Bethman, Brenda, and Donna M. Bickford. Staging Women's Lives on theAltacTrack. In Staging Women's Lives in Academia : Gendered Life Stages in Language and Literature Workplaces, edited by Michelle A. Massé and Nan Bauer-Maglin, 219-232. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017.

Donna Bickford is the Director of the Women's and Gender Resource Center at Dickinson College.

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Much of the recent discussion about the jobs crisis facing U.S. higher education has focused on the need, given the lack of tenure-track positions, to prepare students for what are being called alternative academic or altac positions (see, for example, Rogers, #Alt-Academy and Nowviskie). Altac jobs are posited as an alternative to low-wage adjuncting as well as a way to allow humanities scholars to continue to live the life of the mind that many went to graduate school to seek.

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