Advanced search Subscribe to our newsletter and you'll continuously be informed about our new books, series and journals. You can customize this e-mail newsletter to your particular needs and interests. Newsletters include special discount codes. To subscribe or change existing preferences press the subscribe button	Series and Journals Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat. Adjunct Labour in Higher Education. TEEUWEN, Rudolphus and Steffen HANTKE (Eds.) Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2007, X, 221 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-2309-3 € 46 / US$ 62 Series: At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 40 “reads with enormous freshness and power. There’s no sense of tiredness here, but more the feeling of a rebellious energy, long bottled up, finally exploding into incandescent and angry prose. … There’s also a wealth of true literary erudition” Taipei Times, Sunday, April 27, 2008 Once adjunct teaching was considered a temporary solution to faculty shortages in institutions of higher education. Now it is a permanent and indispensable feature of such institutions, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. This book takes stock of this new development, concentrating primarily on the situation in the humanities. It looks at its impact on the lives of the highly-educated scholars and teachers from many parts of the world; scholars waking up to the sobering fact that higher education presents them with a two-tiered labour market in which they themselves are permanently barred from moving up to the higher tier. To them, being an adjunct teacher means experiencing frustration and humiliation. All essays in this book offer personal accounts of adjuncts’ experiences together with critical reflections on institutional conditions and suggestions for their improvement. In turn defiant, poignant, analytical, exasperated, and sardonic, these essays are always incisive and revealing. Their inside view—a view from below—shows higher education as a world different from how it appears to tenured professors and university administrators, different from that presented in most college brochures. For all those who care about the current state and the future of higher education—no matter if they are teachers, scholars, students, parents, or administrators—this book will offer valuable insights into the working world of academic teaching. Contents Preface Rudolphus TEEUWEN: Introduction: Disappointed Hope- Adjunct Teachers in the Two-Tier Academic Labour Market Part I Adjunct Teaching in the USA Sarah GATES: Shouting Down the Avalanche Cynthia NICHOLS: Uppity Subalterns and Brazen Com positionists: Confronting Labour Abuses with Theory, Rhetoric, and the Potent Personal Carla LOVE: Adjuncts with Power: Making Policy in University Governance Steffen HANTKE: Academia as a Gift Economy: Adjunct Labour and False Consciousness Janet Ruth HELLER: Franchising the Disenfranchised: Improving the Lot of Visiting Faculty and Adjuncts Kathleen K. THORNTON: “Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair”: Schizophrenia in the Academy Kenneth H. RYESKY: Bringing Adjunct Faculty into the Fold of Information and Instructional Technology Part II Adjunct Teaching outside of the USA Lesley SPEED: Out of the Frying Pan: From Casual Teaching to Temp Work Rudolphus TEEUWEN: Excellence and the Adjunct Teacher: Looking Backward 2005-1988 Terry CAESAR: In and Out of a Japanese Doctoral Programme James KIRWAN: Deprofessionalizing Christopher J. O’BRIEN: Education in Taiwan and its International Perspective: Cultural Mimicry’s Synecdochic Fallacies Judith CAESAR: From Adjunct to Tenured: Both Sides Now Notes on Contributors Rudolphus Teeuwen is associate professor of English at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He is interested in the intersection of literature and philosophy, especially in the English and French eighteenth centuries, in the genres of utopia, and in literary theory. He published essays and reviews on these topics and editedCrossings: Travel, Art, Literature, Politics (Bookman, Taipei, 2001). Steffen Hantke currently teaches at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, as Associate Professor for British and American Culture. He is author of Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary Literature(Peter Lang, 1994) as well as editor ofHorror: Creating and Marketing Fear(University Press of Mississippi, 2004), and Caligari’s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945 (Scarecrow Press, 2007). He has published essays and reviews on contemporary literature, film, and culture in Paradoxa, College Literature, The Journal of Popular Culture, Post Script, Kinema, Scope, Science Fiction Studies, and other journals.	Tijnmuiden 7 1046 AK Amsterdam The Netherlands T: +31-20-611 48 21 F: +31-20-447 29 79 248 East 44th Street - 2nd floor New York, NY 10017 USA T: 1-800-225-3998 F: 1-800-853-3881 Toll-free in the USA info@rodopi.nl