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Tenure--How To Get It

Productivity – Where To Find It?

By Karen Kelsky | May 22, 2017

Kel and I just got back from our 3 1/2 week speaking tour of Ireland, Scotland, and England. We visited University of Manchester, University College Dublin, Maynooth University, St. Andrews University, University of Glasgow, SOAS (in an event hosted … [Read more...] about Productivity – Where To Find It?

Filed Under: Productivity, Publishing Issues, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Productivity: You Need a Refueling Stop

By Kel Weinhold | March 20, 2017

Academic writing is an idea-fueled system. In other words, to produce a piece of writing, we go to our ideas, shaping them into a form that has never existed before in the history of time. What this means is, you are a creator. Academics don’t … [Read more...] about Productivity: You Need a Refueling Stop

Filed Under: Productivity, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure – Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | January 20, 2017

By Patricia Matthew Patricia Matthew is an associate professor of English at Montclair State University.  She is writing a book about representations of the body and the discourse of disease and illness in Romantic-era fiction. She is the co-editor … [Read more...] about Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure – Guest Post

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, Intersectional Analyses, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Asking to Speak to Other People of Color on a Campus Visit

By Karen Kelsky | October 31, 2016

Today's post is adapted from an email followup from a client, who wanted to report back to me her experience as a black female job candidate on a campus visit.  In a webinar this client had asked whether or not it was a good idea to ask the search … [Read more...] about Asking to Speak to Other People of Color on a Campus Visit

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, The Campus Visit, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Dr. Karen’s Rules of the Academic CV

By Karen Kelsky | August 19, 2016

Please note this advice is continually checked and updated! Including for COVID. ~~~~~~~~ Today's post is a long overdue post on CVs.  While the CV genre permits a wide range of variation, and there is no consensus on the value or desirability of … [Read more...] about Dr. Karen’s Rules of the Academic CV

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Writing Tagged With: how to write a cv, rules of the academic cv, what is a curriculum vitae

Entrepreneurship for Academics: An Interview with Adeline Koh

By Karen Kelsky | June 10, 2016

Today's post is an interview with Dr. Adeline Koh, Associate Professor of Literature, and Director of Digital Humanities, at Stockton University. One of my earliest clients, Adeline has gone on to enormous success as a scholar, teacher, digital … [Read more...] about Entrepreneurship for Academics: An Interview with Adeline Koh

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Dance, Dance, Revolution

By Karen Kelsky | April 15, 2016

Years ago, the gender studies program at my university hosted a Latin American female hip hop group, who gave a roundtable on women and rap in Latin America on campus, and then a live concert.  The roundtable was great, but I'll never, to the day I … [Read more...] about Dance, Dance, Revolution

Filed Under: Mental Health and Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

My Top Five Tips for Turning Your Dissertation Into a Book–A Special Request Post

By Karen Kelsky | February 26, 2016

This is a repost from 2011. Today is another Special Request Post.  This one is from Maria, who asks, do I have a template (like my Foolproof Grant Template) for turning a dissertation into a book? No, Maria, I do not.  The process of turning the … [Read more...] about My Top Five Tips for Turning Your Dissertation Into a Book–A Special Request Post

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Publishing Issues, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Writing Tagged With: advice for making my dissertation into a book, how to write a monograph, how to write an academic book, turning your dissertation into a book

Work-Life Balance? Post 1 of Many

By Karen Kelsky | January 30, 2016

This was originally posted in 2011. As you can see from the title, at the time I expected to write a lot more posts about work-life balance. I'm just getting to that now, in 2016! Since opening The Professor Is In, the question I've been most … [Read more...] about Work-Life Balance? Post 1 of Many

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Intersectional Analyses, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: tenure track and overworked, why do professors work so hard, work life balance, working too hard

Heroic Mother Teaches Class With Sick Child – Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | October 5, 2015

(This is not a post-ac post, as I normally put up on Mondays.  But it's a great guest post and I wanted to share it right away.) It's by Stephanie Brown. Stephanie is cultural anthropologist and adjunct instructor in the Department of Human … [Read more...] about Heroic Mother Teaches Class With Sick Child – Guest Post

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

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