At first I struggled with assimilating my whole life into a succinct answer to my colleague’s question: there was an engaged learning class that I taught during my third year, the times I’ve given talks on my research to groups of social workers, the internship at the local public radio station that has introduced me to a whole new world of reading, writing, and communicating complex ideas. I wished for about the millionth time that Hermione could loan me her time-turner.Īt the panel itself, of course, the moderator asked my panelists and I how we see our public and non-academic work fitting in with our scholarly work. Out of breath and sweaty, I arrived at the public scholarship event wondering how many times I’d done something like this, running myself ragged trying to do all the things I love. In a way this is a heavy-handed metaphor for my academic life: my research lives in one building, my community engagement work elsewhere. Last month I ran– literally jogged across the Diag like a tardy freshman– from academic job market training in Angell Hall to a public scholarship panel on Rackham. I love to talk at people, which is one of the reasons I speak on more panels than maybe I should. By Cassius Adair, PhD Candidate, Department of English Cassius Adair
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