Bargains! PROMOTIONS
Maggie Berg is a professor in the Department of English at Queen's University. A winner of the Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Award for Teaching Excellence, she held the Queen's Chair of Teaching and Learning from 2009 to 2012. Barbara K. Seeber is a professor in the Department of English at Brock University. She received the Brock Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014.
`Thoughtful, reflective... The best thing this book accomplishes is its unabashed encouragement to talk to our colleagues in order to increase solidarity and togetherness in the combat against changing and challenging professional environments.' -- Kate Mattocks * Journal of Higher Education - September 2016 * In 90 thrilling pages of text, Berg and Seeber describe the current corporatization of the college campus and urge professors to resist it with all they've got. `Thrilling' isn't a word I often apply to books about higher education, but these pages galvanized me ... I hope that college teachers will take time to savor The Slow Professor and talk about it with each other at faculty reading groups. -- Barbara King * National Public Radio * The Slow Professor recognizes the psychological strains of academic work, but subtly points toward explicitly political responses to the emotional toxins we absorb; but, it also avoids the fate of most subject-centred therapeutic exercises which are mainly courses in adaptation and resignation. Although it is no call to arms, no manifesto, nor a shout of defiance at the authorities, for insightful readers, the next step beyond self-awareness will be obvious. -- Howard A. Doughty * CAUT Bulletin, September, 2016 * It's a beguiling book, written in controlled anger at the corporatized university, overrun by administrators and marketers. -- Rick Salutin * The Toronto Star, September 9, 2016 * `A welcome part of a crucial conversation.' -- Rachel Hadas * Times Literary Supplement, July 29, 2016 * 'Thrilling' isn't a word I often apply to books about higher education, but these pages galvanized me. -- Barbara Hunt * National Public Radio (NPR), May 13, 2016 * What Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber are doing in The Slow Professor is protesting against the corporatization of the contemporary university , and reminding us of a kind of good selfishness; theirs is a self-help book that recognises the fact that an institution can only ever be as healthy as the sum of its parts. -- Emma Rees * Times Higher Education, May 26, 2016 * The fact that precarious labour is becoming the norm in the academy impacts everyone, including those with tenure. -- Christina Turner * Rabble.ca, May 26, 2016 * While The Slow Professor has already raised some eyebrows as an example of tenured privilege, it's at once an important addition and possible antidote to the growing literature on the corporatization of the university. -- Colleen Flaherty * Inside Higher Education, April 19, 2016 *
