4 to Live By
byby Crystal Parikh, Associate Professor of English, New York University Fifteen years into an academic career, I have landed upon four general truths that…
Mentoring
Your First Year on the Tenure Track
byby Cynthia Wu, Associate Professor of Transnational Studies, University of Buffalo If you are reading this, it probably means that you have a job…
A Bit of Mentoring from President Obama
byThis is a letter I received (at my gmail account) from the White House last March (2014) in response to a letter I had…
Mentoring at Midcareer
byby Joycelyn Moody, Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature Joycelyn.Moody@utsa.edu Everyone needs mentoring. No stage or rank in the academy lies beyond…
Invitations to the Process: Some Notes on Graduate Mentoring
byTheory, argument, archive. Method, stakes, implications. These are among those things that graduate studies in the Humanities aim to teach. Add in an attention…
A Dynamic Intellectual Community
byWhat I understood as a graduate student that continues to serve me well is that I must always operate from a space of both…
On Mentoring Graduate Students of Color
byThe Committee on the Literatures of People of Color of the U.S. and Canada began thinking about advice for mentoring graduate students of color in…