Freelance Academic | Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Article Remix and Escaping the Publishing Double Bind

by Katie | Jul 5, 2014 | Freelance Academic, Journalism

:: My doctoral program did a really great job training me to be an expert in an area of study—but not a really great job training me to share this expertise with the world outside of academia. Suggested Reading: “What’s the Point of Academic...

Freelance Academic Manifesto

by Katie | Jun 18, 2014 | Freelance Academic

:: So, what does it mean to be a freelance academic? From my first post on this topic: To be a Freelance Academic is to recognize this bifurcation that we contingent professors face, and then to try to mend it. So, on the note of “mending,” this manifesto...

On New Leaves and Networking

by Katie | Jun 9, 2014 | Freelance Academic

:: Networking: Don’t you think, in our new virtual age, we can strip the word of its sleaziness and imbue it with what it has given me these last few weeks? A community, and hope? It’s been over a month since I posted last, but I refuse to fall into that...

What Does It Mean to Be a Freelance Academic?

by Katie | May 3, 2014 | Freelance Academic

:: Indeed, the biggest change required to become a Freelance Academic is to recognize that, in the words of a dear friend from grad school, They’re never going to let you in the club. Those who’ve actually been reading this blog for a while (not that...

This “Older Adjunct” and Her Many Responsibilities

by Katie | Mar 12, 2014 | Freelance Academic

:: Given our precariousness and our responsibilities, what is our responsibility as adjunct intellectuals? In today’s riposte to the well-riposted article by Nicholas Kristof about why academics don’t write as public intellectuals, Corey Robin...

This Writer’s Writer’s Block

by Katie | Mar 6, 2014 | Freelance Academic

:: Why haven’t I been blogging? Fear. After my last post, I gave more thought to why I hadn’t been writing on what is, essentially, my professional blog. I came up with a very specific reason: fear. Every time I sat down to give thoughtful analysis to the...