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On Academic Boredom

University of Cambridge, UK

The kind of boredom experienced in academia is unique. Neither a purely subjective nor objective phenomenon, it is the product of the way research is organized into papers, seminars, and conferences, as well as of a deep implicit metaphor that academic argument is a form of warfare. In this respect, the concepts of boredom and rigour are closely linked, since there is a kind of rigour in the Humanities that stresses the war metaphor, and structures scholarship defensively. This is opposed to a different kind of rigour that eschews the war metaphor altogether, and considers rigorousness in the light of a work's usefulness to its audience.

Key Words: academic rigour • boredom • graduate students • seminars

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Vol. 4, No. 3, 319-324 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1474022205056175


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