A layered, fractured text, this piece plays in the space afforded by an invitation to reflect on neoliberalism in the academy. Seeking by way of story to make sense, make meaning of the personal in the political, the author finds herself in a poetic “ruminarrative” accounting of the fragments, the fictions, and the funnies that define (and defy) this academic life.
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