How to Build a Life in the Humanities

A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand professional development to include the personal aspects of daily lives in the humanities. How to Build a Life in the Humanities delves into pressing work-life issues such as post-tenure depression, academic life with children, aging, and adjuncting.

As outcry about the work-life imbalance has reached a fever pitch post-recession, this book offers faculty at all levels strategies for coping. While work-life balance in other professions has been addressed, this is the first book to do so for professors in the Humanities Authors Semenza and Sullivan are world-renowned scholars, who are actively involved in the debate surrounding the humanities Part of Palgrave Macmillan's Campaign for the Humanities

Autorentext
Gregory Colón Semenza is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA. He is the author of Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance and, with Laura L. Knoppers, Milton in Popular Culture. He has also published numerous essays on such popular culture topics as Tim Blake Nelson's 'O,' children's versions of Milton's Comus, and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.

Inhalt
Foreword; Anthony Grafton Introduction; Greg Colón Semenza and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. PART I: PROFESSIONAL LIFE 1. Life in a Liberal Arts College; William Pannapacker 2. Life in a Community College; Rob Jenkins 3. Life in a Research University; Barry V. Qualls 4. Teaching; Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. 5. Grading; Karen J. Renner 6. Departmental and University Citizenship; Claire Bond Potter 7. Research and the Public; Brendan Kane PART II: PERSONAL LIFE 8. Imposter Phenomenon; Natalie M. Houston 9. Academic Guilt; Giuseppina Iacono Lobo 10. Depression; Greg Colón Semenza 11. Downtime; Christina M. Fitzgerald 12. Maternity; Kristen Ghodsee 13. Life with Children; Michael Bérubé 14. Life without Children; Sean Grass and Iris Rivero 15. Aging; Eric Lorentzen PART III: DIVERSE LIVES 16. Class; Simon Yarrow 17. Religion; Kristin Poole 18. Race/Ethnicity; Cathy Schlund-Vials 19. Gender; Claudia Calhoun 20. Disability; Brenda Brueggemann and Stephanie Kerschbaum 21. Sexual Orientation; Margaret Breen PART IV: LIFE OFF THE TENURE TRACK 22. Life as an Adjunct; Joe Fruscione 23. Life as a Graduate Student; Alex Galarza 24. Life after Retirement; Valerie Wayne and Linda Woodbridge 25. Life after Academe; Anne Trubek