The Center for Ethics and Public Engagement

This past year, the CEPE hosted twelve on-campus lectures and public forums. We also started a podcast, sponsored various book groups, and collaborated with the Torgerson Center for Nordic Studies to acquire a Future Library certificate for Luther College.

The 2023-2025 Research Fellow is Associate Professor of English Lindsey Row-Heyveld. She is using her Fellowship at the CEPE to explore representations of disability and able-bodiedness in early modern England. Thinking about issues of intimacy and care is guiding her project to disability’s intersections with transness and gender fluidity, especially throughout the life cycle. The CEPE fellowship also supports Lindsey’s work to theorize carelessness as a critical component of able-bodiedness and to foster access and care in scholarly and community circles at Luther and beyond.