Play The Game & Wear The Suit: Reflections on The Humanities and Academia

Sustainable teaching jobs in the humanities elude anybody who does not "create knowledge," but often the kinds of things that find their way into peer-reviewed publications simply don't need to exist in the human community.  They are part of a conversation, of course, but there are conversations that exist for no other reason than that people wish to hear themselves talk.

Teaching the humanities is a vocation.  I'm tempted to call it a ministry.

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