Ernest Cole, John Dirk Werkman Professor of English, recently received a $3,772 award from the Great Lakes Colleges Association Global Crossroads Themed Course Program. The project is titled Cultural Representations of Mental Health and Disability: Readings from African and Indigenous American Literature.
In collaboration with Dr. Sara Newman of the Universidad San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador, this project will develop a globally connected course titled Cultural Representations of Mental Health and Disability: A Cross Cultural Literacy Perspective, which will focus on mental health narratives and cultural representations of mental illness in selected African and Indigenous American novels.
Congratulations on your award, Ernest!