The Freelance Academic: Reclaim Your Career, Creativity, and Mental Health

Off Track Is the New Normal

Academic training promises that if you work hard enough, think carefully enough, and sacrifice enough, the institution will reward you. For the three-quarters of higher education faculty working off the tenure track, that promise is a lie.

The Freelance Academic is Katie Rose Pryal's account of leaving contingent academia, hitting the darkest depression of her life, and building something better on the other side.

Part literary memoir, part cultural criticism, part ...