{"product_id":"the-slow-professor-challenging-the-culture-of-speed-in-the-academy-tenth-anniversary-edition-9781487559465","title":"The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy, Tenth Anniversary Edition","description":"A decade after its initial release, \u003cem\u003eThe Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy\u003c\/em\u003e returns with an expanded anniversary edition that both reaffirms and reignites its call to resist the corporatization of academic life. In \u003cem\u003eThe Slow Professor\u003c\/em\u003e, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter the erosion of humanistic education. Building on their original groundbreaking work, the authors offer fresh insights and reflections on the evolving landscape of higher education, while thoughtfully responding to critiques of Slow principles.\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes the full original text, a foreword by Stefan Collini, a new introduction, and sixteen contributions from academics and professionals across disciplines, institutions, and career stages. The contributors share personal observations on how \u003cem\u003eThe Slow Professor\u003c\/em\u003e has influenced their teaching, research, and practices over the past ten years, adding nuance, insight, and practical examples to the ongoing relevance of the Slow movement within academic life.\u003cbr\u003eAs pressures of corporatization and efficiency continue to intensify, this anniversary edition reemphasizes the urgent need to confront and counter the culture of speed and promote more sustainable, meaningful ways of working. \u003cem\u003eThe Slow Professor, Tenth Anniversary Edition\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for new and returning readers in academia concerned about the frantic pace of contemporary university life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaggie Berg\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Professor of English at Queen's University. She has published, and continues to write, on the novels of the Brontë sisters. She won five teaching awards during her career at Queen's including the W.J. Barnes Award for Teaching Excellence three times, the Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Award for Teaching Excellence, and a University Chair in Teaching and Learning. In recognition of \u003ci\u003eThe Slow Professor\u003c\/i\u003e, she was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Mons, Belgium. \u003cb\u003eBarbara K. Seeber\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eJane Austen and Animals\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eGeneral Consent in Jane Austen\u003c\/i\u003e. Her teaching areas are eighteenth-century literature and animal studies, and she is the recipient of the Brock Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching. Most recently, in recognition of \u003ci\u003eThe Slow Professor\u003c\/i\u003e, she was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Mons, Belgium.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51735729570066,"sku":"9781487559465","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d7fba782-df4f-499f-a215-ff838705abbc.jpg?v=1763542912","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-slow-professor-challenging-the-culture-of-speed-in-the-academy-tenth-anniversary-edition-9781487559465","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}