Ms. Mentor's new and ever more impeccable advice for women and men in academia / Emily Toth.

"Ms. Mentor, that uniquely brilliant and irascible intellectual, is your all-knowing guide through the jungle that is academia today. In the last decade Ms. Mentor's mailbox has been filled to overflowing with thousands of plaintive epistles, rants, and gossipy screeds. A mere fraction has...

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Main Author: Toth, Emily
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • The petty and the profound: what they write to Ms. Mentor
  • Stewing in graduate school
  • Foraging for an academic job
  • Love and sex in academia
  • You're hired! early years in a strange new world
  • The fine and quirky art of teaching
  • Working and playing well with others
  • Questions great and small
  • Adjuncts
  • The tenure trek
  • What is life after tenure?
  • Are you the retiring type?
  • Daring to create your own life.