{"pk":40253,"title":"Being a Medievalist in the Age of the Pandemic","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Matt Clancy writes about how the pandemic shaped his career choices on completing his PhD, and argues that the present challenges facing the profession mean that we should reconsider how we define ourselves as medievalists. He affirms that it is possible to finish a PhD in a pandemic and tentatively begin a career, and that an apparent lack of correspondence between experience as a medievalist and seemingly non-medievalist employment diminishes neither his identity as a medievalist, nor his engagement with the field the enforced change from teaching in person to teaching online is well-suited to the skills medievalists have already developed through teaching Chaucer and other medieval texts, since both present a strange version of the familiar.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Pandemic, Digital Education, Careers, Early Career, PhD, Transferable Skills"}],"section":"Cluster: Pandemic Experiences","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0b5971hq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Matt","middle_name":"","last_name":"Clancy","name_suffix":"","institution":"Birkbeck, University of London","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-03-08T11:28:50Z","date_accepted":"2021-03-08T11:28:50Z","date_published":"2021-06-29T07:26:39Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ncs_pedagogyandprofession/article/40253/galley/30273/download/"}]}