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Crowded Out of Ivory Tower, Adjuncts See a Life Less Lofty

January 19, 2014 / PSU-AAUP

Crowded Out of Ivory Tower, Adjuncts See a Life Less Lofty

The New York Times | By RACHEL L. SWARNS |JAN. 19, 2014

Nearly 18 months after being awarded a Ph.D. in English, James D. Hoff struggles to line up courses to teach at different colleges around the city. Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times

His students call him “Prof,” and in the classroom James D. Hoff looks like any other English professor, circulating among the undergraduates and urging them to recite, savor and interrogate the texts of writers as varied as James Baldwin, Stephen Crane and the Beat poets.

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