Marcia Buell
Marcia
Z.
Buell
Associate Professor, First-Year Writing Coordinator
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5955
Expertise
Writing Studies and Rhetoric, Developmental Writing, English as a Second Language
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 309 Reading and Writing in a Changing Digital Economy
ENGL 376 Advanced Composition
ENGL 427 Pedagogies of College Level Writing
ENGL 434 Seminar in Basic Writing
ENGL 435 Assissment of Writing
ENGL 437 Computers and English Studies
Research Interests
Developmental Writers and Identity; Writing in Graduate College; Disability Studies and Medical Rhetorics, Multimodality and Writing
Education

Ph.D. English/Writing Studies, University of Illinois
M.A. TESL/Linguistics, Ohio University
B.A. Antioch College

 

Selected Publications

Buell, Marcia Z. "Negotiating Rich Response Networks and Textual Ownership in Dissertation Writing" Research Literacies and Writing Pedagogies for Masters and Doctoral Writers, Eds. Badenhorst, Cecile and Cally Guerin. Brill Online Books and Journals. 2015. 221-237.

Buell, Marcia Z. “The Place of Basic Writing at Wedonwan U: A Simulation for Graduate Level Seminars" Journal of Basic Writing E-Journal (2013-2014).

Buell, Marcia Z. “Negotiaitng Textual Authority: Response Cycles for a Personal Statement of a Latina Undergraduate.” Journal of Basic Writing 31(2) 5-28, (2012).

Buell, Marcia, and Park, So Jin. “Positioning expertise: The shared journey of a South Korean and a North American doctoral student.” In Christine Casanave and XiaoMing Li (Eds.), Learning to do graduate school: Perspectives on academic enculturation, literacy practices, and identity. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan University Press. 2008.

Buell, Marcia. “Code-switching and second language writing: How multiple codes are combined in a text.” In Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior (Eds.), What writing does and how it does it (97-122). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2004.

Room LWH 2019
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States

(773) 442-5955
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday: 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., El Centro, and 6:00-7:00 p.m., Main Campus
Wednesday: 12:30-2:00 p.m., Online
Thursday: 10:00-10:30 a.m., El Centro

Available for consultation via Zoom, Google Meet, email, or phone.
Please email for an appointment at least 24 hours ahead at m-buell@neiu.edu.
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Curriculum Vitae
Kristen L. Over smiles into the camera.
Kristen
L.
Over
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Coordinator
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5833
Expertise
Comparative literature, medieval British literature, medieval Welsh literature, French and Welsh romance, Arthurian literature, poststructural theory, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies
Courses Taught
ENGL 210 WIP:Methods for English Majors
ENGL 221 English Literature: Beginnings to c. 1750
ENGL 307 Medieval Studies: Arthurian Tradition
ENGL 308 English Literature from Beowulf to Malory
ENGL 314 Chaucer and His Age
ENGL 345 Practical Criticism
ENGL 371 Studies in Women's Literature
ENGL 410 Literary Method and Practice
ENGL 430 Studies in Literary Criticism
ENGL 495 Rethinking Race and Gender
WGS 201 WIP: Feminist Ideas
ZHON 192 Honors Introduction to the Humanities
Research Interests
Race and gender, medieval sexualities, epistemologies of ignorance, indigenous American women’s writing, philosophies of identity and freedom, politics of nation and identity
Education

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Selected Publications

Book Article. “Warrior Ideal or Sinful Beast? Ambiguous Sovereignty in Culhwch ac Olwen.” In The Language of Gender, Power, and Agency in Celtic Studies. Amber Handy and Brian Ó Conchubhair, editors. Arlen House Press 2013. Examines the sovereign power of God and Arthur  in an early Welsh Arthurian tale.

Book Article. “Hybridity Reconsidered: Rewriting the Literary Welshman in Peredur vab Efrawc.” In Other Nations: The Hybridization of Medieval Insular Mythology and Identity. Wendy Marie Hoofnagle and Wolfram R. Keller, editors. Winter, Heidelberg, 2011. Examines a Welsh version of the Perceval tale in the context of distinct insular identities.

Book. Kingship, Conquest, and Patria: Literary and Cultural Identities in Medieval French and Welsh Arthurian Romance. Routledge Press, 2005. A study of vernacular literature, medieval colonialisms, and state formation focusing on the romances of Chrétien de Troyes and three thirteenth-century Welsh tales.

Book Article. “Transcultural Change: Romance to Rhamant.” In Medieval Celtic Literature and Society. Helen Fulton, editor. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2005. Assessment of the genres of romance/rhamant from a postcolonial perspective.

Room LWH 2006
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States

(773) 442-5833
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: Noon-1:00 p.m./4:00-5:00 p.m. (in person)
Monday and Wednesday: 2:00-4:00 p.m. via ZOOM

Also by appointment. Email k-over@neiu.edu the day before to schedule.
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Ryan Poll
Ryan
Poll
Associate Professor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5824
Expertise
U.S. literature and culture, critical theory, popular culture and cultural studies.
Courses Taught
ENGL 482 Contemporary Poetic Forms
ENGL 480 Ethnic Literatures
ENGL 476 Oil Fictions: Reading Along the Transnational Pipelines
ENGL 456A Graphic Novels and Social Conflicts
ENGL 449M The Literary Small Town in the Age of Globalization
ENGL 430 Studies in Literary Criticism
ENGL 413 Crafting Literary, Cultural and Compositional Fields
ENGL 411A Cultural and Literary Studies: History, Theory, Practice
ENGL 410 Literary Methods and Practices
ENGL 402 Ecological Crises and Narratives
ENGL 390 Young Adult Novel
ENGL 380 Multi-Cultural Literature in America
ENGL 379 Twentieth Century Fiction II
ENGL 356A The Graphic Novel
ENGL 354 Star Wars: Narratives, Politics, and Economics of a Billion-Dollar, Multi-Media Franchise
ENGL 352 Jewish-American Literature: People of the Books
ENGL 345 Practical Criticism
ENGL 343 Global Ecologies: U.S. Literature in the Age of Environmentalism
ENGL 316 Forms of Poetry
ENGL 311 Introduction to Popular Culture Studies
ENGL 302 Literatures and Theories of Love
ENGL 301A Special Topics in Literature and Culture
ENGL 219 American Literature: 1865-Present
ENGL 218 American Literature: Beginnings-1865
ENGL 210 Methods for English Major
Research Interests
Narratives and cultures of globalization; cultural geographies and ecologies; energy cultures; working-class narratives; media studies; poetic forms
Education

Ph.D. English with Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, University of California, Davis, 2009

Selected Publications

Ryan is also a  

Books

Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization (Rutgers University Press, 2012)

Aquaman and the War on Oceans: Comics Activism in the Anthropocene (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023)

Journal Articles/Book Chapters

“The Rising Tide of Neoliberalism: Attica Locke’s Black Water Rising and the Segregated Geographies of Globalization” in Class and Culture in Crime Fiction: Essays on Works in English Since the 1970s (McFarland & Company, 2014)

“The Boss and the Workers: Bruce Springsteen as Blue-Collar Icon” in Blue Collar Pop Culture: From NASCAR to the Jersey Shore (Praeger, 2012)

"Can One Get Out? The Aesthetics of Afro-Pessimism," Journal of Midwest Modern Language Association, Special Issue: "Arts and Activism" (Fall 2019)

"Neoliberal Heroes:Clint Eastwood's Sully and the Haunting of History." The Journal of Popular Culture, Special Edition: Neoliberalism and Popular Culture," (April 2018)

"Lynn Nottage's Theatre of Genocide: Ruined, Rape, and Afropessimism." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 35.1 (2020): 81-105.

 

Room LWH 2024
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5824
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Mondays: 6:00–7:00 p.m. (in office)
Tuesdays: 1:00–2:00 p.m. (via Zoom)
Wednesdays: 1:00–2:00 p.m. (in office)
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Emily
M
Garcia
Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English; Affiliate Faculty: Latina/o/x & Latin American Studies; Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5563
Expertise
Latina/o/x Studies, Early American Literature and Culture
Courses Taught
ENGL 479 US Latina/o Literature
ENGL 471 Studies in the American Novel
ENGL 380 Multicultural Literature in America
ENGL 369 US Latina/o Literature and Culture
ENGL 365 Caribbean Literatures
ENGL 362 US Fiction: Traditions and Counter-Traditions
ENGL 361 Development of the American Novel
ENGL 349 Gloria Anzaldua: Deep Dive
ENGL 345 Practical Criticism
ENGL 313 American Literary Renaissance: 1830 - 1860
ENGL 301 Contemporary LGBTQ+ Literature
ENGL 219 American Literature: 1865 to Present
ENGL 218 American Literature: Beginnings to 1865
ENGL 210 WIP: Methods for English Majors
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ENGL 102 Writing II
LLAS 391 Capstone: Internship in Latina/o/x & Latin American Studies
LLAS 353 Latino Diversities
LLAS 201 WIP: Culture and History of US Latinos
WGS 360 Queer Theory
ZHON 192 Introduction to the Humanities
Research Interests
Literatures of Independence, Early Latina/o/x Literature and Culture, Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism, Translation, The Novel
Education

Ph.D., English, University of Florida

Selected Publications

"The First of July, 1784" The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review. Special Issue: Queering Americana. Issue 28 (Fall 2022) (poem)

“Logics of Exchange and the Beginnings of US Hispanophone Literature” Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition Cambridge University Press, 2021.

“Interdependence and Interlingualism in Santiago Puglia’s El desengaño del hombre (1794)”&Բ;Early American Literature 53:3 (October 2018) p. 745 – 772.

“On the Borders of Independence: Manuel Torres and Spanish American Independence in Filadelfia.” Latino/a Studies and Nineteenth-Century America.”  Ed. Jesse Alemán and Rodrigo Lazo. New York: NYU Press, 2016. 71-88.

“Novel Diplomacies: Henry Marie Brackenridge’s Voyage to South America (1819) and Inter-American Revolutionary Literature.” Literature in the Early American Republic 3 (April 2011) p. 145 – 171

“‘The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind’: American Universalism and Exceptionalism in the Early Nation.” American Exceptionalisms, Ed. Sylvia Söderlind and Jamey Carson. Albany: SUNY Press, 2011. p. 51 – 70.

“Roundtable: Critical Keywords in Early American Studies,” Co-edited and Introduction with Duncan Faherty. Early American Literature 46:3 (Fall 2011) pp. 601-602; pp. 603-632.

91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5563
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 4:00-5:30 p.m. (In person in Room LWH 2007)
Friday: 3:00-4:00 p.m (Zoom)

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Timothy H. Scherman
Timothy
H.
Scherman
Associate Chair, English Department; Audrey Reynolds Distinguished Professor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5817
Expertise
American Literature and Culture; Literary Theory and Criticism, Material Culture
Courses Taught
ENGL 210: Literary Methods and Practice (WIP)
ENGL 218: Survey of American Literature, Beginnings to 1865
ENGL 219: Survey of American Literature: 1865 to present
ENGL 345: Practical Criticism
ENGL 368: American Realism
ENGL 372: American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
ENGL 378: Twentieth Century Fiction I
ENGL 410: Literary Methods and Practice
ENGL 430: Seminar on Literary Criticism and Theory
ENGL 484: Seminar on US Literature After the Cold War
ENGL 487: Material Culture
Research Interests
U.S. Literature and Culture; History of Authorship and Publishing; Women Writers of the 19th Century, Material Culture
Education

Ph.D. (American Literature) Duke University

Selected Publications

The Selected Works of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, edited and annotated, with an introduction, 3 vols (forthcoming, Mercer Press, 2023-2024)

2020     section editor and author, “Elizabeth Oakes Smith 1806-1893—American novelist essayist, lecturer, poet and short-story writer,” Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism vol 387, Layman Poupard Publishing, LLC: 95-177.  

2020     “Poe, Pandemic and Underlying Conditions,” PopMatters, May 26, 2020: - 2646000879.html

2017     “Eluding the Authorities: Tom Waits in Postmodern Context,” PopMatters, January 9, 2017:

1993    "The Authority Effect: Poe and the Politics of Reputation in the Pre-Industry of American Publishing," Arizona Quarterly 49/3 (Fall 1993): 1-21.

1992   "Translating From Memory: Patrick Modiano in Postmodern Context," Studies inTwentieth-Century Literature 16/2 (summer 1992): 289-303.

Additional Information

Scherman is the founder and current president of The Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society (501(c)3).  

91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5817
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday and Wednesday: 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Thursday: 10:00 a.m.-noon
Class times excepted.
Or by appointment. Email the day before to schedule at t-scherman@neiu.edu.
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Larry O. Dean
Larry
O.
Dean
Instructor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5855
Expertise
Creative Writing, Poetry, Literature
Courses Taught
ELP 098 Supportive Instruction Writing Skills Workshop
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 109E First Year Experience: Your Chicago: Write On!
ENGL 201 World of Poetry
ENGL 202 World of Drama
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ENGL 235 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 316 Forms of Poetry
ENGL 347 Rust Belt Literature
ENGL 359 Independent Study in English
ENGL 371 Studies in Women's Literature
ENGL 374B Creative Writing: Flash Forms
ENGL 384/385 Creative Writing: Poetry I & II
ENGL 384R Research Poetry
ENGL 397 Summer Creative Writing Institute
Research Interests
Contemporary American Poetry, Hard-boiled Literature, Working Class Literature, Satire, Popular Culture
Education

M.A. 91Porn
M.F.A. Murray State University
B.G.S. University of Michigan

Selected Publications

Frequently Asked Questions. Salmon Poetry - forthcoming

Muse, Um. Finishing Line Press (2022)

Activities of Daily Living. Salmon Poetry (2017)

Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry. Salmon Poetry (2016)

Language Lessons, Vol 1. Third Man Books (2014)

Brief Nudity. Salmon Poetry (2013)

Basic Cable Couplets. Silkworms Ink (2012)

abbrev. Beard of Bees (2011)

About the Author. Mindmade Books (2011)

I Am Spam. Fractal Edge Press (2004)

Identity Theft for Dummies. Zenith Beast Books (2003)

Selected Performances

AWP, The Art Institute of Chicago, Bucktown Arts Festival, Chicago Poetry Festival, Chicago Poetry Invasion, Poets Against the War, Poetry Cram, Midwest Literary Festival, Printers Row Lit Fest, Looptopia, Pilcrow Lit Fest, Creative Writing Institute, Series A, Orange Alert Reading Series, Writers Block, Wordeater, Revolving Door, Ipsento Reading Series, Chicago Book Expo, Excited Utterance, GCHS Writers Week, Wit Rabbit and Poetry Foundation, Typewriter Factory, Haymarket House, Sunday Salon

Room LWH 2018
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5855
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Monday and Wednesday: 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m./ 2:15-3:15 p.m.

Or by Zoom/in-person appointment. Email the day before to schedule at l-dean@neiu.edu.
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Christopher L. Schroeder
Christopher
L.
Schroeder
Professor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5483
Expertise
Political economies of literacy, literacy philosophies and language policies.
Courses Taught
Cultural Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
English Studies and Technology
Grammars of Standard English and Competing Discourses
Literacies and Political Economies
Seminar in Composition Theory
Summer Writing Institute (National Writing Project)
Writing Across the Curriculum
Writing Assessment
Advanced Composition
American Literature
Drama and Diversity
History of Chicago Drama
Intro to Global Studies
Literatures and Literacies
Modern American Drama
Technical Writing
WAC-Writing Center Tutoring
The World of Drama
Research Interests
Chicago drama, textual circulation, and political economies of literacy
Education

Ph.D. with distinction in English from the University of Louisiana (1999)

M.A. in English from the University of Missouri (1994)

B.A. with honors in English from Southern Illinois University (1992)

Selected Publications

Books
Schroeder, Christopher. 2011. Diverse by Design: Literacy Education within Multicultural Institutions. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.
• recipient of 2012 CCCC Research Impact Award

Schroeder, Christopher, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell, eds. 2002. ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook.
• reprinted by Heinemann in 2004
• college best-seller for Heinemann in 2002

Schroeder, Christopher. 2001. ReInventing the University: Literacies and Legitimacy in the Postmodern Academy. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.
• reviewed in College English
• nominated for the 2002 David H. Russell Award sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English

Articles, Chapters, and Essays
Schroeder, Christopher. 2016. “Continuity and Community in a Cosmopolitan World: Code Switching and Its Effects on Community Identity.” In Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Lines Across America, ed. Barbara Couture and Patricia Wojahn, 43-59.  Boulder, Colo.: Utah State University Press.

---. 2010. “Web Authoring Software and Electronic Expertise.” In Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications, ed. Ollie O. Oviedo, Joyce R. Walker, and Byron Hawk, 95-113. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, Inc.

---. 2009. “English Teachers We Have Known.” In Transforming English Studies: New Voices from an Emerging Genre, ed. Lori Ostergaard, Jeff Ludwig, and Jim Nugent, 212-228. West Lafayette, Ind: Parlor Press.

---. 2007. “Notes Toward a Dynamic Theory of Literacy.” In Locations of Composition, ed. Christopher Keller and Christian Weisser, 267-287. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

---. 2006. “The Limits of Institutionalized Literacies: Minority Bilinguals at One U.S. University.” Community Literacy Journal 1: 67-82.

---. 2005. “Natural Diversity: A Response to David Quammen.” In Writing Environments: Rhetoric, Texts, and the Construction of Nature, ed. Sidney Dobrin and Chris Keller, 99-107. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

---. 2004a. Review of Introducing English: Essays in the Intellectual Work of Composition, by James Slevin. Composition Studies 32: 143-146.

---. 2004b. “The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern Literacies.” In Ethnography Unbound: From Shock Theory to Critical Praxis, ed. Stephen Brown and Sidney Dobrin. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

---. 2002. “From the Inside Out (or the Outside In, Depending).” In ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy, ed. Christopher Schroeder, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell, 178-190. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook.

---. 2002. “Rereading the Literacy Crisis in Colleges and Universities in the United States.” In Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, ed. Frederick J. Anczak, Cinda Goggins, and Geoffery D. Klinger, 187-192. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

---. 2001. “Academic Literacies, Legitimacy Crises, and Electronic Cultures.” The Journal of Literacy and Technology

---. 1999. “Blurring Boundaries: Rhetoric in Literature (and Other) Classrooms.” In Teaching in the 21st Century: Adapting Writing Pedagogies to the College Curriculum, ed. Alice Robertson and Barbara Smith, 297-311. New York: Garland Press.

---. 1998. “Writing, Reading, and Resistant Meanings: Teaching Students to Fish.” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 17: 61-72. (all footnotes were omitted without permission)

---. 1997. “Knowledge and Power, Logic and Rhetoric, and Other Reflections in the Toulminian Mirror: A Critical Consideration of Toulmin’s Contributions to Composition.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 17: 95-107.

Room LWH 2023
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5483
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 12:05-1:35 p.m./ 3:00-4:00 p.m. (in office)

Other times by appointment via Google Meet
Email at c-schroeder2@neiu.edu
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Julie Kim
Julie
H.
Kim
Professor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5825
Expertise
Early Modern British Literature, Detective Fiction, 20th Century American and British Literature
Courses Taught
ENGL 219 American Literature,1865-Present
ENGL 221 English Literature, Beginnings-1750
ENGL 222 English Literature, 1750-Present
ENGL 323 Shaw and Modern British Drama
ENGL 329 Milton
ENGL 330 Shakespeare Comedies and Romances
ENGL 331 Shakespeare Tragedies
ENGL 360 Detective Fiction
ENGL 379 20th Century Fiction II, 1945-Present
ENGL 422 Graduate Seminar on Milton
ENGL 428 The English Novel
Research Interests
Early Modern British Literature (especially Milton), Detective Fiction
Education

Ph.D. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
M.A. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
B.A. University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)

Selected Publications

Edited Books:

Selected Significant Articles:

“Sabrina . . . or, the Lady?: Gender, Class, and the Spectre of Milton in Sabrina (1995),” in Milton and Popular Culture, edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers and Gregory M. Semenza (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 151-162.

“The Lady’s Unladylike Struggle: Redefining Patriarchal Boundaries in Milton’s Comus,” in Milton Studies (35), 1997, pp. 1-20.

Room LWH 2002
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5825
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
In person, Room LWH 2002:
Monday and Wednesday: 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

For virtual/Zoom student hours: Please email at least one weekday/business day in advance to schedule a specific time at j-kim6@neiu.edu.
There may also be "pop-up" Zoom hours announced that do not need appointments.
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