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The Road to Tenure
Interviews, Rejections, and Other Humorous Experiences
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2014
Summary
The Road to Tenure offers humorous recollections of the messiness and confusion that fill the days of a pre-tenure academic—from graduate school through the postdoc and into the assistant professor days. The book’s three sections roughly map onto the chronology of academic life, beginning with graduate school and the job search experience; followed by teaching, research, and service; and finally the challenges of family and academic identity.
The book is not a how-to, nor does it emphasize “lessons learned” on the way to tenure. Instead, the collection earnestly, and with good humor, captures a significant and meaningful slice of the experience of pursuing academia in contemporary colleges and universities. For the doctoral student or newly hired faculty member, these essays will provide some comfort with their implicit suggestion that, while it’s certainly hard work, you are not alone.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-0797-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-0799-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
142
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
1 Warning: Scholarship Can Be Hazardous for Your Health No access
2 Lucy and the Football No access
3 Chocolate Frosting and the Art of Interviewing No access
4 Changing Clothes in the Phone Booth No access
5 Whose Class Is It Anyway? No access
6 When Homer Simpson Writes Homer’s Iliad No access
7 How Not to Teach a Class No access
8 Publish, Perish, or Apply for Social Security No access
9 The Life of the Mind . . . in the Company of Others No access
10 The Village Idiot No access
11 Hot Mess Times Three No access
12 Who’s Pro-creating Now? No access
13 How I Got Dismissed from Jury Duty No access
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 139 - 142
