The Professor Is In
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
3.29: How to Keep Going When You Don't Feel Like It
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We continue with vintage – yet evergreen – recordings. It seems like everyone struggles with the desire to quit at times. It’s a natural respons...
Ep 3:27 #LeavingAcademia: The Great Quitting
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Academics are bailing in unprecedented numbers, and academia has finally started to notice. Karen was interviewed twice in the past couple weeks–onc...
Ep 3:26 Overcoming Perfectionism
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Perfection is the enemy of productivity, but almost all academics struggle with perfectionism. How to resist its siren song? Kel shares her coaching i...
Episode 3:25 Burnout Part II - Academia Has It Bad
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One episode wasn’t enough to talk about burnout in the academy. Juxtaposing the WHO definition of burnout with a definition Karen read, that burnout...
Ep 3:24 Academic Burnout: What It Is, Where It Comes From
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Burnout is on everyone’s mind right now. It’s the end of the academic year, and what an academic year it was. Profs and students both are at the...
Ep 3:23 Prepping for Next Year's Job Market
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You didn’t get the job this year; what to do? Kel and I talk through what makes a competitive record and competitive presentation of that record, ...
Ep 2:22 The Violence of Professionalism
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We dig into the definition of “professionalism,” a term thrown around as an arbiter of correct and incorrect behavior in academia. Drawing fro...
Ep 3:21 Surviving Your New Academic Thing
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We did a survey recently and the message loud and clear was: please give us more advice about just… surviving in academia! So today we are talking...
Ep 3:20 What Even Is Sick Leave For an Academic?
10 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
[Note: Karen and Kel were on vacation in NYC and recording from a hotel room! Please excuse the tinny sound today and next week; it goes back to norma...
Ep 3:19 Academic Labor Is Labor
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about the “capitalist gaze” and how it impacts the creativity of academics. Casting our research outcomes as “products” can be deeply ...
Ep 3:18 How Is Academia Like Gardening?
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you think about academia like a garden, the analogy clarifies a lot of things. First off, not every plant can thrive in every spot; also, plants ...
Ep 3:17 Co-Writing As a Productivity Hack
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Collaborative writing is a great productivity hack when it works. But how to make it work? In this episode Karen and Kel talk to Dr. Julia Hornberger ...
Ep 3:16 Leaving Academia - All The Cool Kids Are Doing It!
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the newest trend! Join the thousands who are saying goodbye (and good riddance?) to the academic career! If you spend any time on Twitter, yo...
Ep 3:15 Managing Rejection
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Karen and Kel talk about coping with rejection, moving beyond the typical advice to “take a break, come back to it later, etc. etc.” (which is goo...
Ep. 3:14 Imposter Syndrome
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We talk Imposter Syndrome: what it is, why we get it, how to overcome it. We talk about gendered messages, structural racism, and being told you don’...
3:13 Lighting Your Fire
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are back! Thank you for your patience! Kel and I needed to rethink the podcast; basically we love to talk TO people, and after two years wanted t...
Ep 3:12 Your Breaking Point
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk breaking points. Kel suggests to anyone feeling they’ve reached the breaking point at the end of the semester: pause, and appreciate that it...
Ep. 3:11 "White People, Don't Start That Bullshit!" - Interview with Deja Rollins
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are joined by the remarkable Deja Rollins, speaking about performative allyship. Deja, a graduate student in Communications at UIUC, was the ...
Ep. 3:10 We Don't Go Back, We Go Forward - Interview with Dr. Samira Rajabi
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Samira Rajabi, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at U of Colorado Boulder, joins us for a discussion of navigating ambiguous grief and trauma...
Ep 3:9 The Key to Interviews and Grants
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Professor Is In Ep 3:9 The Key to Interviews and Grants Play Epis...
Ep 3:7 Quagmire of Failure
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part three in our three-part series about getting Unstuck. So much of the academic experience is about feelings of failure. It’s central to normal...
Ep 3:6 Sea of Change
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We continue with the three-part examination of getting stuck and unstuck. Last week we talked about the Island of Perfectionism. Today we talk the Sea...
Ep 3:5 Perfection Is Not Possible
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s The Great Resignation, and people are departing their shitty jobs in droves. This includes academics, and not just adjuncts. Tenured and tenure...
Ep. 3:4 - Five Reasons Your Work Gets Rejected with Dr. Jane Jones
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Dr. Jane Jones of UpIn Consulting (@JaneJoanne) to talk about 5 reasons that your article manuscripts might be getting rejected, dra...
Ep. 3:3 - Play To Your Strengths
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when you get stuck? Kel has found that her coaching clients tend to devolve into a spiral of self-loathing. But that doesn’t work; i...