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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Valuation Methods

  • Rachel Wilkinson
  • December 5, 2015
In some of my fantasies, I make a pitch for art or for truth, defend them like commodities.
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The Rumpus Interview with Julie Schumacher

  • Anjali Enjeti
  • October 3, 2014
Julie Schumacher discusses going extinct, iPads and iPhones, epistolary novels, and why the number of MFA programs in the U.S. is a non-issue.
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Much Ado About Something

  • Connie May Fowler
  • May 7, 2014
While Affordable Care Act (ACA) opponents were muttering dire warnings of a falling sky, our troop of the uninsured hugged and cried and filled that same sky with utterances of shocked joy.
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The Grimmest Adjuncting Story Yet

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • February 6, 2014
D. Watkins is an adjunct professor. He doesn’t make much money, but most of his family and friends are even worse off, struggling with wrongful convictions, the impossibly high cost of…
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Is It Time to Get Rid of College Essays?

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • December 16, 2013
Today’s vocationally minded students view World Lit 101 as forced labor, an utterwasteof their time that deserves neither engagement nor effort. So you know what else is a waste of…
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Why Don’t Adjuncts Just Find a Different Job?

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • November 25, 2013
We’ve blogged before about the increasingly untenable state of academic careers and the plight of adjunct professors. If it’s as bad as all that, why don’t adjunct professors just quit…
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Cracks in the Foundation of the Ivory Tower

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 20, 2013
If the current economic state of academia seems grim, well, it is. In an essay for Dissent, Claire Goldstene plumbs the ins and outs of student-loan debt, the exploitation of adjunct…
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The Agony of Adjuncts

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • May 28, 2013
This week, Chronicle of Higher Education advice-columnist “Ms. Mentor” counsels a recent MFA graduate on her career options. The recent grad is considering a gig as an adjunct professor teaching composition,…
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