Recommendations and Reports on Contingency from the MLA
In this entry, I will discuss the following MLA recommendations and reports on contingency: “MLA Recommendation on a Minimum Wage for Full-Time Entry-Level Faculty…
Recent Scholarship on Contingency: Academic Labor: Research and Artistry—Volume I (2017)
Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, vol. I, no. 1, 2017, https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=alra. Accessed 16 July 2018. Introduction In my first entry on Recent Scholarship on…
Recent Scholarship on Contingency: Forum (May 2018) in Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty, an insert in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 45, no. 4, 2018, pp. A1-A24. http://cccc.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/TETYC/045-4may2018/TETYC0454FORUM.pdf…
Recent Scholarship on Contingency: “Contingent Faculty, Online Writing Instruction, and Professional Development in Technical and Professional Communication” (Lisa Meloncon) in Technical Communication Quarterly
Meloncon, Lisa. “Contingent Faculty, Online Writing Instruction, and Professional Development in Technical and Professional Communication.” Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, 2017, pp….
Recent Scholarship on Contingency: “Freshman Composition as a Precariat Enterprise” (James Rushing Daniel) in College English
Daniel, James Rushing. “Freshman Composition as a Precariat Enterprise.” College English, vol. 80, no. 1, 2017, pp. 63-85. James Rushing Daniel opens his article…
Recent Scholarship on Contingency: Forum (September 2017) in The Journal of the Conference on College Composition & Communication
Over the course of several blog entries, I will call attention to recent scholarly work on contingency. Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty,…
Graduate Students and Unionization
Post inauguration 2017 the question (besides what next?) will be: are graduate students at private universities workers? The Columbia decision confirmed it, but will…
Panel 645: Scholarly Teaching Abstracts
The Contingent Labor in the Profession Committee of the MLA welcomes you to join our evening panel session: 645. Scholarly Teaching / Teaching as…
“When ‘Uberization’ Comes to Education” by Jonathan L. Beller
This recent article “When ‘Uberization’ Comes to Education” by Jonathan L. Beller from the Chronicle of Higher Education is a tongue-in-cheek look at snagging…
Notes on Studying Precarity
The University of Southern Denmark is offering applications for a three year PhD fellowship on Literature, unemployment and precarious labor. Advertised on The Chronicle of Higher…