The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: precarious-faculty-members

  • The Helplessness of Grief and the Trauma of Academia: Maria Adelmann’s The Adjunct

    As I was reading Adelmann’s campus novel, I was thinking about one of the most brilliant and personable labour organizers I’ve ever met, the late Miranda Merklein. I miss her. Like this novel’s protagonist, Merklein had realistic expectations of a middle-class life as a college teacher: not a cossetted existence, but decent health insurance and…