Seeking Contributors to Post-Ac E-book and Website
If you’ve always wanted to share your story of academia; written a post-academic/alt-blog; or benefited from the blog posts you’ve found here, mama nervosa, From Grad School to Happiness, Project...
View ArticleA Brief, Working History of the Alt-Ac and Post-Academic Movements
This timeline originally appeared on my blog, Mama Nervosa, on 12.27.2012. This version includes a few additions to the first version of the timeline. As the humanities unravel, as alt-ac gains steam...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean to Be Postacademic? A #postac Manifesto
Currer Bell and I collaborated to write this. We welcome your feedback. Recently, the crises in higher education have sparked numerous discussions regarding academic institutional reform. Many of these...
View ArticleAcademic Advising as a Post-Ac or Alt-Ac Career: Info and Advice
This post originally appeared on my personal blog, Mama Nervosa. It’s been awhile since I rapped at ya about alt-ac life and my work as an academic advisor. Last year, when I started my position as an...
View Article“Finding Life After Academia…:” HTLA, Currer, and Lauren featured in NYT Article
The New York Times published a thorough and interesting article about the trend of post-ac and alt-ac in the last few years. Journalist Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow covers the gamut from Versatile PhD meetups...
View ArticlePrivilege Divide Clarified
The response to our recent post on privilege in post-ac has been animated and contentious. We’ve heard from folks experiencing the “divide” we described, and from detractors who disagreed with the...
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