The English Department is invited to a screening of Con Job: Stories of Adjunct and Contingent Labor
Sponsored by the IAS Committee
2:30-4:30pm
316 CWH
Film Synopsis:
Con Job: Stories of Adjunct and Contingent Labor describes and makes visible the pedagogical, economic, and ethical costs of higher education’s growing reliance on adjunct and contingent faculty. Armed with a borrowed video camera, Megan Fulwiler and Jennifer Marlow, two teachers of composition, set out to record the voices of faculty who are often invisible in and marginalized by the institutions where they teach.
Con Job features interviews with contingent faculty from across the nation, as well as with labor activists and leading figures in the field of Composition and Rhetoric. Ultimately, the film calls on the field of Composition to use its collective rhetorical strength to challenge the current state of exploitative labor practices in writing instruction.
More about the film via CC Digital Press: http://ccdigitalpress.org/ebooks-and-projects/conjob
Con Job is about 45 minutes long; a discussion will follow the screening. We hope to see you there!