Karin Sconzert

How a British baking show is (and isn’t) a reasonable metaphor for the academic hiring market.

“Non-scholarly pursuits.” Destructive as they can be, we all have them, and we all seem to need them. One of mine, fortunately, is biscotti. That’s right, those twice-baked, chocolate-dipped cookies designed for dunking. During my third year of graduate school, when I should have been writing an…