Britt Starr

@erin101green Please don’t (rip) because you will (hear it again).

if i hear one more lit grad student complain about a comp pedagogy course before they teach fyw i will physically rip my hair out.

@erin101green I never figured this out!!!

why is it so difficult for my students to access peer review on canvas?

#academicjobmarket I just think everyone should know and continue to be reminded that this is what the job market is like right now. $55k for a 4/4 permanent position. Yes this is the low end of what I’m seeing but it might also be the median; in other words, it’s common.

@IAmDylanLewis Holy shiitake that’s so cool

@ceci_shelton @rleonboone1 @UMDEnglish Heyyyyy dismantling oppressive anger norms, I see you 🎉🎉🎉

@matthew_paul Shiny shiny brilliance!! Yayyy. It’s an utter delight that I was in the room to witness the formation of this idea. Truly important.

Disparticipation is participatory, disidentifying dissent. Disparticipants dissent from binary oppositions of popular/pure and reformist/radical and disidentify to promote coalition-building. #TeamRhetoric 50 free copies here, or email/DM for PDF: tandfonline.com/eprint/9KZ2VBP…

🚨 Hot off the presses! 🚨 "Beyond Participation, Toward Disparticipation" in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. Remember this iconic image of Angela Peoples from the 2017 Women's March? I theorize her engagement—along with two other Women's March examples—as disparticipation. 1/2

@S_Mittermeier I posted recently about how the job descrpts for profs demand 70-hr work weeks and someone responded, “there are academics who only work 70 hours work weeks?!” w/a tone of pride, to which I said nothing bc I don’t want to fight here but EYEROLL!!!!! PLS STOP NORMALIZING BURNOUT

Btw: the course is academic writing, which means assigning and giving feedback to many writing assignments, + teaching students how to do research, evaluate the credibility of sources, READ academic (and non-academic texts) and think critically. This is labor-intensive teaching.

It’s important to share that I am currently being paid $2100 to teach a community college course as an adjunct faculty. Before taxes. The course is capped at 25 students. If I taught 5 courses each semester at this rate, I’d make $21k/yr teaching up to 125 students at a time.

It’s a great day to be on the job market.

@OwenGleiberman Also, almost all the interview subjects are white men who use the language of Christ or a he/him God. The “evidence” would be a lot more compelling (and their somewhat veiled evangelizing more successful) if the subjects were a bit more diverse. Great review tho- much appreciated

'After Death' is a documentary that pretends the afterlife is science. It's a compendium of near-death experiences, but the uncanny thing is...they're all the same. My review. shorturl.at/ghvP7

@mkirschenbaum ha 😑

@LKonstan lol. Maybe you should give a talk about it. Srsly. You can normalize this experience for grad students and junior scholars.

I think I finally figured out how to talk about my dissertation, a little less than 15 years after I submitted it. I really should let the members of my committee know.

@mkirschenbaum NB: 10 hours/week for each course is a gross underestimate, especially for newer instructors or if you're teaching 20+ students in a writing-intensive course or if you care about the quality of your teaching and individualized feedback. (Most TT jobs this year have a 3-3 load.)

@mkirschenbaum So if you have to teach a 3-3, does that mean you should be spending an equivalent amount of time/effort to teaching 3 courses per week on your research? Then another third of that on service? Let's say teaching takes a minimum of 10 hrs/wk per course, that's a 70 hr work-week.

@underlan I just saw one that was 4-4 plus expectation to publish.

@starrlitbritt Seems high, although I have heard of 3-2. Maybe it depends on the institution’s profile and their tenure expectations (a handful of articles vs. a book)?

This year on the job market I'm seeing this a lot: "The typical teaching load for research-active faculty is 3 courses per semester." I don't know any research-active tenured faculty who teach that much, do I? When did this become "the typical teaching load" + publish-or-perish?

I don't necessarily recommend reading Rest is Resistance while being on The Job Market. Feeling constantly overwhelmed by how the conditions of academic humanities reproduce grind culture and all the loss that comes with it.

@matthew_paul @SBUWritRhet THIS LOOKS AMAZING

Excited about my spring course, AI and Advocacy... If you know any interested Seawolves, send them my way!