Death of an Email

As of yesterday, one of my stable of email accounts is no more: hpc4476@nyu.edu. I haven’t taught there in a while, so I am hardly surprised. Never fear, though; my Michigan, Cooper Union, Hofstra and Bard emails all still function, and I will soon have another, from Baruch College, because this fall I am teaching in the history department there. In fact, I’ve already started teaching there, but my new email hasn’t caught up with me yet. It is, sadly, another example of how teaching as an adjunct can be far more difficult than teaching as a fulltime (if only temporary) faculty member: you tend to fall through the cracks of college administration. It’s a nuisance to be sure, but I can handle it. The ones who really suffer are the students.