TY  - BOOK
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist
SN  - 9781947447554
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Earth, Milky Way
PB  - punctum books
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - fast
KW  - Medievalists
KW  - Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Moyen Âge
KW  - Étude et enseignement
KW  - Medievistes
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Are you a Lone Medievalist? Working medievalists are often the only scholar of the Middle Ages in a department, a university, or a hundred-mile radius. While working to build a body of focused scholarly work, the lone medievalist is expected to be a generalist in the classroom and a contributing member of a campus community that rarely offers disciplinary community in return. As a result, overtasked and single medievalists often find it challenging to advocate for their work and field. As other responsibilities and expectations crowd in, we come to feel disconnected from the projects and subjects that sustain our intellectual passion. An insidious isolation even from one another creeps in, and soon, even attending a conference of fellow medievalists can become a lonely experience. Surrounded by scholars with greater institutional support, lower teaching loads, or more robust research agendas, we may feel alienated from our work -- the work to which we've dedicated our careers
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/66807/
ER  -