Humanizing Grief in Higher Education

Chapter 1: Introduction: Intersecting Hope with Actionable Frameworks in the Academy: Allyhood in Grief

Nicole Sieben and Stephanie Anne Shelton

PART I: ALLYSHIP THROUGH WRITING AND LITERATURE

Chapter 2: Changing Cultural Constructions of Grief through the Shared Story:

Lessons from Disability Studies

Margaret Rose Torrell

Chapter 3: Agency in Writing: Managing Narratives of Trauma in Student Writing

Danielle Lee

Chapter 4: "Conceit Upon her Father": An Unintentional Confrontation with Grief and Hope in the English Classroom

Adam Wolfsdorf

Chapter 5: "The Grief that Fills One's Heart": Pairing Loss Narratives and Graphic Young Adult Literature

Shelbie Witte and Jennifer S. Dail

Chapter 6: Opening to the Hauntings of Grief and Mourning: Writing our Way towards Hope

Linda Henderson and Alison L. Black

PART II: COMMUNITIES OF HOPE AND HEALING

Chapter 7: Opportunities Lost and Found: A Gay Educator's Grief and Process of Hope

S. Adam Crawley

Chapter 8: Finding Hope Through Hope Agents and Narratives in Times of Mourning

Elsie Lindy Olan and Donita Grissom

Chapter 9: Collaborative Empathy as a Pathway to Hope: Grief and Teacher Education

Kia Jane Richmond and Cara Anderson

Chapter 10: "Why I Hate the Wind": Magical Realism and Re-Presenting Trauma Christopher Worthman

Chapter 11: It Is Contagious, Honey

Katherine C. Brown

PART III: GRIEVING FOR/WITH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

Chapter 12: Hiding Behind Closed Classroom Doors and Opening up Space for Sharing Grief

Mandie B. Dunn

Chapter 13: Designing "Patterns" after Hurricane Sandy Uproots Structures

Josefa Pace

Chapter 14: Grieving when Students Make the News: Two Teachers' Reflections

Stacia L. Long

Chapter 15: When a Teacher Lost a Student: A Narrative Pathway through Grief

Nick Thompson

Chapter 16: Grief as the Pathway to Hope in the Teaching Profession

Leora Wolf-Prusan

Chapter 17: How Experiences with Student Grief Inform Our Practice: Teaching Teachers to Navigate Healing Processes

Katie Rybakova, Katahdin Cook Whitt, and Christina Christie

PART IV: FINDING HOPE THROUGH ACTIVISM

Chapter 18: My Father's Keeper: Pathway to Grief-Inspired Activism

Ericka Roland

Chapter 19: When the Music Changes, so does the Dance: Critical Racial Events as Told Through a Narrative Inquiry Beat

Kara M. Taylor

Chapter 20: Homeless Adolescents, Grief, and Advocacy for Others: Hope for the Future

Kate Shands Haq

Chapter 21: Visualizing Hope: Digital Storytelling with Refugee-background Children

Toby Emert

Chapter 22: Conclusion: Hope as an Ally to Grieving and Healing

Nicole Sieben and Stephanie Anne Shelton