Erin VanLaningham is Professor of English at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Her research fields include the British novel, Irish literature and culture, and aesthetics and gender studies. She is a contributor to and co-editor of Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies. She directs the Scholarly Resources Project for the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE), a program of the Council of Independent Colleges, and co-hosts the NetVUE podcast, Callings.

• Foreword by Marjorie HassPrefaceVocations of the Contributors Introduction: Whose Good Life?: Vocation and Communal Flourishing-- Erin VanLaningham PART ONE: Vocation in the Commons 1. Our Call as Response: The Common Good as the Context of Vocation--David Matzko McCarthy2. Beyond Deep Gladness: Lamenting Trauma, Injustice, and Suffering in Service of the Flourishing of All--Deanna A. Thompson3. Overturning for the Common Good: Membership and Mutuality in a World of Markets and Meritocracy--Christine Jeske4. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice: Institutional Mission as the Call of the Common Good--Monica M. Smith PART TWO: Transformations of the Common Good 5. The Vocation of Advocacy: Enacting a More Just World--Michelle Hayford6. Queer Vocation and the Uncommon Good--Geoffrey W. Bateman7. Expanding the Borders of a Common Good: Transformational Encounters--Jonathan Golden PART THREE: Pedagogies and Practices for the Common Good 8. A Too Uncommon, Common Good: The Role of Deliberation and Dialogue in Vocational Discernment--David Timmerman9. Reading with Strangers: Our Collective Vocation--Erin VanLaningham 10. A Case for Compassionate Pedagogy: Caring for the Public's Health, Cultivating Sustainable Vocations--Meghan M. Slining PART FOUR: Callings of Campus, Community, and Beyond 11. The University as the (Common) Good Place--Robert J. Pampel 12. The Yarn in the Tapestry: Weaving Memory into History, Vocation, and Our Common Life--Martin Holt Dotterweich13. What We Are Up Against: Reforming the Vocation of Higher Education for Formation throughout Our Lives--Charles Mathewes Epilogue Towards an Ecology of the Common Good: Vocation in the Gaps--Erin VanLaningham Index of NamesIndex of Subjects

Erin VanLaningham is Professor of English at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Her research fields include the British novel, Irish literature and culture, and aesthetics and gender studies. She is a contributor to and co-editor of Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies. She directs the Scholarly Resources Project for the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE), a program of the Council of Independent Colleges, and co-hosts the NetVUE podcast, Callings.

• Foreword by Marjorie HassPrefaceVocations of the Contributors Introduction: Whose Good Life?: Vocation and Communal Flourishing-- Erin VanLaningham PART ONE: Vocation in the Commons 1. Our Call as Response: The Common Good as the Context of Vocation--David Matzko McCarthy2. Beyond Deep Gladness: Lamenting Trauma, Injustice, and Suffering in Service of the Flourishing of All--Deanna A. Thompson3. Overturning for the Common Good: Membership and Mutuality in a World of Markets and Meritocracy--Christine Jeske4. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice: Institutional Mission as the Call of the Common Good--Monica M. Smith PART TWO: Transformations of the Common Good 5. The Vocation of Advocacy: Enacting a More Just World--Michelle Hayford6. Queer Vocation and the Uncommon Good--Geoffrey W. Bateman7. Expanding the Borders of a Common Good: Transformational Encounters--Jonathan Golden PART THREE: Pedagogies and Practices for the Common Good 8. A Too Uncommon, Common Good: The Role of Deliberation and Dialogue in Vocational Discernment--David Timmerman9. Reading with Strangers: Our Collective Vocation--Erin VanLaningham 10. A Case for Compassionate Pedagogy: Caring for the Public's Health, Cultivating Sustainable Vocations--Meghan M. Slining PART FOUR: Callings of Campus, Community, and Beyond 11. The University as the (Common) Good Place--Robert J. Pampel 12. The Yarn in the Tapestry: Weaving Memory into History, Vocation, and Our Common Life--Martin Holt Dotterweich13. What We Are Up Against: Reforming the Vocation of Higher Education for Formation throughout Our Lives--Charles Mathewes Epilogue Towards an Ecology of the Common Good: Vocation in the Gaps--Erin VanLaningham Index of NamesIndex of Subjects