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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Katie | Mar 1, 2014 | Freelance Academic, Teaching, Writing and Publishing
:: Since NTTs are no less driven or intelligent or educated than their tenure-track colleagues, what do we do with our creative energies? Recently, I was having a heart-to-heart-over-coffee in order to avoid grading papers with a colleague of mine. She said that she...