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How many millennial humanities professors would say they are incredibly lucky to have an academic job? 100% (I hope). How many millennial humanities professors would say that they are ”satisfied” with their academic job? Not that many!

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In other words it's not just that there are few academic jobs for humanists in the academy; it’s also that the academic jobs that exist are mostly bad in the sense that you have to struggle against the institution to have any semblance of intellectual life you thought the job was supposed to provide

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there's a lot to this even in many FT/TT jobs (now vanishing) your real intellectual community are people you see once a year at a conference; perhaps your employer pays for you to attend and perhaps not your job itself is a constant effort to prove to your "institution" that your job should exist

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I did it. I stitched together the parts, skimmed for formatting weirdness, did one last FIND for "unprofessional" exclamation point use (hmph), and sent in the monograph I started before changes to citation rules and double-spaces after period, before covid, before children.

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