On Failure: Professor Alissa Wilkinson

The life of a scholar can sometimes involve failure. Learn from Professor Alissa Wilkinson about how she dealt with a setback and how it worked out in the end.

Home Virtual Student Center King's 101

The life of a scholar can sometimes involve failure. Learn from Professor Alissa Wilkinson about how she dealt with a setback and how it worked out in the end.

Doing anything difficult will risk some degree of failure. Being a student and a scholar, as you are at King’s, is no exception. In the life of a student, you try one approach to studying at a time and learn as you go about what works. You go through times when you’re motivated and times when you’re not, and you figure out how to get back on track. The academic life of a student is multi-faceted in itself, but other parts of life can also influence your learning and performance in coursework.

Yet despite the inevitable nature of risk in the academic journey, you can approach your life as a student with confidence because you are not alone. Both your peers and your professors have had similar experiences.

This week we’re featuring stories “on failure” from three of our esteemed faculty at King’s. Our third and final feature is from Professor Alissa Wilkinson. Watch below to learn how her persistence, despite a setback, paid off in the end.

For more “on failure,” check out our previous features from Dr. Henry Bleattler and Dr. Dru Johnson.

Alissa Wilkinson is an Associate Professor of English and Humanities. Having served at King’s since 2009, Professor Wilkinson teaches criticism, postmodern theory, and cultural anthropology, and she has been Vox’s staff film critic since 2016.


See more about: