...Dorsey Craft © 2016 Dorsey Craft 2016 Dorsey Craft Sonnet for the Instructor at Verticality Pole Fitness in Houston, TX The pole dance class is on: tonight at eight. To loose our hips for shaking, we spin a screw through the cork, a bottle of white, talk...

.... Moral Luck It is well known that Kansas high schools conduct Driver’s Education classes in the summer months. At a local school, the instructor was an alumnus of Kansas State and an unusually devoted fan of the Wild- cats, which led others to remark that he bled purple. This instructor had...

... political clout: the non-tenure-track instructors, lecturers, and "adjuncts." Predictably, these line items get most noticed during times of budget stress, which is more and more turning out to be all the time in public institutions of higher education. Training in analytical writing has been...

... that of adjunct instructors) is one of increasing reliance on our presence as the university’s reserve army of labor. In the last few decades, much activism, organizing, and criticism has reflected the ability of graduate students to accurately (and angrily) read and respond to our position as academic...

.... In the projection hall, instructors highlighted constellations of dragons, unicorns, and chem- ical furnaces. All I saw were chiffon skirts ripped by the jeweler’s dog. When Mom and the jeweler flipped through catalogs, I saw the inner workings of his dog when it yawned. There were five music boxes jerk...

... by only .2 percent adjusted for inflation. As universities continue to pare budgets and increase their reliance on part-time and graduate student instructors, who make a fraction of their tenured counterparts’ salaries, a number of books written by humanities professors have framed...

... Reading, and elsewhere. minnesota review 86 (2016) DOI 10.1215/00265667-3458074  © 2016 Virginia Tech 123 124 the minnesota review Cody Ernst is an instructor at The Writing Seminars at Johns Hop- kins University. His work appears...

... counterparts. Schuster and Finkelstein note that the American faculty has now become “a majority contingent workforce” (323). Future studies in this vein would do well to factor the contingent into their calculations. At some institutions, contingent instructors comprise...

... Contributors Creative Daniel Biegelson is an instructor of creative writing and literature at Northwest Missouri State University, where he also serves as director of the Visiting Writers Series and an editor for the Laurel Review. He is the author of the chapbook Only the Borrowed Light. His...

..., as faculty, have often been unbundled. At my own school, for instance, we have “Professors of Research”— scientists who do not teach. We had serious discussions about using “Professors of Teaching” for our full-time instructors, and I wondered if “Professors of Service” might...

... review 97 (2021) DOI 10.1215/00265667-9335870 © 2021 Virginia Tech 144 Contributors 145 recently been published in POETRY, New Delta Review, and Washington Square Review. Gow received their MFA from Adelphi University, where they were also an adjunct instructor. Gow is a managing editor at The Nasiona...

... Ferry Review, Pleaides, Redivider, and Diagram, among others. Michael R. Schrimper is an instructor of composition at Emerson College in Boston. His research in literature, for which he has received a fellowship from the NEH, applies a feminist framework to the works of Virginia Woolf...

... Review, the Indiana Review, TriQuarterly, Best New Poets 2011, and Out Magazine, among others. Originally from the Mississippi coast, he received an MA in French literature in 2009. Sara Nović is an instructor of undergraduate writing at Columbia University in New York City. Her writing has...

...- ing (prior affiliation) in the interviewing process, and the results are clear: according to the present system, no one with a background from a community college, as student or instructor, is perceived as compe- tent to teach English at these top US universities.3 When we examine...

... contingent workforce” (323). Future studies in this vein would do well to factor the contingent into their calculations. At some institutions, contingent instructors comprise the preponderance of the teaching force. One such university is NYU, whose labor dynamics are treated at length...

... in their respective doctoral programs.3 I excluded the following groups: emeriti faculty, instructors out- side the tenure stream, instructors possessing MFAs as their terminal degrees,4 instructors housed in other departments but teaching courses cross-listed with English, and scholars who publish exclusively...

..., but at times the book leaves complex, even arcane, historical and theoretical concepts unexplained, leaving the reader the task of unpacking the jargon and subtle scholarship of the multiple disciplines Best explores. As he acknowledges in his “Debts,” his former instructors have...

... faculty member who, in an ethnographic interview session, 194 the minnesota review said that teaching was so meaningful that the instructor “would work for free, but don’t tell the dean!” Although Leslie and Head’s article was published in 1979, the notion...

... father, a civil rights activist, a librarian, a Brooklynite, an economics teacher, a CP reconstitutor, an adjunct history instructor, and so on. Ted remains a contemporary champion of Bacon's "foure hundred English and Negroes in Amrs," and he is an author whose work will long continue to thrive...

... within which to locate themselves. Short of a required reader, instructors may, of course, select their own readings (hence, their own conversations), or, following Graff’s autobiographical lead, they might choose instead to help students refine and make use...