The term “alt-ac” didn’t gain currency until later, but the situation was familiar to Ph.D.s who had taken jobs outside academe after searching without success for tenure-track positions. “You step off the track very long and you’re done,” said a career-planning specialist at the University of Pennsylvania. Edward Brunner, a well-regarded scholar of poetry who was quoted in The Chronicle’s article, spent years working as a train dispatcher for the Rock Island Line. Eventually he found a full-time teaching post at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he is still a professor.
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