The Phantom Professor

Have you heard of the Phantom Professor? the adjunct instructor who was “found out” for writing anonymously about her experiences in teaching at a small private institution? I’d only been able to piece together bits of this story, but today David St. Lawrence at Ripples provided a synthesis of the Elaine Liner story. David highlights some of his favorite episodes with links directly to those posts. Go take a look.

The upshot on the E. Liner story is that her contract for an annual contract for a wage of $18,000 will not be renewed at Southern Methodist University – a small, private university in a very affluent part of Texas, but her writing continues online at Phantom Professor, and her stories about all the “Brads” and “Ashleys” can be quite a hoot.

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