virtually from London, England. . .

London, England's summer superstar Lavinia Ludlow was kind enough to interview me for Auggie's Revenge a couple months ago. Here's an excerpt:

L^2: As an adjunct-professor, how has your perspective changed since writing Fight for your Long Day? Auggie's Revenge seems to contain more frustration and jadedness in the overall narrative.

AK: Yes, I was responding to all the pain and lament and anger I was seeing from adjuncts online, all the anguish they were expressing on social media. To be honest, although I shared offices with some adjuncts in really bad situations, I don’t think I was truly tuned in to how horrible the situation is until after I published the “original adjunct novel.” I hope there are laughs in Auggie’s Revenge—that was certainly part of the plan—but, yes, I intended to describe a world for adjuncts and many other exploited workers and indebted students as one where people are rightfully jaded and frustrated. At the same time, I can’t escape the white male as flunky or pretentious jackass, so I hope readers see a discourse of personal responsibility in my narratives, perhaps one that runs counter to other ideas explicit or implicit in the books.

2014 Adjunct Articles

Already in 2014, there has been a sharp increase in the number of online articles and blogs leading to news of adjunct instructors, and here are some of the URLs (I'll post more when I have time and as I see them).

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https://chroniclevitae.com/news/256-q-a-the-novelist-who-chronicles-life-as-an-adjunct

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-domino/the-adjuncts-progress-cyr_b_5588389.html?utm_hp_ref=college&ir=College

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-domino/working-poor-professor_b_4994393.html 

http://www.democracychronicles.com/adjunct-justice/

http://whowewilltobe.com/2014/02/20/mlasubconference2014/

http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/sites/democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/files/documents/1.24.14-AdjunctEforumReport.pdf

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-quick/professor-working-poor_b_4645217.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/counter_narrative/2014/01/adjunct_crisis_in_higher_ed_an_all_too_familiar_story_for_black_faculty.html

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/24/house-committee-report-highlights-plight-adjunct-professors#

http://www.campusequityweek.org/2013/adjunct-advocacy-in-d-c-today/

http://wnpr.org/post/adjuncts-academia?utm_referrer=http%3A//m.wnpr.org/%3Futm_referrer%23mobile/16180

http://www.nickysaeun.com/the-white-elephant-in-the-ivory-tower-of-higher-education/

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/01/adjuncts_in_american_universities_u_s_news_should_penalize_colleges_for.html

http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2014/01/07/the-rise-of-adjunct-faculty/

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/29/book-argues-adjunct-conditions-must-be-viewed-civil-rights-issue#ixzz2rn2ljMC5

http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/contingent-mother-role-gender-plays-lives-adjunct-faculty/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HybridPed+%28Hybrid+Pedagogy%3A+A+Digital+Journal+of+Teaching+%26+Technology%29

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2014/1/28/-notyouradjunctsidekickadjunctprofessorshighlightpoorworkconditi.html

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/02/02/the-invisible-professor/4i7aHfxlT4sfKRvFgJwz2N/story.html

http://moderndisappointment.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/invisible-in-life-as-well-as-death/

http://wnpr.org/post/adjuncts-academia

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/03/268427156/part-time-professors-demand-higher-pay-will-colleges-listen?sc=tw

https://chroniclevitae.com/news/316-how-i-get-by-gordon-haber

http://migrantintellectual.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/with-friends-like-these/

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/10/two-unions-court-adjuncts-philadelphia-market

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/02/michigan_universities_increase_funding_iowa_state_hires_more_full_time_faculty.html

http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2014/02/12/discussion-among-two-adjuncts-about-bias-against-people-non-recent-phds

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/11/irs-guidance-health-care-law-clarifies-formula-counting-adjunct-hours

https://chroniclevitae.com/news/330-new-game-new-rules

https://chroniclevitae.com/news/331-a-ph-d-s-path-to-entrepreneurship?cid=vem

http://chronicle.com/blogs/future/2014/02/14/adjuncts-livelihood-lets-make-it-a-political-issue/?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/20/279987644/faculty-not-on-tenure-track-rises-steadily-over-last-4-decades

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-latest/2014/2/6/adjuncts-fight-foralivingwage.html

http://eter.org/what-adjuncts-do/

http://cpfa.org/blog/schadenfruede-adjuncts/

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/17/professors_in_homeless_shelters_it_is_time_to_talk_seriously_about_adjuncts/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

http://read.hipporeads.com/academias-dirty-little-secret/

http://www.pointparkglobe.com/features/university-aware-of-adjunct-professors-woe-1.3142208#.UyeX_EZOXVI

http://collegian.tccd.edu/?p=19963

http://www.gwhatchet.com/2014/03/31/bryan-doherty-level-the-playing-field-for-underpaid-adjuncts/

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/homeless-professor-protests-conditions-adjuncts/

http://www.orderofeducation.com/surviving-the-summer-on-an-adjunct-budget/

http://bluegrasscourier.com/?p=923

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/07/part-time-professors-teach-most-community-college-students-report-finds

http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/articles/homeless-professor-raises-voice-against-adjunct-co_13880.aspx?fb_action_ids=791668477527490&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=.U0ZpcbuKqNJ.like#.U0Zr__ldX_a

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/04/11/exploited-adjuncts-ripe-for-union/aptwoxrSxvoNv0mI2YXtJK/story.html

http://www.philly.com/philly/jobs/Adjunct_professors_see_selves_as_colleges_temp_workers.html

http://www.buffalonews.com/business/adjunct-professors-learn-hard-truth-about-faculty-jobs-20140414

http://21stcenturyscholar.org/2014/04/10/adjuncts-hired-at-poverty-wages-to-reduce-expenses-savings-shifted-to-increase-administrative-hiring-at-what-cost/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/opinion/the-college-faculty-crisis.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/soliloquy-contingency/

http://chronicle.com/article/Power-in-Numbers/145863/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/3627#.U1Mv8fldX_Z

http://www.orderofeducation.com/adjuncts-on-the-diane-rehm-show/

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2014-04-16/growing-reliance-adjunct-professors

http://mirandamerklein.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-faculty-crisis-hurts-students-and.html

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/04/20/colleges-treatment-adjuncts-devalues-education/VkEVK9XkLHMUEiAw92KwJJ/story.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/opinion/sunday/the-part-time-faculty.html?src=rechp&_r=0&gwh=B2453EE7602AD7ADA5B37235B6047276&gwt=regi

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/may/01/academic-anonymous-leaving-academia

http://truth-out.org/news/item/23391-the-ivory-cage-and-the-ghosts-of-academe-labor-and-struggle-in-the-edu-factory

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/feature-us-academics-rally-to-union-standard/2012498.article

http://gasstationwithoutpumps.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/no-salary-adjunct-professors/

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/05/too_poor_for_pop_culture/

http://drarikgreenberg.blogspot.com/2014/05/why-i-fight-for-union.html?spref=tw

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/05/16/plight-one-adjunct-and-many-essay#sthash.BqMBCMXS.C3wMOSGf.dpbs

http://articles.philly.com/2014-05-15/news/49876198_1_wong-physical-therapy-part-time

http://seanmkennedy.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/05/13/open-letter-to-cuny-union-pres-barbara-bowen/

http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/05/15/adjunct-continues-hunger-strike-after-hospital-visit#sthash.lnavfc6Z.dpbs

http://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-teaching-class/

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/06/24/essay-critiques-mla-report-graduate-education#sthash.FE45cDz0.QMUChvOl.dpbs

http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2014/07/09/discussion-how-adjuncts-balance-creativity-issues-teaching-obligations#sthash.pyExUY9M.RQEzAe1Y.dpbs

http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2014/07/16/essay-adjunct-duties-after-course-over#sthash.vZbxMy1j.dpbs

http://college.usatoday.com/2014/07/17/underpaid-and-overworked-adjunct-professors-share-their-stories/

https://chroniclevitae.com/news/613-blaming-the-victim-ladder-faculty-and-the-lack-of-adjunct-activism?cid=VTKT1

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/17/low-wage-professorsbattleadjunctivitis.html

http://observer.com/2014/06/cuny-professor-throws-shade-on-the-whole-damn-system-man/

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/when-a-college-contracts-adjunctivitis-its-the-students-who-lose/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/25/the-inequality-snowball-effect/

http://www.lagunabeachindy.com/part-time-lcad-teachers-ok-union/

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/what-parents-need-to-know-about-college-faculty/

http://higheredhubphilly.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/the-part-timing-of-the-economy-and-the-academy/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/adjunct-professors-fight-for-crumbs-on-campus/2014/08/22/ca92eb38-28b1-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html

http://nathanielcoliver.com/2014/08/22/i-just-dont-want-to-die-an-adjunct/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/adjunct-professors-fight-for-crumbs-on-campus/2014/08/22/ca92eb38-28b1-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html 

http://dailyfreepress.com/2014/09/04/edit-catch-22/

http://www.alternet.org/education/professors-food-stamps-shocking-exploitation-toilers-ivory-tower

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/most-university-undergrads-now-taught-by-poorly-paid-part-timers-1.2756024

http://m.chronicle.com/article/Federal-Court-Protects-an/149759/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2014/10/broward_college_responds_to_demands_for_pay_equity_for_all_professors.php

http://dailyfreepress.com/2014/10/08/adjuncts-slap/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/good-people-dont-get-good_b_5935690.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

http://pedagogy.dukejournals.org/content/14/3/381.full.pdf+html

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/03/the-death-of-american-universities/ 

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/feb/04/academic-casual-contracts-higher-education?CMP=share_btn_tw

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/unions-there-strength-adjunct-instructors-hope-so

http://chronicle.com/article/With-Republican-Gains/149859/

http://leoweekly.com/news/gross-income

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/12/adjuncts-speak-out-stephanie-young-david-buuck-and-christian-nagler-in-conversation/

https://chroniclevitae.com/news/818-suicide-is-my-retirement-plan

http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/2014/09/29/burnitdown-ripping-back-the-veil-of-exploitation-in-higher-ed-2/

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/21/professors_on_food_stamps_the_shocking_true_story_of_academia_in_2014/

http://www.elle.com/life-love/society-career/debt-and-hypereducated-poor

http://nathanielcoliver.com/2014/12/02/no-green-light-for-adjuncts-teaching-gatsby-on-pennies-a-day/

Video:

JF and RCB at HuffPo:
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/highlight/growing-number-of-adjunct-professors-are-on-food-stamps/542078ab78c90aa0fc000767?ncid=facebook

Adjunct Action in St. Louis: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/46068765

Maria Maisto at realnews.com: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11678

Becky Tuch starts at minute 3:50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axM9c47n0A0&feature=youtu.be

Con Job documentary: http://ccdigitalpress.org/conjob/

Aid Campaigns:

https://fundly.com/a-place-to-hang-my-hat-or-avoiding-homelessness?ft_src=fbshare