About « Another Academic Bites the Dust

Welcome to my blog about leaving academia. I’m at the finishing stages of  a Ph.D. in English. After one disastrous stab at the job market, I realized that I no longer felt like my life was compatible with life in the academy. I have only vague fantasies about what I will do instead, and part of this will be about sharing the process of turning those into something more concrete.  For the moment, I find myself writing a lot about the emotional, personal side of the career-change process. There is a lot of analysis of academia available on the interwebs, but reading about other people’s affective experience has been one of the most helpful things for me. And I’m still in the thick of my dissertation so my analysis brain is a little preoccupied. As a trained feminist and queer studies scholar, I do not actually think that analysis and personal experience are discrete categories, anyway. I imagine that over time the focus will shift in various ways.

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