Christopher Schaberg Books

This book is one English professor's assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warnings to learning management systems and the COVID pandemic, Christopher Schaberg reflects on the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education.Adopting an interdisciplinary public humanities approach, Schaberg considers the frequently exhausting and depressing realities of college today. Yet in these meditations he also finds collaboration, mentoring, less grading, surface reading, and other pedagogical strategies open up opportunities to reinvigorate teaching and learning in the current turbulent decade.

Exploring the evolving concept of "adventure" in the wake of global challenges, this book delves into human narratives surrounding wilderness, remote places, and profound existential reflections. It examines how recent crises have reshaped our understanding of adventure and the stories we share about facing adversity and the natural world. Through these themes, it invites readers to contemplate the significance of exploration in contemporary society.

From the northern Michigan lakeshore where he learned to fish as a child to casting flies in a New Orleans bayou, Christopher Schaberg ponders his lifetime pursuit of the widely mythologized art of fly-fishing.