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Ep 3:19 Academic Labor Is Labor

By Karen Kelsky | March 29, 2022

We talk about the "capitalist gaze" and how it impacts the creativity of academics. Casting our research outcomes as "products" can be deeply chilling to the imaginative work of scholarship.  Research as an assembly line, or as a deli counter … [Read more...] about Ep 3:19 Academic Labor Is Labor

Tagged With: academic exploitation, academic productivity, capitalism, colonialism

Ep 3:18 How Is Academia Like Gardening?

By Karen Kelsky | March 22, 2022

When you think about academia like a garden, the analogy clarifies a lot of things. First off, not every plant can thrive in every spot; also, plants need constant resources in terms of water, fertilizer, sun, and attention. We don't judge one … [Read more...] about Ep 3:18 How Is Academia Like Gardening?

Tagged With: academic community, academic resources, academic support, gardening as analogy, gardening as metaphor, healthy academic life

Ep 3:17 Co-Writing As a Productivity Hack

By Karen Kelsky | March 16, 2022

Collaborative writing is a great productivity hack when it works. But how to make it work? In this episode Karen and Kel talk to Dr. Julia Hornberger and Dr. Sarah Hodges, who have maintained a weekly Zoom collaborative writing practice over two … [Read more...] about Ep 3:17 Co-Writing As a Productivity Hack

Tagged With: academic writing, how to get writing done, pomodoro, productivity, writing a journal article, writing advice

Ep 3:16 Leaving Academia – All The Cool Kids Are Doing It!

By Karen Kelsky | March 13, 2022

It's the newest trend! Join the thousands who are saying goodbye (and good riddance?) to the academic career!  If you spend any time on Twitter, you know that lately, it seems to be packed with academics loudly and honestly pretty happily announcing … [Read more...] about Ep 3:16 Leaving Academia – All The Cool Kids Are Doing It!

Tagged With: academia is a cult, academic toxicity, leaving academia, leaving the academy, moving on with a phd, post academic, professor is out

Ep 3:15 Managing Rejection

By Karen Kelsky | March 1, 2022

Karen and Kel talk about coping with rejection, moving beyond the typical advice to "take a break, come back to it later, etc. etc." (which is good as far as it goes!) to discuss the deeper issues of identity and emotion that rejection triggers. … [Read more...] about Ep 3:15 Managing Rejection

Tagged With: academia is a cult, academic career, academic identity, academic mental health, academic rejection, academic toxicity, journal article rejection, rejected for academic job

Ep. 3:14 Imposter Syndrome

By Karen Kelsky | February 22, 2022

We talk Imposter Syndrome: what it is, why we get it, how to overcome it. We talk about gendered messages, structural racism, and being told you don't belong; ie: it's not Imposter Syndrome if they're always treating you like an imposter. We ask why … [Read more...] about Ep. 3:14 Imposter Syndrome

Tagged With: academic racism, going postac, Imposter Syndrome, leaving academia, Shame

3:13 Lighting Your Fire

By Karen Kelsky | February 15, 2022

We are back! Thank you for your patience!  Kel and I needed to rethink the podcast; basically we love to talk TO people, and after two years wanted to find a way to make the podcast more of a conversation with the community and less just the two of … [Read more...] about 3:13 Lighting Your Fire

Ep 3:12 Your Breaking Point

By Karen Kelsky | December 14, 2021

We talk breaking points. Kel suggests to anyone feeling they've reached the breaking point at the end of the semester: pause, and appreciate that it's showing you, you DO have a limit. Sit with that. What's it mean to hit your limit and really admit … [Read more...] about Ep 3:12 Your Breaking Point

Tagged With: academic mental health, academic overwhelm, academic overwork, breaking point

Ep. 3:11 “White People, Don’t Start That Bullshit!” – Interview with Deja Rollins

By Karen Kelsky | November 30, 2021

Today we are joined by the remarkable Deja Rollins, speaking about performative allyship. Deja, a graduate student in Communications at UIUC, was the standout star of Karen's TedX event hosted by U of Arkansas Monticello, and we've been working on … [Read more...] about Ep. 3:11 “White People, Don’t Start That Bullshit!” – Interview with Deja Rollins

Tagged With: academic racism, Black in grad school, Black in the ivory, Black lives matter, Good advising, performative allyship

Ep. 3:10 We Don’t Go Back, We Go Forward – Interview with Dr. Samira Rajabi

By Karen Kelsky | November 22, 2021

Dr. Samira Rajabi, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at U of Colorado Boulder,  joins us for a discussion of navigating ambiguous grief and trauma in the pandemic academy and the rest of life. Drawing from her research for her new book, All My … [Read more...] about Ep. 3:10 We Don’t Go Back, We Go Forward – Interview with Dr. Samira Rajabi

Tagged With: academic community, academic job market help, academic mental health, grief, leaving the academy, social media

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