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- The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist
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- 2018
- Published by: Punctum Books
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Are you a Lone Medievalist? Working medievalists are often the only scholar of the Middle Ages in a department, a university, or a hundred-mile radius. While working to build a body of focused scholarly work, the lone medievalist is expected to be a generalist in the classroom and a contributing member of a campus community that rarely offers disciplinary community in return. As a result, overtasked and single medievalists often find it challenging to advocate for their work and field. As other responsibilities and expectations crowd in, we come to feel disconnected from the projects and subjects that sustain our intellectual passion. An insidious isolation even from one another creeps in, and soon, even attending a conference of fellow medievalists can become a lonely experience. Surrounded by scholars with greater institutional support, lower teaching loads, or more robust research agendas, we may feel alienated from our work — the work to which we’ve dedicated our careers.
Table of Contents
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- Title, Copyright
- pp. 1-8
- The Lone Medievalist as Teacher • Breaking Free of the Cloistered Classroom
- I Know! Let’s Put on a Show!
- pp. 79-94
- Why Read That?: Selling the Middle Ages
- pp. 119-136
- The Lone Medievalist as Scholar • Opus Clamantis in Deserto
- Embracing the Medievalist Margin
- pp. 161-168
- Reflections of an Embarrassed Medievalist
- pp. 177-188
- The Unicorn Learns Accountability
- pp. 189-198
- How to Stop Being a Lonely Medievalist
- pp. 199-204
- The Lone Medievalist at Work • Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job
- Building Your Own Villa
- pp. 249-258
- The Collaborative Medievalist
- pp. 311-318
- Make Yourself At Home
- pp. 319-338
- This Eremitic Life
- Notes from the North
- pp. 341-354
- Is the Academic Medievalist Alone?
- pp. 361-364
- A Lone Medievalist on the Island
- pp. 369-372
- Contributors
- pp. 373-389
Additional Information
ISBN
9781947447554
Related ISBN(s)
9781947447547
MARC Record
OCLC
1100490720
Pages
388
Launched on MUSE
2019-08-04
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA