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A Vocation/Avocation
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2015
- pp. 169-172
- Article
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This essay takes the contrarian point of view that graduate study in the humanities should be thought of as an avocation rather than as a vocation. While we have a responsibility to professionalize our graduate students, it is also incumbent on us to continue to redefine what we mean by professionalization so that it both refers to a variety of employment outcomes and addresses that most old-fashioned of subjects: the pleasures of intellectual labor.