Reading on the Dark Side: Or, the Productive Pleasures of the Scholarly Administrator

Johnsen, Rosemary Erickson

doi:10.5325/reception.15.1.0065

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Research Article| July 06 2023

Reading on the Dark Side: Or, the Productive Pleasures of the Scholarly Administrator

Rosemary Erickson Johnsen

ROSEMARY ERICKSON JOHNSEN, PhD, is professor and division head of Business, Arts, and Education at the University of Minnesota, Crookston. She is the author of Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) as well as co-editor and contributing author for Public Scholarship in Literary Studies (Amherst College Press, 2021). She has been on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Popular Culture since 2008, and is an elected member of the Executive Council of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies. She received the 2021 Dove Award from Popular Culture Association’s Mystery and Detective Fiction Area for significant contributions to the serious study of mystery/detective fiction.

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Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History (2023) 15: 65–72.

https://doi.org/10.5325/reception.15.1.0065

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This article builds on the models of the teacher-scholar and the public scholar to delineate the role of the scholarly administrator. Literary studies faculty members who transition to the administrative ranks face obstacles to continuing their scholarly research and writing, and Johnsen argues that such administrators should persevere in their efforts as these can serve ethical, civic, and institutional progress. Reading is the foundation for this work, and scholarly administrators should read widely for pleasure and productivity. Sources include literary criticism on women’s writing, crime fiction, and mass observation along with personal experience as faculty member and academic affairs administrator.

higher education, administration, literary studies, feminist reading, public scholarship, crime fiction

2023

The Pennsylvania State University

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