Meet the 2019 Career Development Boot Camp Fellows
byAt its 2019 convention in Chicago, the MLA will offer its second Career Development Boot Camp for current PhD students from across the United…
Proseminar
The Stigma of Silence
byBy Natalie Berkman Like many graduate students, I realized early on that landing a tenure-track job was far from guaranteed. To ensure that I…
Where is My Warrior-Goddess?: The Search for a Mentor in Graduate School
byProseminar fellow Nicole Gervasio discusses the need for graduate students to have a “career design team”––and to overcome personal hesitations to reframe relationships they already have.
Build Your Own Professional Utopia
byConnected Academics Proseminar Fellow Candace Cunard talks about how to build your own professional utopia. Spoiler: You’ll need to pay a lot more attention to your own needs and wants than you’re used to.
Introducing the 2018 Connected Academics Career Development Boot Camp
byAt its 2018 convention in New York City, the MLA will offer a four-day Connected Academics Career Development Boot Camp for current PhD students…
Cool Aunts of Academia
byBy Sara Curnow Wilson I first heard about the Connected Academics proseminar from the then participant Beth Seltzer. When Beth was a fellow, she…
Academic Archives as an Alt-Ac Avenue
byBy Patrick Butler For candidates on the job market, particularly ones focused on alt-ac positions, working in a library can seem enticing yet unattainable:…
Doctoral Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the MLA Convention
byBy Sara Wilson On the Wednesday night before this year’s MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, I realized that my husband was laughing at me….
Feral Humanism
byBy Brian Pietras I went to graduate school in the humanities because I like thinking about things that the wider world often deems odd…
The Humanities in the Trump Era
byBy Will Fenton Before November, I had never been called a race traitor. Canvassing for the Clinton campaign in Philadelphia’s Society Hill neighborhood, I…