Join a faculty writing group! As a contingent person, this has been the only reason I have been a productive writer and researcher over the past few years, while also being a good way to quickly build community on a new campus (outside of my department)

It's written for a popular audience, so it's very accessible. And it's the sort of slightly (well, very) ghoulish subject matter that's a great hook for students!

Would Megan Rosenbloom's Dark Archives fit the brief?

I routinely split my infinitives with spiteful deliberation, thanks to a professor my freshman year of college who would threaten to fail papers with such grammatical errors, regardless of content