Academics Anonymous: Hi, My Name is ____ and I'm an Academic
In this post: It's been eighteen months since I left academia, here's what I learned in my recovery.
Read MoreCall for Support: Keep Post-Ph.D. The Blog Up
In this post: I talk about being served with a lawsuit by my former advisor, alleging conspiracy and defamation in response to my Why I Left Academia blog posts.
Read More'No One's Interested in Backstories'
In this post: I talk about my former department's response to my blog and what it has shown me about the toxicity of academic culture.
Read MoreA Field in Which the Old Devours the Young is a Field that is Dying
In this post: If academia is a place where professors can take, without consequences, the work of graduate students to claim as their own, what does this say about the future of academia?
Read MoreWhy I Left Academia: Part Three
In this post: Part three of Why I Left Academia. About what happens in the aftermath of intellectual trauma.
Read MoreWhy I left Academia: Part Two
In this post: Part two of Why I Left Academia. About my attempts to follow procedure and how institutional procedure protects aggressors instead of students.
Read MoreWhy I Left Academia: Part One
In this post: I talk about the moment I knew I was done with academia and the events before defending my dissertation.
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