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Each college campus shooting leaves a record: archival collections, monuments to the dead, government-led inquiries, internal university investigations, and lawsuits.
Artifact: Encounters with the Campus Shooting Archives seeks to understand university and college campus shootings that involve students and faculty of those institutions by examining their aftermaths, from university archives to memorials honoring victims.
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Artifact, Julija Sukys weighs what it means to live in a place where students and their teachers are gunned down on a seemingly regular basis. It asks how we can continue to learn, teach, and live when nothing changes in response to these deaths. It attempts to speak into silence, to look at the pain of those who have come through trauma, and to meet their gazes without platitudes or triumphalism. The result is a searching book about care, memory, forgiveness, and survival.
About the author
Julija Sukys teaches the writing of memoirs, autobiographical writing, essays, and archival research methods. She is the author of
Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter's Reckoning (University of Nebraska Press, 2017),
Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite (University of Nebraska Press, 2012), and
Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (University of Nebraska Press, 2007). Sukys holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto.
