Summertime Selves (On Professionalization)
The summertime self discloses the logic of the utopian university fantasy: Probably never are we more of it than when we think we’re outside of it.
Nick Mitchell
Nick Mitchell teaches feminist studies and critical race & ethnic studies at UC Santa Cruz while reckoning with the repayment of over $150,000 of student-loan debt. This essay is from a book-in-process titled The University, in Theory: Essays on Institutionalized Knowledge. Nick can be reached at nmitchel (yes, only one L) at ucsc dot edu.