English: Graduate School

"A Guide to Academia is a handbook for all those individuals thinking seriously about going to graduate school. Written by an author with extensive experience navigating the academic world, the book explains all the steps and potential bumps in the road that a student might encounter as they take the plunge into academia. Each chapter begins with a section called the "hard truth," which will help students determine if they are on the right path. Starting with an undergraduate student looking for a graduate school, the reader is taken on a journey up the academic ladder through graduate studies, a postdoctoral fellowship and an assistant professorship. Each chapter gives advice on not only how to survive the current stage but how to get to the next stage quickly. Enhanced with material from the author's own job applications and interview presentations, A Guide to Academia provides concrete examples of the tools needed for a successful career in academia."

Description: Contents; Introduction; Part I: The Times Are Good Enough; Realities on the Ground; What Is to Be Done?; Part II: The Everyday Life of the Humanities Now; The Distributed University; Knowledge Environments; The New Media and Modes of Scholarly Communication; Going Open; Learning, Pedagogy, and Curricular Environments; or, How We Teach Now; The Possibly Posthuman Humanities Scholar; Manifesto for a Sustainable Humanities; Part III: Toward a 21st-Century Doctoral Education; A Time of Troubles, a Time of Opportunity; Breathing Life into the Dissertation; Responding to Counterarguments
A 21st-Century Doctoral Education,The Upside of Change; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index