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What Not To Wear

Trans on the Job Market: a Crowdsource Post

By Karen Kelsky | May 16, 2023

A reader wrote in to raise the issue of "what to wear" for trans folks on the academic job market, and we decided to make a crowdsourcing post.  Reader noted that my old "How to Dress for an Interview as a Butch Dyke" post is sorely outdated (I … [Read more...] about Trans on the Job Market: a Crowdsource Post

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Intersectional Analyses, Marginalized Voices, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear

“Harlem” and Black Women’s Humanity in Academia

By Guest Author | August 22, 2022

By Nicole Racquel Carr Dr. Nicole Racquel Carr teaches classes in African American literature, Black Feminisms, and Pop Culture. She is currently at work on her first book, I Am Not Your Mammy: Black Feminist Mothering in the 21st Century. She … [Read more...] about “Harlem” and Black Women’s Humanity in Academia

Filed Under: Black Lives Matter, Mental Health and Academia, Racism in the Academy, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear, Women of Color in Academia

Building an Academic Wardrobe Secondhand

By Guest Author | May 27, 2022

By Rebecca Rice Bio: Dr. Rebecca Rice is an assistant professor who blogs over at PhD in Clothes, where she discusses professional clothing, thrifting, and academic productivity. You can also find her outfits on Instagram. … [Read more...] about Building an Academic Wardrobe Secondhand

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Adjunct Issues, Makeup, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

#MakeupMonday: Ph.D. in Poise: Three Takeaways from Pageant Life – WOC Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | September 24, 2018

I'm delighted to present another in my ongoing series of guests posts contributed by black women and other women of color.  Please submit yours!  I welcome post drafts or ideas for posts for consideration; email me at gettenure@gmail.com. I pay $150 … [Read more...] about #MakeupMonday: Ph.D. in Poise: Three Takeaways from Pageant Life – WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: Makeup, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear, Women of Color in Academia

Why Makeup, Why Now?

By Karen Kelsky | October 1, 2017

I'm starting Makeup Monday with some background story. While reactions to the Makeup series here and on social media have been uniformly positive, there has definitely been some surprise also. The Professor Is In is doing makeup now?? What?? And … [Read more...] about Why Makeup, Why Now?

Filed Under: Intersectional Analyses, Makeup, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Welcome to Makeup Monday

By Karen Kelsky | September 25, 2017

In response to the really astonishingly positive response to my last post, Yes This Post Is About Long-Wear Lipcolor --  especially on Facebook where ensued a long and enthusiastic dialogue about the challenges of finding appropriate and affordable … [Read more...] about Welcome to Makeup Monday

Filed Under: What Not To Wear, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Yes This Post Is About Long-Wear Lipcolor

By Karen Kelsky | September 22, 2017

Readers of my book and blog know that I love skin care and makeup and put a lot of thought into it.  I haven't blogged about it recently, but it's still a major interest.  I am a femme dyke, after all.  I don't think academics or job seekers have to … [Read more...] about Yes This Post Is About Long-Wear Lipcolor

Filed Under: Makeup, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Let’s Talk Backpacks

By Karen Kelsky | August 23, 2017

Of all my  job market advice, the admonition *Do Not Carry a Backpack* is among the most well known.  Readers meeting me for the first time often proudly display their newly acquired briefcases, and those who email often tell me stories of benighted … [Read more...] about Let’s Talk Backpacks

Filed Under: Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear

How to Write Your Own Rec. Letter, plus All of my Vitae columns

By Karen Kelsky | January 22, 2016

In my two+ gratifying and enjoyable years of writing for Chronicle Vitae, I've only had one column rejected by them, and it is this one, which I submitted late in December as an end-of-year compendium of all my columns, organized thematically. I … [Read more...] about How to Write Your Own Rec. Letter, plus All of my Vitae columns

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Your Second and Third Jobs

Data Point, Data Point, Data Point…

By Karen Kelsky | June 12, 2015

Sometimes I hear reactions to The Professor Is In, that my level of attention to details and minutiae (everything from what kind of bag you carry to where your voice rises in your delivery of a sentence) is excessive--even anal or obsessive.  … [Read more...] about Data Point, Data Point, Data Point…

Filed Under: Advising Advice, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear

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