Ms. Mentor's new and ever more impeccable advice for women and men in academia / Emily Toth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toth, Emily.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women college teachers--United States--Miscellanea.

Women college teachers.

Women graduate students--United States--Miscellanea.

Women graduate students.

Women college teachers--United States--Social conditions.

Women graduate students--United States--Social conditions.

Women college teachers--United States--Conduct of life.

Women graduate students--United States--Conduct of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ms. Mentor, that uniquely brilliant and irascible intellectual, is your all-knowing guide through the jungle that is academia today. In the last decade Ms. Mentor's mailbox has been filled to overflowing with thousands of plaintive epistles, rants, and gossipy screeds. A mere fraction has appeared in her celebrated monthly online and print Q&A columns for the Chronicle of Higher Education; her readers' colorful and rebellious ripostes have gone unpublished-until now. Hearing the call for a follow-up to the wildly successful Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia, Ms. Mentor now broadens her counsel to include academics of the male variety. Ms. Mentor knows all about foraging for jobs, about graduate school stars and serfs, and about mentors and underminers, backbiters and whiners. She answers burning questions: Am I too old, too working class, too perfect, too blonde? When should I reproduce? When do I speak up, laugh, and spill the secrets I've gathered? Do I really have to erase my own blackboard? Does academic sex have to be reptilian?From the ivory tower that affords her an unparalleled view of the academic landscape, Ms. Mentor dispenses her perfect wisdom to the huddled masses of professorial newbies, hardbitten oldies, and anxious midcareerists. She gives etiquette lessons to academic couples and the tough-talking low-down on adjunct positions. She tells you what to wear, how to make yourself popular, and how to decode academic language.She introduces you to characters you must know: Professor Pelvic, Dr. Iron Fist, Mr. Upstart Whelp, Dean Titan, Professor McShameless. In this volume Ms. Mentor once again shares her wide-ranging unexpurgated wisdom, giving tips on bizarre writing rituals, tenure diaries, and time management (Exploding Head Syndrome). She decodes department meetings and teaches you the tricks for getting stellar teaching evaluations.Raw, shocking, precise, clever, absurd-Ms. Mentor has it all.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

The Petty and the Profound What They Write to Ms. Mentor

Stewing in Graduate School

Foraging for an Academic job

love and Sex in Academia

You're Hired! Early Years in a Strange New World

The Fine and Quirky Art of Teaching

Working and Playing Well with Others

Questions Great and Small

Adjuncts

The Tenure Trek

What Is life After Tenure?

Are You the Retiring Type?

Daring to Create Your Own life

Ms. Mentor's Exemplary Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-255) and index.

ISBN:

9780812208122

0812208129

OCLC:

859160927