Gen X Academic

Tenured. Ivy League. Founder of Led Zeppelin Studies. Write for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Hateful grad students get blocked.

[Gen X Academic @GradHumanities]

What grad students need to UNDERSTAND is that precarity affects us ALL. Without junior colleagues, I have to come up with my ideas all on my OWN. Who will I take from now?

[Gen X Academic @GradHumanities]

Colonialism is MUCH more than JUST a horrific act. It is ALSO a useful metaphor for me to explain my reaction to HAVING to run office hours. #Unfair #SpoiltGradStudents

[Gen X Academic @GradHumanities]

Feminism is important. We need more women in the academy. Otherwise, who will we thank for editing our indexes while they raised the children? #GirlPower

[Gen X Academic @GradHumanities]

Feeling very EMPOWERED by reading critical race theory today. MUST discuss findings with my one black colleague.

[Gen X Academic @GradHumanities]

Please read my new article for the Chronicle of Higher Education: Twitter is Bad for the Academy Because I Have Less Followers Than a 27 Year Old.

[Gen X Academic @GradHumanities]

Currently thinking about starting a new critical field: Led Zepplin Studies. These brave orators have been ignored by public discourse for too long. No longer. We will shine a light on the disenfranchised. This is our stairway to heaven.

[Gen X Academic @GradHumanities]

I am hiring. 0.1 FTE Research Assistant. 32 hours a week. Payment: You get to co-publish an article with me + lunch on weekdays. Duties include: Full teaching load, editing my bibliography, listening to be discuss my divorce.

[Gen X Academic @GradHumanities]

Hello.