If perhaps we look at where I really do see my identity, which is more often as a writer, maybe I’m much less flexible in imagining that practice than I am in seeing myself as a professor. I feel I’ve benefited a lot from not being attached to myself as an academic or professor. It’s made me willing to be critical of my own pedagogy and to accept criticism from my students and other people without feeling that to question how I teach is somehow to question my right to exist on the planet. I feel that one of the things blocking a lot of professors from interrogating their own pedagogical
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