Proseminar 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.
Connected 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.
By Sara Curnow Wilson I first heard about the Connected Academics proseminar from the then participant Beth Seltzer. When Beth was a fellow, she…
By Natalie Berkman For our second session, the Connected Academics proseminar fellows visited Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit higher education think tank in Manhattan. While…
By Carolyn Ureña This was my first year attending the MLA convention as a Connected Academics representative, and I was encouraged by the number…
By Patrick Butler For candidates on the job market, particularly ones focused on alt-ac positions, working in a library can seem enticing yet unattainable:…
By Sara Wilson On the Wednesday night before this year’s MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, I realized that my husband was laughing at me….
By Brian Pietras I went to graduate school in the humanities because I like thinking about things that the wider world often deems odd…
By Will Fenton Before November, I had never been called a race traitor. Canvassing for the Clinton campaign in Philadelphia’s Society Hill neighborhood, I…
By Carolyn Ureña After college, I spent a year working in consumer marketing for an international beauty company, where I learned, among many things,…