by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Aug 15, 2018 | Teaching and Academic Design
This summer I was tasked with re-imagining the Communication Major at Holy Cross College. The nature of the Communication Major has been unclear for a number of years. In the past, it focused largely on film and cultural studies, but lacked courses on the technical...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | May 21, 2018 | College Classes, Teaching and Academic Design
For my “Literature and the Environment” class (spring 2018), I tasked my students with a highly open-ended project. As a class community, they needed to develop a body of writing that would raise awareness about the St. Joesph River and encourage our local community...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Apr 22, 2018 | Academic Conferences, New Ideas and Research, News
Last weekend I escaped the very brown and cold upper-Midwest for Oregon, where I presented a paper on Tim Winton’s Dirt Music at the Western Region’s Conference on Christianity and Literature. The conference focused on the sacred/secular divide as represented in...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Mar 23, 2018 | Fostering Faith, Living the Liturgical Year, The Christian Imagination
Where we live, its fish-fry season. If you live in the Americas, Europe, or Australia, you might also notice Friday fish-n-chip specials or the filet-o-fish featured at McDonalds. If you were wondering why fish seems so popular in February and March, it’s because this...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Mar 5, 2018 | News, Teaching and Academic Design
On February 19th it started raining…and raining…and raining…and raining. Northern Indiana had over six inches in rain in some places. While that’s a fair bit of rain, the situation was exacerbated by about a two-foot snow pack and frozen ground. With the tremendous...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Dec 3, 2017 | Fostering Faith, Living the Liturgical Year
Happy New Year! Advent, the start of the Christian year, is upon us again. Rather than being a season for shopping and celebrating, Advent creates space for us confront the injustice, evil, and brokenness we see around us with the holy expectation of God’s coming....
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 29, 2017 | Audio, Living the Liturgical Year, Serving the Church
With the season of Advent beginning this week, Pastor Jason Miller of South Bend City Church and I sat down to talk about the Advent and Christmas seasons. We had this conversation in church on Sunday morning & Tuesday night, and in an extended conversation which...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 18, 2017 | The Bible, The Christian Imagination
But of course… me too. This month’s scandal of a powerful man, Harvey Weinstein, using that power to manipulate, harass, and assault women spread beyond the safe confines of the online news/entertainment world. On Sunday, rather than watch (or simply ignore) another...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 18, 2017 | News, Teaching and Academic Design
After a few months of work on the part of myself, Tyler Gardner, Dan Murphy, and Br. George Klawaitter, the proposal for the new English major at Holy Cross College is finally complete and off to committee! The new major offers four tracks, a traditional English...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 3, 2017 | Fostering Faith
A previous post of mine was a confession that I fear chaos, I fear the brokenness of this world that seems to threaten at every term. Coupled with this is the repeated biblical cry, “How long, O Lord!” How long will you forget me? How long will the wicked prosper? How...
Recent Comments