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As a junior scholar filled with the anxiety of a fall 2020 tenure review and a first book publication, I found the question, “how has the Covid-19 pandemic changed how I am thinking about my scholarship?” perfectly timed. Finding time to commit to research at a small liberal-arts college focused on teaching is always difficult. But after the coronavirus forced my college into the virtual world of online teaching and my carefully planned and Socratic-method based classes into Zoom-, Slack-, and Yellow Dig-friendly formats, it seemed what little time I had been able to dedicate to scholarship quickly dissipated. The commitment of the online transition and the necessary daily obsession with my computer screen had undermined my grand research plan as I struggled to establish a productive and effective daily work routine while wearing my extremely comfortable sweatpants and aimlessly petting my slightly overweight and incessantly purring cat.
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