I’ve been meaning to blog about the MediaCommons collections edited by Bethany Nowviskie titled #alt-academy: Alternative Academic Careers. This collection of essays is long over due and corrects the view that the only way to do the digital humanities is to get a tenure-track job. This collection calls into question the relatively fixed boundaries between academic staff (faculty) and alternative academic staff (alt-ac). I would go so far as to say that humanities computing was a field primarily populated by alt-ac folk that is only recently getting colonized by academics. Anyway, I expect to assign essays from this collection to my students.