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Linda Overman has a new podcast THE LAST THING I WISHED I SAID listen to interview with Prof Mary Marca

Prof Mary Marca : Click here on the first episode of THE LAST THING I WISHED I SAID , Linda speaks to retired Professor of Creative Writing...

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Linda Overman has a new podcast THE LAST THING I WISHED I SAID listen to interview with Prof Mary Marca

Prof Mary Marca: Click here on the first episode of THE LAST THING I WISHED I SAID , Linda speaks to retired Professor of Creative Writing Mary Marca, who taught at California State University, Northridge for twenty years. Mary shares her grief about the loss of her mother, Mabel Mary Pugh lovingly known as Molly, and the helplessness of a sudden death.

 

Friday, October 28, 2022

So proud of this work my colleagues published Ch 15 in as it is such an important read: The Invisible Professor: The Precarious Lives of the New Faculty Majority

My former CSUN colleagues  

 

Jennifer K. Johnson Thumbnail imageand 

Nicole Warwick Thumbnail image 

who are now at University of California, Santa Barbara just published this article 


"Reconsidering the Status of Contingency: Are These Really the Trenches?"

Lecturer. Assistant Professor. To those outside of academia, there is little to no
recognition of the distinction between these academic ranks. But within U.S. ac
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ademic circles, there is a huge disparity between them in terms of what they con
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vey about job security, salary, privileges, and respect.
 

The Invisible Professor: The Precarious Lives of the New Faculty Majority

Edited by Natalie M. Dorfeld
Copy edited by Karen P. Peirce. Designed by Mike Palmquist.

This edited collection, the first in the Practices & Possibilities series to be published in its Voices from the Field section, offers a rich set of narratives by writing instructors who are serving or have worked in contingent positions. Intended for anyone considering a career in the humanities, The Invisible Professor seeks to reach individuals in three phases of their careers: those thinking of entering the profession, those knee-deep in it and looking for ways to improve conditions, and those who have vacated academic positions for more humane alternative tracks.

As academia comes to a crossroads, with a disheartening shift towards a more disposable business model, multiple solutions are desperately needed. Faculty members in contingent positions are the new faculty majority on college campuses, and they are most likely the first professors students will meet. They deserve respect and a livable wage.

 Love these Professors who are fabulous teachers and scholars and dear friends!!

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

 My colleague Professor Mary Marca, MFA (from CSUN) publishes much of her wonderful work --short stories that she publishes quite often--enough to make me jealous on her website Mary McCann Marca, Writer

along with her blog musings the link is on her website.  I am recommending this as a wonderful read!

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Linda Rader Overman is still proud of that poem from 1991 that expresses much of what was and what is

I published this poem back in 1991---how little I knew that much of it would remain so relevant in my life-still.  

Thank you Bombshelter Press and Jack Grapes for your classes and your wisdom so long ago.

I don’t want to go on living

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Prof Linda Overman is so proud of her Phd colleague, Julie Staun, congratulations [OBE &] Honorary Fellow University of Cumbria

Graduation Ceremony Wednesday 20 July 2022 3PM  

Spending a couple summers together at University of Cumbria- Lancaster, Julie Staun, and I shared rooms in the residence halls at University Cumbria - Lancaster with fellow students [some much younger than ourselves]. We enjoyed attending classes together, shopping for meals together, grabbing tea before and after class together.  All the while forging ahead to obtain our PhD's while away from home, she from Denmark [albeit Julie was born in the UK], myself from Los Angeles. 

Julie was awarded her doctorate at the age of 76 (mine came at the age of 63). Julie just became an Honorary Fellow at the Univ of Cumbria in recognition of her lifelong service in the field Occupational Health. This after being awarded an OBE in 2015.

So proud of this brilliant woman and loved sharing some/many glasses of wine together on those long nights of study on campus on chilly Lancaster, Lancashire nights. 

Watch her give her acceptance speech at 52 minutes in on the above link of the graduation ceremony. If she had lived here in Hollywood she would be running a movie studio and doing it with a passion and power as her life of service in the field of occupational health nursing all over the world shows.  Love this woman! A force to be reckoned with. 

Dracarys Baby this gal is on fire!