What’s an adjunct? In this video, Dr. Peña-Guzmán and Dr. Spera interview Herb Childress, author of The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission. Together, they discuss the problem of “adjunctificaton” in higher education today. They explore why universities are increasingly relying on adjunct labor and question the structural position of the adjunct within higher education. Why are adjuncts on the rise? How do they differ from the traditional image of the “tenure-stream” professor? And why are adjuncts considered an economic “underclass” in academia? Why is the precarious position of most adjuncts wholly invisible to most students? And how does this invisibility facilitate and intensify new forms of exploitation and oppression across colleges and universities? This interview stems from Dr. Spera and Dr. Peña-Guzmán’s recent book, Professional Philosophy and Its Myths (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/professional-philosophy-and-its-myths-9781666939729/)