Britt Starr

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Britt Starr

Britt Starr

@starrlitbritt

English PhD. Using Fem Rhet and DH to liberate wise anger. Listening advocate. Anti-perfectionist. Pro-transformation. Pro-joy. 🤸🏻‍♀️ Born at 345ppm

Baltimore, MD Katılım Mart 2011
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erin green, ph.d.
erin green, ph.d.@erin101green·
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.
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erin green, ph.d.
erin green, ph.d.@erin101green·
why is it so difficult for my students to access peer review on canvas?
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Britt Starr
Britt Starr@starrlitbritt·
#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.
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Britt Starr
Britt Starr@starrlitbritt·
@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.
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Matthew Salzano
Matthew Salzano@matthew_paul·
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…
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Matthew Salzano
Matthew Salzano@matthew_paul·
🚨 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
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Britt Starr
Britt Starr@starrlitbritt·
@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
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Britt Starr
Britt Starr@starrlitbritt·
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.
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Britt Starr
Britt Starr@starrlitbritt·
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.
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Britt Starr
Britt Starr@starrlitbritt·
It’s a great day to be on the job market.
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Britt Starr
Britt Starr@starrlitbritt·
@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
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman@OwenGleiberman·
'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
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Britt Starr
Britt Starr@starrlitbritt·
@LKonstan lol. Maybe you should give a talk about it. Srsly. You can normalize this experience for grad students and junior scholars.
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Lee Konstantinou
Lee Konstantinou@LKonstan·
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.
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Britt Starr
Britt Starr@starrlitbritt·
@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.)
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Britt Starr
Britt Starr@starrlitbritt·
@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.
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Britt Starr
Britt Starr@starrlitbritt·
@underlan I just saw one that was 4-4 plus expectation to publish.
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Nathaniel Underland
Nathaniel Underland@underlan·
@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)?
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Britt Starr
Britt Starr@starrlitbritt·
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?
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Matthew Salzano
Matthew Salzano@matthew_paul·
Excited about my spring course, AI and Advocacy... If you know any interested Seawolves, send them my way!
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