Many moons ago, I wrote a behind-the scenes of an article I’d published, “The Idea of Terror: Institutional Reproduction in…
(cross-posted from my Substack, where this little afternoon rant got far more attention than I’d expected. if you like it…
*I use “professing” here in the US sense, where all instructors with a PhD at the university level are addressed…
Hear ye, hear ye: the prophesied UK–US higher ed comparison post has arrived. It is long and yet still incomplete,…
I’ve hesitated to write this post for a while. I suppose it would be accurate to say that doing so…
Like many in the US right now, I am starting to stare down the barrel of my taxes, in stark…
I’ve been thinking for a while about what I’d like to say regarding my first semester as an assistant professor.…
One truly befuddling discovery that I made on academic Twitter was a mysterious and semi-terrifying breed of grad student: the…
(or, how I avoided being buried alive by PDF files) This is the fourth in a series of reflections on…
This is the third in a series of reflections on going through the academic job market during COVID. Part 1,…