Beyond the Dissertation as Proto-Monograph: Process and Experimentation
In a world where scholarly publication is changing rapidly, how should we approach the work of the dissertation, and of scholarly qualifications? This group of articles, the second of two clusters in the new #Alt-Academy project Graduate Training in the 21st Century, attempts to respond to this question, and to raise new ones, by showcasing the work of early career scholars actively reimagining the dissertation as proto-monograph.
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Beyond the Dissertation as Proto-Monograph: Examples and Reflections
In a world where scholarly publication is changing rapidly, how should we approach the work of the dissertation, and of scholarly qualifications? This group of articles, the first of two clusters in the new #Alt-Academy project Graduate Training in the 21st Century, attempts to respond to this question, and to raise new ones, by showcasing the work of early career scholars actively reimagining the dissertation as proto-monograph.
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Looking for Signposts
When considering a pathway to the new and exciting, it can help to have pointers from those who have gone before. Here are some travelogues from those who have made a way along the alt-ac track, as well as advice about potential pitfalls near the trailhead.
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Alt-Ac Entrepreneur: From Composition Adjunct to Writing Consultant
Daveena TauberJanuary 29, 2014
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Power, Privilege, and Social Identity
The ongoing redefinition of academic careers and identities is an opportunity for positive transformation within the academy, as well as a situation that requires ethical engagement to work against unjust power relations. The essays in this collection point towards the need for continued discussion on the topic of power, privilege, social identity, and alternative academic careers.
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Graduate Training in the 21st Century
Graduate Training in the 21st Century focuses on the challenges, the potential, and the pragmatics of the graduate school years that precede the move into one of many academies. We're especially interested in the changes to graduate education that are already taking place, or that should take place, in response to the proliferation of post-PhD pathways.
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Alternative Academic Careers for Humanities Scholars
Here we frame & introduce #alt-academy — its scope, stakes, & structure — and invite your critical engagement & contribution.
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Labor & Labor Relations
Although labor & "alternative academic" labor relations are subjects threaded throughout the collection, these essays serve particularly to un-tangle & to knot them up.
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I Am Natalie Henderson: My "Nonacademic" Career in Academe & the #alt-ac Quest
Anne Mitchell WhisnantOctober 02, 2012
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Making Room
Here we address, through attention to personal experience, our academic institutions much more than ourselves — carving out space for new action in libraries, digital centers, & interdisciplinary programs, & failing to find it in some key disciplines.
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Careers & Credentials
What qualifies us for our work? And what kinds of working lives might our particular qualifications demand? These essays take on the promises & perils of professionalization. Some also include octopi.
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Getting There
#alt-academy took its own direction from a request for "signposts" — clear pointers for junior scholars considering new trajectories. Here are a few.
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