The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist
Tracy, Kisha G.
The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist - Earth, Milky Way punctum books 2018 - 1 electronic resource (388 p.)
Open Access
Are you a Lone Medievalist? Working medievalists are often the only scholar of the Middle Ages in a department, a university, or a hundred-mile radius. While working to build a body of focused scholarly work, the lone medievalist is expected to be a generalist in the classroom and a contributing member of a campus community that rarely offers disciplinary community in return. As a result, overtasked and single medievalists often find it challenging to advocate for their work and field. As other responsibilities and expectations crowd in, we come to feel disconnected from the projects and subjects that sustain our intellectual passion. An insidious isolation even from one another creeps in, and soon, even attending a conference of fellow medievalists can become a lonely experience. Surrounded by scholars with greater institutional support, lower teaching loads, or more robust research agendas, we may feel alienated from our work - the work to which we've dedicated our careers.
Creative Commons
English
P3.0205.1.00 9781947447554
10.21983/P3.0205.1.00 doi
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
intellectual life medieval studies marginality university studies pedagogy
The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist - Earth, Milky Way punctum books 2018 - 1 electronic resource (388 p.)
Open Access
Are you a Lone Medievalist? Working medievalists are often the only scholar of the Middle Ages in a department, a university, or a hundred-mile radius. While working to build a body of focused scholarly work, the lone medievalist is expected to be a generalist in the classroom and a contributing member of a campus community that rarely offers disciplinary community in return. As a result, overtasked and single medievalists often find it challenging to advocate for their work and field. As other responsibilities and expectations crowd in, we come to feel disconnected from the projects and subjects that sustain our intellectual passion. An insidious isolation even from one another creeps in, and soon, even attending a conference of fellow medievalists can become a lonely experience. Surrounded by scholars with greater institutional support, lower teaching loads, or more robust research agendas, we may feel alienated from our work - the work to which we've dedicated our careers.
Creative Commons
English
P3.0205.1.00 9781947447554
10.21983/P3.0205.1.00 doi
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
intellectual life medieval studies marginality university studies pedagogy