Out d’Coup LIVE | Hannah Leffingwell on the need for fundamental change in higher education

This week I welcome Hannah Leffingwell to the show. We'll be talking about her recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "The Academic Career is Broken" and the need for fundamental change in higher education. She argues, "We are in the midst of a crisis in academe, to be sure, but it’s not an economic crisis. It’s a crisis of faith. The question is not just whether our institutions pay faculty fairly, but whether any wage is worth the subservience and sacrifice that modern higher ed requires." No longer will hopeful stories about "revision" do the job. "We need a revolution, not a revision." 

Hannah is a writer, historian, and PhD Candidate at NYU. Her dissertation in progress, “Becoming Lesbian: Sex, Politics, and Culture in Transatlantic Circulation, 1970-1998,” chronicles the spread of lesbian culture in the United States and Europe in the wake of Women’s Liberation. Her research has been published in Gender & History, and her writing has been featured in Jacobin, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Public Seminar, Eurozine, and Sinister Wisdom. Her first chapbook, A Thirst for Salt, was published by Gazing Grain Press in 2018.

LINKS:

• Follow Hannah on Twitter: @hanleffingwell | https://twitter.com/hanleffingwell
• "The Academic Career is Broken," The Chronicle of Higher Ed | https://bit.ly/3JkVOYS
• "I Love Higher Education. It Isn't Loving Me Back," Jacobin | https://bit.ly/3DhDyf5

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