Thank You!
To the Editor:
This is a rather random e-mail, but I felt compelled to send it tonight after discovering AdjunctNation.com after a search of Google using such search terms as “Adjunct Disasters” and the like. I’m four weeks into my adjunct teaching and although I’ve been re-hired to teach Elementary Arabic in the Fall, they are dragging their feet in terms of my Islam course and/or letting me teach in my area of specialisation. I was told, verbally of course, that, “Oh yes, adjuncts get two courses every semester and then usually go to three after the second semester.” Right.

My kids are bright (sometimes) and sometimes I feel as though I am teaching a row of shoe boxes, filled to the brim with hair. A colleague and friend, who is a full professor of history (my former adviser) is coming to teach them and I told him that he may perhaps need to utilise hand puppets. No one has asked me about my Islam class, although they are inspired by the fact that they may be able to save some money by letting me teach my area of expertise: Women and Islam, together and not just on Islam.

This is all despite the fact that there will be a feature on me and my students in the York Sunday paper’s religion section. I have two Master’s degrees, one summa cum laude, and I’m doing this to save money for my Ph.D. and pay off some debts. Sometimes after class I sit and think, “Am I naive or stupid or both?”

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