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From the bestselling author of Life of the Mind Interrupted come two new collections of essays.
“Refreshingly honest.” -Award-winning author Amy Impellizzeri
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Katie’s Blog: Essays, News, Marginalia
Epiphanies and Bending Reality
:: For those of us living alternative-academic, post-academic, and freelance lives, we don’t have set tracks to follow. Our tracks are, by necessity, set by our own creativity. They literally (there’s that word again) are what we make them.
Article Remix and Escaping the Publishing Double Bind
:: 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.
Freelance Academic Manifesto
:: So, what does it mean to be a freelance academic?
On New Leaves and Networking
:: 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?
What Does It Mean to Be a 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.
April is . . . not what I expected: On the commonplace of rape
:: Rape is commonplace until you try to prove to someone else that rape happened.