Teaching
As a personalist educator, I prioritize the holistic formation of the human person within the classroom as a community of care.
Research
My research promotes a relational view of literature, education, and technology, exploring how we are formed as persons in community.
Virtual Conferencing
Not only are virtual conferences greener and more equitable, but they are also potential forms of public scholarship.
Christopher Adamson
Christopher Adamson is the director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and co-associate director of the Hendrickson Institute for Ethical Leadership at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. His research promotes a relational view of literature, education, and technology by examining the religious and liturgical frames of Victorian medievalism and by contributing to educational research on character and virtue formation and critical approaches to technology. His work has appeared in journals such as postmedieval, Academy of Management Review, and New Directions for Teaching and Learning.
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The Hermeneutic of Hope
– Gerard Manley Hopkins
All things therefore are charged with love…
This site gathers essays, articles, and teaching materials exploring religion and literature, the ritual gesture of Victorian smoking culture, and whole-person education in the age of automation. Each asks how we are formed as persons in community by the habits, narratives, and technologies that shape our attention.
Inspired by “The Golden Echo” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, this site adopts a hermeneutic of hope, a way of reading that affirms that poetry matters, the humanities matter, and you matter. When we approach classrooms and texts as whole persons in community with other whole persons, we move from analysis to the difficult shared work of interpretation with unfeigned love.