Adjuncts, Revenge, and Adaptation

I've tried my hand at adaptation here: http://www.amazon.com/Professor-Montg...

For those of you who may not know, over 2/3 of faculty in the US are precariously employed and underpaid adjuncts. Many are the stories of these educational champions who are forced to collect food stamps, have no benefits coverage, and can be fired at the whim of universities and colleges. The situation in Canada is only slightly better, at about 50%. The availability of tenure-track jobs has been steadily drying up, and yet enrolments continue to grow. Administrators love the academic reserve army of adjunct labour because they are cheap and disposable. This is higher education's shame.

My attempt here has been to adapt Alexandre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo to tell a story about higher education. At first I was thinking it would be too difficult to entwine Dumas' revenge epic with a retelling from the higher education context. However, it fit much better than I could have imagined.

If you are an adjunct, enjoyed the original novel by Dumas, or both, you might want to give this one a read.