Reflections on Professing

I’m not making a clean break. I’m still advising a few graduate students. I’m still editing a major journal. I’ll still attend conferences. I hope to be invited to campuses to speak about my work to students, faculty, and community members.

But I turned in my final set of grades. I received my final university paycheck. My business card now lists my profession as “writer,” and my Twitter profile notes that I am a “recovering academic.”

[image error]So when I saw the opinion piece in last Sunday’s New York...