Contingent
2020 MLA CFP: “The Valuation of the 73%: Contingent Faculty Work and Access to Academic Freedom” Conference: Modern Language Association Convention Location: Seattle, Washington Dates: 09–12 January 2020 Full name of sponsoring MLA committees: the Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights & Responsibilities (CAFPRR)...
In this entry, I will discuss the following MLA recommendations and reports on contingency: “MLA Recommendation on a Minimum Wage for Full-Time Entry-Level Faculty Members.” MLA, May 2017, https://www.mla.org/Resources/Research/Surveys-Reports-and-Other-Documents/Staffing-Salaries-and-Other-Professional-Issues/MLA-Recommendation-on-a-Minimum-Wage-for-Full-Time-Entry-Level-Faculty-Members....
Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, vol. I, no. 1, 2017, https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=alra. Accessed 16 July 2018. Introduction In my first entry on Recent Scholarship on Contingency for Contingent, I reviewed Sue Doe’s article about the work she co-leads at The Center for the Study of Academic...
Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty, an insert in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 45, no. 4, 2018, pp. A1-A24. http://cccc.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/TETYC/045-4may2018/TETYC0454FORUM.pdf The three articles that comprise the Spring 2018 edition of Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty...
Meloncon, Lisa. “Contingent Faculty, Online Writing Instruction, and Professional Development in Technical and Professional Communication.” Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, 2017, pp. 256-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2017.1339489 In “Contingent Faculty, Online Writing Instruction, and Professional Development in Technical...
Daniel, James Rushing. “Freshman Composition as a Precariat Enterprise.” College English, vol. 80, no. 1, 2017, pp. 63-85. James Rushing Daniel opens his article with a reference to the role of social class in Composition’s identity. In particular, he notes that Lynn Z. Bloom theorizes Composition’s middle class identity (63), even as other scholars...