Work by contingent literary scholars

Here's something cool by Contingent Magazine .... a list of books and articles published in 2021 by non-tenure-track literary scholars. (There's a distressing number of us, alas.)

Because of the unbearable slowness of academic publishing, I had a relatively ridiculous seven (!) peer-reviewed articles come out in 2021 -- not to mention 2 non-peer-reviewed articles and one book review, but I didn't bother including those. Overall, it's been a wonderful publishing year, and something of a mental relief to have my insane backlog of academic scholarship taken out of publication limbo. 

Still, the high number of quality monographs from fancy university presses by contingent scholars is, I think, a source of legitimate despair for the future of academia.

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