Beyond Academic Burnout

A vexing problem in academia is burnout: the experience of exhaustion, cynicism, and ineffectiveness that results from stretching across the gap between the ideals of your vocation and the reality of your job. When faculty members are burned out, a university cannot accomplish its educational mission. In this talk, Jonathan Malesic, a burned-out former tenured professor and the author of The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives, will give a brief overview of what burnout is and why college faculty are so vulnerable to it. He will then guide participants through conversations about possible sources of burnout in their work and potential ways beyond it.

Bio:

Jonathan Malesic is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Chronicle of Higher Education, America, Commonweal, Notre Dame Magazine, The Guardian, The Hedgehog Review, and elsewhere. His writing has been recognized as notable in The Best American Essays four times and in The Best American Food Writing. His latest book, The End of Burnout (University of California Press), was selected as a best book of 2022 by Amazon and the Next Big Idea Club and has been translated into ten languages. He is now working on a book for students, inviting them to the transformative learning they can experience in college. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Virginia and teaches writing at Southern Methodist University.

Support for this program is generously provided by Lilly Endowment Inc.

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