Teaching in the Time of COVID-19: Reconceptualizing Faculty Identities in a Global Pandemic

This essay reflects on the experiences of faculty members at a large public university as they responded to the demand for online learning caused by the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic. It explores themes of course delivery, assessment methods, and faculty-student interactions and how these themes inform faculty identity. The authors suggest that the disruption to faculty identity created by the pandemic may be a fortuitous opportunity to examine deeply held beliefs about what it means to be a college professor