#alt-ac: alternate academic careers for humanities scholars
Tags: #alt-ac, collaboration, digital-humanities
[Update and disclaimer, 2013: This post was the seed of #Alt-Academy, an edited collection and grassroots publishing platform at MediaCommons. In its initial iteration, in the summer of 2011, the project featured two dozen contributions by 33 fantastic authors. New editors have joined #Alt-Academy and fresh content is forthcoming. Because people continue to link to this post as shorthand for the emergence and naming of the #altac "movement" (so called--not by me!), I want to preface it with a link to something else I've written, in an attempt to explain the term: "Two and a Half Cheers for the Lunaticks." If you are writing one of the many articles critiquing current uses of the term, I hope that you will pause to read that contextualizing pos
Véronique Ginouvès on 04 Jun 14"By now, avid ProfHacker readers will have encountered the cipher "#alt-ac:" a neologism and Twitter hashtag that marks conversations about "alternate academic" careers for humanities scholars. Here, "alternate" typically denotes neither adjunct teaching positions nor wholly non-academic (what-color-is-your-parachute, maybe-should-have-gotten-an-MBA) jobs-about which, in comparison, advice is easy to find."