PhD student and Mellon Humanities Public Fellow Daniel Valtueña discusses the importance of physical engagement and vulnerability in collaboration to artistic and academic processes.
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PublicsLab director Stacy Hartman asks, “How do humanists engage in the most crucial conversations of our own time without giving up on the conversations that are timeless?”
Graduate Center PhD student and Mellon Humanities Public Fellow Daniel Valtueña asks us to consider the ways in which literal and figurative “quoting” simultaneously limits and legitimates innovative thinking in the academy and the arts.
Graduate Center PhD student and Mellon Humanities Public Fellow Daniel Valtueña asks what sorts of public after lives might we envision for our final papers.
Graduate Center PhD student Sara Cordón discusses her experience at the LA Review of Books Publishing Workshop on a PublicsLab fellowship in July 2019.
Sean Gerrity, assistant professor of English at Hostos Community College, reflects on public scholarship and offers advice for how to do it well.
In the past five years, I have talked to a lot of people about why they chose not to pursue academic jobs after graduate school––a choice that is more common than people assume. Geography might be the number one reason that I hear; not everyone is willing to throw a dart at a map of North America (or the world, for that matter) and live wherever it lands, which is essentially what one does on the academic job market. But very close behind it is this:
“I found academic research in the humanities to be too isolating. Sitting in a library carrel alone all day made me miserable.”
