
As we continue to navigate uncertain times, it is vitally important to engage in this kind of empathetic reading and narrative understanding. Argo Hall is named after a converted Navy rescue ship commissioned in 1960 by Scripps Institution of Oceanography (aka Scripps Institution) at UC San Diego and used for a decade. “When we read novels with a sense of empathy, we come away with an improved sense of other people’s perspectives and experiences that are quite different from our own. Each of the five residential floors has six suites and each suite houses between 12 and 16 students (primarily in triple rooms) who share two lounge areas and a bathroom. Each office plans events throughout the year and offers mentoring and advising to any student who requests it. (An eighth residence hall, NEW Hall, is currently under construction and scheduled to open in fall 2016. “As people, it’s in our nature to relate to one another’s stories,” Keen explains. Scripps was founded in 1926, and four of its seven residence halls date to the 1920s and 30s, designed in the Mediterranean style that was popular in Southern California at the time and characterizes the campus. Her previous publications include her best-known work, the 2007 book Empathy in the Novel, and her 2014 book, Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination, which was a finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s 2015 Christian Gauss Award. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant and the author of four previous scholarly books, a textbook, and a volume of poetry. Keen is an internationally known scholar of empathy and reading, a feminist narrative theorist, and an authority in interdisciplinary empathy research whose work as a scholar, teacher, and leader is animated by an ethics of care. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE 2020-2021 Scripps Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. It provides us with an escape from the world that we live in, an escape into a fictional world that we co-create with the author in our imagination.” 2020-2021 Scripps Catalog Select a Catalog 2021-2022 Scripps Catalog 2021-22 Faculty Handbook 2020-2021 Faculty Handbook THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. She will lead Residential Life at a pivotal moment for Brown as we reimagine the undergraduate. Brenda Ice joined the Brown community in September 2021 as the inaugural Senior Associate Dean/Senior Director of Residential Life. Scripps College Studio Art Program Offered by Art Department, the program features concentrations in such areas as ceramics, painting, printmaking, and photography.

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“The emotional reader, as opposed to the coolly rational evaluator of literary texts, has historically been denigrated, especially at the university level,” Keen says. The collection brings together Keen’s previous essays and excerpts on narrative empathy and is organized into three thematic sections: theories, empathetic readers, and interdisciplinary applications. The first edition of President Suzanne Keen’s new scholarly work, Empathy and Reading, is now available from Routledge.
