Pachinko
March 25, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100

Reviews:

• “Culture Clash, Survival And Hope In ‘Pachinko’”
  https://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/512910187/culture-clash-survival-and-hope-in-pachinko
• “July Book Club Pick: ‘Pachinko,’ by Min Jin Lee”
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/books/review/pachinko-min-jin-lee.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
• “Pachinko by Min Jin Lee review-rich story of the immigrant experience”
  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/15/pachinko-min-jin-lee-review
• “Pachinko review: a masterpiece of empathy, integrity and family loyalty”
  https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/pachinko-review-a-masterpiece-of-empathy-integrity-and-family-loyalty-1.3165406
• “‘Pachinko’ author Min Jin Lee on how Japan’s ethnic Koreans keep beating the odds”
  https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/03/04/books/book-reviews/pachinko-author-min-jin-lee-japans-ethnic-koreans-keep-beating-odds/#.XgIttS9MG-o

Interviews:

• “What Writers Can Take Away From the Bible”
  https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/min-jin-lee-by-heart/548810/
• “Min Jin Lee: ‘History has failed almost everybody who is ordinary’”
  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/02/min-jin-lee-interview-frederick-douglass-200
• “Doing it Wrong: An Interview with Min Jin Lee”
  https://www.sampsoniaway.org/literary-voices/2018/06/21/doing-it-wrong-an-interview-with-min-jin-lee/
• “We Are Family: An Interview with Min Jin Lee”
  https://aaww.org/we-are-family-an-interview-with-min-jin-lee/
• “Min Jin Lee: Finding Story Ideas That Truly Provoke Your Passions”
  https://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/writers-perspective/off-the-page-author-interview-series/pachinko-author-min-jin-lee-talks-finding-story-ideas-that-truly-provoke-your-passions

Op-Eds/Writing Excerpts:

• “Breaking My Own Silence”
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/opinion/confidence-public-speaking.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
• “Motherland”
  https://www.minjinlee.com/writing/2007-03-01-motherland/
• Excerpt from ‘Pachinko’
  http://www.bu.edu/khc/files/2019/01/PACHINKO-excerpt-KHC-1.pdf

Videos:

• “Min Jin Lee: 2018 National Book Festival”
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b-q6bRpwHs
• “Writers Speak|Min Jin Lee in conversation with Claire Messud” Harvard University
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH3vgL4lDCQ

Claudia Rankine

Citizen: An American Lyric
April 1, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Murray Function Room, Yawkey Center

Reviews:

• “Reconsidering Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric. A Symposium, Part I”
  https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reconsidering-claudia-rankines-citizen-an-american-lyric-a-symposium-part-i/
• “Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’”
  https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/claudia-rankines-citizen.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
• “Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine review-the ugly truth of racism”
  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/30/claudia-rankine-citizen-american-lyric-review
• “Color Codes”
  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/color-codes
• “Book Review: ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’”
  https://www.npr.org/2014/11/20/365516416/book-review-citizen-an-american-lyric

Interviews:

• “Interview With Claudia Rankine”
  http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-claudia-rankine/
• “In ‘Citizen,’ Poet Strips Bare The Realities Of Everyday Racism”
  https://www.npr.org/2015/01/03/374574142/in-citizen-poet-strips-bare-the-realities-of-everyday-racism
• “An Interview with Claudia Rankine”
  https://www.triquarterly.org/issues/issue-150/interview-claudia-rankine
• “Claudia Rankine: ‘Blackness in the white imagination has nothing to do with black people’”
  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/27/claudia-rankine-poet-citizen-american-lyric-feature
• “Claudia Rankine: why I’m spending $625,000 to study whiteness”
  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/19/claudia-rankine-macarthur-genius-grant-exploring-whiteness

Public Intellectualism/Op-Eds:

• “I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their White Privilege. So I Asked.”
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/magazine/white-men-privilege.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
• “The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning”
  https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/magazine/the-condition-of-black-life-is-one-of-mourning.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Videos:

• “Situations by john lucas & claudia rankine on Vimeo”
  https://vimeo.com/channels/situations
• “Claudia Rankine on Citizen: An American Lyric- 2015 L.A. Times Festival of Books” Detroit Public TV
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upCFbREUvtk
• “Claudia Rankine: How Art Teaches a Poet to See” International Festival of Arts & Ideas
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sbPwNN09n8

Ada Limón

The Carrying
April 22, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Devlin Hall, Room 101

Reviews:

• “Review: The Carrying by Ada Limón” Los Angeles Review
  http://losangelesreview.org/review-carrying-ada-limon/
• “[Review] The Carrying by Ada Limón” Pank Magazine
  https://pankmagazine.com/2018/09/04/review-carrying-ada-limon/
• “The Carrying by Ada Limón review—from the heart, unvarnished” The Guardian
  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/19/ada-limon-the-carrying-poetry-review
• “‘The Carrying’ Is Ada Limón’s Most Personal Poetry Yet” Chicago Review of Books
  https://chireviewofbooks.com/2018/08/16/the-carrying-ada-limon-review/
• “On The Environmental Gaze & Writing Big: A Review of Ada Limón’s ‘The Carrying’” The Adroit Journal
  https://theadroitjournal.org/2019/03/12/on-the-environmental-gaze-writing-big-a-review-of-ada-limons-the-carrying/

Interviews:

• “The Word Process: An Interview with Ada Limón” Columbia Journal
  http://columbiajournal.org/the-word-process-an-interview-with-ada-limon/
• “Ada Limón: Connected to the Universe” Guernica
  https://www.guernicamag.com/ada-limon-connected-to-the-universe/
• “Ada Limón on Kanye West, Womanhood, Truth in Poetry, and More” LitHub
  https://lithub.com/ada-limon-on-kanye-west-womanhood-truth-in-poetry-and-more/
• “A Conversation with Ada Limón” The Adroit Journal
  https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-fourteen-ada-limon/
• “Ada Limon On Poetry Collection, ‘The Carrying’” NPR
  https://www.npr.org/2018/08/19/639997901/ada-limon-on-poetry-collection-the-carrying
• “A Conversation with Ada Limon author of THE CARRYING published by Milkweed Editions” Cleaver
  https://www.cleavermagazine.com/a-conversation-with-ada-limon-author-of-the-carrying-interview-by-grant-clauser/
• “On being a gateway drug for poetry” The Creative Independent
  https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/ada-limon-on-being-a-gateway-drug-for-poetry/
• “Trust Poetry: Ada Limón Interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc” Bomb Magazine
  https://bombmagazine.org/articles/ada-limón/

Selected Writings:

• “Poem: PREY- The New York Times”
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/magazine/poem-prey.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
• “Overpass” The New Yorker
  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/04/overpass
• “The Carrying” Poets.org
  https://poets.org/poem/carrying
• Ada Limón|Poetry Foundation
  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ada-limon

Videos:

• “Ada Limon on ‘The Carrying’ at the 2019 AWP Book Fair” PBS Books
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkZK4h-DS2k