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How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy
John Minichillo has patched together a university teaching career with part-time gigs at various colleges for the past fifteen years. He represents the thousands of short-term university faculty who work without job security for low salaries because they believe, perhaps naively, that what they do is important. He’s in the last year of a non-renewable teaching contract, and he has no idea what’s next.
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January 16, 2019How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: An Excerpt from John Minichillo’s New Book, The Last Workshop
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October 5, 2016How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: The Foreshortened Career Arc of a Contingent Writing Instructor: By the Numbers
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September 9, 2016How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: Teachers Who Drink and Drinkers Who Teach
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August 17, 2016How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: WikiLeaks Documents Release: Emails From the English Department Faculty Listserv
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July 22, 2016How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: The Substitute
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June 29, 2016How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: If We Can Save Money, Then We Should Save Money
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June 3, 2016How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: Rate My Robin Williams Professor
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May 4, 2016How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: On the Hierarchy of English Professors, a Nomenclature: Scholar-Type, Teacher-Type, Artist-Type
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April 11, 2016How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: A Professor’s Guide: When to Drop the F-Bomb in Class
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March 22, 2016How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: Office Envy
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March 3, 2016How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: What Your Professor’s Remarks on Your College English Paper Really Mean
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February 15, 2016How to Be a Better Teacher-Person Through Apathy: A ‘B’ Student Explains Quidditch to His Professor Before a Very Important Match
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