When Slow Scholarship was published in September 2019, global pandemics were still more likely to be the subject of speculative fiction than the nightly news. I offer this observation as caveat and context, to remind readers and myself that the world this book was written in does not exist anymore. Moreover, between the COVID-19 pandemic, the changing nature of scholarship and academic work at my small university in southeastern Ohio (and the profession at large), and the general sense of dis-ease that has marked my two years of engagement with this collection, I am not the scholar who was asked to review this book. But returning to it in the midst of a pandemic that still rages across the world—now in its Omicron variant and hurtling toward whatever horror the Greek alphabet still holds in store for us—I find these essays stand as both a monument to a different moment...
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