“Alt-ac” signifies the group of professionals whose work is outside the tenure track but still in the orbit of the university.
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Katina Rogers deposited #Alt-Academy: Alternative Careers for Academic Scholars in the group
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis e-book is the first volume of the online publication #Alt-Academy. Edited by Bethany Nowviskie, this volume contains all 24 essays published by the 32 authors who contributed to #Alt-Academy’s initial collection. The following text, also by Nowviskie, is from the 2011 website launch:
#Alt-Academy was created by and for people with deep…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Affective Labor and Faculty Development: COVID-19 and Dealing with the Emotional Fallout in the group
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoLike most centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) in 2020, ours has been engaged in continual, responsive support during the COVID-19 global pandemic. In addition to offering our rapid, knowledgeable, and evidence-based instructional development approaches during this time, we found affective skills—compassion, empathy, and listening—surfaced as…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited CGS Research and Policy Forum: Putting the Humanities PhD to Work in the group
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThese slides are from a presentation to the quarterly CGS Research & Policy Forum. The forum featured Dr. Katina Rogers and her new book, Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom (Duke University Press, 2020). The talk centers on the notion that career development is not a standalone issue. Rather, it is embedded in…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Contingency, Staff, Anxious Pedagogy — and Love in the group
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis essay explores the role of love, as defined by bell hooks, in pedagogy as well as how it plays into anxiety in our current moment.
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Molly Des Jardin deposited Teaching “East Asian DH” in the group
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis presentation explains my undergrad/grad seminar “East Asian DH” (EALC111/511) at University of Pennsylvania in Spring 2018. I focus on the survey format of the seminar, as dictated by the challenge of trying to reach students working on many aspects of the un-discipline of East Asian studies, which encompasses a large region, at least three…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe started the topic CFP for 2019 Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference—due Nov. 10 in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
November 10, the deadline to submit proposals for the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) conference, is fast approaching! Have you sent in your proposal yet?
ACH is the U.S.-based constituent organization in the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Next summer, in partnership with Carnegie…[Read more]
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Samara Hayley Steele replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoBut this I suppose isn’t a case of English pilfering the coffers of other languages, but rather its own, it seems.
…language and culture. The things they do to each other!
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Samara Hayley Steele replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months ago@katinalynn – Hi Katrina – yes, the reason I brought this up, actually is I’m new to the MLA, and while scrolling through the Commons earlier this week, I had a double-take moment & actually took a screen shot of the group name in preparation for a social media post along the lines of “My god! They’ve infiltrated the MLA!” That fear of co…[Read more]
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Josef Horacek replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoMerging this group with Connected Academics would make sense.
As for the alt-ac term, I found it rather confusing even before the resent resurgence of the alt-right. Para-academic seems more accurate and sounds kind of badass.
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoHi Samara, this has been on my mind, too. I edit #Alt-Academy and have felt some concern about how the term may be read in the current political climate. While Brian is right about the history, I think the term has outlived much of its original usefulness and tends to provoke a somewhat negative reaction in people now. In my own work, I favor…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoWe’ve tried to avoid using “alt-academic” and “alt-ac” in Connected Academics discussions, focusing instead on humanities careers. If this group is interested in moving discussion over to the Connected Academics group, or alternatively over to the broader Humanities Commons platform (in order to engage with non-members and humanities practitioners…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThat’s an interesting idea, Samara, and one that frankly hadn’t occurred to me. I think it’s important to recognize that the term “alt-ac” came about serendipitously and stuck in part because it filled a need that hadn’t been visible until the term was coined by Jason Rhody. Bethany Nowviskie wrote a short piece a few years ago that traced the…[Read more]
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Samara Hayley Steele started the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIt would seem connecting the term “Alt-” these days to anything now denotes a type of political affiliation–alt-right, alt-facts, etc–and I assume those political affiliations do not describe this group.
As a para-academic myself (an academic who works alongside & in conjunction with an academic institution, but not within it in a tra…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited Humanities Unbound: Supporting Careers and Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track in the group
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoAs humanities scholars increasingly recognize the value of public engagement, and as the proportion of tenure-track faculty positions available continues to decline, many humanities programs are focusing renewed attention on equipping graduate students for careers as scholars both within and beyond academe. To support those efforts, the Scholarly…[Read more]
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Megan Massino started the topic Alt-ac admins: Open Discussion on Humanities Postdocs in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAlt-ac folks who work at centers, institutes, and in programs that offer postdoctoral fellowship positions–I need you! Join me for a discussion of postdocs in the humanities at the upcoming MLA convention. Coffee, tea, and light breakfast items will be served. Email me at massino@wisc.edu to let me know if you can attend and if you’d like to s…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe started the topic Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum at 2016 Convention in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThought the alt-ac group might be interested in this open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum at the 2016 convention in Austin, TX. The topic of discussion, “What Was, Is, and Shall Be an Academic Library – and Who Will Work There?” The session is scheduled for Saturday, January 9, at 3:30 PM.
Details in this blog…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic New resource for alternative careers in the humanities in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe Connected Academics site is also connected to an active group, in which your participation is welcome and encouraged!
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Nicky Agate started the topic New resource for alternative careers in the humanities in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoI invite members of this group who might be interested in exploring careers beyond university teaching to explore our new site for the Connected Academics initiative. Content—interviews, advice, resources—will updated regularly, but please let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see up there.
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic FYI: Beyond the Professoriate: A Virtual Conference for PhDs in Career Transiti in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoFYI, please feel free to post and/or circulate the announcement.
Regards,
Suha
—Beyond the Professoriate: A Virtual Conference for PhDs in Career Transition
Hosted by Maren Wood (Lilli Research Group) and Jennifer Polk (From PhD to Life)
May 2 and 9, 2015
Attend one day: US $25
Attend two days: US $39
Register at:…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: "Pursuing Alternative Career Paths" – NeMLA, 30 April – 3 May 2015 -Toronto in the forum
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago[Please circulate as widely as possible and thank you for your help]
CFP: “Pursuing Alternative Career Paths” – NeMLA, 30 April – 3 May 2015 (Toronto, ON, Canada)
46th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
30 April – 3 May 2015SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2014
Panel…[Read more]
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