About the Author

Lee Skallerup Bessette is assistant director for digital learning at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University.

Reviews

"For those of us who have been working in alternative-academic spaces for decades and for those new to such roles, Lee Skallerup Bessette's collection Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers is a powerful tool and a blaring wake-up call from higher education's 'fourth estate' to faculty members and administrators everywhere. Beyond defining the liminal and interstitial emotional work expected of academic staff members, the volume authors provide practical, authentic ways to name, frame, legitimate, and advocate for the expertise and experience of those of us who wish to reclaim alt-ac spaces and roles as 'ultimately valuable and deserving to be valued.' Read this book and learn how to cast off the 'pink collar' of gendered, racialized, classist, and ableist assumptions about whose work and ideas are privileged in the academy."--Thomas J. Tobin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and coauthor of Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers