A searingly honest graphic memoir dispatch from a community college
professor who cares deeply for his students and family while also
combating personal health issues from the frontlines of public education
during the pandemic.
Going Remote is a joint production of The Censored Press and Seven
Stories Press.
With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an
English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical
moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing
inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education
system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset
of the pandemic in 2020 when students and educators left their physical
classrooms for remote learning. As a professor at a community college,
Bessie shows how despite these challenges, teachers work tirelessly to
create a more equitable educational system by responding to mental
health issues and student needs.
From the Black Lives Matter protests to fielding distressed emails from
students to considering the future of his own career, Going Remote
also tells the personal story of Bessie's cancer diagnosis and treatment
during the pandemic. A fusion of memoir, meditation, and scholarship,
Going Remote is a powerful account of a crisis moment in educational
history demonstrating both personal and societal changes.
Includes back matter revealing the literary and theoretical touchpoints
that inform Going Remote (works by Octavia Butler, Neil Postman, Jaron
Lanier, and Diane Ravitch).
