The Slow Professor

The Slow Professor. The Slow Professor by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber is a manifesto-like book about some important problems in modern academia. Berg is a professor of English literature at Queens University and Dr.

Fariña was certainly interested in success but not only. Like slow TV slow food and slow travel Berg and Seeber argue that we can practice slow scholarship by resurrecting the values of deep reflective thinking mindful self-awareness and playful creativity. English Studies in Canada year2017.

Seeber 2016.

Berg and Seeber have begun an important conversation about the philosophical basis of scholarly work. While we welcome the continued expansion of critical debate concerning academic labour we nonetheless found much to be concerned with in the interview. University of Toronto Press. Their alternative to the corporate model is a welcome intervention.