Your First Year on the Tenure Track
by Cynthia Wu, Associate Professor of Transnational Studies, University of Buffalo If you are reading this, it probably means that you have a job…
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A Bit of Mentoring from President Obama
This is a letter I received (at my gmail account) from the White House last March (2014) in response to a letter I had…
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“Checkpoints”—2016 Convention
“Checkpoints: Global Black Literature and the Phenomenology of Movement,” Christopher Ian Foster, The Graduate Center, CUNY “Indigeneity and Federalism’s Fissures in the United States,”…
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Reflections on Solidarity
by Pranav Jani, @pranavjani It’s two months after the #Ferguson2MLA action in Vancouver on January 9, and I had planned to write this up…
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A Rationale for Speaking Up
by Dr. Amber Riaz, Canadian Scholar When I decided to speak up at the #Ferguson2MLA gathering, I was motivated by Dr. Koritha Mitchell’s assertion…
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What #Ferguson2MLA Means to Me
by Koritha Mitchell, @ProfKori Motivated by the belief that #BlackLivesMatter, a diverse group of scholar-activists began organizing a solidarity action that would take place…
Read MoreMentoring at Midcareer
by 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…
Read MoreSay What?
Have you read Jeb Bush’s perplexing comments on America’s “creeping multiculturalism,” Wrong for America?
Read MoreInvitations to the Process: Some Notes on Graduate Mentoring
Theory, argument, archive. Method, stakes, implications. These are among those things that graduate studies in the Humanities aim to teach. Add in an attention…
Read MoreJournal focused on graduate writing
Good news for graduate students who want more advice about writing needs. The WAC list I belong to just posted this info on one such journal.
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