Vitae Scholasticae
Current Issue:
Volume 42 (2025)
An introductory note to the volume from the editor.
Breaking Up with my Dead Boyfriend: Processing the Role of Love in Biography
Lauren Yarnell Bradshaw
This methodological essay presents the author’s journey of falling in, and then out of, love with her biographical subject as she developed a critical eye toward his legacies over time. It offers insights for other biographers.
Eternity and Natality: The Childhood Thought of Philip H. Phenix
Campbell F. Scribner and Ryen C. Burris
The authors use Arendt’s concept of natality to consider the intellectual subjectivity of children as a generative site of study through the case of Philip H. Phenix (1915-2002), who studied science as a child.
Rebecca Dean: Teaching a Region About Communication
Julian Costa
The author examines the career of a dedicated community college communication professor, Rebecca Dean, within broader technological and media changes in society.
Editor’s Note
Lucy E. Bailey
On the Wings of a Black Swan: Narratives of Pandemic-Inspired Spiritual Awakenings and Sustainable Clothing Consumption Lifestyles
This narrative inquiry explores how the COVID-19 pandemic nourished changes in spirituality and in material/consumerist practices among diverse narrators.
Book Review: Andrea Walton, Women at Indiana University: 150 Years of Experiences and Contributions
Thalia Mulvihill
Cosette Joyner Martinez
Book Briefs and Contributors
Lucy E. Bailey & Lindsey Abernathy