Her host is Professor Richard Watermeyer in the School of Education, they will be collaborating on the research project 'Reimagining Higher Education: Lessons from Covid and Contemporary Racial Reckonings'.
Mary P. Sheridan is Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where she Directs the Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society. Her teaching and research focus on community literacy, digital media, and feminist methodologies. Dr. Sheridan’s work has been recognized through numerous accolades, including two national book awards, a Scholarship of the Year Award for a collaborative webtext, and numerous grants from organizations as diverse as the National Endowment for the Arts and Verizon.
Professor Sheridan’s current research investigates how to build engaged infrastructures that foster equity, particularly as Covid 19 and racial reckonings have intensified questions about what higher education should be. These lingering questions must engage with ongoing budget shortfalls, a shrinking demographic of college-aged students, and the drum-beat of pundits denigrating higher education more broadly. Combined, these factors make clear that higher education is at an inflection point in determining what it will become.
You can read more about this and the events she will be delivering as part of her visit on Professor Sheridan's web profile page here.