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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sarah M. Sala

  • Kiran Bhat
  • November 5, 2020
“A poem is like a vision test—its vision is either clear or it’s not.”
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Vocabulary Lessons in Bucharest

  • Erin Corber
  • February 14, 2017
I felt unhinged in my moments of isolation, and frustrated in my muteness.
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Putting the D in PhD

  • Adam Keller
  • September 9, 2016
An anonymous writer at the Guardian has a second career in erotica to fund their academic lifestyle, despite mixed reactions from colleagues: Colleagues in the arts react with a strange mixture of nervous supportiveness…
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Tearing Down the Paywall

  • Ian MacAllen
  • January 27, 2016
Academic journals are essential to scholarly research. Scientists making new discoveries publish their findings in these journals, for example, but also read the journals to stay abreast of the latest…
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The End of Literature

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 22, 2015
The rapid rise of “trigger warnings” is starting to impact literature curriculums. For instance, Columbia University students lobbied to include warnings on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a core text in Western Literature…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: O Martyr My Martyr!

  • Amanda Parrish Morgan
  • May 23, 2015
In most communities, teachers are compensated so poorly and afforded so little respect that in many cases the primary compensation is martyrdom.
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The Decline of the University Press

  • Ian MacAllen
  • May 19, 2014
The university press system has faced a rapid decline. Research libraries, looking to cut costs to pay for expensive electronic journal subscriptions, buy fewer monographs. Subsidies from parent institutions are…
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“Lol My Thesis” Illuminates Academic Achievement

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 2, 2014
If you had to sum up your undergraduate thesis in one sentence, what would you say? That’s the question posed by the Tumblr Lol My Thesis, and the answers are…pretty…
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