Welcome

May 2012 update: four new #Alt-Academy features and CFPs. Please contribute!

#Alt-Academy takes a grass-roots, bottom-up, publish-then-filter approach to community-building and networked scholarly communication around the theme of unconventional or alternative careers for people with academic training.

The site's coordinating editor is Bethany Nowviskie of the UVa Library Scholars' Lab, but this MediaCommons project is the work of many hands.

What is "#alt-ac?" What do we mean by that troubling word, "alternative?" You can learn more here.

If you have something to say about the #alt-ac track — especially as informed by training in the humanities, cultural heritage, or information science and technology — or if you want to share creative and critical work from an alternative perspective, we invite you to contribute!

See "How It Works" and the Visible Margin CFP to get started.