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USI campus to reopen, classes resume, January 28

Change is never easy, and we know this is a challenging time as you navigate recent announcements affecting programs and operations at Oakland City University. We want you to know that your educational journey doesn’t have to pause.

At the University of Southern Indiana, we are fully committed to helping you transition seamlessly so you can stay on track with your education journey. We’ve designed this dedicated page specifically for you to explore our programs, access resources, learn about credit transfers and continue your education with minimal interruption.

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Kristin Lafollette

About the Expert

Dr. Kristin LaFollette teaches courses on rhetoric and writing, medical humanities and gender and sexuality studies and serves as a basic writing specialist. She co-edited Queer Approaches: Emotion, Expression, and Communication in the Classroom, and other recent scholarship can be found in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Across the Disciplines, Journal of Basic Writing and Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. 

She is also a writer and the author of the poetry collections Hematology (winner of the 2021 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize) and Body Parts (winner of the 2017 GFT Press Chapbook Prize). LaFollette has an avid interest in medicine and once worked in a hospital and pursued a degree in pre-medicine to become a medical doctor. Now, much of her work incorporates or focuses on medicine and the body. In addition, she is a member of the Board of Advisors at The Blood Project, an educational platform out of Harvard Medical School that works toward bridging the gap between evidence-based medicine and patient care.