The Slow Professor

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," its 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 * Its a beguiling book, written in controlled anger at the corporatized university, overrun by administrators and marketers. -- Rick Salutin * The Toronto Star, September 9, 2016 * 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 theyve 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 book is well researched, nicely written and speaks to an issue of central importance to those of us pursuing the academic life. -- Daniel Liechty * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare vol 44:2017 * "It was after a quarter century of being a professor that I was fortunate enough to stumble upon The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber, a book that that expresses much of what I have found wanting in academic life. [It] is an enlightening commentary on the contemporary life of the university professor [standing] as a dedicated attempt to revive a much-needed vision of the professoriate and the university." -- Rory J. Conces * Hgre utbildning * "The Slow Professor is a notable attempt at recovering humane culture and attentiveness in academic life. Berg and Seeber have begun an important conversation about the philosophical basis of scholarly work; their alternative to the corporate model is a welcome intervention." -- Joseph D. O'Neil, University of Kentucky * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018 * "Ultimately, Berg and Seebers book offers a vision of academia is a nurturing, relationally connected company of people seeking a deeper understanding of the world in which they live, a vision that will surely appeal to most." -- Jamie Barnes, University of Sussex * Sociology, vol 53:1 * "A real value of the book is its insistence that changes in university cultures are not about outlying individuals changing their practices alone but rather about the relationships between individuals and their struggles together to create different cultures through small acts." -- Kathryn Tellin, University of Sussex * Sociology, vol 53:1 * "Like slow TV, slow food and slow travel,

Maggie Berg is a professor in the Department of English at Queens University. A winner of the Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Award for Teaching Excellence, she held the Queens 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.

Preface Introduction 1. Time Management and Timelessness 2. Pedagogy and Pleasure 3. Research and Understanding 4. Collegiality and Community Conclusion: Collaboration and Working Together