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**Winner of the GOLD Medal in the 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.**
Higher education has changedand we have to change with it. The Freelance Academic will show you how.
When Katie Pryal started her career in higher education, she did everything rightshe thought. With a law degree, a doctorate, and a federal clerkship, how could her career go off track? But this is higher ed in the new millennium. Off track is the new normal. So, slowly, she made her own career, one she dubbed the freelance academic in a long-running column in The Chronicle of Higher Education of the same name.
Five years after leaving academia, Pryal has created a living for herself. In The Freelance Academic, she tells her story and provides accurate (and sometimes blistering) critique of how higher ed has pushed its workforce to the margins. Best of all, she gives plain, practical advice for how to make the career you want, one that uses your strengths, and your creativity, to thrive.
With candor and vulnerability, Pryal shares her own experiences and hard-fought wisdom to make a compelling case for a rewarding professional life beyond the walls of traditional academia. -Amy Impellizzeri, award-winning novelist and author of Lawyer Interrupted: Successfully Transitioning from the Practice of Lawand Back Again
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Copyright 2019 by Katie Rose Guest Pryal
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
Publishers Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pryal, Katie Rose Guest. 1976-.
The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career / Katie Rose Guest Pryal
p.____ cm.____
ISBN 978-1-947834-35-4 (Pbk.) | 978-1-947834-36-1 (Ebook)
1. Education, Higher. 2. College Teachers. 3. Autobiography. I. Title.
814.6 | PCN 2019901252
Published by Blue Crow Books
an imprint of Blue Crow Publishing, LLC
Chapel Hill, NC
www.bluecrowpublishing.com
Cover Design by Lauren Faulkenberry
v.20190927
Entanglement
Love and Entropy
Chasing Chaos
How to Stay
Fallout Girl
Take Your Charming Somewhere Else
Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education
We Are All Enemies of the State: And Other Essays on Speech
The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career
Even If Youre Broken: Essays on Sexual Assault and #MeToo
Rich in vulnerability and candor, Pryals evocative essays remind us that the survivor journey is far from linear, and that there is power and beauty in our imperfect journey.
Andrea Pino, co-author of We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out
A patchwork quilt of stories, raw emotion, and insights that will touch every reader. The result is moving, vital and somehow hopeful for survivors and society both.
Washington Post bestselling author Kelly Harms
Pryal deftly unpacks the way both individuals and institutions fail survivorsand clearly explains how we can all do better.
Bestselling author Camille Pagn
A harrowing, necessary, and beautiful book.
Kelly J. Baker, award-winning author of Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia
Personal, political, polemical, and pointed in its vision for transforming higher education to be more inclusive of disabled and mentally ill people. If you want to understand how higher education is built, and not built, for people with disabilitiesespecially mental healthrelated onesPryals book is for you.
BookRiot
The advice and practical information makes this book a must read, not just for those in academia.
New York Times Bestselling author Kate Moretti for Booktrib Magazine
Pryal is one of the foremost writers of disability and higher education we have today.
Catherine Prendergast, author of Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World
This is not a book to miss.
Kelly J. Baker, award-winning author of Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Higher Education
These thoughtfully chosen and arranged essays grapple with issues relevant to disabled students and scholars as well as those who would be allies.
Kecia Ali, author of Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence
A roadmap that's as practical as it is hopeful.
Bestselling author Camille Pagn for Booktrib Magazine
Both a cautionary tale and a beacon of hope.
Foreword Reviews
So many academicscurrent, former, and strugglingwill see themselves in Pryals story. I hope just as many see all of the possibilities she enumerates, and understand, as she does, that the passions and talents that draw us to the university in the first place are often best used outside it.
Rebecca Schuman, author of Schadenfreude, A Love Story
With candor and vulnerability, Pryal shares her own experiences and hard-fought wisdom to make a compelling case for a rewarding professional life beyond the walls of traditional academia.
Amy Impellizzeri, award-winning novelist and author of Lawyer Interrupted: Successfully Transitioning from the Practice of Lawand Back Again
A new, necessary book.
Catherine J. Prendergast, author of Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World
For Michael, who helped me take the leap.
For my boys, who remind me what Im working for.
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I am a freelance academic. And I have been for at least six years. I left my academic post, as a lecturer, in 2013, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my career or my life even. I floundered and flailed as I tried to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up, except I was already a grown-up with two kids in tow and no idea how to shift to a career that wasnt an academic one. So, I started freelance writing, built on my academic work to become a (paid) public speaker, worked as a higher ed journalist, tried a lot of things that never panned out, and finally realized I had a talent for editing. (Who would have guessed that grading hundreds of undergraduate papers a semester would build my editing skills?)
I became a freelance academic, but the problem was I didnt know it. I described my career as adjacent to academia, which explained how I positioned myself but not really what my career was. I didnt have the vocabulary to describe what my new careeroutside the academyfully entailed. I moved from graduate student to adjunct to full-time lecturer to part-time writer and stay-at-home mom. Then, I added gigs that included editing a magazine on higher education, writing nonfiction books that werent academic monographs, developmental editing books for academics and memoirist. I dread pulling together a bio because theres not an elegant way to capture all the types of gigs that I do each year. I patch-worked a career, which appears more catch-all than consistent.
When I give the short version of what I do, I explain that Im an editor, writer, and speaker with a religious Studies PhD. Try putting all of those on a business card or say them five times really fast. Instead, I have two business cards: one for my main gig as editor of Women in Higher Education and one for everything else. Somewhere in my office, the front room of my house really, theres a box with old business cards with a different title from my time in the ivory tower. Artifacts of the life I thought I would lead that never quite worked out.
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