Academic Labor
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From Ph.D. to Poverty
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Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].Another Ph.D. just applied for unemployment. I haven’t received any benefits because my claims are
On, On, On
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The following post was originally published by Kate Bowles on her blog, Music for Deckchairs [http://musicfordeckchairs.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/on-on-on/]. It’s an important piece about the nature of academic
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A Soliloquy on Contingency
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Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].I don’t share the sheer outrage that some adjunct professors are directing at the tenured ranks.
Re-Authoring the Adjunct Experience: 5 Talking Points
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Writing the adjunct experience is its own genre now, having emerged from the duress of countless contingent laborers who are tired of marginalization. We are academe’s scapegoat. What I want now is
Finding My Voice as a Minority Teacher
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As a high-school teacher, I kept quiet about my sexuality because I didn’t want to draw attention to it. Instead, I created a deafening silence, a vacuum that tugged on everything around
Stress Points
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We’ve opened this area of the journal —Page Two [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/articles/page-two/]— to non-peer-reviewed articles, editorials, announcements, CFPs, cross-posted articles, and more. Page Two allows Hybrid Pedagogy room to
Intersectionality in the Classroom: My Experience Teaching at the Crossroads of Ethnicity and Gender
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I may have created a racist. I am an adjunct instructor at a large, public university in a rural area of the country. Given the media attention surrounding the death of Margaret Mary
Contingent Mother: The Role Gender Plays in the Lives of Adjunct Faculty
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I am a mother. I am also a PhD in philosophy. And, finally, I am a contingent college professor at two universities. I am an example of how being a mother in that
Ghost Towns of the Public Good
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Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].I never really got tenure as a concept, and after almost ten years of e-learning I finally
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Life of an Adjunct
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It’s my day off from my full-time retail job so this means it’s a teaching day. I’ve walked the dog and gone for my run. I am now doing laundry.
Adjunctification: Living in the Margins of Academe
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Unfair labor practices are commonplace in American higher education, public and private. Hardly anyone denies the problem of adjunctificaton and contingency, and, more epidemic, laborers on the fringe in any trade or profession
Where Do I Belong?: Contingency and the Psychic Wage
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Hybrid Pedagogyrecently announced a call for articles that addressthe problem of contingency in higher education [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/CFP_Contingency_in_Higher_Education.html] . The goal is to examine our
Contingent Labor: an Interview with Lynée Gaillet and Letizia Guglielmo
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On Friday, October 4th, 2013, Hybrid Pedagogy hosted a synchronous#digped [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23digped&src=typd]conversation on Twitter focused onPedagogy, Neoliberalism, and Academic Labor [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/
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N=1: A Social Scientific Inquiry into Happiness and Academic Labor
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Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].ABSTRACT:This study aims to assess the professional perspectives of Ioana Literat (hereafter referred to as ‘the